Over Sixty Male Falun Gong Practitioners Are Detained in Suihua City Forced Labor Camp

(Clearwisdom.net) In early 2006, more than 30 male Falun Gong practitioners were detained in Suihua City Forced Labor Camp. In early March, another thirty-plus practitioners were transferred from Qiqihar City, Hegang City and Daqing City Forced Labor Camps. At the moment over 60 male practitioners are detained here.

Suihua City Forced Labor Camp strictly monitors the practitioners who were recently sent in. Whether the practitioners go to wash their faces, brush their teeth or use the toilet, they are watched at all times. They are not allowed to talk about anything related to Falun Gong under any circumstances, and are forced to sing a song before having meals. If practitioners refuse to sing, they are dragged into the office to be pressured or even brutally beaten. The period for strict monitoring is three months, during which time they are not allowed to be visited by their families. Among these practitioners, some have been strictly monitored for more than three months, but because they refuse to cooperate, they are still strictly monitored and persecuted. Guard Gao Zhonghai is the team political head, and Diao Xuesong is the chief of the sub-team. In March 2006, two practitioners who had just arrived at the labor camp refused to sing, so Gao Zhonghai and Diao Xuesong hit and kicked them and shocked them with electric batons.

The forced labor camp forces practitioners to do slave labor. Sometimes they are forced to work overtime, until 7:00 p.m. or 8 :00 p.m. They start to work at 7:30 a.m. and work without a lunch break until evening, becoming totally exhausted. Eventually, because practitioners protested, the labor camp changed the time to quit for the day from 7:00 or 8 :00 p.m to 5:00 p.m. Diao Xuesong, deputy team leader; Liu Wei, deputy leader for the sub-team; Wang Wei; and guard Jin Qingfu once tortured a practitioner with electric baton and kicks because this practitioner refused to do the slave labor. This practitioner had been seriously injured before and did not recover until he practiced Falun Gong. He was unable to do heavy work, and these policemen brutally beat him simply for this reason.

When there is no slave labor to be done, the practitioners are forced to sit on small, square stools. They are not allowed to move and have to sit for as long as 11 hours at a time, which makes them very weak and exhausted. The non-practitioner prisoners here are also very brutal. They force practitioners to take showers in cold water and pour cold water over the practitioners. As long as the practitioners refuse to cooperate, they beat them. Seeing this, leader Diao Xuesong said, "It's not a problem to pour several basins of water on such adults; pour more to cleanse them."

When the justice department of the province came to the Suihua City Forced Labor Camp to inspect, practitioner Mr. Wang Zhiqian tried to appeal but was forcibly stopped by the other prisoners. After that, deputy team leader Liu Wei, political head Gao Zhonghai, and Diao Xuesong brutally beat and shocked him with electric batons. Several parts of his head were injured.

Practitioner Mr. Li Yequan from Daqing City was sent to forced labor in September 2005 and was detained in a local forced labor camp. In March 2006 he was transferred to Suihua Forced Labor Camp along with other practitioners. Mr. Li was on a hunger strike the entire time he was detained, requesting unconditional release. He was on a hunger strike for several months, until May or June 2006, after he was transferred to Suihua City Forced Labor Camp, and was extremely weak. Still, political head Gao Zhonghai and sub-team leader Diao Xuesong and another policeman shocked him with electric batons and burned his skin with cigarette butts, just because he refused to be strictly monitored. The methods they used to torture him were very brutal. During his hunger strike, he was force fed repeatedly.

Diao Xuesong acknowledged to the practitioners in person that since the persecution began on July 20, 1999, 19 practitioners have died as the result of persecution by this forced labor camp.

Heilongjiang Province Suihua City Forced Labor Camp:

Chief of the forced labor camp Meng Yan: 86-455-8110703
Chief of the management section Bai Jiuyi: 86-455-8110737

Phone numbers of other chiefs:

86-455-8110701
86-455-8110702
86-455-8110703
86-455-8110704
86-455-8110705
86-455-8110706
86-455-8110707
86-455-8110708

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/8/17/135748.html

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