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Wanjia Forced Labor Camp Uses the Persecution of Falun Gong to Relentlessly Extort Money
(Clearwisdom.net) I am 54 years old and use to work as an accountant in a factory.
Before I began to practice Falun Gong, I suffered from fifteen or sixteen
diseases and the doctor had told me that I only had a few years to live. About
two weeks after obtaining Dafa in August 1996, my health had improved
dramatically; the diseases were all gone and I felt very energetic. My improved
health due to practicing Falun Gong saved more than 5,000 Yuan [Chinese
currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500
Yuan] of medication every year for the country [In state-run workplaces. Medication expenses at one time were covered by the state; however, the policy
has since changed]. Falun Dafa gave me a new life and purified my mind. At
work and at home, I conducted myself in accordance with the instruction of Dafa:
always putting other people first, and following the principles of the Fa,
"Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance."
Since July 20, 1999, Falun Gong has been slandered and defamed. I wanted to
speak with Chinese authorities from the bottom of my heart, and say that
"Falun Dafa is good, I have personally benefited from it." With this
motivation, I went to Beijing twice to appeal to the government to stop
persecuting Falun Gong. I was fined 200 Yuan after I came back from appealing in
Beijing on July 22, 1999. The second time I appealed was on November 25, 2000,
and I was forcibly taken back by the Jidong Public Security Bureau. The Politics
and Security Department in Mishan extorted 2,500 Yuan from my family.
On November 1, 1999, the local police detained me for 26 days because I
continued to practice and study the Fa. Later my husband was forced to write a
"guarantee statement of not practicing Falun Gong" for me, and then he
had to pay them 156 Yuan for my meal expenses and 6,000 Yuan to bail me out.
From March 6 to 14, 2000, I was forced to attend an anti-Falun Gong
Brainwashing Class where I had to pay 200 Yuan. From March 14 to May 10, I was
sent to Mishan Detention Center, where I was forced to pay 360 Yuan as a so
called "meal expense." From May 10 to August 8, Mishan Politics and
Security Department transferred me to a temporary shelter in Jixi for ninety
days and forced me to pay 1,200 Yuan. After that I was released, and the Mishan
Politics and Security Department once again forced me to pay 3,000 Yuan.
From November 29, 2000 to January 8, 2001, I was detained in Mishan Detention
Center and forced to pay 234 Yuan for a "meal expense." In the period
of my detention, I was chained up for practicing Falun Gong. To protest the
illegal imprisonment, I went on hunger strike three times, fifteen days each
time. The police force-fed me by inserting a hard tube through my nose. They
tortured me for more than one hour by repeatedly inserting and pulling out the
tube. Blood poured out of my nose; they almost inserted the tube into my
trachea, which can be fatal. After the force-feeding, they handcuffed me, put me
in shackles and chained my hands and feet together. I was tied up this way for
seven days. I could not even take care of my daily hygiene needs, and even
needed other practitioners to help me to use the restroom.
On January 8, 2001, The Politics and Security Department of Mishan City
Public Security Bureau transferred me to the seventh group in Wanjia Forced
Labor Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. I was imprisoned there until
December 14, 2001. Because I persisted in my righteous belief in Dafa and
refused to write a statement denouncing Dafa, the head of the disciplinary
guards and inmates beat me. On February 1, 2001 (the eighth day after the
Chinese Spring Festival) when we were having breakfast in the dormitory, more
than 200 policemen encircled us and took away two practitioners because they were
accused of reciting Teacher's Hongyin on the way to the dorm. We refused
to leave the dorm and asked the police to release the two practitioners. The
police then dragged us out by our hair, and beat and kicked us. We were dragged
all the way out from the second floor of the dorm to another building, then down
to the outside. Once outside, I cried out loud, "Falun Dafa is good."
The police dragged me by my hair into an isolated cell in the seventh group,
where there were 29 practitioners confined separately in solitary compartments
and forced to stand facing the wall for seventeen to eighteen hours every day.
If a practitioner talked, they would use duct tape to seal her mouth or tightly
tie her up in a very painful posture. If anyone practiced the Falun Gong
exercises, they would cuff her to the door. At the very beginning, they did not give
us blankets. The two meals we had every day were less than half a bowl of very
watery corn soup. We went on a hunger strike on the second day. After four days
of being on hunger strike, they gave us three meals a day with cornbread. My
first confinement in a solitary cell lasted for 38 days. I was forced to sit
on a special iron chair, which was a torture instrument, for six days and
nights. I was deprived of sleep. When I was released from the chair, I could not
walk. I was cuffed to a door for eight days and five nights (twice for two days
and nights, the longest time was 72 hours). The rest of the period of my
confinement I was forced to stand facing the wall for seventeen to eighteen
hours a day. I went on a hunger strike twice for eight days. At the end, only
six of us were still locked in the solitary cells. On the fifth day of the
hunger strike, we were suddenly released and put back with the group. Because I
did not cooperate with the labor camp's rule of "No studying or practicing
Falun Gong", the guard beat me, tied me up and hung me up. The second time
I was locked into the solitary cell lasted for 41 days.
I was detained on the first floor after I was released from solitary
confinement. Ten criminals were sent over with the arrangement of watching us 24
hours a day. Four days later, we (six practitioners, including me, who had been
confined in the solitary cells mentioned above) were sent to the classes on the
second floor. I was locked up in the "North 3rd Class".
Because I continued studying the Fa and practicing Falun Gong, I often faced
beatings and harassment from the guards. They did not allow me to use the
restroom, and they dragged me and pulled me around. They punished me by forcing
me to stand in the hallway. The treatment I received was commonplace in this
labor camp.
Three times (for a total of forty hours), the team head Lin tied me up and
hung me in a corner of the storage building. One of those times I was hung up in
a very painful position for 24 hours. I was first forced to sit on a high chair
while both my hands were tied up behind my back. The other end of the rope was
tied to a heating pipe. Then they took away the high chair. I could not squat
down or stand up. My both hands became black and blue and swelled up severely.
The pain was so harsh that sweat ran down my face. While hung like that, the
criminals who had been ordered to watch me asked me fiercely to cooperate with
the labor camp's so called regulation of "No studying or practicing Falun
Gong." At that moment all I thought about was that I would rather die than
follow any of their requirements. "Steadfastly cultivate Dafa, the will
unflinching" ("True Nature Revealed," Essentials For
Further Advancement II). Over the one year of my validating the Fa, I
protested the guards' physical and mental torture, cell searches and body searches,
and requested my unconditional release. I went on hunger strikes many times, for
a total of ninety days. The longest hunger strike was 34 days. I was force-fed
and given an injected intravenous infusion more than 30 times.
I was unconditionally released on December 15, 2001. I did not write any
"guarantee statement" denouncing Falun Gong. I was illegally detained
for appealing to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. Having been
denied the ability to work for more than two years, I had gone without any
income. I was expelled from the Party. From July 20, 1999 until now, I was
illegally detained and put into a forced labor camp for 558 days. My family and
I were extorted through fines totaling 13,950 Yuan, not including the money my
family spent to try to help me through relationships.
Jiang's followers have used the persecution of Falun Gong to relentlessly
extort money to put in their own pockets.
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