The Shandong Province 1st Labor Station is located in the township of Wangchu, Zibo City.á On September 19, 2000, four people from Beijing's Ministry of Law Enforcement came to the 3rd Substation of the labor station, intent upon "transforming" the practitioners being held there.á The names of those four people are Zhang Yongqiang, Qing Bi, Zhang Qiaopin, and Chen Shaohua.á On September 20, the labor station brought in police to declare a state of high alert.á Seventy-six practitioners there demanded their right to conduct Falun Gong exercises and recite the Fa, and fifty-one of them initiated a group hunger strike in protest.á In the evening of September 22, thirty-five practitioners who insisted on continuing their hunger strikes and refused to write pledges promising to give up Falun Gong were all electrocuted with electric stun batons.á In some cases, ten electric batons were used on one practitioner simultaneously.á The guards tried to force Jinan practitioner Ma Jialin to give up Falun Gong by electrocuting him for a whole day.á He refused to do so and eventually lost consciousness from the electrocution, at which point he had to be rushed into the hospital. More than 10 other people were singled out for similarly cruel torture.á Because they insisted on practicing Falun Gong, practitioners Duan Runlai (a professor at the Yantai University) and Hua Yunliang (from the township of Weifang) were handcuffed to an iron gate for three days and three nights.á Each of them were electrocuted with seven or eight electric batons simultaneously for several hours at a time and at least three times a day, but neither complained at all and refused to sign the pledges until the end.á Practitioner Ren Jun (from the township of Weifang) was locked to a long chair for 18 days with his hands spread out and legs together as if he was being crucified.á Around October 14th, the guards could no longer force the feeding tube down the throat of Professor Duan Runlai, and caused severe damage to his stomach.á They tried to insert IV's, and that attempt failed as well.á He was rushed to the hospital on the verge of death, and to this day nobody knows whether he is still alive or not.

At this time many practitioners still have serious wounds on their legs, wrists, and necks.á The fingers of some practitioners have turned black from the electroshock.á The female practitioners being held at the Shandong Province Female Labor Station have received similar treatments.á They have been forced to sit in water while being repeatedly electrocuted.

Currently, all the practitioners in the 1st labor station have been divided into seven separate units.á Unit #2, #4, and #7 are "tough treatment" units and hold all the practitioners who have insisted on practicing Falun Gong through all sorts of torture.á Unit #6 holds practitioners who have just been sent to the labor station.á Practitioners in these four units are not allowed to speak at all.á If they want to say anything, they have to write it down on paper.á Their families are not allowed to visit them, and they are forced to stay up an extra hour every night.á Everyday they are forced to read "transformation" material, watch "transformation" videotapes, march around in the military style, or attend "education classes."á The atmosphere is incredibly tense.á Practitioners who break any rules are forced to remain standing for long periods of time. Round-the-clock construction is taking place in the labor station right now to expand its size.á Large numbers of practitioners from many places in Shandong are continuously being sent there.ááá

According to reliable sources, recently the labor station has decided to step up its terror and try even harder to "transform" the practitioners there.á The lives of all the practitioners inside are in grave danger.á We urgently ask kind-hearted people all over the world to look into this matter.

The mailing address of the labor station isá

Shandong 1st Labor Station
Wangcun, the District of Zhoucun, Zibo City, Shandong Province
Zip Code: 255311

Mainland Practitioners, November 28th, 2000