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Masanjia Forced Labor Camp Guards Laugh While Torturing Practitioners
By a practitioner in Liaoning province
(Clearwisdom.net) I am a Falun Dafa practitioner just released from
Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. The guards there have done so much to persecute Dafa
and Dafa practitioners. The persecution is so cruel and countless that it is
impossible to list it all. Due to my firm refusal to be brainwashed and "transformed," the
police tortured me with electric batons, hanging with cuffs, slapping my face,
stretching my limbs, and used all kinds of torture methods on me. Same as many
persistent practitioners, I was on a long term hunger strike to resist the
persecution. The authorities were unable to achieve their goal. In December, 2002, after a few months of being on a hunger strike, guard
Zhang Chunguang forced me to squat for 10 days, tied and hung me up in his
office for two nights. This is called the '"Big Hang 'Up" (handcuff
both hands and tied to the heater pipe, with both legs above the ground.). In
the corridor, they tied up my waist for a few hours, handcuffed both of my hands
on my back, and tied both of my legs in the double lotus position for several
hours continuously. As the time period was very long, my bones and muscles
became excruciatingly painful - so painful that I screamed out loudly and lost
consciousness. Policeman Zhang Chunguang shocked me with an electric baton so
severely that my heart was twisting, both of my legs trembled, and I was dizzy.
The pain was so bad that it seemed my heart had torn apart, while the police was
laughing wholeheartedly. In the past few years, Masanjia Forced Labor Camp has used all vicious
methods to help Jiang's gang to persecute Falun Gong. Not only did they try to
destroy Dafa practitioners physically, they have also bullied, threatened, and
tortured Dafa practitioners mentally. Every day, they broadcast propaganda about
murders, suicide, self-immolation and show all kinds of videos used to frame
practitioners. They force practitioners to write self-criticism essays about
their "feelings." They require collaborators to persuade steadfast
practitioners to change their minds. Some practitioners were persecuted to the
point of mental disorder. They have constantly changed methods to persecute Dafa
practitioners. At the end of 2003, guards asked practitioners to practice other types of
qigong, such as Taiji, since Falun Gong was not allowed. They would punish those
who did not comply. Dafa practitioner Zhang Chunmei insisted on practicing Falun
Gong. Because of this, she was tied to a chair and not allowed to sleep. A few
people watched her, and on some occasions she was not even allowed to go to the
toilet. In November 2003, I refused to practice Taiji, and policeman Zhang Chunguang
did not allow me to sleep for a whole month. More than ten collaborators took
turns watching me. They did not let me to close my eyes a bit. I was sent back
to the prison cell after my head was spinning and I was vomiting all day long. I
lost a lot of hair and weight, my face became very skinny, and my body was
extremely weak and fragile. In December of 2003, policemen from Dailin, Shenyang, Jinzhou and Huludao
Cities had formed a "Help and Educate Unit" to start another wave of
persecution of Dafa practitioners. They used electric batons, tied up
practitioners' feet, slapped faces, hit practitioners' heads with books, forced
practitioners to squat motionless for long periods of time, and many other
methods of torture. ''Policemen continuously hitting practitioners' heads with
books for hours caused many bloody bumps. The severe torture could not move Dafa practitioners who have righteous
thoughts and belief. In 2004, a large number of steadfast Dafa practitioners
used the law to protect their own right and interests. They wrote letters to
'expose the corruption of the police to reject the persecution. The guards tried
hard to maintain close surveillance over 100 steadfast Dafa practitioners. They
did not allow family members to visit practitioners. Under the close
surveillance, they forced practitioners sit on small benches (no conversation
allowed), fed practitioners with coarse food grain, and locked up practitioners
in small cells. The steadfast practitioners' health deteriorated seriously. Many
practitioners' blood pressure only had 30 to 40 mmHg, which resulted in constant
dizziness. They had to send practitioners to hospitals frequently - each visit
cost 200 to 300 yuan (which practitioners were forced to pay for). This is to
achieve the goal of persecution. In order to resist the persecution, many practitioners were on hunger strike
to protest. Some practitioners' hunger strikes lasted as long as eight months.
Guards did not allow families visit and cheated families for money.
Practitioners' families had all paid different amounts - some as high as three
thousand yuan. Many practitioners' families did not know what the purpose was
for these payments. Masanjia guards were very cruel when force feeding Dafa practitioners on
hunger strikes. They asked police from outside to beat up Dafa practitioners.
Some practitioners' mouths were torn, some lost their hearing, many were locked
up in small cells, others were forced fed and lost their lives. On April 7, 2005, more than 20 policemen forced fed Dafa practitioner Li
Baojie. Policemen sat on Li Baojie's chest, legs and shoulders, some pressed Li
Baojie's head and some pulled his hair. The prison doctor, Cao Yujie, used a
large fork to open Li Baojie's mouth, which rendered Li Baojie unable to breath.
Li Baojie died of suffocation on April 8, 2005. The No. 1 Unit Director Li Mingyu and deputy director Xie Chengdong kicked
and punched 50-year-old Dafa practitioner Xu Qingyan, whose face was distorted
from the punching. All her teeth were loosened, and he could not eat any food.
They did not let her use the toilet. As a result, Xu Qingyan suffered from
uterine cancer. The beating caused chest pain, and she gasped for breath
rapidly. Policemen swore and abused her, and she was not allowed to go home
until her life was in danger. February 10, 2006 |