Guards Persecute Dafa Practitioners in Majialong Labor Camp, Jiangxi Province

Written by a Dafa practitioner in Mainland China

(Clearwisdom.net)

Since early 2000, many Dafa practitioners have been arrested and taken to the Majialong Labor Camp in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province. The labor camp didn't allow them to practice the Falun Gong exercises. If anyone was caught practicing the Falun Gong exercises, he/she was beaten. Practitioners were not allowed to talk to each other, and every steadfast practitioner was monitored by 2 or 3 drug-addict prisoners (sometimes even 4 drug-addicts were assigned to monitor one practitioner).

Practitioners were required to stay together with their drug-addict monitors even when they worked, ate, slept or used the toilet. They had no personal freedom. Practitioners were required to work all day, and if there was an urgent assignment, they were forced to work late into the night as well, but they were not allowed to rest in the evening. Guards used that time making all attempts to force practitioners to renounce their belief and to write statements that conformed to the Party political policies. Those who were firm in their belief were subjected to a variety of brutal means to torture them into renouncing their belief.

In 2002, the No. 3 Team assigned 4 drug-addicts to monitor each firm Dafa practitioner. These particular monitors had reputations for cruelty and mercilessness. They used various means to torture Dafa practitioners, such as forcing them to bend with their heads against the wall, forcing them to closely lean against the wall with their arms and feet widely open, depriving them of sleep, forcing them to stand still for extended periods of time, etc.

No. 3 group head Jiang Chunhui was in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the labor camp. He told the monitors that each of them would have 2 months reduced from their original sentence every time they successfully brainwashed a Dafa practitioner into renouncing their belief. The camp authorities further stipulated that the means they used had to be "civilized."

Majialong Labor Camp received an award as "provincial model labor camp" based solely on the number of Falun Dafa practitioners forced to renounce their belief. Using "civilized means" was actually said just for the authorities to cover themselves and have a way to scapegoat the other inmates for any actions against Dafa practitioners that might cause a death or other serious incident. The unspoken implication of the words was to "use any means necessary" to brainwash Falun Dafa practitioners.

With the temptation of such benefit, the drug-addicts used even more mean and sinister ways to persecute Dafa practitioners. For example, four of them took turns torturing a 65-year-old senior Dafa practitioner named Huang Deguo, from Yunshan in Yongxiu County. In the winter, they took off Huang Deguo's clothes and forced him to stand in front of the dorm bent over and did not allow him to sleep for an entire night. They also humiliated Mr. Huang in a variety of ways by forcing him to wear a newspaper "dunce cap", hanging a full chamber pot around his neck, etc. At the same time, they prevented him from using the toilet. If the group had a production requirement, for example making Christmas lights, and the work could not be finished while in the workshop, they would force Mr. Huang Deguo to take it to the dorm and continue working on it.

Chen Shangwu is a Dafa practitioner in Xingang, Lushan District. After working all day, Mr. Chen was already worn-out by the time he got back to his dorm in the evening. However, the drug-addicts forced him to stand up straight in one place without sleep until the next morning. This torture was repeated every day for a week. They didn't stop until his feet became so swollen that he could not even stand, his spirit almost collapsed and he was forced to give in against his conscience.

Dafa practitioner Hu Jiefei, is from Gao'an City in Jiangxi Province. When he was illegally sent to a labor camp, he managed to escape with righteous thoughts. But he was soon arrested and taken back. After he was transferred to the No. 1 group of Majialong Labor Camp, he was put in shackles for 6 months straight. Under direct orders from the guards, the drug-addicts often dragged Mr. Hu Jiefei to the washroom and beat him without reason, forced him to work while shackled, and didn't allow him to sleep at night.

Lu Zhankui, the leader of the No. 1 group asked all Falun Gong practitioners detained in the brainwashing class to recite the 80 labor camp regulations. When some practitioners questioned guard Chen Aihua some who had not been sentenced to forced-labor were still detained there and had to recite the labor camp's 80 regulations, he answered, "Even if you are not sentenced to forced-labor, you also have to recite the regulations. Otherwise, you will be punished and you won't be allowed to sleep."

Mao Rulun, was a 64 year old Dafa practitioner from Jiujiang City. One policeman put shackles on his hands and feet, with a chain tying the hand and feet shackles together. Under this torture, he had to bend his body and could not stand up straight. At night, the police handcuffed Mr. Mao Rulun to a window and didn't allow him to sleep. It was September of 2001, and the weather was extremely hot at that time. His body felt very dirty due to lack of the opportunity to take a shower and change clothes. When Mr. Mao Rulun was detained in the No. 2 Team, policeman Deng Chengsong directed drug-addict Wu Binlin to torture him. They hung and handcuffed Mr. Mao Rulun onto a window with his toes merely touching the ground. Wu also smeared soap and water on the tiles beneath Mr. Mao so that his toes would slip whenever they touched the ground. Wu also used a wooden board to hit the nerves under his kneecaps. Every time Wu hit Mr. Mao behind his knees, his legs would automatically jerk up causing Wu to laugh. The guards placed a blood-pressure reader nearby and told Mr. Mao that they would not release Mr. Mao from this hanging position until his blood pressure was high enough to put him in grave danger. They hung Mr. Mao Rulun for three days and nights without giving him any food or water. Then they removed him from this position, and handcuffed his hands behind his back and hung him up again. Mr. Mao's 190 pound body was hung from the window frame by his hands, which were cuffed behind his back. The cuffs cut into his hands causing his wrists serious injury.

Guard Xu Lijian used psychological torture to persecute Dafa practitioner Yin Yucai from Duchang City. Every night when Mr. Yin just fell sleep, Xu Lijian told Mr. Yin to get up and go to the duty room. In fact, he asked Mr. Yin to sit in the duty room and didn't allow Mr. Yin to go to sleep. Mr. Yin could only go back to the dorm to sleep a little while the second morning. He would soon be awaken shortly after he went back to the dorm. Mr. Yin was not allowed to have a rest in the daytime either. At the same time, Mr. Yin was forced to stay busy making the bed, taking off clothes, putting on clothes, folding and unfolding his quilt. He was forced to repeat these activities constantly day after day. (Author's note: As Dafa practitioners, we should always peacefully and non-violently refuse to comply with the evil people's orders and commands. Silently tolerating evil people's torture and persecution against us can actually acknowledge and worsen the persecution on others and ourselves.)

Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhou Zuofu is from Ruichang City. Before he was released in April 2003, he was handcuffed for as long as 6 months. During this period, the guards didn't allow Mr. Zhou to sit down, nor did they allow him to go to sleep until late into the night. Drug-addicts said, "I seldom saw him permitted to sit in the past 6 months." Mr. Zhou Zuofu was tortured until he developed rickets and became mentally disoriented due to the extended torture. He has not recovered even now.

Dafa practitioner Huang Xiangui, is from Jiujiang County. Policeman Lu Zhankui incited drug-addicts, "If you can brainwash Huang Xiangui, you will be immediately released." Drug-addict Hu Ping wildly tortured Mr. Huang Xiangui, and he fiercely beat and swore at Mr. Huang. He didn't allow Mr. Huang to sleep and Mr. Huang was tortured until he was extremely thin, pale and weak.

In order to force practitioners to give up their belief in Falun Dafa, the No. 2 group forced practitioners to labor making Christmas lights. They forced them to work over night without sleep and also forced elderly people to make tungsten wire for lightbulbs. The wires are as thin as a hair and only a few millimeters long. Two old-aged practitioners could not see it clearly and were unable to produce them. Guards in the No. 2 group immediately imposed punishments on them by forcing a 64-year old practitioner to be hung up by the handcuffs and charged with "resisting education" and hanging up another over 50 year old practitioner for "damaging production."

When Dafa practitioners Zhou Zuofu and Zhang Huizhai were hung and handcuffed, their wrists were dislocated. Drug-addict Xu Shanghua grabbed Mr. Zhou's handcuffed hands and dragged and shook his hands so fiercely that Mr. Zhou almost fainted from the excruciating pain. Mr. Zhang's right hand was paralyzed for months from being handcuffed. While Mr. Zhou was hung and handcuffed and moaning due to the extreme pain, policeman Deng Chengsong cheerfully watched him beside the window.

Mr. Hu Yaguo, a Dafa practitioner from Lushan District in Jiujiang City, was also persecuted in this labor camp.

In 2002, guards forced determined practitioners to go through brainwashing sessions and regularly watch VCD's and read a white-covered book containing false propaganda defaming Falun Dafa and Master Li. They also forced practitioners to write thought-sharing articles, report their "feelings" after watching brainwashing materials (in which they were required to make statements in agreement with the governments position against Falun Dafa). If they didn't agree to conform to the expected thinking, the guards would not allow practitioners to sleep, and punished practitioners by making them do cleaning or forcing them to stand in place for 24 hours straight. Policeman Deng Chengsong claimed, "This is not a punishment. It is to give them an opportunity to think over the issues."

Policemen in the No. 1 group: Lu Zhankui (he is currently head of the Forced-labor Section), Xu Lijian (group Chief), Luo Mouwen.

Duty room phone number: 86-792-6960722.

Policemen in the No. 2 group: Deng Chengsong (deputy head in charge of persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners), his cell phone number: 86-13607927933, Tian Bengui (instructor).

Written on May 12, 2004

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/5/13/74530.html

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