Inside the Labour Camps

  • Acts of Violence Committed in the Handan Forced Labour Camp

    Li Qingsong, a Falun Gong practitioner in Hebei Province, served his term of forced labour and was supposed to be released on July 25th, 2006. However, he was directly transferred from the forced labour camp to a brainwashing class by the Handan Municipal Government. He is vomiting blood, and his life is in danger. His mother, who went to the Handan Forced Labour Camp to pick him up, was beaten and consequently suffered a fracture, as well as high blood pressure and a stroke.
  • Zhou Huisheng Persecuted to Death at the Yuemingshan Forced Labour Camp, Anshan City

    In the Autumn of 2005, Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhou Huisheng was speaking to people about the facts of Falun Dafa when police arrested him. He was sent to the Yuemingshan Forced Labour Camp for a one year sentence. On July 26th, 2006, the forced labour camp notified his family members by phone to take Mr. Zhou home. By that time he was unconscious and on the verge of death. His head was bleeding internally and there were clots. He was discharged from the hospital only two days after he came in because the doctor refused to treat him. He passed away on July 30th, 2006.
  • Ms. Li Guixiang's Lower Jaw Dislocated, Nasal Feeding Tube Left in Her Stomach for Two Weeks

    My name is Li Guixiang. Because of practising Falun Dafa, I was imprisoned in Qinghai Province Female Labour Camp for three and a half years. During this period, I suffered various tortures. At the end of August 2003, because of revealing the persecution to people, I was arrested by police. I protested their illegal action, and jumped from a high place. At that time, I went unconscious, and my whole body could not move. After regaining consciousness, they still took me to the labour camp. I went on a hunger strike to protest. After ten days, the police started to force-feed me. After two months, they dislocated my lower jaw, and poured food into my mouth. The process was so cruel that no one could bear to watch.
  • Jinzhou City Forced Labour Camp Intensifies Its Brutal Torture of Falun Dafa Practitioners

    In late May of 2006, Jinzhou City Forced Labour Camp, located in China's Liaoning Province, began a new round of intensified persecution in an attempt to "transform" Falun Gong practitioners, kindhearted people dedicated to the principles of Truth, Compassion, Forbearance. The guards are putting drugs in the food that cause abnormalities in the bodies of the practitioners. They continue brutal torture using torture instruments, handcuffs, various versions of hanging a person up, interrogation, threats, and various mental and physical abuses.
  • Brutal Torture in the Sichuan Provincial Women's Labour Camp

    Since 1999, Falun Gong practitioners have been detained and persecuted in the Sichuan Provincial Women's Labour Camp. Criminal inmates were put in charge of practitioners and used various means of torture. Their methods included brainwashing, physical torture, sleep deprivation, loss of toilet privileges, working long hours (18 to 20 hours daily), hanging practitioners up in unnatural positions, tying them up with rope, force-feeding them with saltwater solutions, forcing them to drink their urine, putting human excrement under their pillows, pinching their nipples, stabbing their genitals and forcing them to sleep on wet bedding.
  • Ms. Yu Chunxiang and Three Other Practitioners Force-fed Daily for over a Month at Masanjia Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yu Chunxiang was sentenced to forced labour in 2004, and now her term in the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp has been extended. Her family requested her release many times, but they haven't been allowed to visit Ms. Yu Chunxiang in person. According to practitioners who have been just released from the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, Ms. Yu Chunxiang and three other practitioners have been on hunger strike to protest the persecution for more than a month. They are being force-fed every day, and their lives are in danger.
  • Many Falun Dafa Practitioners on Hunger Strike in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp

    Many Falun Dafa practitioners are detained in the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province. In order to protest the persecution, practitioners began a group hunger strike on August 1st, 2006. Guards have brutally force-fed the practitioners. One guard has been calling Falun Dafa practitioners' families, asking them to visit these practitioners recently, and threatened that if these practitioners still refuse to eat, they would be force-fed. All the family members were asked to sign their names on a piece of paper stating that if these practitioners' lives are in danger, the labour camp administration is absolutely not responsible!
  • The Persecution I Suffered at Shayang Forced Labour Camp in Hubei Province

    On the evening of September 30th, 2003, I was sitting in meditation. Suddenly a group of policemen rushed in and arrested me and another practitioner. My husband asked, "Why are you making an arrest?" The police simply did not pay attention to him. We were transferred to Shayang Women's Forced Labour Camp. The female police guard instigated the criminals to humiliate us. They used scissors to cut our hair and forced us to stand for a long time without sleeping. On the third morning at Shayang, the criminals led me to a room and tied both of my hands behind me to a stool and inserted a metal soup spoon in my mouth. They used another metal spoon to turn in my mouth for more than an hour. They didn’t stop even when my teeth started to break off. They kept torturing me like this until I fell unconscious from the pain.
  • Persecution against Practitioners at Shaanxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Ms Xu Lanzhen was detained and tortured in an isolated cell that was dark and damp. Wardens tried to "transform" her. As they could not force Xu Lanzhen to give up her belief, they instructed drug abusers Yan Pingping and others to beat her. The wardens on duty did not pay attention to Ms. Xu screams of pain, and they allowed the drug abusers to torture practitioners at will. Ms. Xu was forbidden to purchase daily necessities, to see family members, or to sleep, but was forced to work day and night, and only at the end of the day could she use the toilet.
  • The Mysterious Death of Guizhou Province Practitioner Mr. Ye Fenglin at the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp

    44-year-old Mr. Ye Fenglin was persecuted at Zhongba Forced Labour Camp in 2002. In mid-June of 2002, he suffered sickness symptoms of fever and sweating. When he felt better two days later (on June 23rd), he was sent to the hospital of the labour camp, then passed away there on the night of June 26th. The person on duty that night at the hospital said, "He (Ye Fenglin) was chatting with us for a long time that evening, and went to bed after eleven o'clock. He was totally fine then. Why did he pass away so suddenly the next day? There must be some problems..." Upon his death, the authorities cremated Ye Fenglin's body without informing his wife (also a practitioner). Could the above evidence about Ye Fenglin's mysterious death have anything to do with the allegations of live organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China?
  • Recent Incidences of Persecution in the Notorious Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp

    Beginning on February 24th, 2006, Li Mingyu and Liu Yong, who are husband and wife, and Ma Jishan, directly orchestrated and executed a new round of persecution on Falun Gong practitioners detained in Masanjia Women's Forced Labour Camp. On March 2nd, practitioner Ms. Sun Shuji was beaten for not wearing the camp uniform. With a mouthful of blood, Ms. Sun fell to the ground and lost consciousness. On April 13th, practitioner Ms. Yang Liwei was punched in the face more than ten times by Chen Jingmin because she refused to wear her name tag.
  • Brutal Persecution Conducted by the Shuanghe Forced Labour Camp in Qiqihar City

    To achieve "transformation," section head Xu lifted me up and heavily threw me to the floor. Xu then kicked and stomped on me with his heavy leather boots. After that, he dragged me by the hair and beat me. My scalp was in such pain, as if the skin had been torn away and a lot of my hair had been pulled out at the root. The bruises were all over my body. He beat me until he was tired. Later, he brought a long strip of cloth and tied my hands behind my back and then, hung me up from a metal pipe. With an electric baton in his hand, he said, "I will not stop shocking you until you soil your trousers!" The sounds of the electric baton were very loud. Painful screaming and crying also came out from other cells.
  • Practitioners Are Still Tortured and Killed at the Wangcun Men’s Forced Labour Camp, Shandong Province

    After Jiang Zemin and his followers started persecuting Falun Gong practitioners on July 20th, 1999, several thousand Falun Dafa practitioners have been imprisoned at the Wangcun Forced Labour Camp for Men in Shandong Province. By order of the Chinese Communist Party and the provincial 610 Office, many practitioners were brutally tortured to death. Many other practitioners were crippled and disabled.
  • Shengli Oil Field Brainwashing Centre: Darker than a Prison

    During the seven years of persecution where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners, the brainwashing centres have been the most deceptive, even as they persecute the largest number of practitioners. The brainwashing centres are called "Legal and Discipline Education Centres" in public, and the people are misled by their deceitful methods. The public is led to believe that these classes are to educate Falun Gong practitioners. They are in fact brainwashing centres that the Chinese Communist Party uses to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Persecution Suffered by Practitioner Ms. Zhang Hong of Mishan City Before Her Death

    On June 28th 2000, Ms. Zhang Hong was illegally detained in Mishan city's First Detention Centre for 72 days. In December 2003, she was again taken to a brainwashing centre to be persecuted and during detention, vomited large amounts of blood. To avoid being held responsible should anything happen to her, the officials of Heitai district forced her family into paying 200 Yuan and released her after 4 days. Zhang Hong's physical and mental health deteriorated from the constant harassment and detention, and she died on February 2nd 2004 from a relapse of tuberculosis. She was only 25 years old.