(Clearwisdom.net)
In the labor camps in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, Dafa practitioners are put into the so-called "conversation room" that is specifically used for separate detention so that they can persecute Dafa practitioners. Guards select, train and force 3-6 other detainees to specialize in "monitoring" Dafa practitioners around the clock. Practitioners are detained in isolated rooms and suffer from long-term physical and mental persecution.
First, practitioners are forced to undergo brainwashing, during which they are made to watch videos and read materials that slander, attack and fabricate charges against Falun Dafa and Master Li. Afterwards, practitioners are forced to write a so-called "feelings and thoughts report" for the guards every day. During the day, except during mealtimes and bathroom breaks, practitioners are forced to endure intense brainwashing sessions all day long. At the same time, the guards use all kinds of means to torture practitioners physically and mentally: they make them sit on a bench and read materials that slander Falun Dafa; they are not allowed to walk around in the room for longer than 20 minutes altogether on any given day; they are not allowed any free time. Guards and others who assist in persecuting them intimidate them by saying, "By not allowing you to walk around, your arms and feet may be paralyzed by the time you leave here."
In order to force practitioners to renounce Falun Dafa, the guards prolong steadfast practitioners' detention times for 10-15 days every month and also threaten, "If you persist like this, even when you finish your forced-labor term, you will be sent directly to the 'law education class' (brainwashing class) after leaving this labor camp. If you still refuse to give up the practice, you will be sent back to the labor camp again." The guards even openly shout, "If you still refuse to give in, we will torment you to death."
In order to achieve their purposes, the guards authorize, instigate and incite other detainees to monitor Dafa practitioners and allow them to take any means to arbitrarily persecute Dafa practitioners. Usually practitioners are only allowed to sleep for 4-5 hours every day and sometimes even only 2-3 hours, and for the rest of the time, practitioners are forced to watch videos that defame Falun Dafa. The guards also use physical torture on practitioners. The methods used include: tying practitioners up, tightly binding their arms and feet, and beating their heads and other parts of the body. The detainees can use any means of torture on practitioners they choose once every 2-3 days or even several times in one day. Since practitioners are detained separately, whatever happens inside is kept secret by the detainees and people outside are unaware. Dafa practitioners become exhausted from the long-term physical and mental abuse and some practitioners even fall asleep while standing. Practitioners are given trouble for using the toilet, eating or drinking, etc. If any other detainee is in the way of practitioners going to the toilet, practitioners are not allowed to go to the toilet and practitioners are forced to walk with their heads bowed. Some practitioners are tortured to the extent that their condition visibly deteriorates, which gives the guards an excuse to restrict the rights of practitioners even more because they are afraid it may cause disturbances if other detainees see these practitioners' situations. The guards seal these practitioners away as another method of mental persecution and in their words, "You will die of boredom."
Even for those practitioners who have given in because they were unable to withstand such persecution, the guards still use the same methods to "test" them for a long time and don't allow them out of isolation. They force them to do certain work until they feel these people have met their so-called requirements. Some of this work that these brainwashed practitioners are assigned to is to monitor other practitioners and never leave their side. These brainwashed practitioners have to obey "management" and are not allowed to talk to other detainees. Moreover, such management continues until these people leave the labor camp. If the guards feel these brainwashed practitioners have not met their requirements, the guards will further detain them in separate rooms and persecute them until the guards feel confident enough to let them out.
Even those monitoring detainees say that those rooms that separately detain Dafa practitioners are a "jail within a jail" and "the darkest spots in the world where the guards don't have any sense of law or truth."
(Note: Now the No. 1 Labor Camp of Guangzhou City has been converted into a detention center or prison and the detainees there for forced-labor detention are divided up and sent to several other labor camps. Over a dozen practitioners that used to be detained in the No. 1 Labor Camp have been sent to the No. 3 Labor Camp of Guangzhou and the guards who persecute them have been transferred to the same place.)
