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Falun Gong Practitioners Jailed in Changsha City, Hunan Province, Forced to Do Slave Labor By a Falun Dafa Practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) According to Falun Gong practitioners released from
Changsha Prison in Hunan Province, they were forced to perform slave labor for
13-14 hours every day. Being forced to work until 11:00 p.m., or until sunrise
the next day, was not uncommon. In one detention center there was an accident
after a criminal inmate was forced to work for five days and nights, under
threat of the electric baton. Four fingers on his left hand were crushed by an
iron gate. When Falun Gong practitioners requested the right to observe an
8-hour work day and have Sunday off, they were thrown into solitary confinement
for up to 90 days. Many practitioners have been subjected to this treatment. Recently the Changsha Prison was contracted to produce electronic products.
The products were ordered by a Xinglong Electronic Factory in Dongguan City,
Guangdong Province, for a company named "Taida" in Taiwan, which is a
supplier for Sony. We want to appeal to the international community, and overseas companies and
enterprises to pay attention to the violations of human rights and the
persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. We offer this special warning
to Sony and Taida: many of your products manufactured in China were made using
forced labor with no human rights protections, and your investments may have
been used by the Jiang regime to persecute Falun Gong. This is not something a
person of conscience would like to see. Please do not supply capital to the
regime. Let us expose the persecution and safeguard human rights. Twelve practitioners are being jailed in Changsha Prison as of June 1.
Initially, all Falun Gong practitioners were jailed in this prison. However, the
practitioners continued to practice in prison and resisted the persecution. Many
of them were called "diehards," and were thrown into solitary
confinement, where some of them held hunger strikes for as long as 10 days to
protest the ill treatment. In April 2003, the practitioners were transferred to
the Changde Jinshi Farm. Responsible Staff in Changsha Prison Warden of the Prison: Geng Shaoyun (responsible for transforming inmates) Captain of No. 1 Division, Huang Hao (hardliner, but still reasonable) Postal Code for Changsha Jail, Hunan Province: 410007 Posting date: 7/8/2004 |