(Clearwisdom.net) There are ten prison zones and an intense training camp in Shanxi Women's Prison. Falun Gong practitioners are distributed among the different zones. There were about four to six practitioners in each prison zone. At present, there are over ten Taiyuan practitioners detained in the different zones. The following are what we know about some of the practitioners detained there.
Ms. Gao Lifang, over 40, a resident of Yangquan, Shanxi, is in the 3rd Prison Zone.
Ms. Ouyang Hongmei, over 50, a resident of Yangquan, Shanxi, is in the 3rd Zone.
Ms. Zhang Yueqin, over 50, a resident of Taiyuan, Shanxi, is in the 4th Zone.
Ms. Feng Hezhi, over 70 years old, resident of Taiyuan, Shanxi, was sentenced to three years in prison in the 4th Zone.
Ms. Wang Liying, over 50, resident of Yongji, Yuncheng, is in the 7th Zone.
Ms. Zhao Yurui, 56, resident of Pingyao, Shanxi, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for the current term. She is doing knitting and other work in the 8th Zone.
Ms. Guo Shuping, 49, resident of Qin County, Shanxi, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for the current term, and was further sentenced to making handbags and paper bags, etc. in the 8th Zone.
Ms. Zhang Huizhen, over 40, resident of Yangquan, Shanxi, was sentenced to 3 years in prison and was sentenced to forced labor, doing knitting and other work in the 8th Zone.
Ms. Cheng Quanying, over 60, resident of Taigu, has high blood pressure. After having been on leave for medical treatment for a year, she was sentenced to 6 years in prison and is in sickly condition in the 8th Zone.
Ms. Chai Lixia, resident of Yuncheng, over 30, was sentenced to 5 years for the current term. The Chinese Communist Party did not allow her to appeal. She is making handbags, paper bags, wigs, etc. in the 8th Zone. She has two little kids at home and they miss her a lot.
Ms. Kang Shuqin, over 60, is a resident of Taiyuan, Shanxi, in the 10th Zone. She was locked in a small confinement cell because she declared that “transformation” would not work on her.
Ms. Zhou Lan, around 40, a resident of Taiyuan, Shanxi, is in the 10th Zone. She was seriously beaten and persecuted.
Ms. Li Yan, resident of Taiyuan, Shanxi, is in the 10th Zone.
Ms. Liu Guihua, 41, resident of Pingyao, is in the 10th Zone.
Shanxi Women's Prison treats Falun Gong practitioners as main targets to monitor and persecute. The prison does not allow practitioners to appeal, brutally tortures them, adds drugs to their food, locks them in small confinement cells, and orders them to stand for long durations while not allowing them to sleep. Prison police officers also encourage other inmates to beat and slander Falun Gong practitioners, forcing them to watch videos and view brainwashing materials; practitioners are ordered to write so-called understanding and thought reports, to admit guilt, and write declarations to their abandon beliefs, etc. Officers organize “exposing and criticizing” meetings as part of their effort to “transform” Falun Gong practitioners.
The prison organizes 4 people as a monitoring group to monitor each other. There is a labor monitor group, a living monitor group, and a study monitoring group. The prison gets criminal inmates to monitor practitioners’ every move and word. If practitioners do not cooperate, they are not allowed to talk to others. If someone reports an incident, the police will penalize the monitoring group and other prisoners in the same cell. Police often deduct points, do not allow shopping, do not allow family visits, do not allow letter writing, and do not allow washing. They give orders to clean toilets and penalize practitioners in other ways, including threats.
