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Atrocities at the Banqiao Women's Labor Camp in Tianjin
(Clearwisdom.net) At Banqiao Women's Labor Camp in Tianjin City, Falun Dafa practitioners
detained in the 5th group were forced to do the most filthy and labor
intensive jobs. They were also insulted and abused continuously by the prison
guards and criminals. The main job at Banqiao Women's Labor Camp is to grade and sort dried beans.
Steadfast practitioners, some over 70 years old, were forced to carry 50 - 60 kg
(1 kg = 2.2 lb) bags of seed, and they were forbidden to stop and rest or
to help each other. Each day the practitioners were forced to perform the most
filthy and disgusting tasks. When everyone finished the day's work, some were
tortured, being forced to stand in a painful position until midnight or later.
Criminal inmates, on the other hand, were allowed to rest. Practitioners were
monitored 24 hours a day and forbidden to communicate with each other; even a
glance would incur beatings and other abuse. In March 2003, the labor camp initiated an intensive round of persecution in
its 5th group, trying to force practitioners to give up Falun Gong. A
brainwashing class was set up with the group heads in charge. The brainwashing
assistants included Zhao Donghong from Nankai District, Tianjin City; Ju Xun, a
student from Nankai University; Lu Guangxing from Dongmajuan Village, Tiangjin
City; and Yu Jianyun from the Xiqing District of Tianjin City. To carry out the
intensive persecution, the group heads assigned several people to gang up on
each practitioner and torture them. Collaborators also tried to confuse the
steadfast practitioners with deviated understandings. They dared to insult Falun
Dafa and Teacher openly. When words did not work, they joined the others in
torturing the practitioners physically. Many practitioners were forced to stand
in the "flying the airplane" position in which the legs are straight
and the back and head is bent down while the arms pointing upwards behind the
back. Practitioners were beaten with wooden sticks if they moved. Some
practitioners were injected with nerve-damaging drugs and other drugs, and the
abusers continued to insult and slander Teacher's picture. During this time, the most steadfast practitioners were confined to small
cells. The cells were 1 meter wide and 2 meters long, without any windows. There
were two doors to get in. Inside, the door was made of iron. When the light was
switched off, it was pitch dark. The cell was so isolated from the outside that
no one could hear anything coming from inside, not even the loudest screams of
agony. The cell walls were full of pictures that slandered Teacher. Sometimes
the prison guards would strip practitioners' naked while insulting Teacher with
the most abusive words. The guards also employed drug addicts to torture the
practitioners. Practitioners were not allowed to go outside once they were confined in the
cells. Some of them were so cruelly tortured that they were hardly recognizable,
with half of their hair pulled out and their faces badly swollen and bruised. It
was in a small cell that practitioner Zhao Dewen from Beichen District, Tianjin
City, was tortured to death. Some persecutors in Banqiao Women's Labor Camp of Tianjin City are: Liu
Xiaohong, Kou Na, Zhang Jinghua, Ren Li, Liu Kuimin and Liu Huiyu.
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