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Zhang Fuxiang Almost Tortured to Death at the Shandong Province First Women's Forced Labor Camp
By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Laiwu City, Shandong Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhang Fuxiang, a Falun Dafa practitioner from
Laiwu City, Shandong Province, is a farmer. She was illegally imprisoned in the
Shandong Province First Women's Forced Labor Camp in Jinan City for three years
and 105 days. She was brutally tortured there and was in critical condition
several times. She successfully left the labor camp on January 6, 2006. The
following is an account of the torture that she suffered during those three
years. Police officers from the Laiwu City Zhangjiawa Town Police Station arrested
Ms. Zhang Fuxiang on the street on the morning of September 25, 2002. At the
police station, she was handcuffed to a radiator. Zheng Bo from the Political
Security Section of the Laiwu City Laicheng District Public Security Bureau
wanted to search her, but she warned him not to do so. Zheng Bo then picked her
up by her hair and threw her back down. A big tuft of her hair was torn out, and
her nose was bleeding. Zheng Bo then asked a policewoman to take away the 438
Yuan that she had with her. They sent her to Laiwu City Detention
Center later that day. Ms. Zhang Fuxiang began a hunger striker to protest her illegal arrest and
imprisonment at the detention center. Three days after beginning her hunger
strike, more than ten policemen came to torture her. They put handcuffs her on
and shackled her feet. They held her nose and used a tool made of bamboo to pry
her mouth open, and then force-fed her. They force-fed her once a day. Without
going through any legal process, Ms. Fuxiang was sentenced to three years of
forced labor. She was sent to the Shandong Province First Women's Forced Labor
Camp in Jinan City on October 9, 2002. Her father could not withstand hearing
about this, and passed away shortly after. The guard are given incentives such as promotions and raises to reach a
higher "transformation rate", and are punished when they don't meet
their goals. The guards thus tortured Dafa practitioners cruelly, trying to
force them to "transform." Practitioners at the Shandong Province
First Women's Forced Labor Camp were not allowed to call, write to, or see their
family members. If they refused to be "transformed," the guards did
not allow them to sleep and forced them to perform extensive hard labor. Ms.
Fuxiang and other Dafa practitioners who refused to bow to the evil were
tortured severely for more than a year. The torture was brought to an even more
brutal level after that. A guard cuffed a Dafa practitioner to the radiator in a room and taped her
mouth shut for no reason in the afternoon of February 3, 2004. Falun Gong
practitioners started a strike to protest this persecution. Starting on February
16, the guards escalated the physical abuse against the practitioners. They
gathered the most vicious guards to the fifth squadron, including Wang Shuzhen
and Wang Yueyao. They designed a six-inch-high stool and forced Falun Gong
practitioners to sit on it with both hands at their knees. Practitioners were
forced to sit on the stool from 6 in the morning till 10 at night. They were
also forced to eat, drink, and even urinate and defect in one small room. The
windows and door were closed all the time. There was no fresh air or fan when
the temperature was high. Inmates were ordered by the guards to watch the
practitioners in the room all the time. One inmate suffered heat stroke in the
room. Under such a bad environment, the Falun Gong practitioners were forced to
listen to and watch audio or video tapes that slandered Mr. Li Hongzhi and Falun
Dafa. They endured both physical and mental torture. Wang Shuzhen further encouraged inmates to come up with different ways to
torture Falun Gong practitioners. Whoever came up with the most brutal methods
would have their term shortened. The inmates viciously beat practitioners so
they that could leave the labor camp early. Some practitioners had blue and
purple marks all over their bodies. Some were forced to stand from early morning
to 10 at night for ten days in a row. This caused their legs to swell
grotesquely. But Falun Gong practitioners still refused to be
"transformed." Wang Shuzhen came up with another vicious idea.
Practitioners were only given one meal a day and forced to perform heavy labor.
This torture lasted for a week. Then practitioners were allowed to buy some
instant noodles to eat for two meals. But right after that, they were not
allowed to eat again. Section Chief Yang said, "The meal issue will only be
resolved if you all do what we tell you to do." Several days later,
practitioners were allowed to eat again, but not allowed to use the bathroom.
One practitioner soiled her pants. The air of the room was so filthy that the
guards did not want to go in. They gave practitioners fifteen minutes to wash
their bodies and clothes. But they did not allow practitioners to dry their
clothes. Practitioners protested this unreasonable restriction. Some
practitioners just wore the wet clothes. Wang Shuzhen ordered inmates to throw
all other clothes that practitioners had not put on yet into a dumpster. He then
scolded a practitioner whose term at the Forced Labor Camp had ended, blaming
her for not taking care of her sick father. That practitioner replied, "I
committed no crime at all, so why did you imprison me here? Wasn't it because
you wouldn't let me go home that I couldn't take care of my father?" Wang
Shuzhen then dragged her to a cell and beat her. Guards played videotapes that slandered Teacher and Dafa in December 2004.
They also asked an inmate named Dai Guihua from Qingdao to pretend to be a
"transformed" Falun Gong practitioner to slander Teacher and Dafa.
That inmate was given a five-day reduction of her term at the forced labor camp.
Guards forced practitioners to sit on little stools to watch videotapes. They
didn't allow practitioners to sleep. They arranged inmates in shifts to watch
practitioners and ordered them to use flyswatters to hit practitioners who fell
asleep. They broke several flyswatters in the process. Practitioners became so
exhausted that they fell to the ground. Wang Shuzhen ordered inmates to record
the number of times that they had fallen, and then punished practitioners by
forcing then to stand for an hour for each time they fell. Some practitioners
fell nine times at night and were forced to stand for nine hours the next day.
One practitioner was so exhausted that when she sat on the toilet, she promptly
fell off. One practitioner had diarrhea and went to the bathroom more than ten
times. She was extremely thirsty, so she asked the on-duty guard, Yinghua, for
water, but her request was coldly rejected. Another practitioner almost fainted
after the long physical and mental abuse. This cruel torture lasted for ten
days, and then practitioners were allowed to sleep. But guards then forced
practitioners to drill even though they were extremely weak. Practitioners still
refused to yield. Wang Liping used her high heels to stomp on practitioners
until the heels fell off. Then she punished practitioners by forcing them to
stand for ten days. On August 23, Wang Liping told Ms. Zhang Fuxiang to go to the reception room.
Three guards in plainclothes were in the room waiting to torture her. One guard
named Ma Wenyan tried to force her to admit that she was guilty of a crime. She
stood firm in her belief in Teacher and Dafa and refused. Then they forced her
to stand and did not allow her to eat, sleep or even go to the bathroom. When
she could not hold it any more and urinated in her pants, a guard named Xu threw
her pants into a dumpster. The guards tortured her in shifts. The evening shift
guard, Zhang Hong asked her, "Do you believe in your Teacher, or our
squadron leader?" Firmly she answered, "I believe in my Teacher."
Zhang Hong said, "OK, you believe in your Teacher? I am going to see how
strong your body is. Ask your Teacher to help you." She cuffed her to the
radiator and tied her with strips of cloth for a long time, making her legs
swell up and causing severe pain in her knees. Guards also put Dafa books under
her feet. Four days later, she was still not allowed to go to the bathroom. She
urinated in her pants. Ma Yan threw her two big towels, bed sheets, underwear
and pants into a dumpster, then threatened her saying, "If you pee in your
pants again I will throw your quilts out." Ms. Fuxiang was forced to watch
videotapes that slandered Dafa everyday. On the morning of July 20, Xu said,
"Every single practitioner that came to this room has been 'transformed.' I
will not let you be the exception. Criminals who are much stronger than you
can't stand the torture for even half an hour. They will say whatever we want
them to say. I will see how long you can hold out." She forced her to sit
on the ground, tying her arms to the back of a metal chair. She claimed, "I
can decide what to do to someone like you. I don't need approval." On July
22, they untied her once to allow her to go to the bathroom. She was tied up
like that for total of fifteen days. Wang Yueyao was one of primary evildoers at the forced labor camp. She
viciously persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. Using the excuse that Ms. Fuxiang had some stomach problems, Wang Yueyao, Li
Yinghua and Ma Wenyan force-fed her with some 'medicine' three times a day. Ma
Wenyan used soup made from vegetables that had gone bad and leftover tea leaves
from their teacups to force-feed her. Ms. Fuxiang resisted the torture. They
then tied her arms to the metal chair and put earphones on her head to force her
to listen to recordings that slandered Mr. Li Hongzhi and Falun Dafa. The
recording kept insulting Mr. Li while shouting his name, along with loud noises
of smashing metal. The guards repeatedly tortured her for three days by forcing
her to wear the earphones, tying her arms back, and forcing her to squat. They
wanted to keep her awake so that she would yield. Wang Yueyao claimed,
"This method has been very effective across the country. Some people were
'transformed' after three days. The really firm people were 'transformed' after
seven days." They forced her to sit in urine and did not allow her legs to
move. Wang Yueyao often stepped on her legs. Wang said, "I do this because
I enjoy it. I have some shoes whose heels are as thin as a finger. I will wear
them tomorrow." Then she threw Teacher's picture into the urine. These guards came to kick her whenever they had some time, and used Dafa
books to smash her head when she fell asleep. When the urine under her dried,
the guards dragged her to another wet spot. Her buttocks started to fester. She
asked for toilet paper when she had her period. Wang Yueyao said, "We will
only give you toilet paper after you write the 'transformation' statement."
She refused and never asked for it again. Wang Yueyao said, "If your vagina
is festering, I will bring antibacterial medicine for you because I have a
humanitarian spirit." Wang then smashed Dafa books onto her nose, making
her mouth and nose fill with blood. Wang arrogantly said, "Aren't you
stubborn? There is nothing that I can't get if I really want it. Anyone who
enters this room cannot come out without being 'transformed.'" She also
boasted, "My father is a martial arts teacher in Shandong Province. My
brother is a policeman. My mother is an instructor of a Qigong exercise approved
by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). If I make you disabled, the hospital will
not say anything. Even if I kill you, you will be counted as one more case on
top of the 1700 suicide cases for Falun Gong. I will not be punished. The worst
is that I will lose my job as a guard." On September 14, Wang said,
"Let me see how your heart will be without food and water for three
days." While charging an electric baton, she said, "If the electric
baton does not work for you, I will bring in a bed spring, remove all your
clothes and tape your body to the springs. This method can 'transform' thirty
stubborn people like you in one month." Ms. Fuxiang was tortured almost to death on August 4. When she was untied,
she couldn't even crawl. If not for her firm belief in Teacher and Dafa, she
would not have been able to endure all these horrible things. Doctors dragged
her in for an electrocardiogram and found that her heart was injured. Still the
guards continued to brutally beat her. After this, they forced her to stand
facing a wall. Then Wang Yueyao sat on a bed, using her feet she stepped on
Fuxiang's back, making her unable to squat. She was released from the Strictly
Watched Room on September 18. For five months from March 18 to September 18,
more than ten Dafa practitioners were tortured in this room. She was still
forced to do hard labor such as kneeling down to clean floors for two to three
hours every day. Guards also took her to the so-called "psychological
consultation room," another way to torture Dafa practitioners. They forced
her to do extensive hard labor, and then tied her to a bed after 10 p.m. She
would wake up in great pain several times during the night. Having been tortured for seven days there, Ms. Fuxiang lost feeling in three
fingers on her right hand. Her arms were nearly disabled. She could not raised
them up or stretch them out. The tissue on her legs that had been injured by the
guards repeatedly stepping on them was slowly dying, and her feet became
infected. When she went back to her group, she was still forced to clean the
guards' bathrooms, clean the glass door and windows, and bring hot water in
thermos bottles for everyone in her squadron. It was very difficult for her to
carry even a single thermos bottle full of water, but she was forced to do that
for her whole group. She was also forced to fetch all three meals for her
squadron. When she finished her three-year term in the forced labor camp, the
labor camp authorities extended her sentence for several more months. The guards used a variety of torture methods against Ms. Zhang Fuxiang, but
they were not able to "transform" her. May 9, 2006 |