The Dalian Labor Camp Exploits Forced Labor to Earn More than 1,500,000 Yuan a Year

(Clearwisdom.net) As of 2001, the Dalian Forced Labor Camp, Liaoning Province started to demand more labor from its detainees in order to increase production. The camp persecuted Falun Gong practitioners by overloading them with work and exploiting their labor. Practitioners were forced to work 14-15 hours a day or even longer. They were often punished physically and had to work overtime. Practitioners slept no more than 6 hours every day, and many of them slept as few as 2-3 hours.

There were a lot of unwritten rules imposed on practitioners while performing forced labor. For example, practitioners could not talk, nor could they move their lips, close their eyes, cross their legs, or even have their legs touching each other when sitting. They were rarely allowed to use the bathroom during their labor and they had no more than 10 minutes to use the facilities, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. If they had an urgent need to use the bathroom, it had to be authorized by the room leader, the team leader, and the Captain. There was no time allowed for bowel movements, which was said to be "too time consuming." Practitioners had to wait until bedtime. As a result, many people developed constipation, hemorrhoids and were in great pain.

Falun Gong practitioners in the Dalian Forced Labor Camp had to work from 5 a.m. until 10 or 11 p.m. It was not unusual for them to work overtime until midnight or 2 a.m. the following morning, which became a daily routine. They had less than two hours a day to eat all three meals. On one occasion, the police intensified the persecution and would not allow the practitioners to go to sleep at night, even after they finished their work. The police demanded that practitioners who refused to compromise their belief and renounce Falun Dafa had to memorize the regulations of the labor camp. If the practitioners refused to do so, they would be forced to stand until the following morning, and then they still had to go to work that day.

The female practitioners worked in the lobby on the first floor. The lobby was transformed into a closed room with only one door for ventilation and airflow. During the summer, the room was hot and often crowded with people, and many practitioners fainted. Sometimes there were many incidents of fainting in any given day. Having to sit for long periods of time without moving, many people ended up having back pain and swollen feet. Even after developing these problems, they were still not allowed to rest. One Dafa practitioner, Ms. Yu Shoufen, was in the labor camp for three years and became extremely weak because of the excessive forced labor and malnutrition. She lost the feeling in both legs, and now has to walk by pushing her arms against the walls, dragging both her legs. She still is forced to work every day, even under this condition.

At the beginning, the police would give those practitioners who compromised under pressure and gave up their belief, proper rest when they did not feel well. The determined practitioners would not receive such any such "bonus." However, in order to make more money, the police have canceled this bonus and do not even give any sick practitioners time off. Every day, there was a certain quota of work needing to be done. If it could not be finished that day, everyone in the room would have to work overtime.

A simple calculation can show how much money the forced labor camp makes out of the labor of its prisoners (both practitioners and non-practitioners). Take the job of sorting beans for example: One practitioner needs to sort 5 bags of beans each day, which can sell for 25 yuan (lowest average number). There were 56 people in a team and a total of 3 teams, (25 yuan/person) x (56 people/team) x (3 teams) = 4,200 yuan. Supposing there are 30 days in a month, the net production value was 126,000 yuan a month, amounting to 1.5 million yuan a year (lowest average value). [Note: 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly salary of an urban worker in China.]

The following list is evidence of how the Dalian Forced Labor Camp persecuted Falun Gong practitioners and exploited their labor to make money.

Year	Products	Work description	Sales area
2001	Embroidery	Clean and close the ends of bed covers, pillowcases, and tablecloths and put embroidery on them.	Unknown
2001	Dried flowers	Use spices to apply scent to dried flowers and then color and decorate them.	Korea
2001	Cell phone covers	Weave covers with cotton and silk threads, then color them with pink, light blue, light grey and green.	Korea
2001	Hats	Use colorful threads and process them into "Beilei hats".	Korea
2002	Beans	Sort beans by color into red, white, black and purple beans. Soybeans need to be sorted into large, medium and small sizes (for making soymilk, vegetable oil and other foods). Green beans need to be sorted into small and large sizes.	Packaging has "made in China" on it in Japanese, Korean and English. They will be exported to Korea, Japan, U.S.
2002	Tied kelp	Cut kelp into 12cm-wide belts and tie them into knots. (This product has large sales.)	Taiwan
2002	Dried vegetables (Qundai)	Tear them into strips and sort into different qualities.	Korea, Japan, Taiwan
2002	Plastic flowers and fruit	All kinds of plastic flowers, flower-shaped buttons and fruit-shaped decorations are put together with silver or copper wire and packaged in labeled bags or boxes. The price tags are in the currency of Euros. It was said that these products are used in European countries for ceremonies in graveyards. The glue used in these products is poisonous; many people have vomited and could not eat because of the glue.	European countries
2002	Cotton balls	These were packed into two sizes of bags and sent back to the factory for second packaging.	Unknown
2002	Chopsticks	This is done for a chopstick factory in the Dalian Ganjingzi Area owned by a Japanese businessman. The factory has been running for years and makes different quality chopsticks. The only hygienic criterion is not letting hair fall into the bags. Some non-practitioners with venereal diseases are also forced to do this job and they often use chopsticks to scratch themselves where they itch.	Japan
2002	Ice cream sticks	Ordinary prisoners use machines to make them and pack them.	Africa
2002	Coffee stirring sticks	Ordinary prisoners use machines to make them and pack them.	?/TD>
2002	Wool coats	The coats are double layered and made in a factory that specifically makes clothes to be exported. They have Korean and Japanese labels.	Korea and Japan
2002	Sewing buttons	Sew buttons on pajamas and clothes for nursing mothers.	Japan