Li Chunhui of the Changsha Women's Prison Savagely Tortures Dafa Practitioners

By a Dafa practitioner in Hunan Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Since 1999, the perpetrators at Changsha Women's Prison have used extremely inhumane methods to abuse and torture Falun Gong practitioners. The prison authorities organized a group that specializes in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. Li Chunhui, head of the group and guard Xue Fang divided the practitioners into three sections: Most Strictly Controlled Class, Strictly Controlled Class and Basic Class. All 19 Dafa practitioners sent to the Most Strictly Controlled Class were brutally tortured, even those over 70 years of age.

Group head Li Chunhui was especially cruel toward practitioners who remained in the Most Strictly Controlled Class throughout their incarceration. Practitioner Ms. Yan Hong from Changsha City refused to wear the prison uniform. She was detained in solitary confinement for three months in the heat of summer and was not allowed to take showers or change her clothes. She was forced to stand on the concrete ground that heats up to over 40⁰C [104⁰ F] during the day while shackled. The shackles weighed about 20 kg [44 lbs] and were especially made for use on Falun Gong practitioners. After Ms. Yan fainted, the perpetrators poured cold water on her to revive her. They continued to torture Ms. Yan after she came to. She was given only a small bowl of rice for each meal. In the evening she was shackled and locked in a solitary confinement cell, shrouded in stench and attacked by swarms of bugs and mosquitoes.

Practitioner Ms. Guo Boqin had been illegally held at a local detention center in Chenzhou before she was transferred to the Changsha Women's Prison and was already very weak as a result of mistreatment. She refused to memorize the prison rules, refused to say "report" when entering the office [as an inmate is required to do] and held a hunger strike to strongly protest the abuses against Dafa practitioners. The guards ordered inmates Zhang Li and Li Can to torture Ms. Guo. Guo Boqin was held in a solitary confinement cell for one month, after which her black hair turned white. When she shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" Zhang Li and Li Can jabbed her mouth with a mop handle until blood gushed from her mouth. Zhang Li and Li Can have been abusing other practitioners as well.

An inmate found a slip of paper with the words "Teacher" and "scripture" in the hands of practitioner Mo Xiaoyan from Yueyang. Group head Li Chunhui immediately ordered six inmates to drag Mo Xiaoyan by her feet from the third floor to the first floor, which left numerous cuts and bruises on Mo Xiaoyan's head and back. She was carried into a car and sent to a mental hospital, where she was forced to undergo an examination. The doctor lied and claimed that Mo Xiaoyan had mental illness. Ms. Mo was held in a solitary confinement cell until her release.

Luo Aizhen, a 67-year-old practitioner from Yiyang refused to squat when ordered to and denied the false accusations that she was a criminal. Group head Li Chunhui forced her to do push-ups, frog jumps, forced her to run, do half squats and handstands for an extended period of time. Due to physical torture and mental torment, Luo Aizhen lost control of her bladder and bowel and her blood pressure rose to 280/140 mmHg.

Practitioners sent to the Most Strictly Controlled Class were never allowed to meet with their families. They are isolated from the outside world all year long and are deprived of their basic dignity. Among the 4,000 detainees at the prison, only Dafa practitioners are not allowed to take showers. The practitioners are assigned nearly four times as much work as the regular inmates. They have to knit nine mats or pick 29 kg [63 lbs] of beans each day, which takes more than 20 hours to complete. They are not allowed to sleep until they finish their assigned work.

Practitioner He Lijia from Changde suffered from rapidly declining vision due to chronic lack of sleep. She was forced to make nine mats each day in March, April and May. She worked for more than 20 days a month with only half an hour of sleep daily (from 5:30 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.). When there is no work, the practitioners in the Most Strictly Controlled Class are either forced to stand against a wall, or Li Chunhui would order special male police officers to put the practitioners through intensive physical training. Some practitioners have swelling from their feet to their backs, yet they are still not allowed to take a break in between new work assignments.

Li Chunhui would also trick a practitioner to come to the office, saying she wanted to "talk" with her. Two male officers waiting in the office would jump at the practitioner upon entering the room, hang the practitioner up and shock her with electric batons. If the practitioner refused to give up Falun Dafa, they would send her to a solitary confinement cell to further torture her. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) promoted Li Chunhui to deputy head of the Education Section a reward for her display of cruelty.

What is listed above represents only the tip of the iceberg of the atrocities at the prison. Countless cases of gross abuse have taken place at Changsha Women's Prison during the past six years of persecution.

Practitioner Chen Chujun suffered complete memory loss and muscular atrophy and can no longer walk normally.
Practitioner Jia Cuiying passed away less than 20 days after her release.
Practitioner Zhou Yunxia had a mental breakdown lasting for over six months, yet the perpetrators still refuse to release her.

Persons responsible for these atrocities under the persecution:

Li Chunhui: female, deputy head of Education Section
Xue Fang: female, guard
Zuo: section head

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/30/109426.html

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