Brainwashing, Illegal Detention and Imprisonment, Inside the Labour Camps, Individual Accounts, 6-10 Office

• Mr. Sun Yubin Detained for Seven Years and Now Arrested Again

  2009-05-24
  Mr. Sun Yubin, 46, has been arrested and detained repeatedly since July 20th, 1999, spending a total of seven years in confinement. He has been subjected to torture and brainwashing many times and has developed a mental disorder. His son has had to drop out of school to help make ends meet. On March 26th, 2009, Mr. Sun was arrested again for promoting Falun Gong and has not been released. The authorities from the detention centre, the police patrol, and the state security division have refused to take responsibility for processing his release. Meanwhile, his entire family is suffering greatly due to his absence and the uncertainty of his condition.
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• Anhui Women's Forced Labour Camp Tortures Falun Gong Practitioners

  2009-05-23
  Cheng Ming was fifty-six years old, was sent to the forced labour camp in September 2005. She was severely tortured because she refused to be "transformed." Team leader Lin Yun struck her face when she shouted, "Falun Gong is good!" Lin Yun also instigated inmates to hit her face in front of other inmates until her face got swollen and she was not able to eat. She was often tied up all night and unable to sleep. Guards often instigated inmates to beat her and seal her mouth with tape. She was detained for an extra period of time after her sentence had ended.
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• Mr. Dai Guoyu from Laixi City, Shandong Province Is Sentenced

  2009-05-23
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Dai Guoyu was arrested and persecuted by the local 610 Office and police department on July 30th, 2008. Under the direction of 610 Office personnel Wang Jianzhi and Shen Tao, Mr. Dai was given a three-year sentence. Mr. Dai's daughter, Dai Jin, and his wife approached the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel and requested his release many times, but Shen Tao and others shifted the responsibility and cursed at them. The police even created false evidence to frame Mr. Dai.
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• A Practitioner Recounts Being Force-fed and Brutally Tortured at Shayang Forced Labour Camp in Hubei Province

  2009-05-22
  Whenever I recall the days that I spent imprisoned at Shayang Forced Labour Camp I tremble with fear. In order to protest my imprisonment I started a hunger strike. The guards physically restrained me and used a big spoon to force-feed me hot pepper water. They ordered two big drug addict criminals to drag me to the labour camp hospital. While there, they brutally force-fed me through a rubber tube, causing my mouth to bleed profusely. They then inserted a metal "mouth gag" into my mouth and adjusted it to its maximum width. In this way, my mouth was stretched to the point that it tore my lips in several places. They left me in this position for several hours, causing my mouth to become severely injured and deformed.
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• Suffering in the Beijing Women's Labour Camp

  2009-05-22
  In Beijing Women's Labour Camp the guards lock practitioners in small cells and force them to sit on a small plastic bench. They read articles and play videos that misinterpret and slander Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners were forced to sit there all day, except for five to six hours of sleeping time, which caused agonizing pain in the buttocks. If the practitioner refused to give up his or her belief, the guards would try different tactics, such as taking turns and using hard and soft methods. If the practitioner still refused, the guards would send them to a training team for further persecution.
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• Mr. Chen Handong Arrested and Tortured

  2009-05-22
  On April 4th, 2009, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Handong was arrested while he was waiting for a train. The policemen claimed he was a escaped convict. They then detained Handong in the Qingdao Road Detention Centre. There he started a hunger strike to protest such persecution. National security officials tied him to an "iron chair" and put him on trial. Three police interrogation teams of two in each team questioned Handong continually. They did not allow him any sleep. Handong continued his hunger strike and refused to answer any questions. The policemen had to send Handong to the hospital four times because he was suffering from severe dehydration. Each time he returned from the hospital, they continued to torture him.
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• The Persecution of Practitioners from Beijing at the Hohhot Women's Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia

  2009-05-21
  According to a practitioner who was once detained at the Hohhot City Women's Forced Labour Camp, between 2001 and 2004, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) required labour camps to show a 100 per cent "transformation" rate. The "transformed" practitioners would recite their "guarantee statements," and if practitioners in the audience protested, they would be dragged out and beaten with police batons and belts. Several rooms in the labour camp had their windows covered with newspapers, and pitiful screams could often be heard from those rooms. The guards tried to force practitioners to "transform" by pressing the openings of bottles filled with boiling water to practitioners' backs and then removing the bottles. Their skin would decompose by the second day.
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• Practitioners Severely Mistreated in the Strict Discipline Team of Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province

  2009-05-21
  Practitioner Mr. Zhang Xincai was forced to sit straight on a hard board for a long time. Sometimes he would have to sit for over 19 hours per day. In the cold winter guards would open the door and windows widely to make him suffer from the freezing wind. As a result, Mr. Zhang suffered serious injuries. His waist and buttocks were wounded and festered from the long time sitting. He became unable to care for himself and stayed in a state of paralysis in bed for 8 months. Practitioner Mr. Li Wenzhi was subjected to violent force-feeding because he held firm to his belief. In the toilet,guards force-fed him with solutions high in salt content. Mr. Li suffered greatly from the torture. His health deteriorated severely.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured at Shandong Province No. 2 Forced Labour Camp

  2009-05-21
  Guards at the forced labour camp hang practitioners up and deprive them of sleep. Jiang Guotun experienced this torture in January 2009. Practitioner Sun Wenjia's teeth were loosened and his gums were bleeding after being beaten by guard Song Nan. Mr. Sun went on a three-day hunger strike to protest this brutal treatment. Guard Wang Xinjiang handcuffed practitioner Wang Yuping in a toilet and forced him to stand for four days and nights. Mr. Wang's legs and feet became painfully swollen. Practitioner Lin Jingzhi's face was red and swollen from the beatings he received.
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• Atrocities Happening in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp, Changchun City

  2009-05-19
  When Ms. Cao Jingyun was taken to the labour camp, she was beaten for refusing to cooperate in the body search and interrogation. The guards tried all kinds of means to "transform" her, but she rejected them all. Consequently, she was brutally beaten again and again. She once asked a guard for some water who then beat and force-fed her with some unknown drugs. After that, she had mental aberrations. Also, she was fixed onto the Death Bed for as long as three months.
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• Exposing the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in Shandong Women's Forced Labour Camp

  2009-05-19
  There are nearly four hundred Falun Gong practitioners detained in Shandong Women's Forced Labour Camp at present. The guards have used every means to torture Falun Gong practitioners. They mixed unknown drugs into practitioners' food. After eating the food, practitioners developed dizziness, fatigue, facial contortion, and had difficulty controlling eye movement and body movement. Some even lost their senses and became disoriented. The guards forced practitioners to do intensive labour for extended hours. Practitioners work until 12:00 a.m. every day. In 2009, they tripled the practitioners' workload. At the end of the day, some practitioners are so exhausted that their hands and arms are numb.
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• Ms. Tao Wei, Practitioner from Jixian County, Heilongjiang Province, Arrested for the Fifth Time

  2009-05-18
  On the morning of April, 23rd, 2009, Ms. Tao Wei was reported to the local police station while she was talking to people about Falun Gong. As a result, she was arrested by the local 610 Office and then detained at the Jixian County Detention Centre. Since July 20th, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began publicly persecuting Falun Gong, Ms. Tao Wei had been brutally persecuted numerous times for her firmly held beliefs. She has been arrested five times and detained at a forced labour camp twice. Once she almost lost her life when she was punitively force-fed.
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• Numerous Practitioners' Homes Ransacked in Tangshan City, Hebei Province

  2009-05-18
  Recently, the Domestic Security Division and city police departments worked together on a series of persecution incidents against Falun Gong practitioners. On April 9th, 2009, in a joint effort with the Airport Road Police Station, officers ransacked the home of Ms. Xia Shuying. They confiscated large quantities of personal items and arrested her. On April 10th, police ransacked Ms. Liang Feng's home. They took Ms. Liang's son's computer.
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• Hubei Province: Practitioner Mr. Du Ziguo Sentenced to Eight Years

  2009-05-18
  In June 2008, practitioner Mr. Du Ziguo was posting leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong near Baihu Township in Huangmei County, Hubei Province. Someone reported him and he was arrested by police. On January 14th, 2009, he was given an eight-year sentence by the Huangmei County Court. Mr. Du Ziguo appealed the verdict, but the Huanggang City Intermediate Court ignored Mr. Du's request to hire a lawyer and upheld the original sentence without ever holding a trial. Mr. Du Ziguo is now being detained at an undisclosed location.
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• Ms. Ma Bingjuan's Narration of Torture in Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison

  2009-05-17
  I was taken to the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison on September 27th, 2003. Every morning, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., we were forced to run laps without a rest except for one toilet break. After two days of running, my legs became so sore that I could barely walk. On the third day, I knew I was innocent and, as a practitioner, should not be treated like that. I refused to run and cried "Falun Gong is good." Wang Xiaoli, the deputy chief of the training centre in the prison, dragged me out of the line, pushed me into a corner, forced me to squat facing a wall, and whipped me fiercely with surgical tubing. I protested that the beating was illegal, but she continued whipping me and said, "I will beat you."
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