Three examples of the mistreatment of prisoners at Jinan. The staff uses severe torture methods which they attempt to hide from outsiders.

The Atrocities of Sun Juan and Others at the 1st Women's Forced Labor Camp of Jinan City

The 1st Group of the 1st Women's Forced Labor Camp of Jinan City in Shandong Province is a dark place where Falun Gong practitioners are persecuted. Group Leader Sun Juan, Deputy Group Leader Sun Weili, Geng Xiaomei, and guards Zhang Hongfen, and Yang Xiaolin all actively participate in the persecution. They use various brutal methods to torture Falun Gong practitioners.

Ms. He Maofen, a Falun Gong practitioner from Linxi, is 63 years old. In April 2006, she was transferred to this labor camp. Because she refused to be "transformed," she has been subjected to inhuman torture for the past two years, and the guards forced her to work. When she lost consciousness for the third time due to severe persecution, she broke one of her ankles. The bone stuck out of the skin and her ankle was swollen. She was then sent to the police hospital. The doctor said that she must lie in bed and not move around for one hundred days.

When she was returned to the labor camp, guard Zhang Hongfen (in her thirties) incited Pan Aihua, a collaborator from Zhang Qiu, to prevent Ms. He Maofen from staying in bed. They forced her to walk and didn't allow her to rest. They also used other torture methods on her. Because she still refused to be "transformed," Pan pushed her to the ground and covered her mouth with a towel. Ms. He cried out, and guard Zhang Hongfen came into the room. She said, "Let me show you how to do it." Zhang Hongfen took the towel and covered Ms. He Maofen's mouth with even more force. Ms. He struggled and kicked. Group Leader Sun Juan also came in. Later when they found Ms. He Maofen nearly dead, they loosened the ties. Ms. He Maofen spit-up mouthfuls of blood and slowly regained consciousness. She couldn't get out of her bed for more than a year. This March, guards again forced her to do hard labor in the workshop. She is unable walk properly. When going up the staircase, she has to hold on to the railings and walk up step-by-step. The guards tell people from outside that her poor condition is because she fell and hurt herself .

A practitioner, Ms. Li Xiu, was forced by the guards to squat for long periods of time. They also deprived her of sleep. Guards Zhang Hongfen, Geng Xiaomei (in her thirties, from Dezhou), and Yang Xiaolin incited collaborators Yang Jinfeng (from Jinnan), Wang Haizhi (from Linxi), and Pan Aihua (from Zhangqiu) to watch her and prevent her from going to sleep. When it's time to write the monthly report, the practitioners are tortured even more severely. The guards tortured Ms. Li in the clothes-drying room during the night because they were afraid other people would discover what was happening. The next day they sent her to the toilet used only by the Group Leader. During the day, in the Group Leader's rest room, they took turns watching her so that she would not sleep. They also forbid her from going to the washroom. She could not go to the washroom, nor could she drink any water. The only thing she could do was to squat. She squatted for such a long time that her legs and ankles were swollen. In late June 2007, she was forced to squat for four days and nights, then another five days and nights, but Ms. Li still wouldn't give in. She was very steadfast and said that she would expose the evil conduct of those in the labor camp. Sun Juan dragged her by her hair and forced her to squat, and also asked collaborators to beat her. They tortured her in this way for eight to nine days.