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Falun Gong Practitioners Endure Endless, Intensive Forced Labor at Langfang City Detention Center, Hebei Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Whoever is sent to Langfang City Detention Center
learns that the forced labor there is extremely intensive and unendurable. There
are always countless beans waiting to be picked and chopsticks waiting to be
wrapped up. The person in charge assigns daily jobs to every detainee. Detainees
who are unable to finish their assignments, are punished by either not being
allowed to sleep or by being given evening duty. They are forced to work more
than 10 hours every day. On hot summer days, because of working in poorly
ventilated cells, many suffer heatstroke. Newcomers usually face an even harsher
environment since they need time to learn those labor skills. If they cannot
finish their assignments during the daytime, they are forced to continue their
labor at night. The monitor in each cell does not allow them to go sleep if they
have not finished their assignments. Some of them finally get their job done
just before daybreak. Then the next day's assignment is waiting for them.
Although detainees are forced to perform such intensive labor, they are only
given two buns and a bowl of light soup per meal. Male detainees usually are
unable to eat enough food every day, not to mention getting enough nutrition.
After working for an entire day, everyone's stomach is rumbling with hunger. The only time they get a break is when some authorities come to visit or
inspect the detention center. At that time, the officer asks everyone stop
working and takes the products away and hides them well. All detainees would
start cleaning cells and yards. Then they would be asked to sit down on the
ground and recite the detention center's rules and regulations. After the
visitors leave, they would begin their work again. Actually the above-mentioned
situations currently take place in all detention centers and labor camps in
China. The intensity of the forced labor is unimaginable. All detainees have
been turned into slave laborers. Currently many Falun Gong practitioners have been sent into detention
centers, labor camps and jails. As a result, they have experienced all the
darkness and brutality. They have been suffering barbarous torture for refusing
to be treated so inhumanely, but they have never yielded to the persecution. In
China, even average citizens in many respects have no human rights, not to
mention those detainees. I sincerely hope all kind-hearted people in the world
will give their concern and support to Chinese Falun Gong practitioners! January 17, 2004 Practitioner in China Posting date: 2/3/2004 |