By a practitioner in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province

(Clearwisdom.net) The Women's Prison of Liaoning Province is located in Prison City in Shenyang in the Masanjia area. It is a living hell that persecutes Falun Dafa practitioners. The administrators and guards lack both humanity and morals in their treatment of practitioners. Every practitioner is stripped and searched upon entering or leaving. The authorities are afraid that their criminal treatment of practitioners will be exposed, so they tightly block information from leaving the prison.

Ms. Zhang Shuxia, a practitioner from the government of the Heping District in Shenyang City, was detained in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison. She was illegally arrested and taken there in December 2005. She was not allowed to sleep, and was brutally beaten by vicious inmates and guards every day. Two bones in her back were broken due to the beatings. Ms. Zhang once passed out while being shocked with an electric baton by Zhang Xiuli, the team leader of the Re-education Branch. Sometimes the guards cuffed both of her hands to a radiator and beat her violently. The guards also handcuffed her arms behind her back, then stood and faced her about four meters away. They repeatedly pushed and kicked her to the opposite sides of the room. They tortured her like this until she sustained injuries all over her head and body.

From December 2005 to the summer of 2006, they tortured Zhang Shuxia every day. Because I left this prison in the summer of 2006, I do not know what happened to Ms. Zhang afterwards. The guards who mistreated her included Zhang Xiuli, leader of the Seventh Team, and Dong Fang, director of the Re-education Branch. Inmates who participated in abusing Zhang Shuxia included Wang Chunjiao and Miao Guangxia.

I also witnessed the terrible persecution of a practitioner from Fushun. Since the malicious inmates surrounding her did not allow her to talk, I do not know her name. She was treated with inhuman cruelty and brutality. One day as she was walking on the road, the guards hit her and she fell to the ground. She could not get up because her head was seriously injured. Her head was already wrapped by layers of white cloth, due to a previous injury. The guards then dragged her by her hair down the road. After enduring such brutal treatment for as long as one year, this practitioner passed away.

The Liaoning Province Women's Prison forced practitioners to work from 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. They were forced to do hard labor every day. For 365 days a year, practitioners were only given a 100-gram piece of cornbread filled with sand per day. The so-called "soup" always had a layer of black grease floating on top, which smelled disgusting. The way they treated practitioners who did not give up the practice of Falun Gong was even worse. Every practitioner was surrounded by five or six of the most vicious inmates and was not allowed to talk. If they did, they would be violently beaten. In the course of the day, they were only allowed to go to bathroom once. Food sent from home was either confiscated by guards or thrown away.

The above is just a small sampling of the persecution experienced by practitioners in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison.

Director of the First Women's District (Women's Prison, Prison City, Shenyang): Li Hong

March 31, 2007.