(Clearwisdom.net) At Chishan Prison in Hunan Province, Falun Dafa
practitioners and other inmates are forced to do intense labor, including
producing and processing dolls. One Korean businessman invested in over 400
sewing machines and provided the raw materials used for making these dolls.
There are over a dozen procedures necessary for making one doll, but carrying
out many of these steps are countless numbers of people who don't get paid, and
when payment does occur, it is only the equivalent of about twenty-five cents.
The dolls are exported and sold all over the world. After being handled by over
a dozen workers, the dolls are packaged without sterilization. The working
conditions are very bad and because of the lack of proper hygiene, the inmates
suffer from all kinds of diseases. The Hunan Labor Camp Bureau is using Chishan
as a pilot site, and has plans to promote this type of labor activity to every
prison in Hunan Province. On every doll there is a
6" Funky Animal Asst. KMRT N 8755 0004 ATM No.: 010-655960-118 Made in China Contents 64 Pieces In addition, this prison also produces colored lights called "pretty lights."
Inmates have to put thirty-six small bulbs in 39 inches of plastic tubing. Every
inmate has to fill up more than one hundred yards of tubes each day. It takes
over ten hours to do this work each day, sometimes leading up to thirteen or
fourteen-hour workdays. This product is under contract with companies in Macau. In addition to being forced to perform slave labor, practitioners suffer
torture and abuse from the police and other prison inmates. Common criminals Ren
Taoyuan, Yuan Jiashuang, Liu Aifang (also named Liu Fang), Zhou Hongbo, Wu
Fenlian and Ai Shune act as malicious tormenters. Under the incitement of
policemen Tang Jie, Guo Yuanqing, and Chen Dongxia, they follow orders from
above and commit all kinds of vicious deeds against the Falun Dafa
practitioners. They threaten practitioners, torture them by injuring their
eyelids, they hold burning paper towels near practitioners' nostrils for one or
two hours, where smoke inhalation causes damage to their lungs. They force
practitioners to wear tags, handcuff them, and force them to stand up to answer
roll call. The practitioners have to get permission before using the toilet and
they are not allowed to talk to each other. (Note: Practitioners have refused to
follow these rules, as they are not criminals.)
sign. The printing on the doll packaging is as follows:
Posting date: 2/15/2004
Original article date: 2/14/2004
Category: Eye Witness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/1/25/65782.html