Issued by Clearwisdom Net

In order to persecute Falun Gong practitioners, the Nanjing Women's Prison coerced their family members into signing "helping and educating" contracts. When the guards tortured practitioners, they would say, "It's your family members who have entrusted us to educate you." The guards especially like to shock the practitioners with electric batons until they fall unconscious. Some practitioners have become partially disabled as a result. Some have developed limps, and others have developed a hunchback and cannot walk normally.

The Minghui/Clearwisdom website has exposed the persecution carried out by guards in the Nanjing Women's Prison many times. If a practitioner talks about the events happening in the prison when meeting their family members, the guards will quickly retaliate. Sometimes, when a practitioner was eating, the guards would suddenly seize her, drag her up by the hair, and then slam her head against the wall.

In order to force others to share in their crimes, the authorities at the Nanjing Women's Prison came up with a contract for practitioners' family members to sign to "entrust the labor camp to help and educate" the practitioners. The scheme targets the steadfast practitioners under the pretext of permission given by the family members. The family members are not told that the primary form of education is electric baton shocks.

On family visitation days, the guards coerced the family members, threatened the practitioners, and tried every means to get the contract signed. If the practitioners tried to stop their family members from signing the contract, the guards would end the visit immediately. Some family members were fooled and signed the contract, which led to the guards behaving even more cruelly and recklessly in carrying out the persecution and torture.

Presently, the Nanjing Women's Prison still persists in the long-term persecution of practitioners, both mentally and physically. For example, the prison authorities still do not allow practitioner Ms. Song Weijuan's direct relatives to visit her and do not provide her with normal meals. When her health was clearly deteriorating, she was denied treatment. As a result, she developed edema all over her body. Even so, she was forced to work for more than ten hours per day.

Other practitioners who were detained and tortured for long periods of time have also developed all kinds of diseases, and their lives are in constant danger.

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On December 16, 2006, twelve Falun Gong practitioners in Heilongjiang Province were sent to the intensive training team at Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City. Four of them were forced to sit on the iron chair that day and were tortured, and the other eight were hung up by their handcuffs, beaten, and shocked with electric devices on the afternoon of the following day, all because they refused to write the three statements promising to give up Falun Gong. Practitioners were also shocked on their mouths with electric devices for shouting "Falun Dafa is good!" In order to assist in the persecution, the nurses and doctors in the forced labor camp worked overtime, and more guards were dispatched to provide support. During meal times, eight or nine guards holding batons monitored the practitioners. Those who have directly participated in the persecution include Wu Hongxun, Yu Fangli, Zhou Muqi, Han Shunshan, and Zhao Yuqing, among others.

Practitioner Ms. Li Ping from Mishan City was arrested and sent to Wanjia Forced Labor Camp by some Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members on October 19, 2006. She was hung up, beaten and shocked with electric batons on that day by the 13^th team (the intensive training team), for refusing to write the three statements. The main person responsible is policewoman Yu Fangli. Practitioners Liu Shuzhen and Diao Yuqin became disabled as a result of the torture, and their family members have filed a lawsuit against the criminals.

As soon as an arrested practitioner is sent to the labor camp, he or she will be forced to write the three statements. If the practitioners refuse to write them, the guards will brutally torture them, including forcing them to sit on the iron chair, shocking them with electric batons, cuffing both hands to the wall, and forcing them to squat while kicking them repeatedly. The guards force practitioners to watch videos and read books that defame and slander Falun Gong and Master Li. They run propaganda to promote the atheism of the CCP, quote Master Li's words out of context to attack Falun Gong, and attempt to forcibly brainwash practitioners. Those who are brainwashed are then sent to the 7^th team and the12^th team, where they are forced to recite the "disciplines" and "three vows" to reinforce the brainwashing. The "disciplines" were created by the department of forced labor education, while the "three vows" were created by policeman Yao Fuchang and those who have been brainwashed. These "vows" and "disciplines" defame Master Li and Falun Gong and are extremely wicked. The police attempt to force practitioners to obey these as guidelines in their behavior.

At 6:00 a.m on October 25, 2006, when practitioners were forced to recite the "disciplines," female guards Guan Jie and Yu Fangli felt that the practitioners' voices were not loud enough. They ordered the practitioners to recite the "three vows," but the practitioners refused. The two guards then asked each practitioner to recite them individually. Practitioner Ms. Yan Tingzhen refused, and so Guan Jie forced her to stand up. Ten minutes later, female guard Yao Changfu came over and forced her to squat. When Yan Tingzhen again refused, Yao Changfu rushed over and violently grabbed her hair, and then jerked her head backwards. As a result, Yan's lower back was injured and she was unable to move under her own power. She did not recover until a week later.

November 12 was a family visitation day. Practitioner Yan Tingzhen's family member removed Master Li's portrait from the visitation room (which was being used by the police to force practitioners' family members to defile Master Li's image), but the police forcibly took it back and declared that she would not be allowed to be visited for three months. The main people responsible for this were Liu Tao and Zhao Yuqing. Whenever practitioners were injured as a result of torture, in order to cover up their crimes, the guards canceled their visitation. The guards also force practitioners' family members to step on Master Li's portrait, or they are not allowed to visit.

In addition to being physically abused, the practitioners are forced to perform heavy labor, especially in the 7^th team, where the most intensive tasks are assigned to practitioners. They were not allowed to sleep until the tasks were completed, and it is very common for them to work until 10 or 12 o'clock at night. The workload is the same regardless of age. The youngest practitioner is 17 years old and the oldest is 69 years old. For example, every day each person has to pick through three boxes of toothpicks, make six boxes of Popsicle sticks, seal 500 rice bags, and make 1200 fireworks labels. They are also forced to make slippers. If the task is not completed during the day, they have to bring the work back into the cell and continue at night. Every day they get up at 5:00 a.m., take about ten minutes to wash their faces and brush their teeth, then start to do the forced labor. Except for doing forced military drills, reciting the "disciplines," and severely limited times for using the toilet and having meals, the rest of the time is for doing forced labor. Practitioners are kept so busy that they don't even have time to wash their faces and brush their teeth at night before they go to sleep.

Wanjia Forced Labor Camp also subjects practitioners to loud noises. Around September 2001, six female practitioners including Hu Aiyun, Lu Shiping, Li Lan, Lin Xiuru and others were locked up in six solitary compartments of about two meters long and one meter wide in the 9^th team, which is a team for male detainees. For several days, policewomen Zhou Muqi and Jia Cuiyan put a boom box outside the solitary compartments and played grating noise and "music" at the highest volume. They turned it on at about 8:00 a.m. and did not turn it off until about 6:00 or 7:00 p.m. The practitioners, who were confined in the restrictive, dark, and damp environment, were severely disoriented by the continual bombardment.

Guard Yao Fuchang from the 13^th team has been actively participating in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners since 1999. The methods he uses are extremely cruel. On October 1, 2006, during the national holiday period, he had a conflict with the female team leader in his own team. He violently fought with her, and was punished by his superiors. If he treats his colleagues this way, one can easily imagine how he handles the practitioners under his control.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/17/146997.html

Ever since Jiang Zemin's regime started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, the Railroad Police Station authorities in Mudanjiang City have done everything possible to try to stop practitioners from going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The police even put Master Li's pictures on the ground next to the entrance to the platform, asking passengers to step on them before boarding. They arrested those who refused to step on the pictures. The railroad police many times illegally arrested and imprisoned practitioners in the Mudanjiang area.

The Mudanjiang Railroad Police conspired with the 857th Farm Police Station and arrested practitioner Gao Jingyuan on December 19, 2006. Gao Jingyuan was from the farm in Ken District, Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. Gao Jingyuan was locked in the Railroad Police Station in Mudanjiang and denied family visits. Gao Jingyuan's current situation is unknown.

Practitioner Song Wentao was from the 8511th Farm in Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province. In November 2006, Song Wentao went to give truth-clarification materials to a non-practitioner. This person was traveling through Mudanjiang on the way to Tianjin. The Mudanjiang Railroad police illegally searched this person and found the Falun Gong materials. The police arrested this person and forced this person to give them Song Wentao's information. The Mudanjiang Railroad Police Station and the 8511th Farm Safety Bureau sent officers to Song Wentao's home to confiscate his belongings. They then took him to the Railroad Police Station. Song's family tried to visit three times but the police denied them this right and tried to extort tens of thousands of yuan from them. Later on, a Falun Gong practitioner named Zhang Yucheng was also reported and arrested.

On June 19, 2006, on the train (No. 1451) from Jinan City to Mudanjiang City, a train officer (badge number 024737) and two others targeted a few passengers to check their tickets and perform an illegal search. The officers then arrested two practitioners, one male and the other female. The officers confiscated the male practitioner's cell phone and 421 yuan and the female practitioner's cell phone, USB flash disc, a Falun Gong book, and about 1,000 yuan.

The two practitioners tried to tell the officers the facts about the persecution and asked them to provide laws and evidence regarding the arrest. The officers told the practitioners, "We don't use laws with Falun Gong practitioners. There is no law. We work for whoever pays us." The officers took the practitioners to the National Security Team of Mudanjiang Railroad Police Station. The Deputy Director Li initiated illegal prosecution procedures against the two practitioners.

The two practitioners refused to cooperate with the officers, and were taken to the police station's detention center. The male practitioner had symptoms of illness and was released. His cell phone and cash were never returned to him. The female practitioner is still detained in the detention center. She continues to go on hunger strikes to protest the illegal persecution.

At around 5 a.m. on May 31, 2006, officers from the Mudanjiang Railroad Police Station and the Shuguang Farm Police Station located in Huanan County, Heilongjiang Province broke into practitioner Wu Yongming's home and performed an illegal search. The officers confiscated all of Master Li's books and some truth-clarification materials. Wu Yongming refused to cooperate. The officers arrested Wu Yongming while he was wearing only underwear. Another practitioner who was staying with Wu Yongming at that time was also arrested. The practitioner's name was Sun Baolian and was from Huanan County.

Practitioner Ms. Yang Shumei, 45, from Jidong County, Heilongjiang Province, was clarifying the truth on a train on March 10, 2006. The train's police officers arrested her and took her to the Railroad Police Station. Police officers from her hometown went to her home and confiscated her book Zhuan Falun, tapes of Falun Gong exercise music, and truth-clarification materials. Ms. Yang's husband and family went to see her. The officers from the Mudanjiang Railroad Police Station tried to force them to give them a list of people who often had contact with Ms. Yang.

At 2 p.m. on March 8, 2005, four officers from the Mudanjiang Railroad Police Station, the director of the Wuxing Police Station, and three other officers broke into practitioner Ren Yanjie's home and arrested her. The officers made her son help them with the illegal search and confiscation. Currently practitioner Ren Yanjie is imprisoned in a forced labor camp.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/22/147391.html

It's been eight years since the persecution began. The 610 Office in Shanghai has ordered the Procuratorate, judicial and legal institutes, the military, police, special agents, news media, psychiatric hospitals, local CCP organizations, and residential commissions to participate in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. More than 30 practitioners in Shanghai have died as a result of persecution; numerous practitioners have been tortured and left physically disabled, suffered mental collapse, deteriorated mental health, job loss, and many have had no choice but to leave their homes. Their families have also suffered tremendous physical and mental anguish, as well as economic hardship.

As of December 20, 2006, we have information about 12 Falun Gong practitioners who were tortured to death.

1. Mr. Lu Xingguo, 45, lived in Hongyi Village, Wanggang, Tang Town, Pudongxin District. Mr. Lu was imprisoned in the Qingpu Third Forced Labor Camp. On October 15, 2003, Xiang Jianzhong, Captain of a police middle team, instigated ten drug abusers to beat Mr. Lu to death. Mr. Lu's body was badly disfigured when he died.

2. Ms. Li Weihong, 43, used to be a clerk at the Nangjing W. Rd. business center and lived on Hutai Road, Jiabei District, Shanghai. In 2000, police in Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, forced hot chili sauce into her stomach using a naso-gastric tube. This caused her to roll on the floor in excruciating pain. Her esophagus, stomach, liver, and intestines were damaged. Ms. Li was sentenced to a year in prison. She was later sent to the Central Hospital in Jing'an District on bail. After the surgery, the doctor found abscesses in her stomach and intestines. Ms. Li died on April 19, 2003.

3. Mr. Yang Xueqin, 36, was a practitioner who lived in Shanghai. Mr. Yang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in July 1999 and was arrested and sent to a psychiatric hospital. In 2000, Mr. Yang went to Beijing and was arrested again. On February 18, 2000, after Mr. Yang was tortured in a detention center, he was found lying on the ground with a massive head injury. Center staff claimed he had "jumped off the building." He died nine days later.

4. Mr. Ma Xinxing, in his 40s, lived near Xuhui Campus of the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai. In late 1999, police from Xuhui district kept Mr. Ma in a psychiatric hospital for over three months, during which time he was administered nerve-damaging drugs. In late 2000, Mr. Ma was again sent to the Qingpu Third Forced Labor Camp. In November 2003, Mr. Ma's life was in danger as a consequence of being tortured. The police, wanting to avoid responsibility for his death, asked his family to take him home. Mr. Ma died on December 14, 2003.

5. Mr. Li Jianbin, 23, graduated from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1999. Mr. Li lived in the teachers' dorm of the East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai. On May 13, 2000, Li climbed out of a window on the fifth floor to avoid police harassment and arrest. He fell and died.

6. Mr. Li Baifan, 40, was a lecturer in the East China Normal University in Shanghai. Mr. Li was sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp in August 2000 and sent to the Dafeng Farm in Jiangsu province. Mr. Li refused to renounce Falun Gong. He died on April 14, 2001, in a brainwashing center. The police said he committed suicide. However, the police refused to let Mr. Li's family see his body.

7. Ms. Li Limao, lived on Huaihaizhong Road across the street from the Ruijin Police Station in Luwan District. In October 2004, someone reported Ms. Li for clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. A police officer from the Ruijin Police Station unlawfully arrested her and sentenced her to a year in a forced labor camp. Around April or May in 2005, Ms. Li was sent to a hospital for pain in her liver. Those who last saw her said she looked fine at that time. A few days later, she died after being injected with unknown drugs while in the hospital.

8. Ms. Cao Jinxian, 48, lived in Cailu Village, Cailu Township, Pudongxin District, Shanghai. Ms. Cao was a steadfast practitioner and was thus many times arrested by the police and tortured in forced labor camps. In 2005, Ms. Cao was forced to leave her home and became homeless. She died on June 18, 2005.

9. Ms. Huang Qiaolan, 58, lived in Baoshan District in Shanghai. On November 20, 2001, a security guard arrested Ms. Huang while she was distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials and locked her in the Luodian Detention Center in Baoshan District. Ms. Huang's family spent most of their savings bribing the guards trying to get her out of prison, almost 50,000 yuan. Consequently the prison decided to let her serve her three-year term outside of the prison. After Ms. Huang returned home, the 610 Office, police, and residential commissions continued to threaten and harass her. Liu Bing from the 610 Office twice arrested Ms. Huang and sent her to a brainwashing center to torture her. Ms. Huang couldn't withstand the persecution and developed liver cancer. She died on October 29, 2004.

10. Ms. Ge Wenxin was tortured in the Songjiang Women's Prison. Ms. Ge's health deteriorated and her life was in danger. The prison sent her to a hospital in June 2005, where she died within a week.

11. Mr. Chen Jun, 28, was from Hunan Province. Mr. Chen started to practice Falun Gong because he was moved by a kind practitioner while he was serving his term in the Tilanqiao Prison. The guards and prisoners started to torture Mr. Chen because of his practice and viciously beat him. Mr. Chen was badly injured and died in February 2006.

12. Ding Youmu, 65, was sentenced to two years in prison in June 2001. Ding was released in September 2002. After Ding went home, the police continued to interfere with Ding's life. Ding's brain tumor worsened and he died on December 18, 2004.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/1/29/147811.html