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Since November 1999, Falun Gong practitioners from throughout Hebei Province were held at the Shijiazhuang City Forced Labor Camp. In the past five years, Hebei Province's 610 Office has directed the persecution. Countless practitioners were tortured, disabled and suffered severe mental trauma at the labor camp. Because of the strict information blockade, only a few cases have been exposed.

In the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp, torture with murderous inclinations has disabled and injured a large number of practitioners. The scars are still visible on many of them today.

Main perpetrators:
Zhao Yunlong, head of the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp, in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong
Wu Yuliang, former head of the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp
Wang Bingfang, former political head
Zhang Guojun, head of Hebei Province's 610 Office, now called "Hebei Province Office to Prevent and Deal With Evil [slanderous word omitted] Issues"
Wang Yongzhi, former head of Hebei Province's 610 Office

Below are 11 documented serious cases:

1. Ms Liu Tao seriously injured due to brutal abuse and torment

Partial list of persons responsible persons from the ''No.1 Division:

Ex-Division Head Li Yong

Police officers Yin Hanjiang, Han (nickname "Han One-rope"), Wang Yanbin and others Current Division Head Zhang Xuemin.

Ms. Liu Tao is 27 years old and lives at 50-4-201 in the Tangu Residential Area in Shijiazhuang City. Officials from the Yudong Police Station in Shijiazhuang City and the Shijiazhuang City Detention Center detained and persecuted her because she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and attended Falun Gong group exercises. At the end of 2000 she was sent to the No. 5 Division of the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp for three years of forced labor.

In early April 2001 Ms. Liu was locked up alone in a cell for asking to study the Falun Gong books and to do the Falun Gong exercises. In solitary confinement the guards handcuffed her, forced her to stand still, and deprived her of sleep until the end of the month. She was then transferred to the No. 1 Division. Led by Yin Hanjiang, guards shocked her entire body, using several high-voltage electric batons, beat her violently, and used various cruel devices and techniques on her day and night, non-stop, in an attempt to "transform" her. To prevent others from hearing her agonizing sounds they taped her mouth shut. In spite of the tape, her excruciating cries could still sometimes be heard.

They found the most wicked team head in the division, nicknamed "Han One-Rope," to torture her six times without stopping using a method called "Tying the Ropes" (1). ''In the daytime, they hung her on a metal gate for several hours with her toes barely touching the ground. On May 10, 2001, Ms. Liu was forced to jump from the 4^th floor of the building. She sustained nine fractures, four of them compound. It took the No. 1 Division leaders four hours to get around to sending her to a hospital, which they did only when she passed out due to massive hemorrhaging. This was a crucial delay in her treatment. Ms. Liu has remained in a coma due to the severe bleeding, and the hospital has given her over ten units of blood. On May 18, without notifying her family members, No.1 Division police officer Wang Yanbin signed unauthorized permission documents for her to undergo surgery.

Twenty-six days later, Ms. Liu Tao was dismissed from the hospital and sent back to the No.1 Division. She was in a whole-body cast and had steel pins in several of her bones. For fear that their crime would be exposed, division police officers refused to release Ms. Liu on parole for medical treatment.

After the incident, the No. 1 Division Head Li Yong not only protected perpetrators Yin Hanjiang and others from having to face justice but also let them be more forceful in persecuting practitioners. After injuring practitioner Wu Jianqiang (see below) in a beating, Division Head Li Yong was transferred to be the No. 4 Division Head. An even more evildoing police officer named Zhang Xuemin replaced him. Zhang was responsible for continuing to torture Ms. Liu 'mentally and physically.

The police brought in three reformed practitioners from the Hebei Provincial Brainwashing Center to brainwash Ms. Liu. When this was not successful, they transferred her to the Hebei Provincial Legal Education Center in January 2002 to be brainwashed. This also was in vain. Then they transferred her back to the camp's No. 5 Division to continue brainwashing her. After her three-year-term was up on October 17, 2003, personnel from 610 Offices of Shijiazhuang City' and the Changan District, together with enforcers from the Hedong Police Station, abducted Ms. Liu and took her directly to the Hebei Provincial Brainwashing Center, the so-called Hebei Provincial Legal Education Center, to torture her before releasing her.

2. Mr. Wu Jianqiang's internal organs severely injured

Partial list of persons responsible:

Ex-Division Head Li Yong

Police officer Wang Xiaofeng

Team head Han (nickname "Han One-Rope") of 'No.1 Division.

Mr. Wu Jianqiang is vice president of the Design Institute for Cangzhou City's Planning Bureau in Hebei Province. He was illegally arrested and detained in the No. 1 Division of the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp because he told others the real situation of Falun Dafa. While in detention, Mr. Wu Jianqiang suffered from various cruel tortures at the hands of the guards. Li Yong and Wang Xiaofeng ordered police officer "Han One-Rope" to torture Wu Jianqiang. Mr. Wu was savagely beaten for over three hours, leading to severe injuries of his heart and kidneys. He could not urinate and lost consciousness. Since Mr. Wu was in critical condition, the guards had no choice but sent him to the emergency room of a hospital.

Later on, police officer Han received retribution and was sent to prison, as was the labor camp's Discipline Inspection Section Head Zhao Kai. The former No. 1 Division Head Li Yong was removed from his office and is under investigation but was later transferred to the No. 4 Division, to continue committing crimes against practitioners.

3. Ms. Li Huiqi still disabled from gross abuse

Partial list of persons responsible:

No.4 Division Head Li Yong

Police officer Zhou Yilin

The No.2 Team head Qiao Xiaoxia from the No. 4 Division and others.

Ms. Li Huiqi is 38 years old. She was an employee at the Shijiazhuang City' Paint Factory in Hebei Province. On February 2, 2002 she was arrested and sent to the No. 4 Division's No. 2 Team in the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp for a one-year term. The persecution endangered Ms. Li's life many times. Her health deteriorated rapidly, yet the labor camp refused to release her and did not permit her family to visit her, either. They even demanded money from her family! On April 8, 2002, after only two months in the labor camp, Ms. Li's life was in imminent danger again. Because they did not want to be held responsible, they sent her to the hospital for emergency care. Only then did they notify her family. During the inept emergency care phase of her hospitalization she was in critical condition many times due to medical accidents. Her family prepared for her death at least three times.

The labor camp used all kinds of schemes to prevent the incident from being exposed to the outside world. They sent several uniformed and plainclothes police officers to the hospital to monitor Ms. Li around the clock and arrested practitioners who came to visit her. On the morning of December 3, 2002, a labor camp division head, together with No. 4 Division Head Li Yong and police officer Zhou Yilin, stopped further treatment for Ms. Li's in the Hebei No. 3 Hospital, arguing that her sentence had ended. They pushed the now paralyzed Ms. Li Huiqi into her family's care. Ms. Li's family had to take her home on December 13, 2002. At present, Li Huiqi is still suffering and is in constant and great pain.

4. 4. Mr. Wang Chengbiao lost the feeling in one leg from abuse and mistreatment

Partial list of persons responsible:

No. 2 Division Head Zhao Zhiqian, Political Head Shi Jianzhong, No. 202 team police officers Bian Shuqiang, Dong Xinguo and Zhang Li and others

Mr. Wang Chengbiao is a teacher from the Hebei Chemical Industry School in Shijiazhuang City. He was covertly sentenced to three years of forced labor at the end of January 2004 and illegally detained and brutally persecuted at the No.2 Division. As soon as he arrived there, he was put through an extended period of sleep deprivation. Those in charge of the team forced him to stay in a squatting position for extended periods, even when he was eating, and refused to let him use the toilet. Meanwhile they organized a group of collaborators to try to coerce him into renouncing his belief. Sometimes this kind of torture lasted for over 50 days. Due to its long-term application, such mental torment can be much more traumatizing than purely physical torture, which lasts a shorter period of time.

The first time Mr. Wang was persecuted like this he was deprived of sleep for nine days straight. After being allowed to sleep for a while, the sleep deprivation tactic was repeated for another seven consecutive days. During the Chinese New Year holidays, he was given one day's rest on New Year's Day. The following day he was again subjected to long-term sleep deprivation. He was forced to maintain the squatting posture all the time. The police let him sleep a little while between 4:00 and 5:00 a.m. They said that it was more effective to wake somebody up after he or she had had just a little bit of sleep. That was their strategy to destroy the practitioners' will.

This form of physical torture and mental torment continued until February 12, 2004, over 40 days. Mr. Wang was later isolated in solitary confinement and placed under "strict control" conditions and only permitted to sleep between the hours of 2:00 and 5:30 a.m. daily. Mr. Wang became completely debilitated after being subjected to these extended periods of sleep deprivation. Now all his toes are numb, he cannot lift one leg, and the other leg is very weak. He also has high blood pressure and his life is in danger. The authorities have refused to release him on medical parole so he can obtain medical treatment

5. Mr. Zhang Hongsen tortured until the lower part of his body is paralyzed

Partial list of persons responsible:

Wang Liqing, team head

Jiang Chunqing and Du Yougui of the No. 304 Team, No. 3 Division.

Mr. Zhang Hongsen, about 60 years old, is an employee at the Cangzhou Refinery Factory, Hebei Province. Wang Liqing, Jiang Chunqing, Du Yougui and others forced him to squat on the ground for seven whole days and nights without sleep. They pushed Mr. Zhang down and viciously beat and kicked him and then force-fed him. When Mr. Zhang was tortured so brutally, he miserably cried for help, but they still didn't stop. He was so severely injured that his lower limbs became paralyzed, and he is unable to take care of himself. He had to have another person assist him to the toilet. The prison guards lifted him on a stretcher, sent him home and left. Nobody took any responsibility. After Mr. Zhang continued to practice Falun Gong, he recovered.

6. Ms. Li Baoyue abused until she could not walk

Partial list of persons responsible:

Shang Changming, former head of the No. 4 Division

Liu Yuying, the No. 3 team head

Geng Xingjun, police officer of the No. 3 Team

Wang Qinglin (male), Di Manli, and Lu Hongguo of the No. 5 Division.

Ms. Li Baoyue, 39 years old, is from Quzhou County, Handan City, Hebei Province. In the fall of 2000 she was illegally detained in the No. 4 Division of the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp and suffered all kinds of humiliation and persecution. For not giving up the practice she was imprisoned in a tiny cell for a long time. In April 2001, team head Liu Yuying (female) of the No. 3 Team shocked Ms. Li's mouth and face with an electric baton and beat her cruelly with a rubber truncheon. In June 2001, she was brutally brainwashed 24 hours a day, every day, for over a month, and the guards hung her up by her handcuffs. Guard Geng Xingjun shocked her with an electric baton and beat her cruelly with a rubber truncheon. Her buttocks were beaten so hard that a large piece of skin was torn off. A 'collaborator's slap damaged one of her ears. On September 20, 2001, Ms. Li was unconditionally released.

In the beginning of 2003 Ms. Li was illegally seized again and sent to the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp. During the physical examination she diagnosed with symptoms of hypertension, so the No. 4 Division, where she was detained the first time, refused to accept her. Officials from the Quzhou County Police Department send her to the No. 5 Division in the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp. During that time, labor camp police officer Lu Hongguo ordered the collaborators to forcibly brainwash her, strictly monitor her and deprive her sleep. Ms. 'Li kept her' righteous faith strong during more than two months of physical abuse and psychological torment. In March 2003, the guards enacted the so-called "spring thunder action," exchanging populations in the forced labor camps in order to persecute those determined Dafa practitioners. Ms. Li was sent to the more malicious Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp for further persecution. Ms. Li was supposed to be released in November 2003. She was so grossly abused and mistreated that she is unable to walk.

7. Cui Junhua's arm fractured from beatings

Persons responsible:

Shang Changming, former head of the No. 4 Division

Geng Xingjun and others

When the forced labor camp broadcast to the inmates the "Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation Incident" (the fabricated Self-Immolation in Tiananmen Square), some practitioners exposed the fact that 'the incident was staged. The guards suppressed the information and began to beat the practitioners. Cui Junhua came forward to stop them and said, "Stop beating!" After the TV show, guard Geng Xingjun started beating Cui Junhua and the other two practitioners until Cui Junhua's arm was broken. Cui was sent to The 3rd Hospital of Hebei Province, where a doctor put the arm in a cast. Several team heads were present during the beating, but none stopped the action.

8. Ms. Wang Xiuming no longer able to take care of herself

Persons responsible:

Wang Qinglin, Division Head

Di Manli and others from the No. 5 Division.

Ms. Wang Xiuming is from Liuji Township, Jing County, Hebei Province. In January 2001 local authorities secretly sent her to the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp. Brutally and inhumanely tortured in the labor camp, both her spirit and body suffered unimaginable pain. Among other cruel abuses, she was locked up in a confinement cell, was forbidden to sleep for a long period of time, was hung up on an metal gate by the handcuffs or with a rope for a long time in the winter, was forced to stand or squat for a long time, was shocked by many high-voltage electric batons, was beaten cruelly with a rubber truncheon, was forbidden to use the toilet, was forced to work extra long hours, and endured force-feeding. Her body was seriously damaged after over five months of torture. She was released on bail for medical treatment.

In October 2002, Ms. Wang was again illegally sent to the No. 5 Division' without due process. After suffering over ten months of savage mistreatment of her body and her spirit, Ms. Wang was no longer able to take care of herself. She was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. She was released on bail for three months medical treatment and sent home.

9. Ms. Sun Lianping crippled from torture

Partial list of persons responsible:

Shang Changming, former head of the No. 4 Division

Others to be identified

Ms. Sun Lianping, 25 years old, is from Jing County in Hebei Province. In 2000, because of she persisted in practicing Falun Dafa, local police illegally sent her to the No. 4 Division of the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp. She firmly resisted the 'brainwashing and refused to betray " Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." The prison guards tortured her until she became crippled. She is now unable to take care of herself.

10. Ms. Zhang Xiangye unable to care for herself because of torture

Those directly responsible for the case will be identified.

Ms. Zhang Xiangye, 50 years old, is from Beidulin Village, Wuqiang County, Hebei Province. On August 1, 2001, she was illegally sentenced for two years' of forced labor and sent to the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp. Ms. Zhang suffered fiendish tortures, including being cruelly beaten, being hung up by handcuffs or ropes, and having her clothes stripped off. Ms. Zhang was once hung by the handcuffs for a long time and was prohibited from sleeping for three entire days under several people's rotating interrogations. They eventually bit and broke off her finger to get her forced fingerprint on a "reform" announcement. Three people did this to her. Blood was all over her hand. Suffering from long time persecution, Ms. Zhang became extremely emaciated. In June 2002 she suddenly passed out and could hardly breathe. The labor camp was afraid of being held responsible for her condition, so they sent her home on June 8. She was still unable to take care of herself, but officials from the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp kept going to her home to harass her several times.

11. A practitioner from Zhengding County, Hebei Province, becomes crippled from gross abuse

Perpetrators:

Prison guards Sun, Zhao, Wang, Sun, and Zhi from the No.2 Division

Prison guard Qiao Xiaoxia from the No. 4 Division '

On September 19, 2001, the day this female practitioner was sent to the No. 2 Division of the labor camp, prison guards Sun, Zhao, Wang , Sun, and Zhi prohibited her from getting any sleep and let the collaborators take turns to try to brainwash her. On March 11, 2002, this practitioner was sent to the No. 4 Division of the labor camp. Qiao Xiaoxia, head of No. 2 Team, made her stand by the wall. After standing for so long, she passed out. She could no longer move her left leg' because the muscles had atrophied and she wasn't able to take care of herself. Because Qiao Xiaoxia thought she was pretending, Qiao carried her to the 2^nd Provincial Hospital and applied a high-voltage current to stimulate the nerves. Under normal circumstances, this type of electrical stimulation is usually applied for just a few minutes at a time. They did this to the practitioner for 30 minutes! It was finally determined that her leg muscles had indeed atrophied. In eleven months they had tortured a healthy person so severely that she had become a cripple. On May 25, 2002, the Shijiazhuang City' Forced Labor Camp told her family to take her home. After continuing to study the Fa and do the Falun Gong exercises, she recovered and is able to walk again.

(To be continued)

(1)"Tying the Ropes" is one of the cruelest torture methods used in a forced labor camp. The police tie up the practitioner with a thin rope, circle the rope around his neck, and tie his hands behind his back. Then the police use all the force they can muster to tighten the rope. Usually the person's arms become disabled in 15 minutes. If the rope is released within 10 minutes and tied again, it's called "twice rope-tying." If the person faints, he is doused with cold water to make him regain consciousness.

Posting date: 12/22/2004
Original article date: 12/21/2004
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/11/30/90274.html

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