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I Twice Endured Inhumane Torture at the Sichuan Province Women's Forced Labor Camp
By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Sichuan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) This report details the torture I endured as a female
Falun Dafa practitioner during two separate periods of detention at the Sichuan
Province Women's Forced Labor Camp. Zhang Xiaofang, a female guard at the labor
camp, handcuffed me, kicked my private parts and ordered the inmates to beat me
until I lost consciousness. Then an inmate walked back and forth on my body,
kicking my private parts until my lower body was covered with blood. The guard
and the inmate then applied an unknown drug to my temples and eyes, causing me
to lose my memory for more than six months. 1. Arrested and Tortured for Clarifying the Facts to Relatives On December 12, 2002 fellow practitioner Ms. Yan Zongfang and I went to my
hometown to visit my parents and other relatives. Several relatives came to my
parents' home. I shared with them how I'd benefited from practicing Falun Gong
and gave them truth-clarification flyers. In the afternoon, the son
of one of my relatives went to school and was searched; the teacher found
several flyers on him and reported it to the police. The next morning, the local
police illegally arrested us and took us to the police station. They
took all the money we had and interrogated us. In the evening, we were detained
in the State Security Brigade of the County Police Department. The police officers from the State Security Brigade isolated us from those on
the outside as well as from the other detainees, and interrogated us. Zhang
Qiwei, the police commissar, and Kong Yun, head of the State Security Brigade,
verbally abused us and tortured us, attempting to force us to reveal the source
of the flyers. We firmly refused to cooperate with them. The police threatened
and intimidated us, and deprived us of sleep, food and drink for a whole night. On the second day, the State Security Brigade dispatched police officers Yang
Cong, Gou Dongsheng, Hou Xiangyu, and He (surname) to go to my residence and
they ransacked my apartment. They made a big mess and took half a truckload of
personal items to the police station. In the afternoon we were taken to the
detention center. At the detention center, we persisted in Fa study
and practicing the exercises. Zheng Zequan, deputy director of the police
department, and political instructors Li and Sun Shulin beat, kicked and cursed
us. Li used a knotted club to beat us, leaving numerous big bruises and wounds
on my body. He cursed me obscenely. He Yongfu, head of the detention center,
beat and cursed Ms. Yan Zongfang frequently. Several days later, the director of the police department in my hometown, Hou
Xiangyu, led a group of police officers to my cousins' home. They took my two
cousins and my niece's in-laws to the detention center and illegally detained
them for a whole day and night. They were deprived of sleep and handcuffed to
stools. The police extorted 800 yuan from each of them and demanded
50 yuan as a "rental fee" during their detention. Only members of the
communist party would commit such outrages to implicate even the most distant
relatives in a legal case. We were incarcerated and subjected to torture in the detention center for
more than six months. In June, we were sent to the Sichuan Province Women's
Forced Labor Camp (also called Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp) where they
continued to cruelly torture us. I suffered all kinds of torture at the hands of Zhang Xiaofang, a female
guard at the labor camp. I was deprived of sleep, forbidden to use the restroom,
sit, or take a shower. During the hottest days of summer, I was forced to get up
at 5:00 a.m. and stand in the sun until 3:30 a.m. the next day. I was only
allowed to rest between 3:30 and 5 a.m. every day. I was subjected to this
physical punishment for several months, until my hands and feet became numb. My
feet were swollen and the backs of my hands were swollen and bulging. I couldn't
stand and fell to the ground; I completely lost consciousness and was sent to
the hospital for emergency treatment. After I came to, my head hurt a lot. I
felt my head and forehead, and discovered that there were several big bumps on
my head, each the size of an egg. Zhang Xiaofang also instigated several inmates, including Hu Guifu, Wang
Lijuan and Zhang Chaoqiong, to torture and beat me, loosening all my teeth, and
breaking one. They tied me in the double-crossed legs position for one day and
one night; and used thin thread to tie my nipples very tight. They used a lot of
force to pull the thread tight. The pain was terrible enough to make a person
wish for death. I passed out six times. 2. I Was Arrested for the Second Time and Was Given an Unknown Drug and Lost
My Memory On November 11, 2003 I went to the People's Congress building, the Political
Consultative Committee Office building, and the residential compound of the
County CCP Committee to distribute truth clarification CDs and flyers. When I
finished distributing them and was on my way back, a middle-aged man caught me
and called the police, reporting to the police that I was distributing flyers. A
police car and a group of policemen arrived immediately. They refused to listen
to me when I clarified the truth to them. Later, I heard that the middle-aged
man was the deputy director of the Organizational Department of the County CCP
(Chinese Communist Party) committee. Once inside the CCP residential compound,
the police beat and kicked me. They forced me to gather up the materials I'd
placed in the stairways and took me to the State Security Brigade of the police
department. The police tried to force me to reveal the names of others who were
distributing flyers and the flyer production site. I refused to collaborate with
them. Yue Gang, the deputy head of the State Security Brigade, along with
political instructor Huang and another police officer slapped my face and kicked
me. I fell to the ground and couldn't stand on my own. Ke Daqi, the head of the local 610 Office, cursed me. Police
officer Zhang Qiwei verbally abused me with obscene language. They couldn't
obtain any information from me even though they threatened, intimidated and
coaxed me with the club and the carrot. They threw me into the detention center. My face became severely swollen in
the detention center, as a result of several beatings. The next day, the police
department dispatched a sinister and crafty police officer named Yang Cong to
interrogate me. I simply clarified truth to him during the interrogation. I was sentenced to two years of forced labor. On April 9, 2004, I was
incarcerated in the Sichuan Province Women's Labor Camp for the second time and
was sent to the Seventh Brigade, the most vicious brigade. I encountered the
guard Zhang Xiaofang again. She wore a smile, but cursed me really badly and
confiscated 700 yuan, which was all the money I had with me. She handcuffed me,
slapped my face and kicked my private parts. She ordered the other inmates to
beat me until I lost consciousness. They trampled my hands and broke all my
fingers. The guards directed the inmates to walk back and forth over my body,
kicking my private parts until I my lower body was covered in blood. It hurt so
much, and I had no strength to stand up. Zhang Xiaofang ordered the inmates to pick me up and hold me in the standing
position, and then she applied some kind of drug to my temples and eyes. After a
short while, I fell into a stupor and lost my memory. Even when I was eating,
sleeping or performing labor, I was not aware of what I was doing. I couldn't
remember anything. Zhang arranged for five inmates to serve as
"monitors" who watched over me in turn from morning 'till night. I was
forbidden to sleep. When I squatted, I was forced to squat on my tiptoes, in a
ballet-like posture. When I tried to shift into another position, they'd put a
stool on my legs and one of them would sit on it, causing it to cut deeply into
my thighs. Even the bones were visible. My legs bled profusely. They attempted
to force me to slander Master and Dafa, but I refused. Inmates Deng Qin and Liu
Li (of Nanchong City) were the worst among the inmates who tortured me. I lost my memory for six months. In October, the Seventh Brigade and the
Eighth Brigade were combined, and the situation became relatively better. With
the help of fellow practitioners and strength from Master, I gradually regained
my memory with much effort. The phone numbers of the perpetrators: The Sichuan Province Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp: |