The Persecution of Dafa Practitioners in the Female Prison in Heilongjiang Province
(Clearwisdom.net) To protest their incarceration for
practicing Falun Gong, the imprisoned Dafa practitioners in the fourth squadron
in Heilongjiang Provincial Female Prison refused to wear nametags, answer roll
call, or squat as ordered by the guards. Under the directives of Captains Wu
Yanjie and Tao Shuping, the practitioners were often beaten by the jailed
criminals, who had inflicted serious injuries on some of them. In the seven days
between November 26 and December 2, 2003, under the directives of the former
prison heads, Wang Xing and Chu Shuhua, the prison guards and police carried out
torture that seriously violated the practitioners' human rights in order to
coerce the practitioners to give up cultivation. Below are the main methods of
persecution used in those seven days: Practitioners were not given any food, water, or allowed
normal toilet privileges, and were forced to stay outdoors to freeze for long
periods of time. On the first day, the number of people tortured reached 43.
The practitioners were tortured by being forced to stand outside or walk for the
entire day from 5:30am to 4:30pm. It was in the middle of winter, and the
temperature was very low, but they were not allowed to bring any clothing to
shield against the cold. Practitioners Li Qingzhen, Yang Xiuhua, Li Bingqing, Du
Guijie, Wang Wenrong, Zhang Chunjie, Shi Li, Li Xuelian and others were stripped
of their cotton-padded jacket and tortured until after 9 pm that day. The female prison officers used electric batons to beat and
shock practitioners and also asked the male officers to beat the practitioners.
Moreover, they directed the criminals to assault the practitioners, as well. (1) Practitioners Xu Shufen, Liu Guihua, Ren Xiuying, Yan
Shufen, Wang Wenrong, Hu Guiyan and others were victims of the beating and shock
treatment by Wu Yanjie, Tao Shuping and other female prison officers. (2) Dafa practitioner Xiao Ailing was shackled to the iron
gate and viciously beaten. Ms Ma Aiqiao was struck with a wooden bench, resulting in a
wound on her forehead requiring four stitches that bled profusely. The bench was
broken into pieces upon impact. Ms Ma herself had to spend about 2,000 yuan for
the medical treatment. She was then locked up in a small room. Every day she was
given just two bowls corn flour gruel to eat. She was handcuffed with her arms
to her back for three days, and only released when she became semi-comatose. She
was locked up for 15 days in total. The practitioners who were beaten mercilessly include Li
Ping, Xiao Ailing, Cheng Peiying, Huang Liping, Zhang Chunjie, Liu Guihua, Ma
Aiqiao and others. (3) Female police officers Qiao Lina, Li Xiaoyu, Liu Hong and
Sun Lisong used bamboo sticks to beat practitioners in the face and hands. Many
Dafa practitioners' hands and faces became swollen, with eyes filled with blood.
The guards also ordered three to four criminals to surround and beat one Dafa
practitioner. Li Bingqing, Dong Yazhen, Zhao Yalun and others were viciously
beaten nearly every day. Huang Yazhen's eyes were injured. Li Bingqing sustained
internal injuries. Within a few days, every Dafa practitioner was injured. Liu
Wenge used the brush for the washbasin to brush Ms Li Qingzhen's mouth, which
caused her mouth to be inflamed and swollen. (4) Ms Hu Yan was shackled to the iron gate of the jail in a
squatting position from 4 pm in the afternoon to 5am in the morning. They also
forced her to do hard and did not allow her the normal rest or sleep. Other
practitioners were also forced to do hard labor. They went back to the prison
building between 4:30 pm and 5 pm every afternoon. Some of them were being
tortured and had to squat until midnight; others had to sit on the icy cold
ground on the first floor until 2 am. But at 5 am they had to get up again.
Seven Dafa practitioners were locked up in the small rooms because they did not
give in to the police's demands. They were tortured non-stop. On November 28, 2003, Dafa practitioners recited "Lun Yu"
(preface of Zhuan Falun) together. There were seven practitioners who
were locked up in the small rooms. They were Li Ping, Xiao Ailing, Cheng Peiying,
Ren Xinying, Gu Yarong, Liu Guihua, and Du Guijie. They were stripped of their
woolen sweaters and trousers, and twenty-four hours a day they were handcuffed
with their arms to the back and seated on the wooden beds. They were given only
thin cornmeal gruel to eat two times a day. They were locked up until 3 pm on
December 30, far exceeding the longest period of 15 days allowed by law. After
they returned to the prison building and until January 9, 2004, they were
continuously handcuffed to the bed frames from 6 am to midnight. Their bodies
wasted away, and their faces were ashen. Every day they had to stand for 17 to18
hours, with their hands cuffed to their back, and their hands and feet became
swollen. From January 10 to now, they have been forced to sit on tiny stools
with their arms cuffed to the back. The torture is still ongoing. The fourth team police deprived the practitioners' rights to
phone calls, meet with visitors and purchase necessities. They forced all of the
practitioners to refer to themselves in the third person as "criminals" when
requesting to make phone calls, etc. But since Dafa practitioners are not
criminals, they refused to do so, and in this way their requests were denied.
When their families came to visit them, the police lied to them, telling them
that the practitioners did not want to see them and sent them away. The postal address of Heilongjiang Provincial Female Prison 387 Xuefu Road of
Nangang District Harbin City,
Heilongjiang Province 150069
Chinese version available at
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