(Clearwisdom.net) During the last ten days of February 2006, all the steadfast Falun Dafa practitioners illegally detained in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp were persecuted insanely for refusing to be "transformed." They were forced to wear the prison uniform, sit in a chair and call out numbers. They were abused with physical punishment, handcuffs, beating and scolding by the chief of the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, Zhang Mingqiang, Deputy Chief Wang Wei, Chief of the Administration Section Ma Jishan, superintendent of the Second Women's Section of Masanjia (so-called the "Mental Education School"), Su Jing, Commissar Wang Naimin, Chief of the First Team Li Mingyu, Deputy Chief Xie Chengdong and Li Mingyu's husband Liu Yong, who is also the chief of the security section at Masanjia. Every Dafa disciple persecuted was forced by three, four or more policemen to wear a uniform, and was beaten if he or she would not cooperate.

Dafa disciples Sun Suxiang, Yuan Shuzhe, Yang Baoying and Qiu Li were all beaten. Sun Suxiang, Qiu Li, Huang Sumei, Liu Guiyuan and Zhang Jingyan were each confined to a small compartment. In order to protest the persecution, Qiu Li and Liu Guiyuan went on a hunger strike. On March 22, 2006, Qiu Li, Liu Guiyuan and Huang Sumei were brought back from the small compartments and detained in spare rooms in the First Team separately. Other practitioners who were detained in the spare rooms include Zhou Hua, Meng Guiqiu, Yuan Shuzhe, Xie Xinying and others. They all went on a hunger strike to resist the persecution.

The guards shackled the Dafa disciples with handcuffs and forced them to squat nearly every day from 6:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sometimes their arms were stretched to the maximum point and shackled to bed rails until they were numb and swollen; some people's hands were paralyzed from this torture.

Qiu Li, Liu Guiyuan, Huang Sumei, Meng Guiqiu and Zhou Hua were not allowed to wash, rinse their mouths or change their underwear for more than one month. They wore handcuffs every day, and both hands were even cuffed to the bed railings during the night. On April 10, the practitioners were transferred to the third group of the First Team in the First Women's Section of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Because they refused to wear the prison uniforms, they were beaten many times by criminal inmate Wang Liying and others, and a large amount their hair was pulled out. At that time, the team leader, Sun Mei was present, but she turned her back on the abuse.

Ms. Qiu Li is still on a hunger strike to resist the persecution. She was given forced infusions every day. The "cost" of the infusion is charged at a rate of 20 yuan for one bottle each time. The practitioners were also force-fed corn porridge, salt, one egg and a little sugar, and the cost was also as high as 20 yuan. Other Dafa disciples who also went on a hunger strike to protest include Jiang Chunxia from Dalian. Currently, Jiang Chunxia cannot walk, Qiu Li staggers when walking, and both practitioners are emaciated.

Other Dafa disciples who are also detained illegally in Masanjia include Wang Xiuyan from Benxi, Qu Shumei from Dalian and Xin Shuhua.

Chief of the First Team at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp: Sun Mei
Director: Zhang Jun
Branch chief in charge of detaining Ms. Qiu Li: Chen Qiumei

Posting date: 5/28/2006
Original article date: 5/28/2006
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Translated on 5/16/2006
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/5/14/127667.html