(Clearwisdom.net)

At the Xishanping and Maojiashan labor camps of the city of Chongqing, the guards brutally persecute practitioners that believe in the principles of "Truth, Compassion and Forbearance." As a result of the torture and beatings, some of the practitioners were seriously hurt, became handicapped, or even killed.

After the practitioners were kidnapped into the labor camps, the guards did not allow the practitioners to have pens or paper. It is very hard to contact their relatives, and they also deprived those determined practitioners of the right to appeal. At the Xishanping Labor Camp there was an incident that was known by a lot of people. One practitioner's jail term was completed, but the jail's police still did not want to release the practitioner. Therefore, that practitioner wrote an appeal letter, which also talked about how the jail's police used the sentence to make money. After the leader of the jail's police found out about the appeal letter, he was furious. He confiscated the appeal letter and punished a drug addict detainee who was assigned to monitor the practitioner. If the police did nothing wrong, why would they deprive citizens of the right to follow the law to appeal and why would they punish people that got involved? According to the law, after practitioners finished their jail term, their local police departments need to send people to bring them back. However, some local police departments did not send people to bring the practitioners back. Therefore, Labor Camps can arbitrary keep the practitioners and not release them.

The objective of the forced labor camps is to "transform" practitioners, and they went to great lengths to try to accomplish this goal. First, they targeted practitioners with deception. To those practitioners that initially wrote the so-called guarantee letters to disassociate with Falun Gong, but later declared the letters null and void, the jail's police used violence against them. For example, the "610 Office"* was not satisfied with the "transformation" results of the brainwashing class before the year of 2001. Then at the end of 2001, the head of the central "610 Office" visited the Xipingsha Labor Camp and scolded the jail's police for their poor performance. After that, the labor camp was reinforced with more than ten additional police to severely punish more than ten practitioners. The labor camp then claimed that they had a high transformation rate and ranked among the top. Not long before, a practitioner made a statement against his own wish. Later, in front of hundreds of people, he declared that this statement was null and void.

The determined practitioners were not allowed by the labor camp to see or receive anything from their relatives. The labor camp also formed a group to strictly monitor and brutally torture practitioners. In this special group, the amount of food practitioners could have was severely restricted. Moreover, the police did not allow the practitioners to sleep. They also handcuffed them to the top of the windows or applied arbitrarily physical punishment. Some practitioners were beaten up and became handicapped. In the Xishanping Labor Camp, a practitioner Chen Changjun was brutally persecuted and later needed crutches to help him walk out of the labor camp. The jail's police put a feces-filled bucket on the neck of practitioner Li Zetao to persecute him. He eventually died as a result of the persecution. In the Maojiashan Labor Camp, there was a female practitioner who was handcuffed to the window and not allowed to sleep for a month. She was brutally beaten all over her body. Other practitioners had broken spines due to the persecution. In addition, Zhou Chengyu, Mo Shuijin, Long Gang, Peng Dongjun and several other female practitioners were brutally tortured to death in this labor camp.

We are trying to collect information and evidence from the responsible officials at the Xishanping Labor Camp such as Long Fuchang, Tan Xin, Liu Hua, Xiao Shunmin, Li Qiwei, Wang Cheng, Wang Jing, and Li Yong. We should also bring charges against those responsible at the Maojiashan Labor Camp such as Gao Ding, Diao Xiaolan (the head of the labor camp), Zhao Xiaoyun (the discipline section supervisor), and Luo Chuanmei (the person in charge of the brainwashing class).

Posting date: 10/31/2003
Original article date: 10/30/2003
Category: Eye Witness Accounts
Translated on 10/27/2003
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/10/20/59146.html

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