By Falun Dafa practitioner Xu Yushan
(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Xu Yushan. I'm a Falun Dafa practitioner in
Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. On June 27, 2006, when I took a train in Jiamusi City to return to
Shuangcheng City, railway police officers arrested me at a security checkpoint
because they found a Dafa book and five Dafa articles in my possession. I was
sent to the Jiamusi Railway Detention Center and held for one month. Then I was
sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor on July 27, 2006 and
immediately sent to the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp. On October 10, 2006, I was
transferred to the Heilongjiang Province "Reform" Base, actually the
Suihua Forced Labor Camp. I was released on November 9, 2007. Photo 1: Losing two front teeth due to guards tying strips of
cloth around my mouth Photo2: Burned toenail caused by a guard's cigarette The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) always deceives people with lies, such as
"humane management is implemented in prisons; there is no beating and
scolding, and no persecution of Falun Gong practitioners takes place in
detention." Here I will expose what I have suffered during the forced labor
period and expose the evil actions behind the so-called "humane
management." I kept clarifying the truth at the labor camp. During breakfast on the
morning of November 20, 2006, I called out, "Guards and staff members,
please do not be fooled. Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa. There are practitioners
in over 80 countries worldwide. Thousands practice freely in Taiwan and Hong
Kong. Falun Dafa is good!" The guards set upon me. I was immediately kicked and punched, and later
beaten again in the division office. When they tried to hang me onto the upper
railing of a bunk bed in the cell, I struggled not to cooperate with them. Team
leader Diao Xuesong viciously kicked my lower abdomen so fiercely that I
immediately fell to the floor, bathed in sweat. I don't know how long it was
before I finally recovered. They hung me between two beds. Later on, Diao
Xuesong fabricated a claim that I attempted to practice the Falun Gong exercises
and then sent me to a solitary confinement cell for seven days. The solitary confinement was a room less than four-square-meters, with a
metal chair in the middle. There was a three-inch metal board under the chair.
The room was gloomy. I was forced to sit in the chair, handcuffed and shackled.
A belt across my chest prevented any movement or let me lower my head. A tape
player with auto rewind and replay function ran twenty-four hours a day. They
inserted earphones into my ears. I was forced to listen to the tape non-stop.
The brainwashing content was played extremely loud. After several attempts I
finally removed one of the earphones. When the guards discovered this, they
taped both of my hands tightly, causing my hands to swell severely. They also
tied my upper chest with the cloth strips so tight that I was unable to move. My
feet were badly swollen. Two days later, my hands and feet started bleeding. The
abusers still tied my hands tightly. The metal chair was very cold to sit on,
and my hands tied onto the chair arms were numb and cold. I felt extreme pain
and discomfort. Three days later, since I still refused to yield, guards incited
the assigned monitors (prisoners Chen XX and Guan Changfu) to torture me. They
dumped a bag of hair cut from others into my underclothes against my skin and
then put a special heavy cotton hat over my head. It covered my eyes. It was so
hot that I started to sweat. The hair made me itch unbearably. I wanted to
scratch or rub, but was unable to move my hands, my feet or my chest. During the time for the restroom break on the second day in the solitary
confinement cell, the monitors said they didn't have the key to release me from
the chair but they could bring a spittoon for me to urinate in. I felt a little
embarrassed and said I didn't need to go to the restroom. However, they started
to unbutton my pants. They pulled my genitals out and rubbed something on it.
They didn't let me urinate, but just buttoned my pants and left. About ten
minutes later I felt excruciating pain in my genitals and I almost lost
consciousness. I spent the whole night in painful spasms. Next day they
continued to do the same thing. Then I saw clearly what they put on my
genitalia. It was tobacco powder that was used in a long-stemmed Chinese pipe. When the seven-day term ended I still didn't yield to them. Division deputy
Liu Wei said it was time to treat me with fiber-glass. The fiber-glass is used
for the outside covering of electric wires and also used to make asbestos tile
or sheets. That night, monitor Song Xiaojun stuffed a bag of fiberglass all over
my body. My hands, feet and chest were tied. I couldn't sit down; if I did, I
felt like I was sitting on a needle cushion. I felt extreme pain and itching,
which was so unbearable that even death seemed to be the lesser of two evils. I was weak and skeleton-like from a hunger strike. I was given medicine and
milk powder to recover faster. However, it was a scheme. On July 24, 2007, when
my health had just improved a little bit, they couldn't wait any more and
tortured me again. Section head Bai Jiuyi brought four people from No. 2
Division to torture me. They were division political head Gao Zhonghai, division
deputy Liu Wei, team leader Diao Xuesong, and team leader Li Chengcun. Around
8:00 a.m. that day they came to my bed. After they confirmed my stance toward
Falun Gong they said, "It seems you are not afraid of death. We will not
let you die, but will make you live in a state worse than death. We just want to
play with you. When we are tired of playing we will make you completely
disabled. Then we let you go home and die at home several days later. The
higher-placed officials in the labor camp bureau know you and so do those in
other divisions. They all support us to play with you. They will take the
responsibility. Since someone else takes responsibility, let us play. We fed you
well to help you recover, because we want to play well with you!" They ordered the monitor to drag me to the other cell. Four men with their
shirts off were waiting inside, ready to torture me. They strapped cloth over my
mouth to prevent me from crying out, which caused me to lose two front teeth.
They fixed a tape player on my body and inserted the earphone into my ears. It
loudly played brainwashing propaganda. Then I was handcuffed behind my back and
hung from the upper railing of a bunk bed. My feet barely touched the floor. The
administration section head arrived to check. He was not satisfied and said,
"If you insert a block in the upper railing, his feet can't touch the
floor." He repeatedly said, "This enforcement is not enough!" They constantly berated me. Sometimes they pulled me up by my hair; sometimes
they kicked my private parts and twisted my arms. They repeatedly put a lit
cigarette into my nose, badly burning the outside of my nostrils, leaving scars.
I still feel pain in my nose now. The cigarette smoke kept entering my lungs.
They said it was to make my lungs black and to have me get pulmonary
tuberculosis or even lung cancer. I still cough a lot even now. They kept
smearing the hottest chili on my eyes, ears, anus, and genitalia. They didn't
stop when seeing my genitalia starting to bleed. When I lost conscious due to
the torture, they threw cold water on me to bring me to. They used cigarettes to
burn my toenails and fingernails. I still feel pain in my right little finger. They also covered my head with two layers of plastic bags and filled them
with smoke. When the air and smoke was absorbed, I was dripping with sweat. They
would remove the bags after seeing I was unable to hold on any more and allowed
me to breathe again. Then they repeated the same torture. I was tortured in such a way for six hours daily. At night I was cuffed to a
bed with bare bed boards, without covers. My feet were tied with cloth strips,
which made me unable to move. I was a skeleton, and the hard bed was painful to
lie on. This is the so-called humane management in the forced labor camp; such
torture happened openly and unscrupulously at the Suihua Forced Labor Camp. The
monitors and prison guards all knew about it. These facts are undeniable. I hope
by exposing these criminal acts it might help people to realize: the persecution
of Falun Gong practitioners is real. December 24, 2007
Posting date: 2/4/2008
Original article date: 2/3/2008
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/12/25/169028.html