Exposing the Inhumane Treatment at the Baimalong Women's Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province

By Chang De and Song Zhexin from Hunan Province

(Clearwisdom.net) I would like to tell about the brutal tortures that I was subjected to in the labor camp, to expose the crimes of Jiang's evil regime and the lies it has used to deceive the public.

My name is Song Zhexin. I am 56 year old. On July 12, 2002, the police, and over a dozen people from the 610 Office, abducted me and took me to a brainwashing session in the Wuyuan Hotel in Changde City. They put all the steadfast Falun Dafa practitioners in a small room that was only over 100 square feet, and cut off all of our contact with the outside. They tortured us in a completely isolated environment for sixty-six days. We were not allowed to see our family members. Finally, when Guo Hongmin and Dai Yi from the 610 Office realized that I could not be "transformed," they sentenced me to one year in a labor camp and I was detained in the Baimalong Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City.

In the labor camp, the police brutally tortured every steadfast practitioner. I was detained in the Qiyi Brigade. There were more than a dozen detainees in every room, but only one practitioner per room was allowed. The labor camp used collaborators and drug addicts to attack the steadfast practitioners. They did not allow me to contact anyone from outside, and they forced their brainwashing materials upon me. They played one videotape after another that was full of lies, slander and defamation of Falun Dafa and practitioners.

I kept my faith the entire time and refused to accept anything from them. They exhausted all their means and harassed me twenty-four hours a day. I did not follow any of their orders. A month later, the police transferred me and ten other practitioners to a special brigade for further torture.

There, they assigned the inmates to watch us day and night. At bedtime, or before getting up in the morning, they forbade us to sit on the bed for fear that we might meditate or send forth righteous thoughts. They also did not allow us to walk around; anyone who walked around would be followed by other inmates. The surveillance was very tight. The police ordered us to wear prison uniforms and badges. We refused, and were punished by being forced to stand up until midnight. If we refused to do the prison exercise drills, they would expose us for a prolonged time under the burning sun. At night, any practitioner who tried to sit up would be beaten, cursed, dragged down from the bed, forbidden to use a blanket, and tortured with other despicable means.

In order to stop the persecution, we started a hunger strike on May 24, 2003. A few days later, they started to torture us with brutal force-feeding. They videotaped the process and said that it would be used to show the world their "humanity." This procedure was carried out in the instructor's office. Doctor Huang gave directions, and then police officer Huang Weimin and several others gave instructions to the inmates. They ordered one inmate to hold my neck tightly with a towel, one to pinch my nose, one to keep my mouth in place, one to pull my hair backward, one to hold down my left hand, one to hold down my right hand, one in front of me to pry my mouth open with a big metal spoon, and another to force-feed me. During the force-feeding, they covered my mouth and nose with a bowl and I passed out instantly and fell from the chair. The instructor immediately came over and kicked me, and they continued to force-feed me after I regained consciousness. They purposely poured the food all over my body. The entire process was videotaped. This was how they tried to "save" people! Actually, they were trying to kill people.

This violent torture continued for forty-two days. On the last day, I suddenly felt an unbearable pain in my chest. Policeman Huang Weimin transferred me to the designated hospital of the Baimalong Labor Camp. The doctors cooperated with the police and tried to insert a stomach tube into me. After the insertion of the tube, I vomited even more. Soon, they sent me back to the Baimalong Labor Camp. Seven other practitioners and I started a hunger strike again. The brigade leader, Huang Weimin, and his cohorts instructed seven or eight inmates to force-feed us twice a day. They shut us in the office and took turns force-feeding us. Some practitioners' mouths were injured and their teeth were loosened or they lost several teeth as a result of their mouths being pried open. In the end, I was the only one left. At that time, only Teacher' Fa was strengthening my righteous thought.

This time the torture was more brutal than before. The instructor's office became a permanent place for force-feeding me. In the middle of the floor was a straw mat. I was pushed down on the mat and a tall inmate sat on my legs. Each of my hands was pressed down by an inmate. My head was also held down tightly. As in the previous force-feedings, my body was pressed so hard that it was immediately covered with marks and bruises. My throat became red and swollen from the insertion of the stomach tube. My mouth was rubbed raw and my teeth became loose. This went on for eighty days. Finally, they sent me to the Zhuzhou Worker's Hospital for a second round of force- feeding. Furthermore, they charged me nearly 1,000 yuan a day for this punishment. On the eighth day, my nose and throat bled profusely after they inserted the tube. I decided then that I would no longer allow them to do that to me even if I had to die. I demanded that they clear my name, and restore the good name of Falun Dafa and our Teacher, and release me immediately and unconditionally.

After the stomach tube was left in my throat for eight days, my nose and throat suffered unbearable pain. My hands were shackled to the bed by ice-cold handcuffs and I could not turn over. After a total of over one hundred and twenty days of torture, they saw that my life was at risk and ordered my family members to take me home. However, Guo Hongmin and Dai Yi from the City 610 Office ordered the officers to send me for further brainwashing sessions. Only after my family members strongly protested, did they let me go home.

December 19, 2004

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/12/20/91814.html

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