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The Torture of Falun Dafa Practitioners Inside the Hohhot Forced Labor Camp
(Clearwisdom.net) The Hohhot Forced Labor Camp held a meeting on July 2, 2001. Falun Dafa
practitioner Liu Zhenyu, a 25-year old college graduate, walked over to the
platform and clarified the truth to the people at the meeting. That same
evening, as punishment, the police handcuffed her to metal bars and shocked her
with an electric baton. Upon seeing their fellow practitioner being beaten, Dafa
practitioners Wang Guimei and Shi Xiujie tried to reason with the policemen.
They responded by severely beating all three practitioners. Practitioners Wu
Xiuzhen, Li Cuizhi, Li Xudong, Du Zaili, Zhang Xiuxia, and Hu Suhua were also
beaten. The next day Liu Zhenyu, Zhang Xiuxia, Shi Xiujie, Wu Xiuzhen, and Hu
Suhua were beaten again. Because these practitioners remained steadfast and
determined the police finally saw the futility of their efforts and stopped
beating them. Liu Zhenyu was sentenced to forced labor education twice. At the Hohhot
Women's Forced Labor Camp she refused to cooperate with the evil and was
tortured many times. In May of 2002, the police did not allow practitioners to
sleep, and forced them to stand facing walls. Liu Zhenyu's legs were badly
swollen after four days of forced labor and no sleep. After May, the police hid
all the facts about her persecution from the outside world, other practitioners,
and even from other policemen at the same camp. In April, Zhang Xiuxia, a 57-year old female practitioner, was abducted and
sent to a forced labor camp for practicing exercises by the side of the road.
While she was held in detention at the Yuanbaoshan District Detention Center in
Chifeng, Zhang was cruelly tortured many times for studying the Fa and
practicing the exercises. One time, after getting drunk, the detention center
director whipped her with a plastic hose and placed her head on the ground and
ground his leather boots across her head back and forth. The police tortured Falun Dafa practitioners using various methods. On hot
summer days, they forced Dafa practitioners to stand along a wall, facing the
sun, or to waddle like a duck while carrying a bag of flour on their backs. On
the coldest winter nights, they forced practitioners to crawl alongside the
wall, which left their hands frozen and feet cracked from the cold. Around the
Spring Festival of 2001, beginning on February 10th, they did not
allow practitioners to wear shoes. For nine days, the police forced these
practitioners to run around in the courtyard with bare feet all day long. They
refused them meals and forced them to work until late at night. Zhang Xiuxia was illegally detained in this center for a year. Seven days
after she was released, she headed toward Beijing to appeal. On her way there
she was abducted and sentenced again, this time to three years of forced labor.
On May 30, 2001, she was taken back to the Hohhot Forced Labor Camp. The
policemen forbade her to practice the exercises and handcuffed her to steel bars
for 18 days. They beat and kicked her, all in an attempt to force her to give up
her beliefs. Her feet were swollen to the point that she could not fit into her
shoes. Blood and pus ran down her wrists. Hu Suhua is a 49-year old female practitioner from Chifeng. She was
transferred from the Tumuqi Forced Labor Camp to the Hohhot Forced Labor Camp.
She kept her righteous faith and thoughts at all times, and protested with
hunger strikes. She was beaten, handcuffed, publicly humiliated, and subject to
all kinds of torture. On chilly winter days, inside a big room, the police
handcuffed her to the steel bars in a window, with only her toes touching the
ground. They kept the door and all the windows wide open. She was forced to wear
only thin undergarments and forbidden to use the restroom. Posting date: 6/12/2003 |