Inside the Labour Camps

  • The Persecution of Practitioners in Jiangxi No. 2 Forced Labour Camp

    In May 2003, the guards assigned criminal inmates to monitor me. Every day, they only allowed me to take a five minute break three times, only three minutes to use the toilet each time. If I took more than three minutes, I was pulled out of the toilet even if I was not finished. I had to listen repeatedly to recordings that slandered Falun Dafa. They handcuffed me to a bed, put headphones over my ears, and forced me to listen 16 hours a day. If I refused to listen, they ordered a group of inmates to physically abuse me. They allowed me to sleep about four hours per day.
  • Torture Methods Used at Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp Part 2 (Re-enactment Photos)

    A very cruel torture method used in Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp is squeezing the eyeballs and genitals. The guards lock the practitioner in an iron cage with both hands cuffed to the iron bars of the cage. A guard holds the victim's head from outside the cage and presses the victim's eyeballs very hard with both thumbs. The victim is in extreme pain and loses his sight for over half an hour. The guards also burn practitioners' fingers and squeeze hard on their genitals.
  • The Inside Story of What Happened at the Jiamusi City Xigemu Women's Forced Labour Camp in 2002

    The practitioners had to sit on little stools, with four spiral nail poles protruding above the surface, to watch propaganda that defamed Falun Dafa, from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. The practitioners were forced to sit with their backs straight, two hands flat on their kneecaps and legs bent at a 90-degree angle. Several guards rotated, patrolling day and night with rubber and wooden clubs. As soon as they saw that someone's posture was not correct, they beat them with the club. As a result of sitting on the little stool for an extended period, some practitioners' buttocks were severely bruised and torn by the protruding spiral nail poles.
  • Practitioner Nie Feiyao Recounts His Experience in Forced Labour Camp in Changsha City

    Mr. Nie Feiyao was arrested twice for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. He was sent twice to Hunan Province's Xinkaipu Labour Camp for "transformation". He suffered horribly there. After his release he was mentally ill. When he was more focused and clear-minded, he managed to outline the horrific experience he faced inside the labour camp. Judging from his current condition and physical appearance, it seems likely that the labour camp injected him with drugs that damaged his nervous system.
  • Sexual Torture of Falun Dafa Practitioners Perpetrated by Staff of China's 610 Office, Police and Guards

    In the persecution, almost all staff of China's 610 Office and prison guards have sexually assaulted Falun Dafa practitioners. The assaults include torturing female practitioners' private parts and breasts. Most of the time the practitioners were stripped before they were tortured. What we are recounting here is just the tip of the iceberg. The information was provided either in writing or copied down from verbal recollection of tortured practitioners.
  • Methods Used to Torture Falun Dafa Practitioners at Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp - Part 2 (Re-Enactment Photos)

    This re-enactment photo shows a torture method that the authorities at the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp frequently use against Falun Dafa practitioners. The practitioner is tied with crossed legs, with his back to the floor. Guards then use the electric batons to shock the bottom of the practitioner's feet, the breastbone and mouth.
  • A Non-Practitioner Eyewitness Account of the Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in Yaojia Forced Labour Camp in Dalian City

    I met a woman who had been released from Yaojia Forced Labour Camp. She was a convicted criminal, and she told me about the persecution of Dafa practitioners in Yaojia Labour Camp that she had witnessed when she was there. The guards tie Dafa practitioners with iron chains onto a bed. They don't allow practitioners to use the toilet, leaving them no choice but to relieve themselves on the bed. Then they order the criminals to clean it up. The police make the criminals force-feed practitioners. She also witnessed a guard using needles to pierce each finger of a practitioner.
  • Torture Methods Used at Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp, Including Reenactment Illustrations (Part 5)

    To prevent the detained practitioners from speaking, the guards coil thick metal wire around a piece of cork and put it into their mouths. The cork presses down on the tongue and reaches down to the throat. Then they bind the wire around the victim's head. Anyone who is tortured this way feels like vomiting. The guards also put earphones on their ears and turn the volume to the loudest setting and force them to listen to slandering words against Dafa.
  • My Experiences of Persecution at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

    "The heavy workload in Masanjia caused me severe arm pain, and my fingers became deformed. In February 2004, I was poisoned as a result of working with some kind of rubber material and experienced many symptoms including headache, dizziness, ear problems, vertigo, nose bleeds, mouth numbness, coughing, stomachache, vomiting blood, swelling and weakness. Sometimes I was so weak that I could not even move my hands. I had itchy blisters on my head, face and all over my body. My hair fell out, and I was nearly bald until recently."
  • Ruthless Persecution at the Zhongba Forced Labour Camp, the Chinese Communist Party's "Nursing School for the Heart"

    The detainees are forced to work all year long, and some are forced to work for six days straight without sleep. Sundays and legal holidays are totally disregarded. The only breaks they get throughout the year are four days: May 1st, October 1st, Chinese New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day. The condition for taking these four days off is that the detainees must finish their workload for the "off" days the day before. Over the past few years, the main work at the labour camp is processing coloured light bulbs. These are produced for a company in Zhuhai City and are exported to France, the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, USA, Germany and other countries.
  • Tears and Blood of Dalian - The Persecution of Dafa Practitioner Mr. Luu Kaili (Part I) (Graphic Photos)

    In Masanjia, the guards forced Mr. Luu Kaili to do prolonged, labour-intensive work on a farm, causing him to become physically very weak. Work in Masanjia was especially tiring, planting corn and rice. The practitioners were never fed well. Because of malnutrition, physical torture, mental abuse, and being overworked, Mr. Luu's legs started to swell up and he couldn't walk. Even though he was in such terrible condition, the guards had other prisoners carry Mr. Luu in a basket so he could work removing corn kernels
  • Torture Methods Used at the Pingantai Forced Labour Camp in Gansu Province Part 2 (Re-enactment Photos)

    The Pingantai Forced Labour Camp has been used as a place to torture Falun Dafa practitioners in Gansu Province since the persecution began. Several hundred practitioners have been held here. The guard and inmates, many of whom are drug addicts, have used various brutal methods to persecute practitioners. They have used sleep deprivation, brainwashing, beatings, psychological abuse, and other forms of persecution against the practitioners.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Miao Jianguo and Others Are Near Death Following Persecution in the Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp

    Practitioner Miao Jianguo was in critical condition on December 2nd, 2005 after long-term torture and persecution. To evade responsibility, Jinzhou Forced Labour Camp authorities sent him to the Jinzhou City Hospital and later to the University Hospital. Both hospitals refused to accept him. They finally dropped Miao Jianguo at the Guta District Hospital and handed him over to his family members before taking off. The next day six guards from the labour camp forced their way into Miao Jianguo parents' house and arrested Miao Jianguo again. His physical condition is critical.
  • Brutal Forced-feeding: "Saving" Lives at the Daqing Detention Centre and Labour Camp

    Force-feeding is a horrifying experience. At Daqing Detention Centre, the process of the first forced-feeding administered to every Falun Gong practitioner who was involved in the September 23rd arrests was videotaped. They use it as "evidence" to report to the 610 Office. Watching the practitioners' struggling, vomiting, bleeding and screaming during force-feeding, the perpetrators often mock, make fun of or even beat them up. Practitioners once asked the participating doctor: "Don't you fear that they will die from such cruel force-feeding?" That doctor said, "If that happens, it has nothing to do with us. We can say that you died from disease."
  • Methods Used Recently by Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp in Sichuan Province to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

    Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp has been using all sorts of inhumane methods to torture practitioners both physically and mentally. The tortures have included brainwashing, extension of sentences, slave labour, the tiger bench, electric baton shocks, police baton beatings, wolf-teeth clubs, leather belts, bamboo sticks, tying up with thin ropes, cuffing arms and legs to an iron bed, exposure to the baking sun, exposure to extreme cold, merciless beatings, confinement in water dungeons, forced feedings, beating the joints of arms and legs, stabbing women's private parts with chopsticks, incarcerating nursing mothers, and humiliating practitioners by stripping them naked.