Issued by Clearwisdom Net

More than 100 Falun Gong practitioners are presently detained at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Jilin Province.

In September 2006, Masanjia Forced Labor Camp "borrowed" a gang of guards from several other places. These guards colluded with the local Masanjia female guards to torture, using excruciating means, the Falun Gong practitioners who refused to be "reformed."

The guards handcuffed Falun Gong practitioners to two metal beds, stretching their hands as much as possible in the process. Some Falun Gong practitioners' hands were bound to their calves, forcing them to bend down without the ability to stand straight or sit down. Over time this is extremely painful, as all the body's weight is concentrated on the handcuffed positions. The guards threatened the practitioners, saying "No guarantee statement -- no eating or sleeping!" The guards would come in from time to time and demand, "Will you write the guarantee statement?" If the answer was still "no," the guards would extend the distance between the two metal beds, causing more severe pain. This would make the practitioners tremble uncontrollably and their bodies would become soaked with sweat. Some practitioners developed large blisters where they were handcuffed, which eventually broke and oozed fluid. Some practitioners were handcuffed for several days and nights; others for weeks. When practitioners began to lose consciousness from this torture, the guards would beat and curse them, or poke their armpit with their fingers. The abusers pried some practitioners' mouths open and force-fed them unknown drugs.

In those days painful screams as well as shouts of "Falun Dafa is good" and the sound of beating and guards' cursing could be heard from time to time in the corridor. Some Falun Gong practitioners continually clarified the truth to the guards.

In October, Masanjia's "First Camp" was disbanded. More than 700 common detainees were transited to the "Second Women's Camp," where the Falun Gong practitioners are illegally detained. Now Falun Gong practitioners are forced to get up at 4:30 a.m. and begin manual labor at 5:00 a.m. Sometimes they have to work until 10:00 p.m. or even later, for failing to finish the assigned quota on time. The work days are 14 to 15 hours long, not counting the time for meals and a brief noontime break. Some practitioners have to do heavy labor, such as unloading grain and hauling out garbage. Some are forced to make cotton clothes, peel garlic and do handwork alongside the criminal detainees in the workshop. Some are made to dig the ground in snowy weather. Their detention times are often extended if they disobey any orders.

Some Falun Gong practitioners experienced huge mental and physical stress after they gave in to forcible "reform."

One day in November 2006, Falun Gong practitioners shouted together, "Falun Dafa is good!" This shocked the persecutors and expressed the practitioners' determination to continue to practice and uphold Falun Gong.

The persecution conditions in different groups of Masanjia are as follows:

Workshops: Forced labor begins before 6:00 a.m. and lasts until after 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. However, after Falun Gong practitioners' continuous anti-persecution and non-cooperation activities, some groups have stopped this kind of persecution and some groups have alleviated this persecution. Some groups decide whether practitioners work or not. When practitioners are forced to work, they have to be in the workshop, can’t move around, and are monitored there by the common detainees.

The cells: Those Falun Gong practitioners who are incarcerated in the cells are forbidden to go out or visit other cells. The door has to be locked. Except for family visits and going to the camp convenience store, practitioners cannot leave the building for months. Whether it is in workshops or cells, they are monitored -- sometimes secretly -- by common detainees whom the guards have designated. These detainees report everything they see, even trifles, to the guards.

Visitation Office: For monthly visits, it takes the family members of Falun Gong practitioners at least one hour, sometimes up to three or four hours, to fulfill the difficult and time-consuming procedures at the visitation office, camp wards, and camp administration section; however, it only takes half an hour for common detainees' families. Furthermore, Falun Gong practitioners can only visit family through the telephone, the excuse being that regulations from the provincial bureau only permit telephone visits for Falun Gong practitioners. The monitoring guards listen in during the conversations. Whenever they hear topics about Falun Gong or other content they deem "sensitive" they immediately give a warning or cut the visiting time short. Falun Gong practitioners are forbidden to accept anything their visitors bring for them, including fruit.

The Strictly Controlled Team: There are ten small confinement cells and two big Strictly Controlled rooms in this area, with a monitor in each room. Between the end of 2003 and the end of 2004, during the most savage persecution period, Falun Gong practitioners refused to do forced labor and continued practicing Falun Gong and studying Falun Gong teachings. Twenty practitioners were locked up in the Strictly Controlled cells or Strictly Controlled rooms numerous times; the longest time lasted nearly three months. Only two daily meals were provided: corn porridge and pickles for breakfast, and corn porridge and wotou (a kind of Chinese steamed bread made of corn or sorghum) for dinner. Strictly controlled persons cannot move about, except for going to the toilet. The persecution tactics include beating, cursing, other corporal punishment (forcible sitting for over 10 hours every day, with one leg bent and one leg stretched, for fear of Falun Gong practitioners' practicing meditation); "stick crossing" (to position a stick from one sleeve to another to make the Falun Gong practitioners unable to practice the exercises); forcing practitioners to wear handcuffs, shackles, and other torture devices; and electric shocks from electric batons.

The Prison Hospital: Falun Gong practitioners who are on a hunger strike to protest the persecution would be force-fed at this hospital every day starting on the fourth day of their hunger strike. They are initially force-fed twice daily and sent then back to the labor camp. Practitioners are hospitalized if their hunger strike lasts longer than seven days. The persecutors fasten practitioners’ four limbs to a bed. The nasal feeding tube is kept inserted 24 hours a day. The labor camp personnel then force-feed the practitioners with milk powder and salt three to four times daily. Some prisoners working in the hospital, urged by the guards or by head prisoners, or of their own choosing, would put in too much salt and roughly push the tube in and out of the nasal cavities of the practitioners so as to torture them. Some prisoners will tightly clutch the hands, feet and head of the practitioners who refuse to cooperate with the brutal force-feeding and wildly beat them.

From the end of 2003 to August 2006, nearly 20 practitioners were persecuted by force-feeding dozens of times. Several practitioners died as a result of abuse at Masanjia. Practitioner Zhou Zhi died as a result of persecution in August 2004, Sun Qian in March 2005, Wu Yuan in December 2003, and Guan Wenjiang in August 2004.

The Camp Convenience Store: Shopping at the convenience store is under the team leaders’ regulations. Usually the practitioners locked in cells have to ask the team leaders’ permission to go buy necessities, or they have to follow other detainees to the workshop and then follow those who go to the store to buy things. Sometimes the team leaders refuse to take practitioners to the store, which would cause some practitioners to have no access to the shop for months, creating much difficulty in their daily life.

Telephone calls: According to nationwide labor camp regulations, each detainee is permitted a monthly phone call home. Some Falun Gong practitioners, however, haven't been permitted to make a phone call for over six months. For others, even though they made the formal request to call home, the guards required an "application" and thus delayed the time. Some were given a short time-limit when calling home, and the guards monitored their conversations.

Searching the cells: Falun Gong practitioners often face cell searches by group guards, special guards (prison administrators) and armed policemen. The groups conduct searches in the cells periodically or randomly, but particularly before holidays. As has been reported, most of Master Li’s articles were confiscated by these targeted searches. The guards would stand by and make the common prisoners search the cells, or sometimes the guards would search in person. The special guards, however, patrol the cells every day and do instant searches upon finding any new signs. The armed policemen search before holidays and in specific cases. To negate this form of persecution, some Falun Gong practitioners went to the guards to ask for Master Li’s articles back and clarified the truth to the guards; others went on a hunger strike and some tried to take the confiscated articles from the hands of the guards directly, but the result was a savage beating or strict constraints.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/30/147900.html

Gao Hu is a prison guard at the 4th Ward of Wumaping Prison in Sichuan Province, in charge of persecuting the imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners. Every year in January, he uses the "end-of-year review" and "quarterly review" to escalate his torture of practitioners.

Gao Hu exhausts all means to humiliate and torture practitioners. In January 2006, he used the "end-of-year review" and "quarterly review" to force practitioners to fill out the end-of-year review form and to memorize the prison rules. He was enraged when all the practitioners imprisoned in the 4th Ward boycotted the review process. Gao repeatedly goaded prison inmates responsible for monitoring practitioners to use violence on practitioners. Later, Gao transferred practitioners one by one to the so-called Intensive Training Team where they suffered from escalated levels of torture and abuse. Practitioners Mr. Liu Lun, Mr. Zhao Benyong, Mr. Zhu Zhaojie and Mr. Yang Shunfa suffered the most severe tortures by the Intensive Training Team. The abuse included freezing practitioners by making them wear few clothes in January, physical abuses, threats, intimidation, and denying practitioners of sleep.

At first, Mr. Wang Haipo went on a hunger strike to protest the torture, but Gao Hu told a team leader to transfer Mr. Wang to the Intensive Training Team and to force him to memorize the prison rules. After Mr. Wang suffered a few days of hunger, Gao Hu told a prison inmate named Zhang Qing to beat Mr. Wang and force him to eat. Later, when the review that Mr. Wang wrote did not satisfy Gao Hu, Gao forced him to stand still for long hours in the cold in the middle of January. Wang Haipo was already very frail at the time. When prisoners started to beat him up, he passed out and collapsed on the ground. The prisoners then threatened another practitioner, who had witnessed the crime, not to say a word. That night Gao Hu told the prisoners to make the practitioner who witnessed the abuse to stay up standing long hours, facing the wall.

Under Gao Hu's "management," all the torturers go unpunished because Gao justifies the violence by labeling the tortured practitioners as "resistant to management and education." Those practitioners who bravely stood up to uphold justice have been condemned as "disruptive to order" and were punished.

Later, Gao Hu took the opportunity of the annual review to hold a meeting to criticize and denounce practitioners. Because Gao Hu was not able to have a lot of prisoners verbally attack practitioners, he selected a few prisoners who were "team leaders" to visit each group and attack practitioners in each group. Each time a practitioner was called out, these "team leaders" surrounded the practitioner and attacked him with vicious language and warped theories. During the meeting, prison guards Gao Hu and Yang Xilin kept monitoring the process. When some practitioners fearlessly clarified the truth about Falun Gong and about the long litany of crimes committed by the wicked Chinese Communist Party, Gao Hu and Yang Xilin ran to them, shouting hysterically.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/16/146981.html

In October 2006, in the rear courtyard of Liaoning Province Women's Prison, construction on a new building was begun. The new building's foundation has been laid and the planned date of completion is spring 2007. According to an internal news disclosure, this new building will serve as a Hospital for Infectious Diseases and the patients will come from various provinces and cities in China. But it is rumored that patients will be brought here to establish a concentration camp for harvesting organs.

The Liaoning Province Women's Prison is situated in the Yuhong District in Shenyang City, not too far from Masanjia Labor Camp in Shenyang City. Inside the prison are more than a dozen inmate buildings and forced labor workshops with nearly 3000 prisoners. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has stipulated that "infected patients are not allowed to be admitted to prison." Then how can a hospital for infectious diseases be constructed inside a prison? Moreover, the CCP keeps criminals in prison and the security level is very high, so how can it possibly be used as a public place to treat infectious diseases? Obviously the prison is used for other purposes that cannot be revealed.

At present, the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong has reached inhumane degrees. The evil act of harvesting organs from living practitioners at concentration camps such as the Sujiatun Concentration Camp in Shenyang City has already been condemned by just people all over the world. Besides burning the corpses to destroy the evidence, the CCP is transferring them all over the place. In prisons it is very common that those practitioners who do not "reform" are suddenly taken away and disappear without a trace.

Regarding this, we ask the relevant international organizations to conduct further investigations. We also ask those who know the situations to provide more concrete, detailed reports to the Minghui/Clearwisdom website and the related international organizations. In the meantime, all just people in the world, together with the Chinese people, please stop the evil conduct of the Chinese Communist Party.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/2/2/148116.html

[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

On June 20, 2003, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Cui Jian and Ms. Liu Cuiping were suddenly arrested by police officers and transferred to the Tiexi District Police Department in Shenyang City. The police utilized many cruel methods to torture Mr. Cui, including brutal beatings, burning his fingers with cigarette lighters, threatening him with a knife, using needles to stab his fingers and toes, forbidding him to sleep for four consecutive days and nights, and handcuffing him against a wall with his arms behind his back. The handcuffs dug into his flesh, and both of his hands became swollen and numb.

Five months later, the Tiexi District Court put the two on trial and illegally sentenced Mr. Cui Jian and Ms. Liu Cuiping to 10 years and 4 years in prison, respectively. Cui Jian now is detained in Fushun City Second Prison in Liaoning Province, while Liu Cuiping is held in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison. Mr. Cui's ten-year-old child now has to live with grandparents, who are in their seventies.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/2/2/148097.html

[Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the minghui.ca website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).]

On January 30, 2007, Liang Ying, a Falun Gong practitioner from Chicheng County, Hebei Province was reported to the police while she was distributing truth-clarification materials in her hometown, Mayingxiang. The police from Tianjiayao District secretly followed and arrested her. She was then sent to a detention center in the city of Zhangjiakou.

Ms. Liang Ying started practicing Falun Gong in 1995. In May 2001, she traveled to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was later arrested and sentenced to prison for five years, and was not released until May 9, 2006. On September 28, 2006, because she clarified the truth in public, she was arrested by police from Tianjiayao District, Chicheng County and jailed for 15 days in the Shisanli Detention Center in Zhangjiakou City. Just three months later, she was again arrested by the police.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/2/2/148131.html