(Clearwisdom.net) The Men's Second Forced Labor Camp of Shandong Province, formerly known as Wang Village Forced Labor Camp, was moved to Guanzhuang Township in the Zhangqiu District, Jinan City, on October 28, 2007. Shortly after the relocation, officials from the Jinan Labor Camp and others at the provincial level were invited by the Labor System of the Chinese Communist Party to inspect the site.

The day of the visit was very gloomy. The wind was whipping and dust was flying. One could barely open one's eyes or stand upright. The clothes hung out to dry were blown away by the wind. After the inspection was over, the wind stopped. Since the relocation of the labor camp, the air has been very turbid and the visibility low. Sometimes there is a sharp odor in the air. The sky was full of bright, flashing dust under the whitish sun. People in the area found it very strange. Before the relocation, the weather was always good. The air was very clean and there was no pollution caused by chimneys. What is going on?

Just behind the gate to the labor camp is the office building. Prisoners were confined to the compound behind the building. The compound is surrounded by five- to six-meter-high walls with electric wire fences. The so-called "Education Building" is located on the West Road to the compound. The first floor has a visitation room and solitary confinement cells. The Health Department, the Management Department, and the Education Department are located on the second floor. No one knows what is on the third floor. The fourth floor is the conference room. In addition, there are two other buildings and a canteen where prisoners and Falun Gong practitioners are detained. The building on the East Road, opposite the canteen, is the hard labor field. The exercise ground is located in front of the building.

There are eight brigades in the Men's Second Forced Labor Camp. Regular inmates are held in the first six brigades and about 230 Falun Gong practitioners are incarcerated in the Seventh and Eighth Brigades. The Eighth Brigade is on the second floor of the first building. Zheng Wanxin was the former head, Sun Fengjun the former instructor, and Wang Bohua and Liu Jichao were the deputy heads. The Seventh Brigade is on the second floor of the second building. Luo Guangrong was the head, Li Gongming was the instructor, and Wang Xinjiang was the police officer. The current director of the Men's Second Labor Camp is Hao Donggui, and Xin Xiuzhong is the political commissioner.

There were just over 10 very firm practitioners who didn't give in to "transformation." Because of their steadfastness, they were isolated and locked with non-practitioner inmates in the cells. Some practitioners were put into special "classes" under surveillance. They were forced to stand facing the wall in the cell or the hallway. After practitioners clarified the truth to them, the inmates learned about the persecution of Falun Gong and the principle of karmic retribution. They then treated practitioners very kindly. Some of them even expressed their interest in wanting to learn the practice. The guards were worried that more inmates would learn about the truth of the persecution, so they secretly told them to keep a distance from practitioners and they were not allowed to accept any help from them.

Because of the intense pressure, some practitioners who just came in and couldn't endure the pain of the persecution wrote so-called repentance statements. Most of them have since written public solemn statements denouncing their so-called repentance statements. Some practitioners posted their statements on-line but were quickly punished by the guards by being beaten, hung up, or forced to stand facing the wall.

There were more than 10 collaborators, former practitioners who had renounced the practice under pressure and assisted the guards in attempting to "transform" other practitioners in the labor camp. The guards frequently used and encouraged other inmates to beat practitioners. These inmates were later rewarded.

In the past, the guards cursed and beat practitioners covertly. Now they do these things openly. Guard Liu Jichao was openly kicked Gong Pijing, over 50 years old, and dragged himacross the ground.

Practitioners often shouted, "Falun Dafa Hao" ["Falun Dafa is good!"] in the hallway. Dong, a practitioner from Changyi District, was kept in a solitary cell. He was handcuffed and not allowed to use the toilet.

Lu, a practitioner from Linqu County, was handcuffed for a day after writing a solemn statement denouncing the so-called repentance statement. Prisoners instigated by the guards beat another practitioner, Wang Shaohua.

Li Weizhong, a practitioner from the Zhangqui District, who was detained in the Seventh Brigade, went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. He was released for hospitalization when he was in critical condition. He was again later illegally arrested by the 610 Office police and brought to the Eighth Brigade. In the morning, two months later, Mr. Li shouted, "Falun Dafa Hao." He was then handcuffed and tortured in his bed. When he appeared to be dying, Mr. Li was taken to the hospital for examination and sent home.

When the police see that some practitioners who were previously "transformed" start practicing again when they are released, they again arrest these practitioners and take them to the labor camp. They are fully aware that "'transforming' people's thinking is futile." In fact, the head of the labor camp and the guards have seen that the end of the Chinese Communist Party is approaching. One time, they said in a conference, "It seems now that 'transforming' people's thinking is impossible. Doing 'transformation' work is just an absurd joke."

Enticed by promotions and bonuses, the guards in the Men's Second Forced Labor Camp vigorously pursued the camp's so-called "transformation" quota. Those practitioners who were not "transformed" were subjected to being handcuffed, beaten, forced to stand facing the wall, not allowed to see their families or make phone calls, etc., in order to violently coerce them to "transform."

Posting date: 3/24/2008
Original article date: 3/24/2008
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/3/11/174122.html

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