A Belated Account from a Detained Practitioner

(Clearwisdom.net)

Greetings, fellow practitioners. Let me give a brief account of what has been happening to the Falun Dafa practitioners illegally detained in Baimalong Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province.

On February 5, 2001, practitioners Xiong Ruilian (female) and Peng Daohui (female) were illegally sentenced and sent to Baimalong Labor Camp. When they began to meditate in the lotus position, the police guards dragged them down off their beds, cuffed their hands and hung them, feet dangling, from the iron-bar window. Sick and vomiting, dripping with tears and sweat, they hung for about one hour before the guard removed the handcuffs. Every day, for ten days or more, the practitioners were hung like that, either to the iron-bar window, or to the iron rod of the bed. Some were cuffed with both hands to the bed frame of the lower berth so they had to kneel down on both knees.

On or about February 10, as punishment for studying Fa and practicing the exercises, all 70 practitioners, with a few exceptions, were handcuffed and hung up by the wrists. Some police guards even forcefully pulled, pressed, and gripped the handcuffs, increasing the pain and causing the practitioners' wrists to bleed. Many of the handcuffed practitioners lost their bowel and bladder control, excreting and urinating in their pants. Peng Daohui was one such person. After the guard ignored her request to use the bathroom, she lost consciousness, became incontinent and excreted in her pants. Acquiescing to the strong demand of the other practitioners, the guard released Peng Daohui and another practitioner who wanted to use the bathroom. The rest of the practitioners remained handcuffed and hanging.

After supper, all had to go to the TV room. Practitioners who recited Falun Dafa articles were ordered by the guards to stand up while reciting. In the freezing cold of February, they were forced to stand up for a whole night. They were denied any sleep. Those who couldn't endure it any longer fell asleep on the floor of the cold TV room. Many practitioners sat in a circle on the floor in meditation. The guards kicked them, dragged them apart and beat them up. The next night, the guards adopted more severe methods, forcing practitioners to stand up for the whole night, not allowing them to sleep on the floor any more. This went on every day for a long time. Practitioners endured great agony; they were tortured to the point of exhaustion.

One day, a female practitioner was reciting the Falun Dafa articles. After yelling at her to stop, the guard put a sock into her mouth, forcing it down her throat. The practitioner's eyes bulged from choking. The guard asked her viciously, "Are you going to recite any more? " Eyes popping out, she couldn't produce a sound. Later, other practitioners dug the sock out from her throat.

At the beginning of March (probably on March 3rd or 4th), a practitioner was handcuffed and hung up as before, from morning until lunchtime, for doing Falun Gong exercises.) In the afternoon, she didn't say "Yes" at roll call, so they continued to handcuff and hang her up until suppertime. After supper, because she didn't follow the orders of the guard in the TV room, she was cuffed and hung again until 4:00 a.m. the following morning. The rest of the practitioners were forced to stand there with her and they recited articles of Dafa. The guard wouldn't allow the practitioners to sleep even at 4:00 a.m. They finally removed the handcuffs from the practitioner, who was shaking all over and losing consciousness. Many practitioners were still not allowed to sleep, only to sit at the edge of the bed.

One practitioner who didn't follow orders was dragged out by the policemen and shocked with an electrical baton. She has been shocked countless times.

The events described took place in the "strict team" (where practitioners are treated more severely), but the same kinds of torture also occurred in the regular teams. As long as the practitioners study the Falun Gong articles or do the exercises, the policemen beat them.

For instance, on March 23, the practitioners in Team Two didn't answer roll call. The policemen kicked them, dragged them into the office, and shouted that they would torture them to death. Each practitioner received electric shocks and was forced to "Guapai" (note: to wear a sign with one's name around one's neck.). Two practitioners, Hu Yuehui and Wu Aijun, were taken to a small room on the hill and were beaten up for a whole day. Afterwards, it was hard to find any unbroken skin on Hu's body. There were swollen black bruises from the electrical baton on the thighs and around the mouth and eyes. It was horrible to look at. There were also bruises from punches and kicks. Other practitioners were also hurt to varying degrees.

On March 5, the practitioners detained in the "strict team" went on a hunger strike, protesting their persecution and demanding an unconditional release. On the evening of March 9, the policemen responded: they violently thrust a 3-inch long round bamboo pipe, with one end cut into a bevel opening, into the practitioners' throats and force-fed them. Many practitioners almost died in the process. The agony of choking was beyond words. The guards handcuffed many practitioners, tied them up, and force-fed them, or gave them an intravenous solution. On the afternoon of March 12, Zuo Shuchun, a female practitioner, was whisked away by the policemen after being force-fed. Her whole body, including her face, was covered with a blanket; only one arm hung out. All demanded to see her, but were refused. The chief officer of a team said at that time that something went wrong with the force-feeding and Zuo Shuchun was taken to receive IV drip (a medical treatment to treat the problem that occurred during the force-feeding.) No one has heard anything about her since. (Practitioners inferred, from what they had seen and heard, that she might have died. According to some authorities in her hometown, she has died, and her family was ordered not to break the news to the public.) Only after this incident did the policemen stop the inhumane force-feeding. Instead, they held the practitioners down or tied them up, forcing them to receive intravenous feeding. Many practitioners vomited blood afterwards. Later, every practitioner on hunger strike was taken to the office and shocked with the electrical baton. After a round of shocking, the policemen would ask, "Will you eat or not?" Those who said "No" or didn't answer would be shocked again on the mouth and other parts of the body.

During the past two years, Falun Dafa and its practitioners have suffered vicious persecution, none more severely than those illegally detained in Baimalong Labor Camp . Baimalong is virtually isolated from the world and no information can get out. There have been no articles about the persecution in Baimalong on Clearwisdom.net, although practitioners have been beaten up or tortured everyday. Drug addict inmates, who are enlisted by the guards to watch the practitioners, also berate the practitioners and give them lectures every day. The most frequently used instrument of torture is the electrical baton.

According to the severity of torture, the teams are divided into "specially strict team," "strict team," and "regular team." Practitioners detained in "specially strict team" are being tortured everyday. They endure more and lose more for Dafa.

We practitioners detained in "strict team" are not allowed to have visits from our families. Nor can we have paper or pen. We are body searched from time to time. The letters we write or receive are censored by the police guard. All news is prevented from leaking out. The police guards became fiercer in 2001 than they were in 2000. (This report concerns only what they have done recently, in this year.) Please let people know the darkness of this place. We must expose this evil to the world and eliminate it.

We remember some of the registered numbers of those policemen who especially torture Dafa practitioners: 4329158, 4329032, and 4329138.