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Dafa Practitioner Fan Juncao's Excruciating Persecution in Gansu Forced Labor Camp
By a Dafa practitioner in Gansu
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Fan Juncao, 65, is a resident of Guyu Village,
Jiaocun Township, Xinning Town, Ning County, Gansu Province. Because she
persistently practices Falun Gong and follows the principles of
"Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," clarifies the truth, and
exposes the persecution, she has been illegally sentenced to forced labor twice
in 2000 and 2005 by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials. The second term was
to end on May 11, 2007, but the labor camp extended it four months using her
practicing exercises in the jail as an excuse. On September 11, Fan Juncao's
family was planning to pick her up, but the labor camp officials used her
shouting slogans as an excuse to extend her term by 40 more days. Fan Juncao was
released in late November. Ms. Fan was deprived of sleep and subjected to all kinds of excruciating
tortures. The following are the facts of her torture by guards in the labor
camp. On November 27, 2005, Fan Juncao was sent to Gansu Women's Forced Labor Camp
located in Heping Town, Yuzhong County. That night she was beaten by five guards
in turn by order of the head guard name Wang. Wang didn't think the five guards
beat her enough, so he used a baton and hit her on the head. She immediately
lost consciousness. The guards poured cold water over her to revive her. The
water froze on her clothes and she could not move her limbs. She nearly died
that night. One time she was dragged to a washroom and beaten by six inmates until she
lost consciousness. They carried Ms. Fan onto a bed, and used a fan on her feet.
As soon as she woke up, an inmate named Zheng Chunmei kicked her to the ground
from the bed. When Ms. Fan Juncao was sentenced to a labor camp the first time, she was
illegally detained in the Second Gansu Forced Labor Camp located in Anning
District of Lanzhou City. She was forced to stand for great lengths of time
during her six-month term. When she was detained in Gansu Women's Forced Labor
Camp the second time, she was forced to stand for more than twenty days
straight. Her legs became swollen and her feet were festered and bloody. It was
difficult for her to walk. While detained in the labor camp, Ms. Fan was put into a strict control group
and six drug offenders were assigned to monitor her. The group leaders, Chai
Lihong and Chen Xiaohong, deprived her of sleep and made her stand until 3:00
a.m., and sometimes all night. She was beaten if she attempted to take a nap. In June 2006, Ms. Fan Juncao was sent to a small cell (1) because she did the
Falun Gong exercises while in the labor camp. She was taken to the fourth floor,
where guards handcuffed her to a steel bed frame in such a way that she was
suspended with the tips of her toes touching the ground. After five days of this
torture, her wrists were bleeding and she was in a daze. An inmate found her
like this and called the head guard Wang. They let her down just long enough for
her to regain consciousness and then hung her up again. After Fan Juncao had been hung up for six days, head guard Wang asked her to
renounce Falun Gong, but Fan Juncao steadfastly refused. Wang left very angry.
At dinner time that day, an inmate brought a half-bowl of noodles to feed Fan
Juncao. The noodles were bitter and she immediately threw up. "What kind of
poison did you put in this? Are you trying to kill me?" she asked. The
inmate was embarrassed and immediately threw away the noodles. Fan Juncao wanted
to remove the bitter taste in her mouth with a drink of water. The inmate
brought her a cup of cool water, but just a sip of the water was even more
bitter than the noodles. Her tongue became numb, and she felt a stabbing pain in
her stomach. She could only exhale but not inhale. Fan Juncao cried out,
"Master, please help me!" After about ten minutes, she felt better.
She thought, "If Master had not made the drug taste apparent to me, I would
have eaten and drank all of it, and would have died." During her second term at the Gansu Forced Labor Camp, guards tied Ms. Fan's
hands behind her back and hung her up using a pulley. Her weight was felt at the
shoulders and her bones made sounds under the strain. She was hung up for seven
to eight hours a day for 12 days. The guards asked if she was ready to
"confess". When she said "No," they released the tension on
the rope, making her fall to the ground. Then they hung her up again. After five
or six times of this up and down torture, she lost consciousness. When she was sentenced to the labor camp the first time, Ms. Fan shouted
slogans, and the guards shocked her with electric batons forty times non-stop.
Her arms and hands were smoking from the shocking and smelled of charred flesh.
Her body was covered with injuries, which took two months to heal. In February 2007, Ms. Fan adamantly refused to cooperate with those who
tortured her. She would not do the prison exercises, do manual labor, or recite
the prison rules, so she was sent to a small cell with no light, bed, or quilt.
She was left in this cold room during the winter for twelve days. Her body
became hard and she could not stand up, nor could she open her eyes in bright
light. It took her a week to recover. In early July 2007, Ms. Fan Juncao thought that since Dafa practitioners have
committed no crimes, wearing criminal clothes is an insult to Dafa. So she
refused to wear prison clothes. The guards commanded five criminals to hold her
down to the ground and stepped on her with leather shoes to force her to wear
the prison clothes. But Ms. Fan immediately took the prison clothes off as soon
as she got up. After several attempts, the clothes were torn, so the guards
stopped. Besides having them do labor for twelve hours per day, the guards also forced
Dafa practitioners to be brainwashed for two or three hours every night. Songs
were played that promoted the CCP and slandered Dafa. Ms. Fan Juncao did not
cooperate with them, so she was beaten by the guards. Even when she was carried
there, she refused to enter the "classroom." The guards extend the terms of any practitioners who refused to give up Falun
Gong. Fan Juncao's term was illegally extended twice in the women's forced labor
camp for a total of 170 days. Note: (1) Small cell - The detainee is locked up alone in a very small cell. The
guards handcuff the practitioner's hands behind his back in a fixed position, in
which the practitioner can neither move nor lie down. The small cell is very
damp and no sunshine comes in. Detainees have to urinate and defecate in the
cell. Only half of a regular meal is served to detainees locked up in a small
cell during the daytime. During the night rats run about. The stench in the
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