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Falun Gong Practitioners on Hunger Strike Subjected to "Dead Man's Bed" Torture in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp
(Clearwisdom.net) On February 21, 2008, the director of the No. 1 men's
division of the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp obtained "dead man's beds"
and forced all "personal cangues" [Note: "cangues" are
detainees assigned by the division head to implement close surveillance on
practitioners] to use them on Falun Gong practitioners who went on hunger
strikes. According to eyewitnesses, four practitioners--Chen Kaiqiu, Liu Qing, Gao
Yuling, and Han Ximin--from the No. 2 brigade were viciously beaten by prison
inmates. Practitioner Zhen Haitao (from the No. 3 brigade) and Chen Yan (from
the No. 1 brigade) were tied to the "dead man's bed." Their limbs were
stretched out in four different directions. An object was inserted in their
mouths so that they could not close their mouths or speak. They were force fed,
their lives are in danger. On February 14, practitioner Zhao Jian shouted "Falun Dafa is good"
in the prison cafeteria and demanded that the persecution be stopped. Zhao Jian
from Hebei Province was transferred to the No. 3 brigade of the No. 1 prison
center from Tuanhe Prisoner Dispatching Center last September. He was beaten by
the guards for two days, and some of the practitioners in the No. 1, No. 2, and
No. 3 brigades started hunger strikes and demanded that the perpetrators be
punished. On February 18, the captain of the guards of the No. 2 brigade, Pan
Hongzhou, beat practitioner Gao Yuling. More practitioners went on hunger
strikes in protest of this event. At the same time, all of the practitioners in
the No. 2 brigade went on a work strike and refused to perform hard labor,
including those practitioners who went on hunger strikes starting on February 7.
Almost all the practitioners in the No. 1 men's division went on hunger strikes. Currently, practitioner Feng Guofu in the No. 6 brigade has been sent to the
prison hospital for emergency care. Even the practitioners' families are under
pressure. The mother of practitioner Chen Yan from Heilongjiang Province
suffered a heart attack and is currently being hospitalized. No. 1 men's division of Masanjia Forced Labor Camp: Director Zhang Guangbin: 86-24-89295031 Prison medical clinic where the force-feeding takes place: 86-24-89295042 No. 1 brigade: Captain Wang Hongmuo: 86-24-89295052 No. 2 brigade: Captain Gao Zhongzhi: 86-24-89295057 Posting date: 3/5/2008 |