The Women's Forced Labor Camps in Guangzhou City (Photos)
(Clearwisdom.net) The Chatou Women's Forced Labor Camp in Guangzhou City
was selected by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2005 as the "National
Women's Pacesetter for Ethics." But in reality, it is a place worse than
hell and a place where demonic human nature is prevalent in the staff. Staff at
this labor camp persecute Falun Gong practitioners relentlessly and inhumanly. Staff at the special section for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners at
Chatou Forced Labor Camp utilize many types of torture methods in persecuting
practitioners. During the past years, in an attempt to destroy practitioners'
wills to cultivate, they spared no efforts. Practitioners who remain firm in their believe are forced to sit on a stool,
facing the wall in the evenings. They are not allowed to go to sleep until after
midnight. Some were even deprived of sleep. They were also forced to stand still
for a long time, and closely monitored by prison guards. Quite a number of
practitioners suffered heart attacks, high blood pressure and other illnesses.
Their legs swelled from the torture, making it difficult to move around. In 2001, practitioner Ms. Li Yan was handcuffed to an iron bed and positioned
spread-eagle for as long as 13 hours. She was not allowed to go to the toilet
and was deprived of sleep. In 2001, Ms. Xie Yan, Ms. Li Qiong and other practitioners were handcuffed
and hung up outside the window in severe cold weather for dozens of hours in an
attempt to "freeze" them. Prison guard Wang Yu received karmic
retribution shortly after she persecuted practitioners. In 2002, the prison guards handcuffed both hands and one leg of practitioner
Ms. Lu Yirong to a window frame and made her stand on one leg for fourteen days.
The guards did not let her close her eyes. Whenever she closed her eyes, the
on-duty guards would prick her eyelids with needles. They also did not allow her
to go to the toilet. More practitioners were handcuffed to the sides of two beds
and forced to stand for long periods of time. They also suffered sleep
deprivation. During September and October 2002, staff at the forced labor camp cruelly and
inhumanly tortured steadfast practitioners in an effort to meet the
"transformation" quota assigned by the higher ups. They locked
practitioners in a confinement cell, forced them to sit cross-legged and then
tied up their legs in that position with bed sheets. The guards deprived
practitioners of sleep and ordered prison inmates to beat them. The guards also
put insects on practitioners so they would bite their hands and faces, force-fed
them with chili and pressed the practitioners' heads toward the ground to cut
off air. As a result, Ms. Jiao Jian and Ms. Tang Yiwen were crippled, and other
practitioners suffered severe injuries. The practitioners who were tied up and
beaten up include Ms. Zhou Meilin, Ms. Deng Yi, Ms. Li Miaolian, Ms. Chen Hua,
Ms. Si Bing, Han Yize, Ms. Wang Qian, Ms. Tang Fulan, Ms. Xu Juhua, Ms. Xie Yan,
Ms. Luo Jiangying, Ms. Chen Hua and others. They were also beaten up by
collaborators Yue Huiling (released from Masanjia Forced Labor
Camp), Zhang Yijun, Xu Shaoqi and Zhang Ruifang. From October 2002, Xu Shaoqi and Zhang Ruifang, along with their husbands Ren
Renjie and Tian Ping, earned a living by trying to "transform"
practitioners through torture at Tianhe Brainwashing Center. They claimed to be
assigned to this task as special representatives of the Central 610
Office. Those who tortured practitioners include the Head of the Forced
Labor Camp Xu Xiangan, Deputy Head Liang Huiping, Head of the Management Section
Lu Dongmei, the Political Instructor of the special section Hua Shaoxia, Team
Leader Xiang Fan, Deputy Team Leader Zhang Weixin and Chen Yunlian. In November 2004, over 60-year old practitioner Ms. Liu Huaiying was arrested
at home and taken to a forced labor camp. Ms. Liu Huaiying remained steadfast in
cultivating Falun Dafa for more than a year. Team Leader Lu Dongmei and other
guards often forced Ms. Liu to sit on a small stool, and did not allow her to
put on her clothes. She lost consciousness a few times due to sustaining severe
beatings with electric batons. The depraved guards poured cold water on her so
she would regain consciousness. Sometimes, Ms. Liu would be forced to stand for
a long time without sleep. The guards also ordered drug addicts to beat Ms. Liu
Huaiying or verbally abuse her. She was locked up in the "strict
control" cell where all windows were covered with newspaper. She was not
allowed to have any contact with other people, and was restricted in using the
toilet or taking a shower. Normally, the guards would extend the time of
torture. Ms. Liu was also forbidden to meet with her family members who came to
visit. Even the purchase of daily necessities was limited. She was not allowed
to talk to other people, not even just to say hello. She was constantly
monitored by two inmates. She lost all personal freedom. She was forced to
undergo brainwashing. The forced labor camp broadcasted programs slandering
Falun Dafa most of the time, with the volume turned to ear deafening levels. 2) Brainwashing to force practitioners to renounce their beliefs The prison guards forced practitioners to spend a lot of time watching
television programs containing fabricated news and evil doctrines that slander
Falun Dafa. They also used affection among family members, threats to loss of
jobs and access to schools. The guards also threatened practitioners' families
and colleagues, saying that they would be penalized and made guilty by
association. Also, various torture methods as well as sleep deprivation are used
to torment practitioners until they are muddle-headed. The purpose of the
torture is to force practitioners to sign guarantee statements [to
no longer practice Falun Gong]. Every day practitioners are forced to write
so-called "ideological reports" and slander Falun Gong. They want to
"transform" practitioners into bad people who are fakes, vicious, and
like to fight with other people. The "transformed" people are in turn
used to attack and transform other practitioners. In the beginning of 2003, when I was still in the forced labor camp, guard Xu
Xiaohong often had several hundred inmates, those who enlightened along an evil
path and those who were forced to renounce their belief in Falun Dafa, to shout
slogans in front of my dormitory for a long time. It was as if public meetings
to criticize and denounce others, as practiced during the Cultural Revolution,
were being used again. At the time, university and post-graduate law students were assigned to the
forced labor camp. I asked them during law discussions, "Is there anything
legal in how the labor camp authorities deal with Falun Gong
practitioners?" They admitted that it was illegal. The head of the labor
camp, section leader, the secretary of the disciplinary commission, the
political inspector, team leader and guards all tried to have a
"heart-to-heart talk" with me and put a lot of pressure on me. I
clarified the truth to them. Some could accept it and showed their
sympathy towards Falun Gong, while others became even more ferocious. They
ridiculed, swore at and threatened me. I asked them, "Is this how you do
ideological work? I have been teaching ideological and political issues to
students for more than a dozen years. I have never seen anyone like you.
Coercion can not change people's hearts." After tearing off their
"civilized" mask they sneaked off. 3) Using psychiatric drugs to persecute practitioners At the end of December 2002, the labor camp authorities tried to force Ms.
Tang Yiwen and me to "renounce" Falun Gong. They deprived us of sleep
for 5 days and 5 nights. We were forced to stand all the time, resulting in
injury to our legs. The lower portion of our legs were swollen as thick as our
thighs. I was running a high fever. The guards finally stopped this torture, but
only because they were afraid it might cause our deaths. However, they did not
give up. They took us to a hospital for treatment. They colluded with the head
of the acupuncture and moxibustion [The burning of moxa or other substances on
the skin to treat diseases or to produce analgesia] section of the hospital
attached to Guangzhou Traditional Chinese Medical University outpatient section.
He gave us drugs to damage our central nervous system. After taking the drugs I
felt dizzy, had a headache, abnormal heartbeat, and symptoms of high blood
pressure. After that the doctor of the forced labor camp ordered the inmates to
press me down so that I was unable to move and then gave me injections. They
also forced me to take nerve-damaging drugs but I threw them up. The camp authorities force-fed the practitioners who refused to renounce
Falun Gong. To do this they insert a thick tube down to the practitioners'
stomachs through the nose. They then insert and pull out the tube several times
to make the practitioner suffer. As a result they often injure the
practitioners' esophagus or hurt the windpipe, or even the lungs. The guards use
practitioners' money to buy milk power. When they force-feed the practitioners,
they add drugs that damage the central nervous system and internal organs. This
has done great harm to practitioners' brains and internal organs. An inmate who was involved in the force-feeding of Ms. Deng Yi often told me
that the forced labor camp authorities put drugs into the milk powder and
sometimes would add more than one drug. Ms. Deng Yi was on hunger strike for
more than a year and was skin and bones, weighing only dozens of kilos. She lost
part of her memory. She looked as if dumb and had a hard time expressing
herself. She could barely stand and had difficulty walking, requiring two people
to support her on both sides when she walked. During all these years of persecution, the majority of practitioners in
forced labor camps suffered from illnesses because of the inhuman and cruel
torture. This was due to physical and mental injury due to the torture. The
so-called medical treatment failed to relieve symptoms, and made them suffer
more. Some even suffered from complications. The prison guards controlled all
the medicine, and even the time and location when the medicines were to be
given. Whoever did not obey was punished. They would call in the drug order for
force-feeding. They claimed that this was being responsible for the lives of the
practitioners. There was a very strange phenomenon in the camp. Whoever
cooperated with the guards and was willing to renounce Falun Gong or even be
their accomplices recovered from their illnesses very quickly. The symptoms of
those who refused to cooperate worsened, no matter how much so-called medicine
they took. What's more, the practitioners had to pay extremely high medical
bills. In the forced labor camp, the medicine, especially those drugs that damaged
the central nervous system and the internal organs, are exactly the murder
weapons in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. 4) Was this selling blood for money or were there ulterior motives? The camp authorities would order several inmates to press a practitioner down
and then draw a tube of blood from the practitioner, calling it a health checkup
or checking for AIDS. Was this selling blood for money or did they have ulterior
motives? The doctors only checked heart, lung, liver, kidney and woman's
diseases. However, they still charged the practitioners 500 yuan for
sending the blood to other locations for test work. Some practitioners were too
poor to pay the money, so their time in the labor camp would be extended for
several months, during which they had to work to pay the money. The Chatou Women's Forced Labor Camp in Guangzhou has been listed as one of
the first group of facilities targeted for investigation and evidence collection
by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China. I hope
those who know the inside stories will step forward to expose the crimes
committed by the guards and authorities of the camp. We hope for an end to the
brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, which has lasted seven years. We
hope that the Chinese Communist violent rule will endforever. Chatou Women's Forced Labor Camp, Chatou Xiaodao, Baiyun District, Guangzhou
City No. 3 Division specialized in persecuting Falun Gong: 86-20-81730790 Ext.8856
Sketch of Torture
Sketch of Torture Demonstration
86-20-81730790 (Home)
86-13600067600 (Cell)
86-20-81730790 Ext. 8822 or 8854
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