Mr. Hu Chang'an was in his 50s and was a teacher in a training school of Harbin Railway System. He lived in the Saman residential area in Nangang District, Harbin City. Mr. Hu experienced all kinds of torture at the 5th Group of Changlinzi Labor Camp.

When he arrived at the 5th Group, Zhao Shuang was the division chief. The persecution methods in the division were brutal. Falun Gong practitioners were forced to labor overtime every day and were often beaten and cursed. Under the guards' instigation, criminals Li Xiaodong and Dong Hebin behaved viciously. Every day, if they saw Mr. Hu was a bit slow in work, they swore at him and did not allow Mr. Hu to smile. When they saw Mr. Hu smile, they swore at him ceaselessly. They often forced him to stay up as punishment for "slow working and not finishing tasks," and did not allow him to sleep.

Later, the guards ordered Mr. Hu to do prep work for making toothpicks. Two persons prepared wood for dozens of others to work with. These two persons went to bed after after others and were incredibly exhausted. Guards and inmates often verbally abused them.. Because the work environment was very bad and workers breathed large amounts of wood chips and dust, Mr. Hu developed a dot-shaped ulcer before long. Later ulcers spread over his whole body. There were large ulcerations on his legs. His legs swelled so much that he could not put on his cotton-padded pants. His wounds oozed pus and bloody liquid all day. His woolen pants stuck to his legs and could not be taken off when he went to sleep. He had to walk with a limp.

Later the guards assigned him to package toothpicks. He did the packaging for dozens of people. He often had to roll up his trouser legs and expose his wounds. He worked until midnight. Because he went back to the dormitory late, he always was the last one to use the toilet. The criminal in charge of the toilet often stopped him from using it with the excuse "it's too late," or swore at him when he used the toilet and forced him back to dormitory quickly.

The mental persecution was even worse. One night in November 2005, Zhao Shuang was drunk and came to the dormitory. He forced Mr. Hu and other two Falun Gong practitioners (Wei Hongwei and Liu Jingzhou) to drink alcohol. He force fed Mr. Hu a small cup of alcohol. Zhao Shuang did not leave until midnight.

During the Chinese New Year in 2006, the guards gathered all Falun Gong practitioners and forced them to watch TV. Mr. Hu was not interested in the senseless TV programs. He closed his eyes and sat. The criminal in charge saw his posture and swore at him many times. The criminal ordered Mr. Hu to open his eyes and watch the TV and also ordered him to go out to work. Mr. Hu spoke to another Falun Gong practitioner for a couple of seconds. A criminal cursed at him for doing that.

In August 2006, Falun Gong practitioners illegally detained in Changlinzi Labor Camp went on a group hunger strike. The guards exerted pressure on Mr. Hu because they thought Mr. Hu was well educated and had influence with the others. The guards pressured Mr. Hu to persuade other practitioners to stop the hunger strike.

Under different forms of coercion and high-pressure persecution, formerly healthy Mr. Hu quickly lost weight after the end of October, 2006. Finally, he had difficulty eating and could not defecate at all. He told other practitioners that his digestive system gradually turned abnormal because of the bad environment at the 5th Group. After his family's anxious push and his own repeated requests, Changlinzi Labor Camp allowed him to be released on bail for medical treatment. A certificate issued by the Administration of Justice showed he had contracted a severe intestinal illness. They allowed him a couple of months for medical treatment.

After suffering long-term inhuman torture, Mr. Hu left the camp with an ill body. Finally, he passed away on February 26, 2007.

On November 13, 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Cao Aihua was tortured to death at the Wujiaqu Women's Labor Camp of the Xinjiang Construction Corps after she was detained there for ten days. During the past half a year, Cao's family has appealed to the police and justice departments, the jail administration bureau, the people's congress and the appeal office in Xinjiang. They demanded that the murderers be brought to justice. The women's forced labor camp wanted to settle the case privately, but Cao's family refused their offer. On May 16, 2007, the Procuratorate and the Health Bureau, as well as other departments of Xinjiang Construction Corps, issued a joint resolution proclaiming that authorities would cremate Cao Aihua's body if Cao's family did not so themselves within two weeks. Cao's family felt very grieved and indignant.

Mrs. Cao's son had been guarding his mother's remains at a funeral home far away from his home. The labor camp did not dare to cremate Mrs. Cao's remains due to her family's strong objections. When Mrs. Cao's husband visited her at the labor camp to bring her some daily necessities, Mrs. Cao told him that the guards had beaten and sworn at her. When cleaning his wife's body after her death, Mrs. Cao's husband found a large bruise around her waist. He believes that his wife died of internal injuries from severe beatings.

Cao Aihua's parents, husband, son, brothers and sisters cannot accept the fact that Cao Aihua was illegally sent to a labor camp three times and beaten to death by the guards just because she was a good person who publicly spoke out against the persecution. In the past several years, the local police have extorted nearly 300,000 yuan from Mrs. Cao's family. Her husband is unable to pay off these debts.

Mrs. Cao's family members have appealed for more than half year. They unceasingly appealed to the People's Congress, the Procuratorate, the CCP Political and Judiciary Committee, the Forced Labor Bureau and the Prison Administration Bureau of Xinjiang Construction Corps. In the beginning, these units shifted their responsibilities; then they directly rejected Mrs. Cao's family members' requests or threatened them. Recently, they issued a joint resolution to cremate Mrs. Cao's remains by force, intending to destroy the evidence.

Officer Song, who is in charge of the women's labor camp, said to Mrs. Cao's family that the investigation results would not be given to the family members and that higher level authorities would follow the same policy. Mrs. Cao's family cannot find a place to hear their appeal. All levels of so-called "officials"have just ignored Mrs. Cao's family.

Cao Aihua suffered breast cancer before she started practicing Falun Gong. Endless treatments made her desperate for life. However, after she practiced Falun Gong, she recovered quickly. Cao Aihua's family members knew it was Falun Gong that gave her a second life. After the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999, Mrs. Cao went to Beijing twice from Akesu in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region to appeal for justice. She was sent to labor camps twice. After she was released, she still explained Falun Gong's goodness to the surrounding people and departments and exposed the CCP's crime of persecuting people who cultivate "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance".

In August 2006, Cao Aihua was arrested by the lawless police again and then mistreated. In October 2006, she was illegally taken to the forced labor camp for the third time. She was transferred to the Women's Labor Camp of Xinjiang Construction Corps (located at Wujiaqu City nearby Urumqi City and newly built in 2006) on November 1, 2006, and continued to be persecuted. During this period, she was transferred often between the Police Departments of Aksu City and Allah City. Approximately two weeks after Mrs. Cao was taken to the Women's Labor Camp of Xinjiang Construction Corps, she died on November 13, 2006.

During the past seven years while Mrs. Cao Aihua was being persecuted, her family was extorted for money by the lawless police and justice departments, which brought her family many debts. Mrs. Cao's father suffered severe illnesses.

Mr. Cheng, in his 60s, is from Anshun City, Guizhou Province. In July 2002, he was arrested, detained, and later sentenced to three years of forced labor. He received three years of unthinkable torture in Zhongba Labor Camp until he suffered a nervous break down due to the torture.

In 2005, Mr. Cheng was very weak and was released. He often vomited blood as the result of internal injuries. All of his teeth fell out due to the cruel beatings he had received, and it remains very difficult for him to eat.

Soon after Mr. Cheng was released, on December 3, 2006, local policemen secretly abucted him to a detention center, sentenced him to another two years of forced labor, and imprisoned him again in the the Zhongba Labor Camp.

According to information from inside the camp, Mr. Cheng's health deteriorated after being locked up in the camp, and he is now in critical condition. In order to block information, the Camp Administration refused to allow his family to visit him, no matter how well they met the procedures or how many times they went to the camp. The camp refuses to release him.

In order to "transform" Falun Gong practitioners, the guards in the Zhongba Labor Camp in Guizhou Province torture them inhumanly by forcing them to do things such as stand without clothes in the winter, run great distances while wearing heavy coats in the summer, or stand for days on end when deprived of the right to sleep. They have also done things like pouring icy cold water on them in the winter, burning their faces by pouring boiling water over them, beating them brutally, and forcing them to sniff heroin. The guards openly claimed, "It is nothing to kill several, we have a quota of Falun Gong practitioners we are allowed to kill."

By a Falun Gong practitioner from Beijing

I was abducted by local CCP authorities in 2001 because I had been distributing truth clarification materials. I was later imprisoned in the Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp for a year and a half. Whenever I recall those days at the labor camp, it's as if reliving a nightmare for me.

Under the name of "re-education, persuasion, and salvation", the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tries its best to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Along with some other practitioners, I was sent to the infamous Section of Forced Labor Arrangement, where the guards were standing in two lines waiting for us, with electronic batons in their hands. They forced us to lower our heads and then proceeded to beat us. One guard hit me on the back of the head, which caused me to fall down. Then they forced us to crouch with both hands locked behind our heads, with our heels touching for two hours. A sixty-year-old practitioner could not hold the posture any longer, so the guards beat her severely to punish her. They stripped and searched us, in order to humiliate us. Deceptive words like "re-education" or "persuasion" were written on the walls of the labor camp.

More than twenty of us were locked in one room of thirteen or fourteen square meters. It was the same room in which we made disposable chopsticks during the day, for one-time use at restaurants. The guards set heavy workloads for everyone, so those who were elderly or slower than others would have to work until three o'clock in the morning. Inmates were divided into a dozen groups, in which at times one or a few people of a certain group could not finish their workloads on time. This would result in the whole group being forced to work while crouching on their heels for hours.

While we were working, we were only allowed to share two bowls of water as a group, so that each person could have only a sip. Once it was my turn to do the dishes while I was extremely thirsty. I took a sip of the running water from the tap, which resulted in my head being hit by a drug addict inmate who was instructed by the guards to beat me.

Our food at the labor camp was cabbage boiled in plain water with a layer of worms floating on top , with the bottom being a thick layer of sand. We had to kneel down on one leg, while holding the bowl with both hands, and say aloud "I'm a forced labor camp inmate...."" before we could receive food. We would be cursed or beaten if we did not say it loudly enough.

At night over twenty of us slept together in our tiny living space on triple level bunk beds. The lower level was not truly a bed, it was actually the floor. The windows and doors were all closed and locked, and we were even forced to use the the same toilet in the tiny room. The toilet bucket was positioned right beside the heads of the people who slept on the floor .

On the first day at the forced labor camp, all practitioners were forced to write statements renouncing Falun Gong, promising not to practice any more. Anyone who refused to write the statements would be punished by being forced to maintain a painful posture for months. They would not be allowed to lean against the wall or sleep, and eventually their legs became extremely swollen. Some practitioners fell asleep while standing because they were too tired, and their bodies would fall straight down to the floor. They would also get beaten for falling asleep.

Many practitioners refused to write the letters, so they were tied up by the guards and hit with electronic batons. Some were burned severely. Other practitioners were forced to run in the courtyard for hours as punishment.

The guards also ordered drug addict inmates to torture Falun Gong practitioners. Some inmates tore at practitioner's mouths until they bled, others stuck wooden sticks into practitioners' vaginas. This caused them urethral problems, making it difficult for them to urinate. As a reward for this distorted behavior and obedience, inmates would receive a reduction of their sentences.

When outsiders come to visit the camp, the guards hide tortured Falun Gong practitioners in locked rooms with covered windows, making the rooms appear to be storage rooms.

These accounts are some of the realities Falun Gong practitioners face at the Beijing Women's Forced Labor Camp run by the Chinese Communist Party.

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

Since the Chinese Communist Party began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Quanlian from Jiedong Coal, Suxian District, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, 35 years old, worked to tell the truth about Falun Gong. He did this based on his intuitive knowledge and good thoughts and peacefully told people of the great changes in both his body and mind after he started to practice Falun Gong. He also exposed the Chinese Communist Party's slander and attacks on Falun Gong and it's founder, Mr. Li Hongzhi.

On April 12, 2007, he was kidnapped at midnight from a rented room in Zhuzhou city by the National Security Team of Shifeng District Police Branch, Zhuzhou City. Without any legitimate reason or legal proceedings, he was imprisoned in the Zhuzhou Second Prison. Mr. Wang was once sentenced to three-years imprisonment secretly by the 610 Office from Beihu District and court, Chenzhou City. (See http://search.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/8/8/81292.html).

At present, no one outside China knows his current situation. We only know that Mr. Wang's health is very bad. His family members are extremely worried.