Name: Ran Ling (冉玲)
Gender: Female
Age: 53
Address: Hai'er Road, Laoshan District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province
Occupation: Deputy Section Chief and Senior Engineer of the Technology Section, Qingdao Haijian Paint Company (former Qingdao Paint Factory)
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 1, 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: Shandong Number One Women's Forced Labor Camp (Jinan Forced Labor Camp) 山东第一女子劳教所(济南劳教所)
City: Jinan
Province: Shandong
Persecution Suffered: sleep deprivation, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, hung up, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, forced-feedings, extortion, interrogation, detention
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ran Ling was illegally arrested on August 1, 2008 and sentenced to one year of forced labor. She was first taken to Shandong Number Two Women's Forced Labor Camp (Wang Village Forced Labor Camp in Zibo City, Shandong Province) and later to Shandong Number One Women's Forced Labor Camp (Jinan Forced Labor Camp). She was brutally tortured at both camps. Below is Ms. Ran's own account of the abuse and torture she experienced in detention.
Brutal Beating by Police
On August 1, 2008, a fellow practitioner and I went to a residential neighborhood to distribute informational materials about Falun Gong. We were reported and arrested by police from the Fushan Road Police Station, Qingdao.
At the police station, I was held in a 3 by 5 feet iron cage. I was thrown to the ground and they kicked my head and face. My glasses were broken. Then they dragged me out of the cage. Another five policemen arrived. They beat me brutally and slammed my head against the wall. I asked, "Why do police beat people? Don't you know it's against the law to beat people?" They sneered shamelessly, "None of us beat you. Who saw us beat you?" The beating lasted for more than an hour. When they were tired, I was taken back to the iron cage.
That night, they took me to Xu Jun's office on the second floor. Xu is in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong. Xu interrogated me, demanding that I provide my name and address, as well as information on a practitioner who had escaped and who had provided me with the informational materials. I didn't answer. Xu punched my head and face. He handcuffed my hands behind my back and hung me up by the handcuffs. I felt excruciating pain in my arms. He kept slapping my face and punching my head and back. Later, a young policeman joined in torturing me. The young man kept yelling dirty words and hit my eyes for almost two hours. I still didn't say a word. In the end, he was extremely tired, breathing and sweating heavily. Then he left.
Li Cang from the 610 Office, in his thirties, watched the beating without saying a word. Upon seeing that I remained steadfast, he jumped up, took off my shoes and slapped my mouth and face with them. I kept shouting, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance is good!" He put my shoe into my mouth to stop me. The police beat me throughout the entire night. My mouth was bleeding, my eyes and face were swollen, my teeth were loose, and I was injured everywhere. I stood on the ground with bare feet. They didn't stop until the next morning when they dragged me back to the iron cage.
The next morning, I saw the Deputy Director Li Danzheng from the police station. I told him that the police beat me. He smiled shamelessly, "That's not beating. That's educating."
Later, they took me to a detention center. A month later I was sentenced to a year of forced labor and taken to Shandong Number Two Women's Forced Labor Camp at Wang Village, Zibo.
At Wang Village Forced Labor Camp
At the First Division of the Wang Village Forced Labor Camp, I was kept apart from Falun Gong practitioners and former practitioners, who had renounced Falun Gong under torture and brainwashing, surrounded me. They verbally attacked me and forced me to watch videos slandering Falun Dafa. I ignored them. Li Wei, Deputy Head of the First Division, was on night duty. She forced me to stand from 5 a.m. to 2:30 a.m. the next morning, with only two hours of sleep. She gave me a little water to drink and stopped me from going to the restroom.
In early September 2008, I was confined in a south-facing room. I was forced to stand and not allowed to sleep. The windows and doors were kept closed. The room was like a boiler, as the sunlight shone through the windows. My clothes were soaked with sweat and I fainted many times. Li Wei assigned a former practitioner with the surname of Gao to monitor me. Gao read articles slandering Falun Dafa to me all day long. A dozen days later, I could no longer stand. I went on a hunger strike to protest this inhumane torture and was barbarically force-fed. Director Zhang Yan of the First Division and five guards tortured me. They handcuffed my hands behind the back of a chair and tied my feet to the legs of the chair. Two guards pulled my hair, another two leaned into my body and held my chin. Then they inserted a two-foot-long plastic tube into my stomach through my nose, which caused my nose to bleed. I vomited whatever they forced into my stomach. This went on for a long time.
The forced-feeding went on daily for a week. A week later, I had a heart attack, with chest pain, and difficulty breathing. The guards took me to a hospital for oxygen infusion and intravenous injections at night, but resumed the forced feeding the next day. I was forced to stand almost twenty hours daily. On September 24, I was taken to the Shandong Number One Women's Forced Labor Camp at Jinan. The night before, Li Wei asked me to sign a medicine expense form, which I refused. She pressed my hand down to sign. They extorted 400 yuan for medical expenses.
At Jinan Forced Labor Camp
Over one hundred people, including me, were taken to the Jinan Forced Labor Camp. A dozen Falun Gong practitioners were put in the Seventh Team of the First Division. The guards made us attend an intense brainwashing session. I refused to be transformed. Deputy Director Sun Qunli of the First Division locked me into a small bathroom. I was allowed to squat at the entrance of the bathroom when eating. Only until after 11 p.m., after all other inmates were asleep, did the guards allow me to sleep on the ground of a cell for a short time.
The guards asked an inmate in her twenties to watch me. She was promised to have her term at the forced labor reduced in exchange for her participation in persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. She bad-mouthed Falun Dafa daily and read books slandering Falun Dafa to me. I was not allowed to sleep. I went on a hunger strike. Then, Sun Qunli locked me into a solitary confinement cell. Yet, the torture continued. Sometimes I was allowed to sleep for only two hours and sometime a little longer and averaged two to four hours of sleep a night. But the guards recorded that I slept at least for eight hours a night.
Every time when I was force-fed me, the doctor moved the plastic tube back and forth. Once, the doctor inserted the tube with much force and it went into my nose and came out of my mouth, causing a lot of bleeding. Another time, the guard tortured me during force-feeding. I was unable to breathe and became unconscious, but don't know for how long I was in that state. I refused to be force-fed, so Sun Qunli threw me to the ground and pulled me up while punching my chest. She also repeatedly slammed me against the wall. She said, "Do you want to die at the forced labor camp? No way! Even if you are dying, we'll take you to the operating table at the hospital. We'll let you die in the hospital but not in the forced labor camp!"
The beating at the police station and the beatings and forced-feeding at the labor camps caused my teeth to become loose. I only had four teeth left by the time I was released.
During my hunger strike, Sun Qunli played videos slandering Falun Dafa throughout the day until I was allowed to sleep. I closed my eyes, so she ordered the inmates to punch my eyes and face. They turned the television volume to maximum, which sounded horrible to my ears.
Sun Qunli forced me to sit three feet away from the television and I refused. She removed the stool and forced me to stand. Due to the extended torture I had no strength left in me. It was December and the coldest time of the year. The cement floor was too cold to sit on. I had to take off my coat to sit on it. Sun Qunli took my coat away. I then sat on a piece of cardboard. Sun took the cardboard away. Then, I took one shoe off and sat on it. Sun Qunli and another guard Li Min also wrote sentences to slander Falun Dafa and Teacher on the ground. They played video tapes slandering Dafa for forty days.
To torture me mentally, I was locked into a cell with an insane inmate. There was not a quiet moment. Then, I was in a tiny cell with four people and none of us was allowed to leave this cell for weeks. Sun Qunli made me sit, sleep and eat next to the toilet.
The above describes just a small portion of the torture I suffered. I want the world to know how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecutes people that live by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I hope to awaken people's conscience. The CCP destroys the ethics and goodheartedness of the Chines people.
Original Article: October 2, 2010
