Persecution at Qianjin Prison in Beijing (Photo)

(Clearwisdom.net)

An Immense Human Purgatory

Qianjin Prison of Beijing, also called the Seventh Reform Labor Farm, is located in Ninghe County of Tianjin City. It is about 49 km along the Jinhan Highway and was formed by merging the original Qianjin Prison, Qianwei Prison and Yongyuan Prison on November 20, 2001. It's under the jurisdiction of the Qianhei Branch Bureau of the Beijing City Prison Management. The Qianhei Branch Bureau is in charge of five prisons and more than 300 prison guards. The five prisons are Jinzhong Prison, Chaobai Prison, Qianjin Prison, Liulin Prison, and Qingyaun Prison. Qianjin Prison is the largest and covers 70 acres including 20,594 square meters of building space. It is designed to accommodate 2,000 prisoners.

Qianjin Prison has imprisoned large numbers of Falun Gong practitioners since the year 2000. Practitioners sentenced in Beijing to five or more years of prison were mainly sent here. The following practitioners were sentenced to Qianjin Prison in 1999: Li Chang, Ji Liewu and Wang Zhiwen from Falun Dafa Research Association; Meng Jun and Wang Weiyu from Qianhua University; Liang Minghua, Wu Jun, Gao Jianming, Qin Wei, Xu Huaquan, Wu Chao, Wu Yinchang, Deng Huaiying, Li Yeliang, Zhang Yanbin, and Wang Zhiwen are imprisoned in the Ninth Prison Section. Zhang Yanbin is imprisioned in the Fourteenth Prison Section. There are Christians and other prisoners of conscience imprisoned here.

The main entrance of Qianjin Prison, where a large number of Falun Gong practitioners are imprisoned

Qianjin Prison is run differently than other prisons and forced labor camps. Prisoners' family members cannot bring daily necessities or visit. They can only deposit money into prisoners' accounts. Former inmates report that Qianjin Prison is managed ruthlessly and serves the worst food compared to the other prisons. Qianjin Prison uses the most severe physical, mental and financial persecution against steadfast Falun Gong practitioners.

Qianjin Prison issued an announcement in the 147th issue of Fenghuang Weekly. It states that each prisoner is allowed buy 40 to 200 yuan of daily necessities in the prison supermarket. The amount the prisoner can spend depends on the prisoner's behavior. They uses the prisoner's behavior to deprive them of daily necessities as a means of effective control. Such means are widely used in the Chinese prisons and forced labor camps. The prison uses unscrupulous means in treating Falun Gong practitioners. When Dafa practitioners resist their vicious persecution, the prison considers the behavior as disobeying reform and thus wantonly reduces their spending privileges.

Each brigade has a visiting day once a month on alternate days. Visiting areas are divided into three sections and range from relaxed to very restrictive.

Section A: Family members are allowed to have face-to-face conversations and dine in the so called "affection restaurant."

Section B: Family members are allowed to have conversation face-to-face.

Section C: This is the most restricted section. Prisoners are not allowed any face-to-face conversations. A glass panel separates the visitors from the prisoners and conversations are held through telephone lines. The conversations are monitored and recorded. Three cameras on the ceiling monitor the visiting rooms. Prison guards walk back and forth behind family members. Phone conversations are disconnected if they touch on a topic considered sensitive. Frequently, families are forced to leave before the visiting hour ends. Section C contains most of the Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners considered "reformed" are considered to be no problem and are allowed to receive visitors in section A.

According to the prison regulations, only the newly arrived prisoners (prisoners for less than two years) are sternly managed. Falun Gong practitioners are treated as the most dangerous of criminals and are always under stern management regardless of their length of stay.

Qianjin Prison staff keep a close watch on Falun Gong practitioners' activities. They open and read mail, tap phone calls and listen to visitor conversions. Prison authorities are often in a panic when they find out scandalous news that was uncovered by Falun Gong practitioners or when reliable news on the Fa-rectification is delivered by friends or relatives. Many letters thus disappeared forever. Prison guards fear messages from overseas. Prison telephones are all equipped with caller ID and calls from overseas are not answered. All overseas letters are intercepted by the prison. These letters are later used as evidence to condemn Falun Gong practitioners or their families. Light penalties include denying visits and phone calls, or reducing monthly spending allowances for daily necessities. Heavy penalties are being locked up in isolation, being beaten or other severe forms of punishment.

Steadfast Dafa practitioners receive the heavy penalties. Some practitioners have not had a visitor for more than six months.

Physical examinations and drawing blood samples warrant international attention

Not too long ago, Qianjin Prison staff started doing physical examinations on Dafa practitioners and other prisoners. Please note that all of them had blood samples taken. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is suspected of harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. We must be alert. People need to pay close attention to this matter and call for an investigation.

Dafa practitioners enduring long-term torture

At this moment more than one hundred Dafa practitioners are still imprisoned at Qianjin Prison. Most of them are being held in the first, eighth, ninth and twelfth prison sections.

Dafa practitioners are usually locked up in a small cell (three meters by one and half meters in size) when they first arrive. They are under constant surveillance by the criminal prisoners working with the guards. Prison guards try to "reform" them by carrying on long conversations with them for extended lengths of time. They deprive them of sleep, beat them and humiliate them through the use of abusive language. They force Dafa practitioners to sit on a bench that is only a dozen centimeters high and not let them move, except to eat or go to the restroom.

The prison deals with steadfast Dafa practitioners by beating, cursing, sleep deprivation severing family connections and torture that makes them appear to be abnormal. Prison guards use several electric batons simultaneously to shock them, kick and beat them into unconsciousness or deformity. Practitioners who went on hunger strike in protest were forced to wear restraint outfits. Dafa practitioners Zhu Hening, Yang Jie, Li Jinpeng, Li Baoshu, and Lin Shusen were all tortured with the electric batons. Lin Shusen told others that he was shocked many times in sensitive places with the electric batons. As a result, he suffered from a mental breakdown for several months.

At the beginning of 2006, Dafa practitioners Liang Minghua, Wu Jun, Gao Jianming, Qin Wei, Xu Huaquan, Wu Chao, Meng Jun, Wang Weiyu, Wu Yinchang and Deng Huiying began to cultivate again in resistance to the persecution. Prison guards panicked. Prisoners considered to be the most steadfast in Dafa were moved to the eighth brigade to be closely watched in March 2006. In the meantime, they strictly guarded against any messages coming into the prison and the prison guards isolated newly arrived Dafa practitioners from others. The other practitioners are therefore unable to learn about the current Dafa situation or receive Teachers new lectures due to the severe isolation. Their situations are grim.

Several practitioners, including Zhang Jian and Wang Weiyu, were sent to the eighth brigade for ruthless persecution. Several prison monitors are assigned to watch over each practitioner. They abuse and insult the practitioners constantly to make them suffer mentally and physically. Forty-eight common criminals from the twelfth brigade are watching over these seven practitioners.

Since prison guards fear retribution, they instigate actions by criminal prisoners to persecute Dafa practitioners. The enthusiastic participation of criminal prisoners in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners is rewarded with reduction of their prison terms and not having to work. In order to be released early, these criminal prisoners sell their consciences and willingly persecute Dafa practitioners. Dafa practitioners are beaten and abused whenever the monitors are slightly dissatisfied. Prison guards order these monitors to keep a high degree of surveillance on the Dafa practitioners. If there is any communication between practitioners, even a glimpse of each other, there will be frenzied retaliation. A practitioner that had to face the wall for a long period of time said he found that more painful then being beaten.

This evil den is presented as a "civilized prison" and the oppressive officials as "national model workers."

Qianjin Prison tries to present the image of a pleasant civilized prison. Visitors from different parts of the country are invited to visit and inspect the prison. Things become very busy before these visits. Prisoners are ordered to make false statements to the visitors, food service and quality improve, prisoners are moved around and they isolate the steadfast Dafa practitioners so they are not seen. They create a false front of "transforming" prisoners by civilized means to deceive visitors and inspectors.

In 2001 and 2005, Qianjin Prison was declared a "satisfactory political and law unit." In 2005, the Ministry of Justice called it a "just law enforcement unit, an advanced group for promoting impartial law enforcement" and praised it as a modern civilized prison. The CCP gave it an honorary award for its "handling" of Dafa practitioners. The Ninth Brigade is one of the main sections to imprison and persecute Dafa practitioners. Cao Lihua, the political director of the Ninth Brigade and the CCP party secretary, was awarded the National May Day Labor Medal for his reformation of 76 Dafa practitioners and his 100% reform rate. The head of the prison became the country's model worker. The way to reform Dafa practitioners adopted by Cao Lihua was the application of extreme mental and physical persecution that causes the prisoner's total collapse of spirit, mind and body. Dafa practitioner Lin Shusen is the case in point of being tormented into a mental disorder.

Qianjin Prison fraudulently gained fame as a civilized modern prison

In order to confuse the public, Qianjin Prison opened the first supermarket and an "affection restaurant" in the North China region to create a so-called humane atmosphere and seize the opportunity to gain high profits. It has also established an electronic reading room. Qianjin Prison does not allow families of Falun Gong practitioners to bring daily necessities to them; they can only buy a fixed amount of goods determined by quota. The amount of purchase is linked with the "behaviors" of Dafa practitioners. The prices for this merchandise are much more expensive than those outside the prison. None of the merchandise has a price tag, the families find that out at the checkout counters. Each visiting day family members had to decide what to buy at the checkout with anxious expressions. They refused to buy the goods that were too expensive, so the prison changed its regulations. Family members can no longer buy goods directly. They can only make deposits into their family member's account that the prison guards are able to control so they can hide their maltreatment of practitioners. The so-called "affection restaurant" is a cover or whitewash. Even when families are allowed to have visits in section A, they still need to pay brazen blackmail to Qianjin Prison staff. The prices at the restaurant are excessively expensive. Once, a common criminal's father ordered two orders of spareribs and several other items; but the father just sat there watching his child wolfing down all the food.

Lets dismantle this evil site altogether

Dafa practitioners imprisoned for years in solitude are restrained to the point that they cannot make a breakthrough. The whole prison is enveloped in an evil field. They want to thoroughly destroy the wills of Dafa practitioners. Some practitioners have awakened and resisted the evil persecution. They have incurred even more frenzied retaliation that they became helpless to face. They couldn't negate the arrangements made by the old forces. Families of Dafa practitioners have retreated pessimistically. Many family members, who are also Dafa cultivators, don't have strong enough righteous thoughts, because of their attachments of sentimentality. In order to see their loved ones, they gave in to the authorities.

We are asking fellow practitioners to communicate with the families of the imprisoned practitioners and tell them not to worry too much about the safety of their loved ones at present. They need to expose the facts of the persecution they know about. The imprisoned practitioners will endure more suffering the longer we wait. The evil is afraid of being exposed.

We hope that fellow practitioners will take seriously the elimination of the evil at Qianjin Prison, other prisons and forced labor camps. Send forth the strongest righteous thoughts to destroy the evil field and to strengthen the imprisoned practitioners. Help them renew their strengths and emerge from the evil persecution; hope that they will catch up with the progress of Fa-rectification and help bring an end to the persecution of Dafa practitioners in the prisons, forced labor camps, and brainwashing centers.

Please remember that everyone should watch closely the whereabouts of Dafa practitioners, investigate and publish any evidence of what has or is happening in Qianjin Prison. Expose their plots in a timely fashion.

Offices and personnel involving in the persecution of Dafa practitioners at Qianjin Prison:

Postal box 106, Chadian Station, Jingshan Line, Hangu Section. Tianjin City (Note: Under Postal Box 106, each branch prison section has one sub-box. for example: the first prison section is: Postal box 106-1, Chadian Station, Jingshan Line, Hangu Section. Tianjin City.)

Information Desk of Beijing City Prison Management Bureau(open 24 hours daily): 86-10-1600628

Beijing City Prison Management Bureau (Office hours: 8:30-17:00): 86-10-83580608, 86-10-83502035

Security post, Beijing City Prison Management Bureau: 86-10-83580920

Complaint mailbox, Beijing City Prison Management Bureau: 86-10-83580817, [e-mail]

Zhu Guanghua, Bureau Chief, Anti-Cult Section, Beijing City Prison Management Bureau: 86-10-83580634, 86-10-83580630, 86-10-83580636. Zhu was a captain of the ninth prison section, Qianjin Prison and was promoted because of his effort in persecuting Falun Gong

Penalty section, Beijing City Prison Management Bureau: 86-10-83580620, 86-10-83580622

Prison affair Section, Beijing City Prison Management Bureau: 86-10-83580603

Appeal Section, Ministry of Justice: 86-10-66183634

Qinghei Branch Bureau, Beijing City Prison Management Bureau: 86-10-83589148/49 (Qianjin Prison is under its subordination)

Prison Management Section, Qinghei Branch Bureau: 86-10-83589046

Discipline Section, Qinghei Branch Bureau: 86-22-67988242

Supervision Section, Qinghei Branch Bureau: 86-22-67988674

Information Desk, Qianjin Prison: 86-10-83589496

On-Duty Office, Qianjin Prison: 86-22-67988215

Prison Affair Section, Qianjin Prison: 86-10-83589044, 86-10-83589412, 86-22-67980276

Discioline Section, Qianjin Prison: 86-22-67998274

Li Zhengxian, Qianjin Prison Warden: 86-10-83589401 Warning signal: 1107693

LuGuoxing, Party Secretary

Pan Wanqian, Deputy Warden (in charge of persecuting Falun Gong): 86-10-83589406

Cheng Huijian, Deputy Warden (in charge of persecuting Falun Gong)

Liu Chengshan, Director of the First Prison Section; (The First Prison Section is mainly for the imprisonment of Falun Gong practitioner)

Liang Fuyu, former Director of the First Prison Section. Police number: 1108375

Meng Fanguo, One of the sectional head

LiangKai, Director of Eighth Prison Section (former Director of Fourth Prison Section): police no: 1108381. (The eighth Prison Section is used to imprison Falun Gong practitioners.)

Cao Lihua, Director of the ninth Prison Section, police no: 1107938 (The ninth Prison Section is used to imprison Falun Gong practitioners)

Liu Guanghui, Director of the Ninth Prison Section

Li Zhiming, Head of Brigade at Ninth Prison Section

Zhang zuening, Head of Brigade at Ninth Prison Section

Zhang Yunfeng, head of brigade at Ninthe Prison Section

Chen Jun, Director of twelveth Prison Section, Police No: 1108462

Li Zhenqiu, prison guard, police no: 1107946

Xu Xiaohong, prison guard, police no: 1107948

PingYongxi, prison guard, police no: 1107985

Tian Zhenhong, prison guard

Zhou Liaoguo, prison guard

Ahang Lixin, prison guard

Liu Chengshan, prison guard

PingYongjian, prison guard, police no: 1107809

Ren Hong, prison guard, police no: 1108215, in charge of surveillance and monitoring

Jiang Jiawang, prison guard, police no: 1107169, in charge of interviewing

Gu Beiping, prison guard, police no: 1108203, in charge of inspection

Hao Huijing, prison guard, police no: 1108019, in charge of receiving visitors

Wang Lianzong, prison guard, police no: 1107746, in charge of visitors' ID verification

Geng Shangping, prison guard, police no: 1108406, in charge of registering

Guo Jisheng, prison guard, police no: 1107756, in charge of visitor ID verification

Kong Liping, prison guard, police no: 1109061, in charge of office work

Yang Xia, prison guard, police no: 1109696, in charge of office work

Zhang Huishui, prison guard, police no: 1108376

Yue Senwang, prison guard, police no: 1108032