The Notorious Xinjin Brainwashing Class in Chengdu City Has Been Shut Down

(Clearwisdom.net) The notorious "legal system school" in Chengdu City has recently been shut down, and three steadfast Dafa disciples were taken home by authorities on January 26. Some other Dafa disciples who are illegally detained may be transferred to other areas.

The "Legal System Education Center" was jointly organized by Sichuan Province and Chengdu City. It is actually a brainwashing center located in the remote Huaqiao area in Xinjin County. Right next to it is the "Women's Education Center" and the "Drug Rehabilitation Center." The brainwashing center was established in March 2003. During the last 10 days of April 2003, they started to arrest and place Dafa disciples in the center.

There was no bulletin board outside the front door . The metal gate is usually shut for the entire day, with security guards on duty. There were more people held here than in most jails. After practitioners were arrested, they were locked up in a 6-story building. The windows were only 15 centimeters wide. The first floor was locked every night at around 10:00 pm until the next day at 7:00 am. Dafa disciples were locked in small rooms day and night. Each room was tightly locked all the time. Practitioners were prohibited from seeing each other. Also, it was clearly stipulated in regulations that "practicing the Falun Gong exercises, making contact with other practitioners and promoting Falun Gong" were all forbidden.

There were four different methods used to illegally arrest Dafa disciples and put them in this center. The first was to kidnap them from their homes. They were also transferred from detention centers or labor camps. Third, they brought disciples from other brainwashing classes and fourth, they arrested practitioners as their terms were finished in labor camps. More than 500 disciples were held in this place before October 2003. We don't know exactly how many Dafa practitioners have been held there in the last two years.

Each practitioner had two "personal guards." One of them was assigned by the practitioner's workplace or place of residence. Another one was assigned by the village or town officer where the practitioner lived. These two people lived with the Dafa practitioner in same room at all times. One was assigned to go to the cafeteria to bring back food. If the practitioners needed to wash, to take a shower or go to the bathroom, they first had to get permission. One of the guards would go to check if there were any other practitioners out there. If no one was there, then they would agree to accompany the practitioner. These "personal guards" had to clearly record the practitioner's words and actions every day and report to a supervisor. Every morning and afternoon they played two CDs that slandered Dafa and Master. They forced practitioners to watch. At night they made the practitioner talk about his or her feeling of what was in the CD.

The brainwashing center also transfers assistants from the surrounding areas. Each would work here for half a year. Every practitioner was surrounded by one assistant and two guards.

Practitioners were forced to pay for a "meal fee," which was as high as 1000 yuan every month. They were also constantly threatened by staff and local 610 office workers. Each day "Street Security" sent some people in to harass the practitioners. They would frequently beat practitioners and subject them to inhumane torture. Anyone going on a hunger strike to protest would be tied up on a bed and force-fed with a hard tube poked into their nose until they would start to eat again.

An outsider would have no way of knowing what was going on inside, since information is tightly guarded. One case we do know of is a lady named Zhu Xia who is in her 30s, living at Apartment 1, 3^rd Unit, 4^th Building, No. 5 Jinrong Lane, Guangrong Sub-district, Chengdu City. She was taken to this brainwashing class by He Yuanfu, who is the head of 610 office in Guangrong Sub-district of Chengdu City. This happened right after she finished her time at a labor camp. However, now, having been tortured to the point of suffering a mental collapse, Zhu Xia has a habitual movement where she puts her hand against her head violently and screams loudly with fear, "Are you going to rape me?"

Who knows what exactly happened in that evil place? Zhu Xia was subjected to brutal persecution, and she encountered inhumane torture, both physically and mentally. Her suffering drove her to mental collapse. It was said that she was often not allowed to sleep in the brainwashing center for days at a time.

Senle Liu, a 53-year old Dafa disciple, lived in the No. 1 group, Guilin Village, Xindu District, Chengdu City. She was abducted by the 610 Office in Xindu and taken to the Xinjin brainwashing class. There she was persecuted until her health was in a precarious state. She died 3 days after she went home. On the afternoon of April 5, 2003 while she was with some friends in the new Guihu Park, Xindu District, Chengdu City, she was arrested by policemen and 610 office members. She was forcibly detained for 15 days, and the she was sent to the Xinjin brainwashing class for further persecution. In the brainwashing class she suffered all sorts of torture and physical abuse. When it was apparent that she was about to die, the authorities forced her family to give them 1000 yuan for her release.

On May 23, she was taken by her husband with other two people and a local secretary to her home. She came home without shoes, every part of her body aching, swells on her head, her chest bruised badly, her stomach swollen and in pain, and foam in her mouth. Three days later, she was dead. The local authorities, in an attempt to dodge responsibility, threatened her family, suppressed the news, made up rumors and said she committed suicide. They ordered the coroner to say that she died from a sudden epileptic seizure.

According to an insider, a couple named Li Xianwen and Yu Guiying are practitioners who lived on Gongnongyuan Street in the Longzhoulu area, Jingjiang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. They both encountered brutal persecution. The husband was persecuted to death in Xinjin brainwashing class. His death was covered up, so his mother didn't even know that he was dead. His wife could not bear the severe persecution in the labor camp and ended up with a mental disorder. She has now been sent home.

Xinjin brainwashing class has done all kinds of evil deeds in carrying out the persecution against Falun Gong. This was the most notorious place for persecuting Dafa disciples in Chengdu area. Lately, due to the effect of Dafa practitioners' righteous thoughts, the Xinjin brainwashing class has been shut down.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/2/12/95338.html

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