(Clearwisdom.net) After reading the recent article on the Clearwisdom
website, "Call for practitioners who were released from detention to expose
the persecution they suffered while in detention," I had much thought. I
have been detained at Masanjia Labor Camp for over two years. Here I'd like to
expose the vicious deeds they committed to persecute practitioners.
- Exhaustion by surrounding and attacking. Once a practitioner enters the
room, there would be four or five people, sometimes seven to eight,
immediately surround him and loudly shout deviant and evil doctrine. The
practitioner would not have any time or room to think. The torture would
last until he wrote a statement to renounce Falun Gong. Otherwise he was not
allowed to return to his room to rest until 1:00 a.m. or 2:00 a.m. Sometimes
it lasts the whole night.
- Terrible environment. They locked up determined practitioners in a dark
and damp empty room, water house, or warehouse for a long time. Some rooms
did not have windows. In addition, they put the most determined
practitioners in bathrooms. They had to eat and sleep in there with a little
plastic stool as the only furnishing. Sometimes police came in to use the
toilet while practitioners were eating. Some had been detained in a bathroom
for two or three months, and even six months.
- Physical punishment. Practitioners were forced to stand without sitting;
some were forced to squat on a tile that was about one square foot. Some
senior practitioners could not squat and refused to do so. The police then
pushed them and beat them up. Some were detained in solitary confinement and
not allowed to use the toilet. Some had wet pants and were not allowed to
change on cold and humid days.
- Forced brainwashing. They were forced to watch videos slandering Dafa and
listen to the vicious talks given by so-called experts. They were forced to
attend brainwashing in groups. In order to get a bonus from their superiors,
the police carried out a so-called "battle against determined
practitioners" at the end of each year. They intensified their cruel
treatment and took turns attempting to force practitioners to give up their
belief. If practitioners still refused to give in, they were not allowed to
sleep and were subjected to escalated torture.
- Intense labor. Practitioners were forced to work from 7:00 or 8:00 a.m.
until 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. Although they were exhausted, police still often
forced them to work until 11:00 p.m. In order to get more money, police
forced practitioners to dig holes for planting trees in rural areas or pick
corn in the fall for over ten days. They were forced to do this kind of work
even when the soil was frozen. All Falun Gong practitioners, young or old,
were forced to work from 6:00 a.m. until late at night.
- Forced to work in toxic environments. Police forced practitioners to
manufacture handicrafts working with toxic materials. They knew that it was
toxic, but still insisted on using it because they could make more money
that way. Ignoring the well-being of practitioners, they forced them to work
all year round. In the spring and summer, they could open windows for
ventilation, but in the winter they could not keep the windows open because
of the cold. As a result, they worked in a poorly ventilated poisonous
environment all day long. Many practitioners had different degrees of
symptoms including allergies, vomiting, shortness of breath, tightness in
the chest, swelling, and skin rashes.
- Scarce and stale food. The only food we had was corn biscuits. They were
hard, yellow and brownish with a stale smell. They were hard to swallow.
At Masanjia Labor Camp, police used various vicious means to torture
practitioners mentally and physically, causing some to become mentally ill and
others to develop edema. Some had esophageal hemorrhaging due to the long-term
force-feeding.
January 14, 2006
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