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Information about the Shuangcheng Brainwashing Center: Toddler Detained and Elderly Woman Goes Blind Due to Long Detention
(Clearwisdom.net) Mid January 2001, to assure that Falun Dafa
practitioners would not travel to Beijing, the Shuangcheng City officials
arrested all known Falun Dafa practitioners. During that time more than 70
people were sent to the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp, while others were either
detained in detention centers or sent to brainwashing centers that were set up
in different districts. Practitioner Ms Wei Zongying was detained for 15 days because she traveled to
Beijing to appeal. (She was released only after paying 1,000 Yuan. [Chinese
currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese urban worker is about 500
Yuan]) This time she was taken to the brainwashing class held at
Shuangcheng Township. Her family traveled there and demanded her release. The
Party Secretary of the township Yu Zhanqi and the Party Secretary of the
"610 Office" [An agency specifically created to persecute Falun
Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all
other political and judiciary systems] Liu Yuhua saw this as a golden
opportunity to enrich themselves. They not only tried to extort 5,000 Yuan, but
also demanded that the practitioner write the so called "Guarantee
Statement" [A statement to declare that he or she is remorseful for
practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go
to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun
Dafa practitioners]. They said that if their demands were not met no one
would be released. During the detention, no beds or blankets were provided. The practitioners
had to sleep on the cement floor. The policemen also replaced the wooden door
with an iron mesh gate and the practitioners were forced to sleep facing the
gate. Everyone was forced to sleep in the drafty area, including the elderly
people. Everyday the practitioners were provided little sustenance and kept
hungry on purpose. The guards said, "It is much better here than at the
detention center." During the detention practitioners were frequently
forced to stand upright for a long time as punishment and they had to take their
shoes off. At times they had to remain standing until 11 o'clock in the evening.
Sometimes, when these guards were drunk they asked every practitioner if he or
she would continue to practice Falun Gong. If the answer was affirmative, the
practitioners would be taken to the corridor and physically abused. Some
practitioners' teeth broke due to the beatings. Some guards tied practitioners
to a wooden bench for the entire cold winter night, in the unheated building. There were three sisters, with the youngest a toddler. The guards made
steadfast male and female Falun Dafa practitioners stay in the same room. All
males and females had to share one toilet without a lid. The guards repeatedly
abused them verbally. Some perverted guard's stood outside the iron gate to
watch female practitioners use the bathroom. Female practitioner Ms Wang Benying was of old age. She became blind because
of the long detention. The guards said, "There are no vegetables and the
food is not nutritious, thus people will become blind. Hurry up and write a 'Guarantee
Statement'. Only if you state that you give up with Falun Gong will you be
released." Ms Wang Benying's family wasted no effort to get her released
for medical treatment, but without positive results. The guards refused to
release her. One of the guards named Wang Peng said, "We will not be held
accountable if someone leaves the room on her last breath and died outside the
door." Ms Zhang Liyan went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention.
During force-feeding, the guards beat and stomped on her. She immediately lost
her conscience. Another female practitioner, Ms Dong Liying, lost her mind as a
result of the torture. At the end of March, the Shuangcheng City "610 Office" set up
another brainwashing center. Ms Wei Zhongying was once again sent there. Tight
security was enforced. The security force consisted of employees from the public
security bureau, procuratorial organs and people's courts. All male guards
carried guns. Falun Dafa practitioners were required to attend military
training, which is another kind of corporal punishment. They had to watch videos
that slander Falun Dafa. Every day they were forced to write an essay with
respect to the so-called "experience on what they had learned." In the
evening when China's Central Television broadcasted lies and slandered Falun
Dafa, practitioners were forced to watch and write down their thoughts. If they
refused they were not allowed to go to bed. The guards predetermined the subject
Wei's family could discuss, or they were not allowed to visit Wei Zhongying. Ms
Zhao Shudi's mother did not adhere to the guards wishes, thus they called the
armed policemen. They dragged her by her hair out of the visiting room. In the brainwashing center, they used methods that would wear practitioners
mentally and physically down, in the hope that they would write the
"Guarantee Statement." Before releasing the practitioner, the guards
extorted money. Posting date: 11/11/2003
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