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

  • The Atrocities at the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Xia was arrested and taken to the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp. Police attempted to force her to write a "guarantee statement". She refused. The police then shocked her for half an hour with electric batons. The prison guards then drafted a guarantee statement for her and physically forced her hand to sign the paper. Later she was dragged into a small room on the second floor where evildoers again shocked her with electric batons. Soon after that she was further tortured. The prison guards used the so-called, "Tying the ropes" torture twice. This all happened on her first day in the labour camp.
  • Ms. Xu Ailian Suffers Mental Breakdown from Torture at Baimalong Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Xu Ailian was tortured until she had a mental breakdown at Baimalong Forced Labour Camp. Unlawful personnel and criminals at Baimalong Forced Labour Camp tortured her with methods such as piercing her fingers with nails and mixing drugs into her food. In April 2005, two months after Xu Ailian was released, the police came to arrest her again, and sentenced her to another year in a forced labour camp. She was detained at Baimalong Forced Labour Camp again. There, she was persecuted until she suffered a mental collapse.
  • Teeth Pried Open with a Crowbar, a Teacher is Brutally Force Fed

    "Twice I was thrown into jail. Police used an iron rod to beat me, and my hands were handcuffed and my feet put in shackles. In addition, I was force-fed. Some guards held my hands and some my feet. Some held my head, some pinched my nose to block my breath, some pinched my neck repeatedly, some held my chest, and some used a crowbar to pry open my teeth. All my teeth were pried loose. The flesh in my mouth was torn and turned inside out. They then used the crowbar to force my mouth open horizontally, and then shoved it to the back of my throat to hold down my tongue. The pain was beyond description."
  • Practitioners in Daqing Prison Hunger Strike to Protest Persecution

    Prison Director Wang Yongxiang, who came to the prison in October of last year, is especially cruel and merciless. He personally directs the persecution in Daqing Prison. On January 26th 2006, Wang publicly beat several practitioners and locked them all up in solitary confinement to torture them. After learning of this ill treatment, other practitioners began a hunger strike on January 27th to protest. Director Wang Yongxiang instigated the prison hospital Chief Gao Qing and Deputy Chief Huang Zhiwei to force-feed these practitioners with salt water once a day. He also ordered each ward to send practitioners to the prison hospital for forced intravenous injections.
  • Tianjin Women's Forced Labour Camp Enslaves Dafa Practitioners

    There are many things that Dafa practitioners were forced to do in Tianjin Women's Forced Labour Camp such as sewing shirts. The shirts exported to Japan were required to be hand-made. Therefore, prisoners usually worked from the early morning until midnight. Even 70-year-old people had to meet a certain quota of work everyday. Also, whoever lost a needle would not be allowed to go to sleep until the needle was found. Practitioners were charged 100 yuan for any shirts damaged by a sewing mistake.
  • Persecution of Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Duan Shibao in Shaanxi Province

    Police arrested Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Duan Shibao on October 25th, 2004. He was savagely tortured. The police searched him and handcuffed him behind his back. They tied his feet with a belt and put him in a vehicle. They drove him to the police station where they immediately beat and tortured him. During the past few years of persecution, Duan Shibao was sent to brainwashing centres and detention centres three times. He was held in a custody centre once, and in a labour camp for two years. This time he was sentenced to eight years in prison.
  • United Nations Refugee Ms. Zhang Xinyi Illegally Imprisoned in Hunan Provincial Women's Prison

    Ms. Zhang Xinyi is a Falun Gong practitioner and United Nations refugee. On April 28th, 2005, she was arrested by the Tianxin District Public Security Sub-Bureau in Changsha City. At the same time, her family home was ransacked and personal property was confiscated. In August, soon after a secret trial and without her family members being informed, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to a three-year term of imprisonment by the Tianxin District Court. The fact that United Nations refugee Ms. Zhang is being persecuted again reveals the Chinese Communist Party's true nature. It blatantly ignores international law and international human rights treaties.
  • Nie Chunling's Open Letter to Demand the Release of Her Husband

    "My family were able to learn Falun Dafa, and ever since, we have walked on a path of cultivation. Our family relationship improved tremendously and we lived happily together. Our business improved, as well. However, once the persecution started our house was broken into countless times. I was arrested 18 times, and my husband was in and out of labour camps. All of our savings was taken away by the Public Security Bureau through illegal fines and various fees. Our restaurant was forced to close down, which resulted in another huge loss."
  • 38 Practitioners Detained After Appeal in Hebei Province

    Thirty-eight Falun Dafa practitioners from Dachang County, Langfang City, Hebei Province, were detained after appealing for the release of fellow practitioners. Mr. Li Dejun and Ms. Liu Shuying's two daughters ages 12 and 15 are detained in the Dachang County Detention Centre. To protest this illegal persecution, several practitioners began a hunger strike February 5th, 2006. In the detention centre, practitioners were brutally assaulted to the extent that some nearly had their teeth knocked out. One practitioner was stripped of his winter clothing, tied to a wall, and forced to endure the harsh winter night with all the windows open.
  • Tortures I Suffered at the Changchun Women's Forced Labour Camp

    'Police sent me to division one. Guard Zhang Xiaohui, who was just transferred from division two, urged two 'collaborators' , to watch me constantly and never leave my side. They forced me to listen to them reading Wang Zhigang's anti-Dafa book. On the fifth day, when they saw I still would not give up Dafa, with encouragement from the guards, "collaborator" Jia Shimin dragged me to a toilet. About eight people pulled down my trousers and hit my hip with mop handles. I almost lost consciousness, felt nauseated and vomited. I could no longer keep my head straight and lost my ability to think rationally. They brought a notebook and pen and forced me to write something to renounce Falun Dafa against my will.'
  • Two Falun Gong Practitioners Imprisoned at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Liaoning Province Have Disappeared

    Over the past few years, many Falun Gong practitioners have died in hospital because of the persecution at Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. Many others died shortly after they were released to go home. Some have become paralysed. Others were severely injured and/or disabled. Two Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Li Jingyi and Ms. Liu Guifang, were tortured until they were close to death. It was written on the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp blackboard that they were taken to hospital, but no one heard from them or saw them again.
  • 68-Year-Old Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Suying from Huainan City Secretly Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

    To avoid continued persecution, three years ago 68-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Suying from Huainan City was compelled to escape from home and wander around. Then she was again arrested and secretly sentenced to five years in prison. She is now incarcerated in the Suzhou Women's Prison in Anhui Province.
  • Zhongba Forced Labour Camp Officials in Guizhou Province Torture Falun Gong Practitioners.

    At the "newcomer team" of Zhouba Women's Forced Labour Camp, Falun Gong practitioners were also exposed to forced brainwashing, punishment by being forced to stand for several days and nights, sleep deprivation, forced feeding, forced injections, being forced to write "the three statements," being subjected to solitary confinement, being hung up and beaten, being tied up, electric baton shocks, having their fingers pierced with needles, wearing instruments of torture, and other methods.
  • Practitioner Ms. Li Xiumin Diagnosed With Tumour; Calling for Her Immediate Release on Medical Parole

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xiumin has been detained in Shijiazhuang City Labour Camp for more than 18 months. She has recently been diagnosed with breast hyperplasia and an uterine tumour, a medical condition in all likelihood caused by maltreatment under the persecution. The uterine tumour measures about 1.2 inches in diameter. The doctor urged her to immediately undergo surgery. She also suffers from retinitis. Her family is truly concerned for her. Retinitis can result in loss of eyesight if left untreated. We urgently call for the release of Li Xiumin on medical parole.
  • Panjin City National Security Police Use Perjury to Heavily Sentence Falun Gong Practitioners

    On September 12th, 2005, Panjin City's Xinglongtai Court held a secret hearing to levy criminal charges against Mr. Xin Minduo and his wife for their belief in Falun Gong. Three days later, on the afternoon of September 15th, the court handed 13 year and 12 year prison terms to Mr. Xin and his wife, respectively. Their family members did not find out about this until September 20th, 2005, from a private source. There is no evidence of their "crime." The evil Communist regime's practice prevailed, as usual: arrest first, then fabricate "evidence."