Prolonged Torture and Sexual Abuse of Female Practitioners by Police Officers in the Dalian Forced Labor Camp, Liaoning Province
By Dafa practitioners at Dalian City
February 28, 2003 (Clearwisdom.net) In the Dalian Forced Labor Camp, when Dafa practitioners
were first taken there, they were forced to sign something known as the "10
Prohibitions" paper (No exercising, no Dafa studying, no recital of Dafa
articles, etc). If any practitioner refused to sign it, they were beaten. Female
practitioner Li Hua refused to sign, so she was tortured while her head was
covered. Her face became unrecognizable from the torture she received and
afterwards the police officers joked and humiliated her due to her appearance.
Zhang Guirong was forced to squat several times, and was hit with rubber batons.
As long as any practitioner refused to give up their belief in Falun Dafa, the
police officers brutally tortured them. In 2000, when I first arrived in the labor camp, the police held a
"brainwashing class" in order to slander Dafa. We recited "Lunyu" [statement
of comments in Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Dafa teachings] to
strengthen our resolve to resist it, but police officers dragged us into the
courtyard and forced us to stand and endure the frigid weather. When we
practiced Falun Gong exercises, they beat us, punished us physically, or
prevented us from getting any sleep. So, we went on a hunger strike in protest
of this inhumane treatment. On the fourth day of our hunger strike, many police
officers arrived, and brought 12 Dafa practitioners they accused of being
"leaders" out together with their luggage, saying they were going be sent to the
notorious Masanjia forced labor camp [one of most cruel and brutal labor
camps in China.] We were not scared, and kept on with our hunger strike.
Then police officers began force-feeding us with plastic tubes. Whenever a
practitioner tried to refuse, she was badly beaten up. The police would sit on
top of practitioners, and move the feeding tube, which was shoved into the
practitioners throat, back and forth purposely to cause maximum pain. Dafa
practitioners suffered great pain each time they were force-fed. Another pair of Dafa practitioners were taken away. Later we found out that
for the purpose of threatening us and to trick us into stopping our hunger
strike, they detained 14 Dafa practitioners in another building, in the same
courtyard, but falsely told us that they were sent to the Masanjia labor camp.
During the hunger strike, Dafa practitioner Sun Lianxia was detained alone in a
storage room, and she was finally tortured until she died. Yet, brutal torture
could not stop those Dafa practitioners determined to resist the persecution.
That time, the hunger strike went on for 23 days. On February 9, 2001, those 14 determined Dafa practitioners mentioned above
were brought back again. They were forced by the police to sit on small stools
with both hands tied behind their backs, and to listen to audiotapes made to
defame Dafa. Sometimes, we were forced to sing propaganda songs. Practitioner Man Chunrong
practiced Falun Gong exercises, and was tortured for two hours by police
officers until she fainted. Dafa practitioners asked for her, and then Man was
sent back by some criminals. Hu Guilian was beaten up and physically punished
since she also practiced the Falun Gong exercises. After the police officers
found that Ding Yuqin had Teacher's articles, she was dragged to an office and
tortured there. On February 17, 2001, banners slandering Dafa were hung up in the hall, We went on a hunger strike to protest the issue, but were forced by the
authorities run laps in the exercise yard, and then in the evening we were
forced to stand motionless in the hall for hours. On March 19, 2001, a premeditated large scale persecution of all known Falun
Dafa practitioners was initiated. For the first action, police officers stuck
posters slandering Falun Dafa and Teacher on the glass door of every room, then
began broadcasting propaganda songs to defame Dafa. Police officers entered each
room and forced Dafa practitioners to spread their legs with their hands behind
their heads, and forced them to bend down to the floor. Then they put a piece of
paper in front of everyone that defamed Falun Dafa and then tried to force all
practitioners to sign it. If any practitioner refused to sign it, the
authorities hit them with electric or rubber batons. Some practitioners were
stripped, and beaten on their breasts and genitals with electric batons. The
electric shocks left Zhang Jing's face full of blisters. The torture caused all
Dafa practitioners sweat profusely and have significant hair loss. Their faces
were swollen beyond recognition, and they suffered pains all over the body.
Several Dafa practitioners were menstruating but the cruel police offices did
not spare them. The torture went on from 9 pm in the evening to 7 am of the next morning.
Such torture sessions were just like daily meals in the Dalian forced labor
camp, especially on 'sensitive' days or when new orders from the upper levels
came,. Then, cruel guards would take the opportunity to increase the persecution
and torture Dafa practitioners relentlessly. Many collaborators [former Falun Gong practitioners who have gone astray
due to brainwashing and torture] were brought to the camp to be used in the
effort to brainwash Dafa practitioners. If Dafa practitioners did not give up,
police coerced the collaborators to beat them up. Male collaborators might sit
on top of female Dafa practitioners, often sitting on their heads and punching
them. Collaborators often chose to hit the temples, forehead, head, breasts,
ribs, eyes, and any other sensitive body parts. All Dafa practitioners who were
tortured thus showed seriously bruised faces, their eyeballs were infused with
blood from their injuries, and they were not allowed to sleep. When a Dafa
practitioner fell asleep, the collaborators would viciously pull their hair to
wake them up. On April 19, 2001, 10 Dafa practitioners were sent to the Masanjia forced
labor camp. From March until June 2001, miserable cries could be heard both during the
day and also at night throughout the entire building. Dafa practitioner Wang
Qiuxia was tortured to death. Police also held us in "intensive" monitored rooms
in which the doors and widows were covered by paper with only a small hole left
open so police could supervise us. There were monitors in the rooms, no bath or
daily items were allowed. We were forced to sit on small stools until late at
night. No speaking or closed eyes were allowed. The authorities made rules such
as only those who signed the "guarantee paper" could have better food, extra
portions, or in the summer could be allowed to enjoy the cool air in the yard,
and could visit with family members once each month. Determined Dafa
practitioners were not allowed to sleep. Two collaborators monitor each
determined Dafa practitioner very strictly. In December 2001, forced heavy-duty physical labor was initiated . Each day
we were forced to work 14 or as long as 16 hours. We were also frequently forced
to work overtime until midnight. On one night the work required us to drag
gunnysacks weighing 50 Kg each. Less than 100 of us pulled several thousand
sacks for about 5 hours. All of us were physically exhausted, but the second
morning, we had continue this work as usual. To protect Dafa, we went on a
hunger strike, but were locked in the small solitary cells with shackles on for
24 hours a day. In cold March or April, we were forced to stand up 24 hours a
day barefooted, with only a single garment, the window wide open and both hands
cuffed behind the back. They also beat the inner side of our thighs, and the
flesh on our necks was bruised by the beating. As far as I know, the Dafa practitioners who were tortured included: Wang
Riqing, Zhong Shujuan, Wang Binhua, Li Yumei, Zhang Guirong, Han Shuhua, Liu
Chuanli, Sun Yan, Wu Yueju, Qin Shulan, Yang Ming, and others. The police officers frequently did full-scale body searches, including bras
and shorts. Practitioners were beaten up or fined if Teacher's articles were
discovered or when Dafa practitioners recited Teacher's articles out loud. Since
she protected Dafa, Shi Chuanli was hung up by her handcuffs on a steel cage, in
a mini-cell for 27 hours. 55-year old Wang Tianqing went on a hunger strike to
insist upon being released, but was sent to an intensive monitoring room, and a
plastic tube was inserted into her stomach for 24 hours. Since she was not
allowed to use a bath room, she was forced to urinate in her trousers. After
going on a hunger strike for three months, Zhou Meihua was left in a critical
situation. She was carried out of the camp on a stretcher while receiving
oxygen. Through the means of a hunger strike, Man Chunrong, Hu Guilian, Sun
Xiuzhen, Wang Xinyue, and Fu Shurong were released. To protect Dafa, Yang Ming
went on a long term hunger strike in the mini-cell, but owing to savage torture,
she mentally collapsed, and her leg became crippled. After the 2002 Chinese New Year, police officers dragged Dafa practitioners
into the mini-cells, and conducted body-searches by stripping them. They were
put on the 'torture cap'. The female criminals stomped on their bare feet
heavily with leather shoes. Another horrible way they tortured Dafa
practitioners was by lifting them up into the air with a rope going underneath
their perineum, and then putting them onto a chair. Then they would shake the
chair with the practitioner's one leg tied down to a fixed point, and shake the
other leg, which caused unbearable pains to the Dafa practitioners. The more
agony practitioners showed, the more they would shake. The police officers
stuffed dirty aprons into practitioner's mouths with a steel hook, beat their
genital areas with the sharp end of a mop handle, or kicked their genital areas
with their heavy shoes. The criminals poured water into practitioners shirts,
forced a big coke bottle full of cold water down their throats, or stuffed the
bottle into their mouths. The criminals also messed up their faces with a dirty
floor mop, shoved a dirty mop into practitioner's mouths, or pierced their feet
with sharp scissors and punch practitioner's breasts. After torturing
practitioners for extended periods, practitioners were then sent to the
intensive monitoring room where only a few pieces of wood were available, and
they were forced to shiver all night long in the cold weather. Often,
practitioners four limbs were shackled to the corners of the bed. Chamber pots
were available only three times a day and only one of hand would be freed when
practitioners had to use them. The same happened at the meal times: only one
hand was freed. When practitioners were finally released from that torture,
their four limbs were unable to move, the skin on both hands was deeply cracked
open, and the whole body was swollen. Those who suffered from such tortures included: Sun Yan (Evil police officers
forcibly inserted hot pepper into her vagina), Chen Hui, Fu Shuying (her vagina
became seriously infected because of the torture), Zhong Shujuan, Wang Lijun,
Huang Qiuxia and some others. The above are just some of my experiences and the facts that I learned. Due
to the tight guarding in the forced labor camp, more facts are yet to be known.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/3/3/45699.html
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