(Minghui.org) The Jilin Province 610 Office and Tonghua City 610 Office ran a brainwashing session in a small hotel from September 5 to 24, 2013, in an attempt to force Falun Gong practitioners to give up their faith. Many practitioners were brutally tortured.
The practitioners who were tortured during this brainwashing session include:
Hotel Turned into Brainwashing Center
The hotel used for the brainwashing session has five floors. All arrested practitioners were locked up on the fourth floor. The entrance to the fourth floor was locked, opening only at meal times. One room was dedicated to two security guards, who stayed there around the clock. Another room was dedicated for the collaborators who helped to brainwash the practitioners. Two medical assistants were also on the fourth floor. The rest of the rooms were used to detain practitioners.
- Mr. Cui Hongjun, in his 50s, from Yangzishao Town, Huinan County.
- Ms. Yan Meijun, in her 50s.
- Ms. Liu Shumei, from Tiechang Town, Erdaojiang District. She was unlawfully arrested by officials and police of Tiechang Town.
- Ms. Sun Jimei, from Huadian Village, Huadian Town, Ji'an City.
- Xu Changrong (gender unknown), from Erdaojiang District.
- Ms. Xie Shuping from Liuhe County. She was tricked by agent Bai Weimin from the local Domestic Security Division to go to the local police station. Li Qiyue and Hu Bo from the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, along with police, then took her to the brainwashing facility.
- Ms. Zhang Lihua, from Meihekou City. She was taken to the brainwashing facility by her employer and agents from the Meihekou City 610 Office.
- Two female practitioners (names and addresses are unknown).
Every practitioner was strictly monitored by a collaborator, who was from the local neighborhood committee or practitioner's workplace.
Practitioners were not allowed to talk to each other, go to other rooms, exit the fourth floor of the hotel, or do the Falun Gong exercises. If they violated this rule, the collaborators reported them to the 610 Office agents, who then verbally and physically assaulted the practitioners.
Each day from 8 to 11 a.m. and 2 to 5 p.m., Xue Yuliang, director of the 610 Office, Zhao Shujun, division chief of the 610 Office, and collaborator Zhang Ruixia subjected practitioners to brainwashing with propaganda that slandered Falun Gong.
Agents from the 610 Office threatened practitioners that if they did not sign written statements to renounce their faith, they would be sent to an even worse provincial brainwashing center, where they would be held for three to six months.
Under the extreme pressure of brainwashing and abuse, six practitioners signed the statements and renounced their belief. Three others refused to do so. Those who signed the statements were released on September 18. The other three practitioners were not released until September 24.
