Issued by Clearwisdom Net

Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Liu Ruping, 46, was a lawyer and senior lecturer at Changqing District Communist Party School, Jinan City, Shandong Province. He is an honest and kind person and does excellent work. He is the youngest person to ever hold such a position in this province.

Mr. Liu was detained by authorities in Changqing Detention Center for posting announcements about the Falun Gong Association. After publishing an article entitled, "Stop the Brutal Brainwashing of Falun Gong Practitioners," he was sent to a forced labor camp for fifteen months. On December 15, 2005, he was sent to the 2nd Forced Labor Camp (Wangcun Forced Labor Camp), where he was subjected to brutal torture. The following is a partial eyewitness account.

As soon as Mr. Liu arrived at the labor camp, the guards had several collaborators harass him. However, he remained firm in his belief in Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. He was sent to the Strict Control Zone by Sun Fengjun, the deputy head of Group 8. Mr. Liu was forced to sit on a small bench in the hallway from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m., with his face to the wall, his legs together, his hands in his lap and his back straight.

Situated near the top of a hill, Wangcun Forced Labor Camp is very cold, especially in the hallway where Mr. Liu sat. He was shaking from the cold and his buttocks were in excruciating pain. Even during the time of the New Year's holiday, he was forced to sit like that all day. After an extended period of time like this, his buttocks were bleeding and torn flesh stuck to his pants. However, the guards did not even allow him to take a shower or wash his clothes.

While Mr. Liu was sitting in the freezing cold facing the wall in the hallway for 45 days, guard Sun Fengjun punched him violently in the head and at the same time swore and laughed at him. Then Mr. Liu was sent to the Strict Control Squad, where several criminal inmates assisted the guards to torture practitioners. Guard Luo Guangrong of the 8th Group ordered practitioners not to sleep until midnight and to get up at 4:30 a.m. They were not allowed to take any other breaks. They were only allowed to have two cups of water, and their time in the bathroom was restricted. They could not use the bathroom when they needed to, but had to wait until it was an "allowed time" to go. Practitioners therefore sustained severe harm to their bodies. Mr. Liu and many other practitioners had to do forced labor during the day, and in the evening, they were forced to sit on small benches. If they dozed off or talked, the criminal inmates would punish them.

In April 2006, Mr. Liu Ruping and Mr. Liu Jinyi, a practitioner held in the 7th Group, were sent to another group for further torture. The chief of staff, Li Gongming, did not allow Liu Ruping to sleep for three days. Mr. Liu continued to clarify the truth and along with Wang Housheng, another practitioner held in the 7th Group, refused to watch video programs that smeared Falun Gong. As a result, they were both forced to stand for an extended period of time as punishment.

On two occasions, Liu Ruping refused to allow the guards to search his body and refused to be labeled as a labor camp inmate. He did not sign any documents he was ordered to sign. Guard Li Gongming beat and swore at Mr. Liu repeatedly. Mr. Liu sustained hearing problems and bruises on his face. A collaborator named Fan Lincheng also beat him up many times. One inmate kicked him and caused his toenails to fall off. Despite all that, Mr. Liu did not waver. Instead, he became more determined in his belief.

Having exhausted all means to no avail, Li Gomgming reported Mr. Liu to the management, who decided to torture him even more. On July 14, Mr. Liu was shackled to a chair while he sat on the floor, and his wrists were tied behind his back. Two guards stepped on his legs, two others held his arms, and another held his head. Then they used two electric batons to shock the inside and outside of his thighs. Although he was in severe pain, he did not waver. He shouted the formula for sending forth righteous thoughts. To silence him, the guards used a baton to shock his mouth. After three hours of being shocked with an electric baton, he had blisters all over his thighs and his mouth was badly swollen. After this round of torture, the guards moved Mr. Liu to solitary confinement in the basement, where he was hung up by his shackles. Later, he was shackled lying on the bed. He was only allowed to wear briefs, even during the night. It was very damp in the basement and mosquitoes abounded. The guards wanted Mr. Liu to be exposed to the mosquitoes as a means of torture. In fact, the inmate who had to guard him got most of the mosquito bites.

As a result of the electric shock torture, Mr. Liu could not take anything by mouth, not even water, during the seven days of solitary confinement. He was able to sleep but was only allowed to wear his briefs, even when the temperature dropped very low in the basement where he was confined. Mr Liu was the tenth practitioners on whom the guards used an electric baton for torture. The other nine practitioners were reassigned to a regular group.

As a result of the torture, Mr. Liu had to be taken out of solitary confinement and sent to the 6th Group to recuperate. Two weeks later, he was sent back to the 8th Group. Guard Zheng Wanxin had intensified the forced labor and all other measures for the practitioners. Practitioners could not even take Sunday off. The guards made the practitioners, especially those under strict control, work in the evening or on holidays with very little time for sleep until 11:00 or 12:00 at night.

Crimes Committed by Mudanjiang City Detention Center

Mudanjiang City Detention Center, also known as Xinglong Town Detention City, is located in suburban Xinglong Town of Mudanjiang City, and many Falun Gong practitioners have been held and tortured there. The practitioners illegally detained there have been forced to memorize prison rules, sit for hours on end, and sing songs praising the wicked Chinese Communist Party. Even their time to use the toilet has been limited. They are forbidden to talk freely, and if they do they are beaten and verbally abused by other prisoners or tortured by guards.

Torture Methods

Crimes Committed by Policemen Wang Qiang and Yang Yulin against Falun Gong Practitioners:

Wang Qiang: Instructor at the 2nd Branch of Mudanjiang City Detention Center

Yang Yulin: Instructor at the 8th Ward of Mudanjiang City Detention Center

On May 5, 2002, policemen Wang Qiang and Yang Yulin, as well as a few others, punched and kicked practitioner Mr. Hu Chengshan before ordering prisoner Deng Ke and others to rip Mr. Hu's pants off. Wang Qiang whipped him with the Little White Dragon, and when he became too tired Yang Yulin took over and beat Mr. Hu with a nylon tube with a steel wire in it. On May 8, 2002, Wang Qiang acted on the prison administrator's instructions and subjected Mr. Hu to Bracelet Binding for 16 hours, from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. the following morning.

On June 4, 2002, policemen Yang Yulin accused practitioner Mr. Yang Yukun of singing a song in praise of the wicked party in too low a voice, so he ordered him to bend at his waist first and then started beating him. Yang Yulin savagely whipped Mr. Yang Yukun with the Little White Dragon. No practitioners in Yang Yulin's charge escaped torture.

Crimes Committed by the Sidao Forced Labor Camp of Mudanjiang City

The Sidao Labor Camp of Mudanjiang City is set on the north side of a road at the foot of a hillside in suburban Tieling Town in Mudanjiang City. The camp has five buildings. In 2002 a special group was set up to handle Falun Gong practitioners, a wicked place where practitioners have been systematically persecuted.

The practitioners held in the general office building were subjected to all kinds of torture, including forced sitting, memorizing 65 prison rules, being watched by other inmates, being prohibited from talking, and having a limited time to use the toilet. There was a group of inmate thugs in the building who beat or tortured practitioners and forced them to do hard labor if they refused to obey the "rules."

Autrocities in Sidao Forced Labor Camp

(1) Inmate Wang Changyan, a squad leader at the general office building

On June 15, 2006, Wang Changyan beat practitioner Fu Heping for talking.

Once, inmates singled out practitioners and accused them of turning out products not up to the standard. When the day was finished, Wang Changyan savagely beat practitioners Hu Chengshan and Xiao Changwen and then told them to stand, facing a wall, from 4:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

When they were through with procedures in the general office building, practitioners were assigned to the special group that handled practitioners and were further persecuted. They would be forced to go through brainwashing, with the false case of "Tiananmen Immolation" being repeatedly played to them. Guards Wu Yingzhi and Jiang not only told lies to the practitioners and threatened them, but also ordered other inmates and guards to watch and torture them. The instructors exerted pressure on the inmates and told them that if they were able to "transform" Falun Gong practitioners, they would be rewarded with reduced terms. The inmates also had permission to beat or torture practitioners, and even the instructors themselves beat or tortured practitioners with Little White Dragons, electric batons, leather belts, and so on.

(2) Guard Qiu Cheng

Guard Qiu Cheng, waving a wooden club and constantly screaming, ordered practitioners to run laps on the camp ground. He would not hesitate to hit any practitioner who was too tired to run and ordered inmates to pull and drag practitioners who couldn't move any further. Qiu Cheng was also involved in the beating and torturing of practitioners Yang Yukun, Zhao Lifeng, and Yu Bo, among others.

(3) Guard Chen Yulong

In August 2003, guard Chen Yulong found practitioner Yu Bo reading Master Li's articles. So Chen ordered every practitioner searched after work, and he blamed other inmates for not watching practitioners closely enough and even beat them. When night fell, he continued to beat and torture Yu Bo. Afterwards he ordered the working hours lengthened for all Falun Gong practitioners, who would also be kept under tighter control.

(4) Guard Yu

Guard Yu locked practitioner Mr. Hu Chengshan up in a small room and beat him up, screaming obscenities.

(5) Prisoners Zhang Yanbin, Yin Zhipeng, and Liu Xiaoxin

One night in the toilet room, prisoner Zhang Yanbin whipped practitioner Hu Chengshan viciously with the Little White Dragon. When he finished he said, "This is only the light part of your punishment."

Another night, also in the toilet room, prisoners Zhang Yanbin, Yin Zhipeng, and Liu Xiaoxin, all abetted by instructors, violently beat practitioners Yang Yukun, and Zhao Lifeng with plastic tubes.

When the camp terms were up for some practitioners who had been forced to be "reformed," officials from the 610 Office of Mudanjiang City and Administrator Gao from the labor camp came with video cameras, planning to make the practitioners publicly abandon Falun Gong one more time or swear at Master Li and Falun Gong before letting them go. If these practitioners said "no" to their requests, they would be kept in the facility for further persecution.

All practitioners held at Sidao Forced Labor Camp of Mudanjiang City have been persecuted by instructors Yu and Qiu Cheng, Director Jiang, Chen Yucheng, and Wu Yingzhi, among others. Administrators of the camp, Zhao Guanying and Gao and policeman Yan Changhai have all committed grave crimes against practitioners.

Ms. Meng Gui, in her sixties, from Linshan County, Guangxi Province, is still suffering torture at the Nanning Women's Forced Labor Camp in Guangxi Autonomous Region because she refuses to renounce Falun Gong. She is being detained at the labor camp past the legal time limit. She is being monitored by four inmates and is not allowed to sleep for long periods of time. She has been tortured beyond recognition during these past four years.

Before 1999, Ms. Meng Gui helped her daughter sell sweets in Beihai City, Guangxi Autonomous Region. After July 20, 1999, she went to the Beihai City Airport every day to do the Falun Gong exercises with several other practitioners. The police from Beihai City Police Department then threatened her. They told her that if she gave up the practice of Falun Gong, then she would be allowed to stay in Beihai City. Otherwise, they would arrest her.

Ms. Meng went back to Linshan County. One day, Ms. Meng and several other practitioners got together to watch Master Li's lecture on VCD. The police followed one of the practitioners to the place and illegally arrested everyone there. Ms. Meng and six other practitioners were detained for a month and fined 1,000 yuan each. The rest of the other dozen or so practitioners were detained for two weeks. Before they were released, the police forced practitioners to sign a detention certificate saying they had "joined a [slanderous term omitted] and obstructed the implementation of laws." Ms. Meng Gui refused to sign the certificate and started to clarify the truth to the policemen. In the end,  Huang Shoujie, the head of the National Security Team gave up and gave the order to let her go.

On the evening of April 22, 2000, a group of practitioners were sharing their cultivation experiences. Plain-clothes policemen forced themselves in and arrested everyone. The practitioners were taken to the Shili Detention Center, where they were detained for 15 days. On May 7, Ms. Meng Gui was released. The next day, while she was distributing truth-clarification materials, she was illegally arrested again and detained for a month.

On June 13, 2000, Ms. Meng went to Beijing to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. On her way to Beijing, she was stopped at Changsha City. The railway police detained her at the Changsha Railway Station Police Station. With righteous thoughts, Ms. Meng escaped and bought a train ticket to Beijing. With only over a dozen yuan left, she arrived at Beijing and went to Tiananmen Square to do the 5^th exercise, the sitting meditation. She was taken to the Tiananmen Square Police Station. The policemen there notified the Linshan Police Department.

Ms. Meng was taken back to Linshan. She was handcuffed the whole way back. The police handcuffed several people together. Ms. Meng was sent to the Linshan Detention Center and was later sentenced to two years of forced labor without going through any legal procedures.

At Nanning Women's Labor Camp, the prison guards forced practitioners to read newspapers and watch programs that slandered Falun Gong, and attend the so-called exposing meetings to criticize Master Li and Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Meng refused to participate in such activities. Each time, several prison guards would beat her before carrying her to the meeting. Since she refused to criticize Master Li or write the three statements, she was brutally tortured. She was confined to a small room, tied to the bed and was not allowed to sleep. She was hung by her arms with the tip of her toes barely touching the ground. She was beaten up by criminal inmates. She was not allowed to use the restroom. While enduring all these tortures, she was also forced to do heavy labor for long periods of time.

Ms. Meng Gui was in good health and weighed about 165 pounds before suffering persecution. As a result of the tortures, she became emaciated. Her heart problem also recurred. Her whole body went numb due to prolonged hanging. She could no longer feel the pain from the beatings or the needles that were injected into her body. She lost the ability to talk and move her body. She didn't respond to intravenous injections. Authorities at the labor camp were afraid she might die and released her on medical probation. One of the conditions for her release was that her family call the labor camp every 10 days to report her condition. The labor camp sent her home in the middle of the night in order to cover up their tortures.

In 2002, when the Chinese Communist Party was holding its national conference, Ms. Meng was forcibly taken to the brainwashing class for more than 10 days. One day in Mid-August, she went to the county 610 Office to get back her Falun Gong books and other belongings that were illegally confiscated. As a result, the next day, she was arrested by policemen from Lincheng Police Station and detained in a conference room in Lincheng Township Government Building. The police did not allow anyone to visit her. As a result, she did not have any clean clothes to change into or other necessities. The police laughed at her and said: "Why don't you ask your Teacher to save you?"

A month later, Ms. Meng went out to distribute truth-clarification materials at night and was arrested by patrolling policemen. She was sent to the Linshan Detention Center. A fellow practitioner went there to give her 100 yuan and wrote down "Righteous Thoughts" as her name in the visitation log. The practitioner's intention was to remind Ms. Meng to strengthen her righteous thoughts and negate all the persecution. The guard on duty was the deputy head of the detention center. He became nervous when he saw the characters "Righteous Thoughts" and refused to give the money to Ms. Meng. Instead, he called the police department to come and arrest this practitioner. The practitioner was alerted and quickly left the detention center. Around 2:00 a.m. that night, Ms. Meng was sent to the Nanning Labor Camp and was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor.

Practitioners who have been released from the labor camp said that Ms. Meng is being brutally tortured. She was not allowed to use the restroom. She had to urinate or excrete in her pants and was not permitted to change clothes. As a result, her buttocks were soaked in excrement for a long period of time. They became red and swollen until the skin broke, causing excruciating pain. The guards used up all of their inhumane tortures, but Ms. Meng still refused to give up practicing Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, and did not cooperate with them. One practitioner said that when she saw Ms. Meng, she couldn't walk. She had to be carried out on a stretcher. When she spoke, one had to put their ear next to her mouth in order to hear anything. The guards saw that she was too weak and loosened up a little on the persecution. Only then was Ms. Meng able to recover a little from the tortures.

Ms. Meng Gui is in her 60's, and has suffered relentless persecution every day for the past several years. She has been illegally detained for over four years, and has still not been released.