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Facts About the Persecution of Falun Gong at Yangjiang Prison in Guangdong Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Guangdong Province faces the South China Sea and
contains some of the most fertile land in all of China. Guangdong contains the
Pearl River Delta region, which for hundreds of years was nourished by the North
River, the East River, and the West River. The provincial capital city of Guangzhou
also grew at the juncture of those three rivers. Westerners may know Guangzhou
as the city of Canton. Many Western tourists enjoy visiting this region of China
because of its natural beauty and wonderful history. Unknown to Western tourists, terrible atrocities are secretly ongoing in a
prison very close to their site-seeing tours. Indeed, Yangjiang Prison in
Guangdong Province is a diabolical lion's den for the Chinese Communist Party's
(CCP) persecution of Falun Gong. Some officials boast that Yangjiang prison has
the "honor" of being selected for holding Falun Gong practitioners. Over the years, officials at Yangjiang Prison have imprisoned and tortured
scores of male Falun Gong practitioners. Currently, there are between 20 and 30
practitioners still illegally held there. News from inside the prison has
revealed that the prison officials use extreme torture techniques to coerce
Falun Gong practitioners into giving up their beliefs. Falun Gong practitioners'
core principles are Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. Many officials seek
rewards from their government for successfully persecuting these practitioners.
One can only wonder how torturing good people into giving up their faith can
produce any good results. Officials at Yangjiang Prison have worked for years enhancing their sinister
techniques of brainwashing and torture of the Falun Gong prisoners to maintain
the CCP's favor. Five prison practices used to maintain the persecution success
rate are revealed and outlined here. First, the Communists impose the notion that "transforming" Falun
Gong practitioners is a prison official's "political duty."
Championing this notion is Cai Xipeng, the CCP secretary of Yangjiang Prison. He
insists officials must perform this "political duty." In today's
Communist China, greed and corruption are rampant, and Yangjiang Prison is no
exception. Prison officials make large profits from exploiting forced labor from
prisoners. Those who do not produce sufficiently are beaten. The pressure from
Cai Xipeng and the CCP to "transform" Falun Gong practitioners is so
great it even exceeds the greedy desires of the prison officials. Practitioners
are continually brainwashed, harassed and tortured. Prison officials even use
some of the cruelest criminals to do their dirty work. These criminals are
designated as the "Falun Gong Monitoring Group." They are assigned
special duties and are thus excluded from work so they can devote their full
attention to harassing practitioners. Prison officials realize that the CCP will
reward them with promotions, power and prestige if they are successful with
Falun Gong. Second, Yangjiang Prison officials have created their own 610
Office bureaucracy to deal strictly with Falun Gong. Prison officials call
it their "610 group." The group consists of the prison governor, the
deputy governor responsible for "education," section heads and staff
members from the "Education Section" and torture execution section,
heads of various monitoring areas, officers over the monitoring tasks and even
the common criminals in the "Falun Gong Monitoring Group." As with the
larger assault by the CCP against Falun Gong, many resources are used to try to
eliminate Falun Gong. Indeed, all activities in the prison follow the rules
regarding persecuting Falun Gong. While many officers are disgruntled and look
down on those in the "610 group," those in "610" get
promoted ahead of them. Third, the Yangjiang Prison governor himself is under a scrutiny from higher
officials that tie his performance and rewards with how successful the prison is
at "transforming" Falun Gong practitioners. The prison governor has in
turn propagated this detestable requirement to motivate all prison employees and
selected criminals. The requirement warns that if a Falun Gong practitioner is
not "transformed" in a given amount of time, the unit can't be named
an "Advanced Unit," and the responsible official won't be promoted,
but will be criticized and even demoted - regardless of his overall
performance. Even prisoners in the "Falun Gong Monitoring Group" won't
have their sentences reduced--regardless their overall performance--unless the
Falun Gong practitioners recant. Naturally, these prisoners want their sentences
commuted, so they often go to any lengths to force Falun Gong practitioner to
give up their beliefs. The Communist government can't hide from this evil. The
CCP is effectively making these prisoners torture and brutalize practitioners. Fourth, at Yangjiang Prison, Falun Gong practitioners are treated as
prisoners' prisoners. Practitioners have no freedom or privacy. Selected
criminals watch Falun Gong practitioners' every movement. They even go to the
toilet with them. Bed assignments have been arranged so that monitoring
criminals are on both sides of Falun Gong practitioners while they sleep.
Monitors are required to report daily on every detail about their assigned
practitioner. A practitioner is not allowed to talk with other prisoners. Any
communication from a practitioner must go through his assigned monitor. Fifth, practitioners in Yangjiang Prison are completely deprived of freedom.
The desire of the CCP to control even people's minds is no more apparent than in
Yangjiang Prison. Guards in the prison tell practitioners, "I know you are
all good people but if you insist on practicing Falun Gong, you will stay in
prison, your family will suffer, we will be in trouble, and the prisoners
monitoring you won't get reduced sentences. If you just say you give up Falun
Gong, all problems will be solved. You will not be tortured, you will get a
reduced sentence, your family will be happy, and we will be rewarded." If
these more subtle efforts do not work as the transformation deadline nears, the
attitudes of the guards change. The guards keep practitioners awake and continue
using brainwashing techniques around the clock. The guards also force
"physical training" on practitioners by making them run, jump, or do
push-ups all day. If all this fails, the guards begin torturing the
practitioners. They beat them or subject them to "flying an airplane"
(a practitioner's hands are cuffed behind their back and a rope pulls the
practitioner off the ground. He is left suspended in this position). The guards
may even resort to dragging practitioners on rough concrete ground so their
flesh is torn off. For practitioners on hunger strikes, the guards brutally
force-feed them and claim they're not responsible if the practitioner becomes
disabled or dies. Yangjiang Prison officials responsible for the persecution of Falun Gong: Cai Xipeng, head of the Yangjiang Prison and the 610 Office. He embezzled a
lot of money from the prisoners. Since Cai arrived the Yangjiang Prison, the
number of practitioners imprisoned increased sharply. Xie Long used to persecute Falun Gong when he was director of the Education
Division. Later Xie was transferred to be deputy head of the Eighth Prison Ward.
He still persecutes Falun Gong. Xu Ying is a prison guard in the Yangjiang Prison who works hard to torture
practitioners. He often comes up with new ways to torture practitioners and was
hence promoted to the prison's 610 Office. Since then, Xie has done everything
possible to "transform" practitioners. Address of the Yangjiang Prison: Box 135, the Yangjiang Prison, Nalong Town,
Yangdong County, Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province, Zip code 529935 Two of the practitioners locked in the Yangjiang Prison: Phone numbers: Xu (first name unknown), head of the Reconnaissance Division, is one of the
guards who tortures practitioner Chen Wenjie: 86-13827058589 (Cell) Yangjiang Prison 610 Office: 86-662-6380610 |