[Minghui net]
The Dalian Drug Addiction Treatment Institute's full name is "The Dalian Judicature Bureau's Anti-Drug Institute to Reeducate People Through Labor by Force." It was created by the "6.21" Office (an organization of the Dalian civic government which specializes in managing Falun Gong affairs) as a transfer station for the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. According to its name, it is an "Education Transformation Center," but in fact, it is used to persecute imprisoned practitioners and wrest from them their personal belongings. The police officers there are very malicious; they beat people at will with no regard for either law or justice.
The so-called "Transformation Education" consists of nothing more than locking practitioners in a hall every day with both hands crossed behind their backs, seating them on small camp stools, and forcing them to watch television programs, read newspapers on the topic of transformation, and listen to police officer's admonishments. Practitioners have to sit there for several hours. If the police feel that someone is not cooperating, they punish the practitioner severely Light punishment involves being forced to stand for long periods or being slapped; heavier punishment involves being dragged into a room and beaten by several police. Those police are merciless and shameless when they beat people. They even smile after beating people, as if nothing bad happened and they were just having a good time. In no situation do they feel afraid that their guilt will be exposed. Once, a policeman named Zhuang tortured a young girl, while the other practitioners in custody were elsewhere. He had the girl's hands cuffed, and he kicked and hit her lower body. When he heard footsteps coming down the corridor, he hurried and went out to block the person's view. He roared and scolded this person to hide his immoral behavior.
Every day more practitioners are delivered to or transferred to this Drug Prevention Institute. Each person is required to hand over 300 Yuan RMB [Approximately 3-week salary of an average urban worker] upon arriving. The daily management fee is 100 Yuan. If a practitioner lives there for only one day, there is no refund at all. The management fee should be charged according to the number of days one lives there. At the beginning, the visiting fee was 10 yuan per visitor; later on it was raised to 300 Yuan. No receipt is given. Where does this money go? One can guess. To put it frankly, the transformation is just an excuse; stealing money is the real purpose. As soon as detained practitioners come in, guards search their entire bodies greedily--even their bras and underwear. Every single penny is taken away. Police say they will take care of the money and return everything when the practitioner leaves, but the majority of practitioners cannot get their money back. When they leave, police officer Zhuang drags and pushes them out of the front door in two minutes, without even giving them an opportunity to say anything. After witnessing several similar scenes, one would have to admit that it's really a unique "skill" developed by this corrupt policeman.
One evening in the middle of February 2001, after ten o'clock, several practitioners who wanted to go to Beijing were arrested at the Dalian Train Station. When police searched the practitioner's, they found that they still had money that had not been taken away. They called the practitioners "sly." They were so angry that three policemen, as a group, took turns slapping the practitioners' faces. Not only did they beat the practitioners with their hands, but they also tore boards loose from a nearby chair and used them. They will hit a practitioner more than a dozen times in the face all of a sudden. This is the Dalian Drug Prevention Institute's original creation, and they take a kind of pride in this punishment. While slapping, they will ask a practitioner: "Do you submit or not?" Then they slap a dozen times more. Each practitioner withstood at least 40 or 50 slaps in the face. One little girl who was beaten by two policewomen for more than 40 minutes didn't reply to them the whole time. The guilty police are policewoman Han (from the Dalian Jail), policeman Ou Qi (from the Dalian Anti-Drug Institute), and policewoman Wang (from the Dalian Reformatory). The next day we saw this little girl. Her face was deformed from the beating, and one eye was blackened.
One policewoman named Bi Ling, 20 years old, about 1.7 meters high, heavily built, with her hair shaved short, is particularly vicious, even more brutal than the men when beating people. One day, a 73-year-old female practitioner was brought in. Policewoman Bi Ling came forth and slapped the old woman until she staggered.
Officer Zhuang demonstrated that he would attempt to cause injury with rumor as well as violence. In the middle of February, two female practitioners who had been imprisoned three months in the Dalian Anti-Drug Institute ran away. Because their family members were incapable of paying 10,000 Yuan for the management fees (100 Yuan a day), they were kept imprisoned there. One day toward evening, even though monitored while at work, they escaped from the prison compound. Afterwards, Officer Zhuang spread rumors to slander Falun Gong. He loudly proclaimed "Yu Shufen fell from the wall and broke her spine, and the younger practitioner, Li Xiuyun, ran away and left her. Now Yu Shufen is lying in a hospital being treated. You Falun Gong practitioners do not care for other people." Practitioners there all laughed at his stupid and ugly behavior. Actually, the next day there was news revealing that the two practitioners had escaped successfully, and were now on their way to Beijing to safeguard Dafa.
Mar 9, 2001