Exposing Further Bloody Crimes at Ping'antai Labor-Reeducation Camp, in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province

November 15, 2001

(Clearwisdom.net)

From October 20 to November 4, five male practitioners at the first unit of the fifth brigade in Ping'antai Labor Reeducation Camp went on successive hunger strikes to protest the persecution. They are Qian Shiguang, Zhang Luchan, Li Mingyi (Li Wenming), Shen Shiyong and Zhang Feng. The vicious police at the camp not only denied their lawful requests, but also locked them up in a closed cell and proceeded to intensify the torturing. Their hands were handcuffed behind their backs to the bed in such a position that they could neither sit nor stand. By November 4, there were still three practitioners being tortured. They were Zhang Luchan, Li Mingyi and Zhang Feng.

Because Dafa practitioner Qiang Weixiu in the second female unit resisted their brainwashing, she was handcuffed by the evil police and beaten with an electric baton. She was tortured for eleven days. She still did not give up practicing Falun Gong. She was hung and beaten in the same way for another seven days, which crippled her. Right now, she walks with difficulty and often passes out, but she is still forced to do hard labor.

Dafa practitioner Yang Jun in the second female unit firmly cultivated in Dafa, resisted their brainwashing, and submitted the statement, "I am willing to stop the evil persecution of Dafa practitioners with my life" to the brigade. She was handcuffed with arms to the back, hung up with toes barely touching the ground, and maliciously beaten. Her hair was pulled out and her clothes torn to threads. Her whole body was beaten black and blue with not an inch of normal tissue unscathed.

October 30, I saw a Dafa practitioner in the bathroom. Bones on both hands were fractured, and her legs were beaten black and blue. She could not take care of herself and required help from another practitioner.

The vicious police did not let off over sixty-year-old Dafa practitioner Ren Suzhen. She was hung up in the same way for two hours. They then grasped her hair and banged her head against the wall. Her nose was bloodied and her face swollen. It was too ghastly to behold. She almost lost her life.

Since the building used to punish prisoners needed renovation, they moved the torture room for Dafa practitioners to the vegetable cellar. When the prisoners who were drug-addicts in the labor camp heard about the "vegetable cellar," they shuddered "such a terrible place!"

There was a drug-addict whose picture was posted in the propaganda column, and said that she was a Falun Gong practitioner. On November 2, someone asked her what it was all about. She quietly told the real story: "One day, someone from the camp came to take pictures. They asked me to lie down. Two sticks were inserted into my nostrils, and a tube was put into my mouth. My eyes were closed. After the pictures were taken, I realized it was to make me look the part of a Falun Gong practitioner gone astray and on hunger strike."