What Is the Guangdong Law Education Center?

(Clearwisdom.net)

The Guangdong Law Education Center (formerly known as the Guangdong Law Education School) is really a brainwashing center. It is located next to the Guangdong Province Women's Forced Labor Camp in Sanshui District, Foshan City. This brainwashing facility is a large building complex next a lake that looks like a resort village from the outside. However, many Falun Gong practitioners are savagely tortured there. According to its staff, the central and provincial governments spent a huge sum of money to build the center to specifically persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The center is governed directly by the Guangdong Provincial 610 Office. The central government occasionally sends agents to the facility. The center's administrators maintain close ties with the 610 Offices throughout Guangdong Province, and persecution orders are issued from the center. The brainwashing center has two divisions.

When practitioners are arrested by the local 610 Office, some of them are forcibly brought to the lobby of the brainwashing center. Policemen from each division then take practitioners to their individual cells after going through several hallways and metal gates, where they feel oppressed with a sense of gloom. The lake below the center makes the air ice-cold.

Practitioners who are detained here have one or two people monitoring them all the time. The monitors live and eat with the practitioners. They normally have some relationship with either the policemen or the officials of the center. For example, policeman Lu Jinhu enabled his older brother and two cousins to obtain jobs there. His wife is the head of the first division.

The monitors attend the brainwashing sessions themselves, making them even more willing to help persecute practitioners. They record every word and action of the practitioners they monitor around the clock and report any infractions to the policemen on duty. The policemen then decide which persecution methods to use, and the monitoring staff helps the policemen with the persecution.

Practitioners who are detained here are forced to pay a fee for their stay. For some practitioners, the fees are paid by their local governments or their work units. Some local governments force practitioners' families to pay for the fee. The brainwashing classes last for three months and cost 3,000 yuan. The persecution methods include the following:

One or more policemen bombard individual practitioners with propaganda during brainwashing sessions. Sometimes they take practitioners out for a walk to the exercise room. This is to create a more relaxed environment to confuse practitioners and entice them to give up their practice.

The policemen force practitioners to watch videos that slander Falun Gong, sometimes repeatedly for long periods of time.

When practitioners are steadfast in their belief and "softer" measures do not work, the policemen use force. They force practitioners to stand, squat or sit on small stools for long periods of time. They show practitioners fabricated videos at high volumes. They verbally threaten practitioners. In winter, they turn on air conditioners and turn the thermostat to the coldest setting while forcing practitioners to wear very thin clothing.

Guards deprive practitioners of sleep, as they take turns preventing practitioners from sleeping 24 hours per day. They yell at practitioners and force them to stand, and they sometimes do not give practitioners anything to eat for one or two days. If practitioners close their eyes, they are sprayed with water, pinched on the arms and ears, pulled by the hair, hit on the head or brought into the restroom, where policemen pour water over them. According to the guards, these are the "rules" at the center.

When practitioners go on hunger strikes to protest the persecution, the facility doctor and policemen work together to force-feed and torture the practitioners.

Address: Guangdong Province Law Education Center, Sanshui District, Foshan City, Guangdong Province, 528100; phone number: 86-757-87774004

Head of the center, last name is Peng (male); deputy-head, Li Meiying (female), 86-13702758486 (cell).

Heads of Divisions: Wang Jiadong, 86-757-87317717; Chen Ruixiong (male), Huang Yu (female), a woman with the last name of Li (Policeman Lu Jinhu's wife)

Responsible policemen: Lu Jinhu (male), Gu Changqing (male), Yang Juan (female), Gong Dehong (female).

Education Section: Zhang Huiping (female)

Doctor: Wang Zhiwen (male)

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/9/14/110374.html

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