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The "Legal Education Program" at the Weihe Forestry Bureau, Shangzhi City, Heilongjiang Province - Brainwashing and Torture in Disguise
(Clearwisdom.net) In Shangzhi City, the "610 Office" (1) and
the political and judiciary committee of the Weihe Forestry Bureau has set up
brainwashing sessions to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners. Under the disguise
of a carrying out a "legal education program," the brainwashing
sessions are held at the Weihe Forestry Area Detention Center. Police officers
detain practitioners with convicted criminals and torture them in cruel ways. Zhang Maoqiu from the "610 Office" said, "The legal education
sessions do not have to follow any laws and there is no limit to how often
practitioners are forced to attend." The head of the detention center and
guards also said that they do not care or worry about the law when it comes to
dealing with practitioners. They can do whatever they want. They deliberately
detain practitioners with convicted murderers and other criminals to make use of
the criminals to torture practitioners. They try to brainwash practitioners by
using lies, threats, intimidation, hefty fines and sending them to forced labor
camps and jails. They also interfere with practitioners' family member's job,
thereby threatening their steady source of income as a way to coerce them to
give up their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance." According to the "610 Office," only when a practitioner learns to
lie, curse, beat up others, smoke, and drink (2) will it be considered a
"successful transformation." Otherwise, practitioners are sent to
forced labor camps or jails if they have not been "transformed." To severely persecute Dafa practitioners, the Weihe Forestry Bureau formed a
system. The system is made up of a group of people and headed by the Forestry Bureau
Communist Party Secretary Zhang Zhengxue, whose main job is to oversee the
persecution of Falun Gong. Local street offices and police officers are required
to report information and the situation of practitioners to the security section
and "610 Office." To do that, they follow, monitor, harass and arrest
practitioners at their homes. They also tap practitioners' phones. To encourage
the reports on practitioners and their arrests, a "special" fund was
created with a reward of 5000 yuan (3) for each report or arrest. This has
caused rampant persecution of practitioners as the police officers and
government officials act immorally as they are driven by their selfish pursuit
for money. During the past five years of persecution, about 20 Dafa practitioners have
been sent to forced labor camps. Many have been sent to brainwashing sessions.
Some practitioners' families have been torn apart in the persecution; some have
been forced to leave their homes, some were sent to forced labor camps. The
crimes are too numerous to record. May 28, 2004 |