On Family Visiting Day at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp, Visitors Are Required to Curse Falun Dafa

(Clearwisdom.net) Since the end of 2003, Wanjia Forced Labor Camp officials have compelled all visiting family members of Falun Dafa practitioners to blaspheme Falun Dafa and its founder before they are allowed their visit. The officials have put a portrait of Dafa's founder on the hallway floor so people have to step on it to get in.

According to a reporter's findings, less than 100 women practitioners are presently detained at the Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin.

The arrested practitioners were being held in the 12^th and 7^th Brigades. Mornings on the 10th of each month are visiting days for the 12th Brigade's family members, on the 14th day of each month for the 7^th Brigade's family members.

This is an eyewitness account of a visit on the morning of March 10 in the 12th Brigade:

At 8: 30 a.m., a police guard wearing badge number 2341035, height approximately 1.77 meters and over 50 years old, opened the reception room with a key. The reception area features an inner and outer section. The outer area serves as a place for registration and waiting. The inner section is used for conversations between family members and Falun Gong practitioners. They speak via a telephone through a glass partition. The above-mentioned guard removed a large roll of canvas from a wooden cabinet. He unrolled it into the hallway connecting the inner and outer rooms. This canvas was about three meters in length and as wide as the door. It was laid half inside and half outside the room. Master's portrait and words that blaspheme Master are printed on the half inside the one room while words slandering Dafa and other comments are printed on the outer half.

Around 9:10 a.m., an unidentified female guard, around 30 years old, with a long face and light skin color, started to register the visiting family members. The first group consisted of 10 visiting persons, including family members and practitioners. This official called out the name of a person held in custody. If the name called was that of a practitioner, the family member had to say slanderous words to get permission to enter the room. In addition, they had to step on the canvas to get into the inner room. Guards wearing badges numbered 2341035, 2341291, 2341211 and 2341037 worked with the registrar to make sure each family member did as he or she was told. Anyone with a low voice was ordered to repeat the words loudly. The guards held back several practitioners' relatives who refused to slander Master and Dafa. They said what should not be said.

Later, two more groups of relatives were allowed to visit. Each visit lasted 20 minutes. During each of the three morning visiting sessions an officer wearing badge No. 2341291 monitored the entrance at all times. When 11:00 a.m. approached, the officer with badge No. 2341035 tucked the canvas into the wooden cabinet and locked the reception room. This concluded visiting day.

March 14 was visiting day in the 7^th Brigade. At 8: 40 a.m., the canvas was rolled out into the hallway. The guard wearing badge No. 2341035 chatted with another male officer in the registration room. At 9:05 a.m., two female guards started to register visitors. The registration procedure and demands for the relatives to say slanderous words toward Master and Dafa were identical to March 10 except for one difference: they only required practitioners' relatives to slander Master and Dafa but did not require non-practitioners' relatives to do so. However, every visitor had to step on the canvas to get in.

On April 10, the registration procedure and demands for the relatives to say slanderous words to Master and Dafa and step on the canvas were the same as on March 10. Besides the guards identified by badge numbers 2341035 and 2341291, there was also a guard with the badge number 2341171 and two female guards, badge numbers 2341129 and 2341272.

A middle-aged woman had come by car to visit a practitioner. She carried two large packages. When required to slander Master and Dafa and step on the canvas, this lady had very strong righteous thoughts. She explicitly refused the officers' order and disputed with them. In the end, this lady decided she would rather give up the chance to visit a relative than slander Master and Dafa, let alone step on the canvas. She firmly gave up the chance to meet with her relative, carried the two large packages out again, and drove away.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/4/18/125443.html

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