(Minghui.org) Female Falun Gong practitioners sentenced in Gansu Province are sent to Gansu Province Women’s Prison to serve time. They used to be held in the 7th Division but have been in the 6th Division since the beginning of 2025. Inmates are assigned to monitor each practitioner. Instigated by the guards, the inmates torture the practitioners to try to force them to renounce their faith.
Below are some of the tactics commonly used on Falun Gong practitioners in Gansu Province Women’s Prison.
Beaten, Humiliated, Pressured to Write “Confession Statements”
When practitioners first arrive in the division, the guards and inmates order them to announce that they are criminals. Those who refuse to comply are beaten and pressured to write “confession statement,” admitting their guilt. Practitioners who refuse to write them are pinned down and beaten by the guards and inmates. They are also pressured to fingerprint pre-written confession statements. Ms. Liu Binbin was forced to sign a statement this way.
Ms. Yang Jun, who refused to write the confession, was beaten by two inmates, who pinched and kicked her inner thighs. They wrote the name of Falun Gong’s founder on her face. They also wrote Falun Gong founder’s name on a stool and forced her to sit on it. She was covered in bruises and injuries from the beating. Afterwards, the inmates pinned her down and forced her to fingerprint the confession. A guard threatened to shock her with an electric baton if she refused.
Instigating Family Members to Resent Practitioners
Ms. Duan Xiaoyan from Qingyang City was sentenced to 10 years in July 2015 for telling people about Falun Gong. Guards at Gansu Province Women’s Prison knocked out her teeth and broke her back. They even called her son and tried to make him ressent her by saying that she had ruined his future.
Prior to her latest sentence, Ms. Duan was sentenced to seven years in 2002 for intercepting TV signals to broadcast programming to counter the persecution. While serving time in Qinghai Province Women’s Prison, she was shocked with electric batons multiple times and became disabled from the waist down.
Ms. Wang Ling, a teacher at Lanzhou Jiaotong University, was arrested on August 23, 2020, after being reported by students for talking to them about Falun Gong. She was later sentenced to seven years. Guards at Gansu Women’s Prison often verbally abused her and accused her of implicating her children and family because she refused to renounce her faith.
Ms. Liu Binbin’s son was doing well academically and got along with the other students at school. But to get Ms. Liu to renounce Falun Gong, the guard lied to her, saying that her son was an outcast and didn’t follow the school rules, all because Ms. Liu didn’t raise him well.
The instructor from the 7th Division called Ms. Yang Jun’s eldest daughter and tried to turn her against her mother. An inmate then started making up stories about her daughter and said that Ms. Yang didn’t help care for her grandchild or let her husband see a doctor. The guards often cursed her and said, “Why don’t you die? You might as well be dead.” The guard encouraged the inmates to humiliate her and beat her. The physical and mental distress caused her to collapse.
Brutal Tactics Used to Try to “Transform” Practitioners
Ms. Liu Wanqiu was incarcerated with her daughter, Ms. Liu Lei. Guard Sun Liwei bragged that she’d forced Ms. Liu Wanqiu to renounce Falun Gong by beating her with a club during her previous imprisonment. Another guard shocked Ms. Liu Lei with electric batons until she was covered in injuries.
Torture re-enactment: Shocking with electric batons
Ms. Duan Xiaoyan was beaten with thick clubs and shocked with electric batons. Her flesh was severely burnt. Even though her legs were already injured, the guard still kicked her.
Ms. Duan Lixia (no relation to Ms. Duan Xiaoyan) used to be disabled and unable to take care of herself. However, after practicing Falun Gong, she recovered. When she was imprisoned, an inmate grabbed her by her hair and hit her. A guard forced her to squat, injuring her lower back.
When Ms. Wang Ling was forced to squat for long hours, guards and inmates shouted at her and threatened to break her legs if she didn’t comply.
Ms. Liu Binbin fainted after being forced to stand for a long time. The guards forbade other practitioners from looking at her and ordered the inmates to drag her away.
Inmates hit and swore at Ms. Jin Yijun while she was squatting. They refused to let her stand up or use the restroom, so she soiled her pants. Her mouth was injured from being shocked with electric batons.
Ms. Li Ya was shocked with electric batons and forced to squat. She had to walk while squatting to get her food. An inmate slapped her face with a shoe and made her face swell. The inmate threatened to hit her eight times a day if she still refused to “transform.”
Involuntary Drug Administration
The 7th Division broadcast videos slandering Falun Gong’s founder every day and forced practitioners to write thought reports. When practitioners pointed out the lies, the head of the division claimed that these practitioners had mental issues and prescribed them psychiatric drugs.
Ms. Zhang Ping, a 63-year-old former postal worker from Qingyang City, was arrested on November 22, 2021, for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong and sentenced to six years in June 2023. The guards in Gansu Women’s Prison said that she has mental issues, so they force-fed her psychiatric drugs and examined her regularly.
This was not the first time that Ms. Zhang had been sentenced. In 2006, she was sentenced to five years. On May 9, 2022, she was arrested for telling people about Falun Gong and later sentenced to five years. She was taken to Gansu Women’s Prison in January 2024. Because Ms. Zhang had previously exposed the deputy head of the 7th Division for persecution practitioners, so the deputy head threatened to force her to drink the water someone used to wash their feet. The deputy head also accu againsed Ms. Zhang of being mentally disoriented and told the inmates to hit her and force her to take psychiatric drugs.
Ms. Li Dongmei was an associate professor at the Gansu Provincial Committee Party School. She was arrested on April 13, 2021, for telling people about Falun Gong and later sentenced to four years. While in the Gansu Women’s Prison, she was forced to take large amounts of psychiatric drugs for a long time. An inmate said that the division head had approved giving her injections. They lied and told her that they were giving her nutritional supplements because she was so weak. Four days later, she developed low blood pressure, a slow pulse, dizziness, and sudden weight loss. She had difficulty sitting and became confused. She didn’t even realize that she had wet her bed. She was released in 2023.
Ms. Yang Jun from Zhangye City was arrested in May 2022. She was later sentenced to three years and was released on May 13, 2025. In prison, the inmates stuffed her mouth with dirty rags. She was beaten until a tooth fell out and her head and sternum were injured. She was in pain for more than a month and could not turn over to sleep. The division head prescribed her psychiatric drugs, claiming that she had mental issues.
To force-feed her the drug, several inmates held her down, pried open her mouth, and used a spoon to hold her tongue down. The feeding tube scratched her throat, and she spit out a lot of blood. She screamed in pain. The inmates pinched her nose and she almost suffocated. The inmates also mixed the drugs into her rice. After ingesting the drugs, she had terrifying hallucinations, dizziness, loss of memory, irritability, and weakness. She once refused to answer a psychiatrist’s question,and the psychiatrist got angry and increased the dosage. The psychiatrist also gave her an injection that caused numbness in her tongue and a dry mouth. Her vision was distorted, she felt dizzy, and she became emaciated.
Ms. Yang was forced to take the drugs twice a day, including the day of her release. When her family came to pick her up, the guards gave them the prescription and ordered them to continue giving her the drugs. Her family refused to comply and blamed the prison for turning a healthy person into someone with mental and physical problems.
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