Dafa Practitioners Who Tried to Appeal Through Legal Channels are Tortured and Murdered at Fuyu Labor Camp, Heilongjiang Province

Written by practitioners in China

(Clearwisdom.net) In June 2001, the 4^th Team in the Fuyu Labor Camp illegally detained 80 Falun Gong practitioners. The labor camp forced practitioners to watch videos containing deceptive propaganda, attempting to break the practitioners' will. At the same time, they also ordered collaborators (former practitioners who have renounced Falun Gong under pressure) to interfere with practitioners, and they pressured practitioners' families saying "no transformation, no bail" (meaning if practitioners do not give up Falun Gong, there is no way for them to get released).

On June 18^th, 19 practitioners launched an appeal, emphasizing that Falun Dafa is a righteous way, that cultivating Falun Dafa is no crime, and announcing that the labor camp should release all detained practitioners immediately.

During the morning of June 19^th, the police set up plastic chairs along the floor and forced practitioners to come down from their beds and squat on them as a form of torture, but no one complied. Team leader Jia Weijun shouted orders to the criminals saying, "Beat them up for me if they don't come down. I'll handle it if anything goes wrong." The criminals then dragged the Dafa practitioners and even beat up a practitioner who was over 60 years of age, but not one practitioner cooperated with them. At noon, many practitioners went on hunger strike to appeal against their violent treatment. The police interrogated them overnight, but the practitioners solemnly pointed out that the criminals are committing a crime when they beat up practitioners. So the labor camp "admitted" that it was wrong to beat practitioners up and they announced that all criminals who beat Dafa practitioners will have their sentences extended for 3 months. Yet within 3 months, the criminals who beat Dafa practitioners up were all released.

On the 20^th, the police sent practitioners Zhang Xiaochun and Wang Baoxian to the detention center followed later by Pan Benyu. The Fuyun Labor Camp has detained 4 practitioners from Qiqihar City for extended periods of time. In June 2002, Wang Baoxian was tortured to death by severely damaging his internal. Pan Benyu is still in custody.

Later, team leader Jia Weijun said during a meeting, "You guys make trouble (He calls practitioner's legal appeals as making trouble). I will make up evidence to report to the higher ups. I would say that I am fulfilling Jiang's order to crack down on you financially." As a result, Dafa practitioners who were detained in Fuyu Labor Camp were arbitrarily persecuted for their legal appeals, and two out of the four who were sent to detention centers have been tortured to death.

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