An Account of the Brutal Torture Methods Used Against Dafa Practitioners in Changlinzi Labor Camp, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
Written by a Falun Dafa Practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) Changlinzi Labor Camp in Harbin City has detained male practitioners from
seven areas and twelve districts in Harbin city since March of 2000. Various
means of brutal torture have taken place there. The persecution there has been
especially escalated since mid-September 2002, when Jiang issued a secret order
before the Sixteenth Party's Congress. The director of the fifth team (the forced-brainwashing team), Zhao Shuang,
ruthlessly tortures practitioners. He has been nicknamed "Slapper Zhao" because
he often beats up practitioners. He incites inmates and police to torture
practitioners with unspeakable methods. The following are the methods he uses: 1. Forcefully Pushing and Splitting All practitioners who refuse to give up their belief suffer this torture.
Several inmates forcefully push the practitioner face down onto the ground with
his arms behind his back. With one inmate stepping on his head and neck and
another sitting on his lower body, they push the practitioner's arms up and
forward. Another two inmates would grasp both of the practitioners legs and
forcefully push them both upwards and outwards simultaneously. Practitioners
usually become crippled after this torture. Some are unable to walk for a long
time. 2. Shocking with Electric Batons They shock practitioners on the parts of their body with soft tissue and
sensitive parts with 10000 volt electric batons. Sometimes they use three of
them simultaneously to shock practitioners on their armpits, mouths, and private
parts. Practitioner Wen Zhenguo's mouth was swollen as a result of this torture. 3. Hanging Up They leave practitioners hanging up in the shape of cross for a long time.
Practitioner Huang Tiecheng has suffered this torture. 4. Burning Zhao Shuang burns practitioners with cigarettes. One time he tortured
nineteen-year-old practitioner Yang Xueqiu with a cigarette until his mouth was
severely burned. 5. Swinging They handcuff both of the practitioner's hands and ankles and hang them up.
Police then push them so that the practitioner's body swings back and forth
while the handcuffs cut into the flesh. Many practitioners have suffered this
very cruel torture. 6. Nailing They stab nails into practitioners' fingernails. Practitioner Xu Zhenfeng has
suffered this torture. 7. Scrubbing Practitioners are pushed down to the ground and have their shirt ripped off.
They then scrub practitioners under their rib cages with wooden sticks until
they become black and blue. They become very swollen and painful. 8. Freezing During the coldest times in winter, they rip the clothes off practitioners
and pour cold water on them and then force them to stand near an open window.
Practitioner Zhang Xiangfu has suffered this torture. 9. Iron chair Practitioners were tied to an iron chair for several days without being
released. They not only suffer from swollen legs and feet but also are not
allowed to use the toilet. Practitioner Wei Yunge was forced to have a bowel
movement on the chair and was not released until it became dry. Several days
later when he was finally released from the iron chair, the feces had become so
dry that he had difficulty scrubbing it off. 10. Striking They strike practitioners with a 3-foot stool. The stool is covered with
bloodstains. They broke eight such stools. Many practitioners have experienced
this. 11. Squatting Practitioners were forced to squat from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. They will be
subjected to other tortures if they still refuse to give up Falun Gong. 12. Having Cold Water Poured on Them They pour cold water on practitioners in fall and winter. They pour water on
them again as soon as their clothes begin to dry. Sometimes they even soak their
coat and pants and try to force them to denounce Falun Gong. 13. Gripping They grip practitioners' testicles. It is truly despicable. Zhao Shuang
tortures many practitioners, including Zang Dianyong, this way. Zang Dianyong
still suffers from pain more than a year later The fifth team is a team where they mix practitioners and other inmates.
Under Zhao Shuang's order of "torturing them to death if they refuse to
transform," every inmate can beat up and insult practitioners. The items that
are sent to practitioners by their families are confiscated. Yang Yu, who used to be the former Assistant Director of the Office of
Education, was promoted to the director of the fourth team because he brutally
tortured practitioners. Along with police officer Hao Wei, they insult and body
search practitioners at will. They even took away the 30 Yuan Wang Yunguang had
when he was released. During the time when SARS was rampant, practitioners were
forced to work from 3:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. In addition, they were assigned more
work than they were able to complete. They have to work overtime if they are
unable to get it done on time. If they still could not finish it, they would get
beaten up. All families visiting practitioners are allowed to see them only after the
family members sign their names on a sheet that denounces Falun Gong. They also
deny any medical treatment outside of prison even if practitioners have severe
health problems. During the last year, at least five practitioners have been
tortured to death, including Zhou Jingsen, a professor at Harbin Management
University. Many other practitioners were handicapped as a result of torture.
The above is just the tip of the iceberg. The actual torture is far more
severe than this. The phone number of The fifth team in Changlinzi labor
camp: 86-451-82037105 The forth team in Changlinzi labor
camp: 86-451-82037104
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/10/26/59533.html
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