(Clearwisdom.net) The Baimalong Labor Camp authorities took turns putting Falun Gong practitioners into the so-called "Transformation Team," "Strict Education Team," "Determination Team," "Production Team," "Closed Team," etc. In July 2002, the "Steadfastness Destruction Team" (targeting those people who were steadfast in their belief in Falun Dafa) was formed by the head of the labor camp, Zhao, deputy director of the labor camp, Zhao Guibao, and supervisor Ding Cailan. Zheng Xia was appointed as the team leader in charge of persecuting Dafa practitioners.
In November 2001 Ding transferred Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Chujun from the "Production Team" to the so-called "Transformation Team" to be brainwashed. Chen Chujun is about 30 years of age, and she worked at the Haihua Rail Station. The day Chen Chujun was sent to the "Transformation Team," the police ordered administrators to push Ms. Chen down to the floor and tie up her hands. They pushed her face against the floor and cut off her hair against her will. Chen protested this brutal maltreatment by holding a hunger strike, and the camp director sent her to the "Production Team." In Baimalong Labor Camp, you can be tortured in a multitude of ways if you are determined to practice Falun Dafa. After six days, Chen was sent to the medical office for injections. After half a month, the director ordered two officers to watch her in the medical office. According to witnesses, the staff injected glucose, along with a nerve-damaging drug called Thorazine into Chen's bloodstream. After being injected with this drug, a person will gradually suffer memory loss and will want to sleep all the time. The medical staff injected Chen with small quantities of this drug each day, causing her to slowly become sick, as if she were suffering from a chronic disease. Doctor Lu from the Baimalong medical office is primarily responsible for the harm done to Ms. Chen's health.
The medical office blocked all information about Ms. Chen. Later, a practitioner received a note from Chen, telling us that she could no longer remember the short formulas recited before doing the Falun Gong exercises. Then Chen was sent to the Employee Medical Center of the Zhuzhou Chemical Plant. Many other practitioners have been hospitalized there before. Chen was force-fed during her detention in the hospital, and her stomach, gall bladder, and lungs were all damaged from this torture. After 22 days of hunger strike, Chen was sent to back to the medical office at Baimalong. After meeting with her sister, she began eating some food. Her family was promised that she would be allowed to go home after having a stomach operation. However, Ms. Chen was not allowed to go home. So on January 2, 2002, Chen once again started a hunger strike. Seven days later, she was sent to Zhuzhou Second Hospital, and we have not heard from her since.
In Baimalong Labor Camp, this type of brutality is common. We often do not know whether practitioners have been allowed to go home or have been tortured to death. The known death cases at Baimalong Labor Camp include: Liu Qingxi, Wen Huiying, Jin Fuwan, Guo Zhaoqing, and Qi Manying.
Dafa practitioner Xia Ting is 29 years old. She is originally from Zhejiang Province and now lives in Shenzhen City. Ms. Xia has also been detained in Baimalong Labor Camp. Xia was once sent to the medical office after holding a hunger strike. She was held there for more than one month, and she was injected with drugs that made her sleep around the clock. Now her vision is poor, she is sluggish, her back is crooked, her shoulders are unbalanced, and she cannot balance herself well when walking. Other than "Lunyu" (the preface to the Falun Dafa book Zhuan Falun) Xia Ting cannot remember anything she had once learned from the Dafa books, and she repeatedly has to ask for today's date.
One time, Xia Ting wrote a health report to the labor camp with the help of another practitioner. Then, Zhao Guibao brought her to a private room for interrogation. At that time, we were working nearby, and we saw Zhao Guibao threatening her if she did not recant her statement.
There is yet another practitioner we know of who suffered from injections of nerve-damaging drugs. This practitioner's name is Yu Yingzhu. She's 29 years of age and from Hunan Province. She has been detained for over 3 years. Ms. Yu was put in the same team as Xia Ting, and they went on hunger strike together. After Yu was injected with drugs by labor camp medical staff, she felt like she had lost all her strength. Every time she was injected, there would be some pink fluid in her discharge. Yu felt that something was wrong after 4-5 days of receiving the injections, and she firmly refused to go to the medical office again. Right now, she is most likely still being held in the Baimalong Labor Camp.
November 29, 2003
* The psychotropic drug Thorazine (also known as Aminazin, Chlorpromazine, Largactil, Thorazine or Wintermin) is a strong tranquilizer that used in the treatment of psychiatric patients. Thorazine in particular can have powerful side effects, such as tardive dyskinesia (a serious, irreversible neurological disorder), tardive dementia (a global deterioration of her mind and mental faculties caused by the drugs), general dulling of awareness, emotional numbing, and cognitive dysfunction. Symptoms of tardive dyskinesia involve uncontrollable movement of various body parts, including the body trunk, legs, arms, fingers, mouth, lips, or tongue.
According to Amnesty International's medical advice, these drugs are not in themselves sinister. There are specific disorders for which they are prescribed, but they should be administered by qualified doctors, and their use monitored. In the light of cases of torture and ill-treatment of Falun Gong practitioners, and in the absence of evidence that they suffer from any psychiatric disorder, it is evident that the administration of such drugs are a punitive measure. In other words, Falun Gong practitioners have been inappropriately administered psychotropic drugs in order to punish them for their spiritual belief in Falun Gong.