(Minghui.org) The Jiangjia Brainwashing Center in Fangzi District, Weifang City, Shandong Province has been holding brainwashing sessions in an attempt to force local Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their faith.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

The brainwashing center is located in a former elementary school. Instead of having regular brainwashing sessions, the authorities only open it when there are practitioners arrested and taken there. Sometimes practitioners from other provinces are also detained here.

The current manager of the brainwashing center is Jiang Xiaohui. Jiang reports to another official surnamed An, who oversees the operation of the site and is affiliated with the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, an extra-judiciary agency tasked with carrying out the persecution policy.

Whenever a practitioner is taken there, the political instructor of their local police station, street committee staff members, township government officials, and an armed police officer would be summoned to form an ad hoc brainwashing committee.

The brainwashing committee members work in five shifts, with each shift composed of two people, to monitor one practitioner around the clock. From 6 a.m. to 12 a.m., the practitioner is forced to sit without moving, except for using the restroom. The committee members first forced them to sit on a wooden stool and then changed it to a metal stool. The practitioners were also forced to watch propaganda videos smearing Falun Gong and ordered to write statements to renounce it.

Below are a few persecution cases documented by Minghui.org. Due to strict information censorship, the cases reported below are believed to be only the tip of the iceberg.

Ms. Du Sufen was arrested on September 6, 2012, by officers who scaled the fence and broke into her home. She was held at the brainwashing center for three days and her family was forced to pay 15,000 yuan “tuition.”

Mr. You Juntao and Mr. Liang were arrested on June 25, 2022, at 5:30 a.m. They were taken to the brainwashing center the next day.

Mr. Ma Lichun was arrested at home on July 8, 2022. He was held at the brainwashing center for seven days and transferred to the Weifang Lockup on July 15. He wasn’t released until 12 days later.

Mr. Zhu Tianfu was arrested at his sister’s home on December 6, 2022. He is still held at the brainwashing center at the time of writing.