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Brutality in Xindian Women's Forced Labor Camp (Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province)
(Clearwisdom.net) Authorities at the Xindian Women Forced Labor Camp,
Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province used many different tactics to abuse Falun Gong
practitioners. 1) Long work hours The labor camp guards sent all newly arrived practitioners to Team One. The
officials ordered everyone to memorize the "Team Rules" and
"Newcomers' Education" within a designated time. Anyone who failed to
meet the requirement was forced to stand for extended periods of time in a
certain area and was deprived of sleep. Nevertheless, everyone still had to show
up for work the following day. Breakfast was at 7:00 a.m., and then one had to
work until 12:00 p.m. followed by having to stand until 2:00 p.m., when work
resumed. The work shift continued until 10:00 p.m. or even midnight. 2) Torture a) Sleep deprivation, and denial of bathroom use, forcing people to relieve
themselves in their clothing. If they dirtied the floor as a result, they were
forced to clean up with their clothes. b) Starvation, various freedoms being withheld, all conversation and meetings
forbidden, being deprived of personal hygiene facilities, and being made to
stand facing a wall: All of these are methods employed with Falun Gong
practitioners, including many that are worse than those imposed on death-row
inmates. They deprive practitioners of their most fundamental human rights. c) Forced to sit on a bench. Almost all practitioners have been through this.
Under supervision by guards, six or seven criminal inmates take turns keeping
each practitioner under surveillance. The practitioners are forced to sit on a
bench every day for two weeks or even one month without a break. 3) Psychological torment: The labor camp guards put practitioners into a
brainwashing session and coerce them to recite the prison rules, sing Communist
songs and read slanderous books. The guards also order collaborators
to brainwash practitioners. If the practitioners refused to
"transform," the collaborators beat and insult them. Practitioner Ms. Liu Yinghua once tossed a note to a visitor with the message
"Falun Dafa is good." This resulted in a three-month extension of her
forced labor sentence. In August 2007 alone, the labor camp officials extended
terms for 13 practitioners, using various "justifications." 4) Forced hard labor All practitioners have to work 11 to 12 hours per day. Practitioners Li Runfang and Xin Enhao refused to comply with the work
schedule. For this they were detained in solitary confinement cells for extended
periods of time, and their terms were extended accordingly. Ms. Li Runfang is a
handicapped woman and has an artificial leg. Police punished her by making her
stand for a long time, so she shouted openly, "Falun Dafa is good" and
"Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance." As a result, on August 20,
2007 the guards forced drug addicts Qi Yuhui, Zhang Limei and Yuan Hong to
violently beat her. Afterwards, Li Runfang was detained in a solitary
confinement cell from August 21-30, 2007. Upon being released from that cell,
her body was full of purple bruises. The criminal inmates had broken a thermos
bottle and used the glass shards to cut an inch-long, deep wound on her leg.
They held Li's hand, dipped it into the blood and wrote words slandering Falun
Gong. 5) Encouraging Other Inmates to Persecute Practitioners: Some drug addicts did not work. Their jobs were to monitor and torture Falun
Gong practitioners. They also assisted the guards in force-feeding practitioners
who were holding hunger strikes. These criminals could beat practitioners
arbitrarily, forbid them from talking to each other, and isolate the
practitioners. One way to achieve their goal was to lock one practitioner into a
one-square-meter steel cage, deprive her of sleep around the clock, reduce her
meals to a minimum, and work in shifts to exhaust the practitioner. Guards and
criminals took turns torturing practitioners and coercing them to give up Falun
Gong. Sixty-seven year-old practitioner Ms. Liu Ping suffered from hypertension,
and fifty-two year-old Gao Yinlian had heart disease and hypertension. Despite
their medical conditions, the guards and criminals did not spare them from
extended torture. The long-term mistreatment made them extremely weak. They
frequently lost consciousness during the day, but the evildoers showed no mercy. Ms. Li Xiulian is a practitioner from Datong City. This was her second
incarceration at this camp. While locked up in a detention center, she went on a
10-day hunger strike to protest. The police transferred her to the labor camp
where she continued her hunger strike. Drug addict Liu Huifang and another drug
addict inmate were assigned to torture her. They decided to force-feed Li
Xiulian. When they failed to get cooperation and the food spilled onto abuser
Liu Huifang's clothes, Liu was so furious that she slapped Li's face repeatedly. In March 2005, practitioner Ms. Niu Lanyun was force-fed in the Women's
Forced Labor Camp. Guard Liu Zhongmei ordered drug addicts Wang Yong, Lian Li,
Li Yuping and Na Xiaoyan to give Niu Lanyun a hard time. The four dragged Ms.
Niu to the labor camp clinic twice a day for force-feeding, and then repeated
the routine in the jail cell. They pinned Niu Yulan to the floor, pried open her
mouth with a spoon and grabbed her jaws so they could inject food into her
throat. This horrible practice made her mouth bleed and her hair was pulled out
and spread everywhere on the floor. The guards did not want to hear Niu Lanyun's
protest, so they told the criminals to gag her with a towel and handcuff her
arms behind her back. More than 70 days of extended torture made Ms. Niu very
skinny and weak. The guards did not want to see her die at the camp, so they
ordered her family to pick her up. After three months at home, guards Liu
Zhongmei and Chen Chunxiang took her back to the camp and continued torturing
her for another 40 days. On October 15, 2006, practitioner Ms. Liu Taojiang was sent home after she
sustained severe injuries resulting from violent torture. One month later, just
as Ms. Liu was able to walk again, the evildoers took her back to the labor
camp. She went on a hunger strike that lasted more than a month. The camp guards
did not want her to die at the camp, so they sent her home again along with a
"critical condition" warning. Her condition improved somewhat
following two weeks of rest. Labor camp persecutors then picked her up again and
are detaining her to this day. January 20, 2008 Posting date: 2/9/2008 |