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Barbaric Acts at the Jianxin Women's Forced Labor Camp: Policemen Use Electric Batons to Shock the Genitals of Detained Female Practitioners
(Clearwisdom.net) Because she steadfastly practiced Falun Gong, Ms. Yan
Shujun, more than 50 years of age, was abducted by the Tianjin City Heping
District Public Security Bureau in November 2000. She was taken to a police
station where policemen brutally slapped her face. Then she was illegally
sentenced to two and half years of forced labor, and detained at the No. 4
Brigade of the Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin City. On June 1, 2001 Ms. Yan was transferred to the Tianjin City Jianxin Women's
Forced Labor Camp's No. 3 Squadron of the No. 6 Brigade. Because she did not
give up her belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," the
female camp guards deprived her of sleep, allowing her only as little as two
hours of sleep per day. To protest this incessant persecution, Ms. Yan Shujun
went on a hunger strike for 12 days. Subsequently, the camp extended her term
far past the original date of her expected release. On April 1, 2003 the No. 3
Squadron attempted to forcefully brainwash Ms. Yan. Camp policewomen dragged Ms.
Yan into a tiny dark room and struck her all over her body with electric batons.
Then, the camp policewomen forcibly bared Ms. Yan's body in front of the camp's
male discipline instructors to demonstrate their electric baton torture. They
then confined Ms. Yan to a 1.6 ft x 1 ft x 5 ft wooden cage where the
5-foot-7-inch tall Ms. Yan was forced into a partially-crouched position. Ms.
Yan Shujun was tortured in this inhuman way for 8 days. Afterwards she had
significant muscular and skeletal problems. Practitioner Ms. Chen Yaru, 46, was previously a resident of Xiaohaidi in
Tianjin City's Hexi District. In April 2001 she was abducted from her home and
sentenced to two years of forced labor at the Tianjin City Jianxin Women's
Forced Labor Camp's No. 3 Squadron of the No. 6 Brigade. To protest her persecution, on May 13, 2002 ("World Falun Dafa
Day," celebrated in many countries worldwide), Ms. Chen practiced the Falun
Gong meditation, sitting in the lotus position. Because of her action, the camp
police confined her to a small dark room, where they brutally beat her and
trampled on her arms. When they saw that the beatings could not shake Ms. Chen's
steadfast belief in Falun Gong, the camp police handcuffed each of her arms to a
bed, stretching her out spread-eagled. She remained handcuffed this way for 23
days. On April 6, 2003 there were many Dafa-slandering slogans posted inside the
Squadron. Ms. Chen and another detained practitioner tore down these slogans. In
response to their righteous action, the guards dragged the two female
practitioners into a room where they stripped them down to their underclothes
and tied up their hands. Then, the guards dragged them into the hallway, and
ordered them to kneel down. When the practitioners refused, six policemen
(including Li Zhiqiang and Section Chief Yu) used six electric batons
simultaneously on Ms. Chen to knock her down. One policeman even sat on Ms.
Chen, shocking her genitals with an electric baton for a full 20 minutes. After
that, they did the same to the other female practitioner. Then, they returned to
shocking Ms. Chen. They said to Ms. Chen, who was clad only in her underwear,
"This time we will give you a whole-body massage." They shocked Ms.
Chen with electric batons all over her body, to the point that her teeth became
loose. For more than one month after this torture, her right arm was paralyzed. Another practitioner, 30-plus-year-old Ms. Guo Baohua, resided in Tonggu
District. The police abducted her in April 2001. Because she refused to read any
Dafa-slandering articles, the police tied her with rope and subjected her to
physical punishment. They then confined her to a wooden cage for more than a
month. Ms. Guo went on a hunger strike for 37 days to protest this persecution,
during which time the police handcuffed and tied her up for 37 days, and then
put her into solitary confinement for more than one month. Seeing that she would
still not abandon her belief in Falun Dafa, the police handcuffed her to a
heating radiator. Later, since she would not relent, they handcuffed her
spread-eagled between two heating radiators. Still later, the police handcuffed
her and hung her up, suspended by her wrists, and subjected her to further cruel
tortures. On April 1, 2003, the police shocked Ms. Gou with several electric batons
simultaneously. One policeman with the family name of Jiao (formerly the team
leader of the No. 6 Brigade's No. 4 Squadron) admitted, "After striking you
with the electric baton, my heart hurt as if I had been hit in the chest. From
now on, I will not zap you with the electric baton." Nonetheless, they put
Ms. Guo in a wooden cage for several more days. The personnel in the Tianjin City Jianxin Women's Forced Labor Camp behave in
the same way as those in the Tianjin Banqiao Forced Labor Camp, in terms of
their long-term persecution of Dafa practitioners. They continue to apply cruel
punishments in an attempt to force many detained practitioners to succumb to the
torture and unwillingly write and sign the so-called "Three
Statements"(1). However, force cannot really change a person's heart.
Genuine practitioners will never abandon their beliefs. Those who were forced to
write and sign the "Three Statements" are now rectifying this deed by
declaring what they did as null and void, and are coming back to the practice of
Falun Dafa in an open, righteous and dignified manner. (1) The "Three Statements" - Practitioners are coerced under
brainwashing and torture to write these as proof that they have given up their
belief. Created by the "610 Office," the three statements consist of a
letter of repentance, a guarantee to never again practice Falun Gong, and a list
of names and addresses of all family members, friends and acquaintances who are
practitioners.
Posting date: 5/3/2004 |