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The Persecution in Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp
(Clearwisdom.net) At lunch time on October 29, 2007, the wardens of Group
5 of Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province,
searched the prisoners' personal belongs in their cells without any notice for
"security reasons." Practitioner Mr. Lang Xianguo's booklet of Lecture
Three in Zhuan Falun was taken away. Mr. Lang tried to argue
with the wardens, and they agreed to give the booklet to his family the next
visitation day. There was one condition, however, and that was that the
prisoners had to resume their forced labor because they had begun a strike to
protest the labor in mid-October, 2007. Lang Xianguo firmly refused this
"deal." At dinnertime when all the inmates were present, Lang Xianguo
and other practitioners shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" and "Stop
the persecution!" The negotiations continued in the evening, but there was
no satisfactory resolution. At breakfast on October 31, practitioners again shouted, "Falun Dafa is
good!" and "Stop the persecution!" Wang Kai, the head of the
group; the wardens; and some other inmates dragged him into a small cell and
handcuffed him to an Iron Chair. Mr. Lang was forced to sit on the
Iron Chair for more than 12 days, even when he needed to go to the restroom.
Then the wardens tortured Gong Wenyi and Han Weishi with the Iron Chair. They
both shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" Others joined them, and the
wardens hit the practitioners with electronic batons. The continuous shouts from
Group 5 let practitioners imprisoned in other groups know about the torture. On December 16, on the way to the cafeteria, practitioners in Group 5 shouted
together, "Falun Dafa is good" three times. The wardens deprived the
practitioners of the meal, and the practitioners shouted another three times.
The wardens then took the practitioners to the workshop, where Wang Kai swore at
them, and several inmates also swore and then beat practitioners Gu Qingsong and
Huang Fenghe. Those who were tortured included Gong Wenyi, Lang Xianguo, Han
Wei, Liu Jingzhou, Jiang Weimin, Zhang Fa, Wu Hongzhu, Duan Dechen, Zhao
Hongxing, Sun Peiran, Zhang Yu, and others. The inmates participating in the persecution were Ma Taiping, Zhang Dingli,
Fu Xin, Zhang Xiaoqiu, and others. Under orders from Warden Wang Kai, the
inmates started another round of torture of practitioners in their cells: they
beat practitioners with a wooden bed board and hit their faces with slippers.
Liu Jingzhou's face got swollen and disfigured from this treatment. Zhang Fa, a
60-year-old practitioner, had an attack of high blood pressure as a result of
the torture. Gu Qingsong's leg was broken. One practitioner was beaten until he
fell to the floor, but the inmates wouldn't stop abusing him, saying that he was
faking. Gong Wenyi was forced to sit on an Iron Chair for 14 days while he was
on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Han Wei was also forced to sit on
a Iron Chair for two days, and he was on a hunger strike at the same time to
protest the persecution. Lang Xianguo was forced to sit on a Iron Chair for 17
days and was on a hunger strike for the same length of time. In a conversation
between the director of the labor camp and Lang Xianguo, Mr. Lang agreed to
resume eating after the director had promised to allow him to study the Fa
and practice the exercises. One night after the daily work, inmate Ma Taiping, who had been drinking,
yelled, "Dafa practitioners mustn't say 'Falun Dafa is good' any
more." He punched practitioner Wu Hongzhu while they were in the workshop,
and Wu Hongzhu shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" Ma Taiping later beat
practitioners Liu Jingzhou and Jiang Weimin brutally. Practitioner Gong Wenyi
became very weak after his hunger strike, and Ma Taiping tortured him by trying
to force him to eat human excrement. On December 17, inmate Ma Taiping was taken away by the Harbin Nangang
Station Group because of other charges against him. Director of Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp Shi Yingbai: 86-13703606789 January 15, 2008
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