(Clearwisdom.net)
I am a Falun Gong practitioner that was once persecuted in Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp, Changchun, Jilin Province. I was brutally tortured many times, and witnessed the darkness there. Falun Gong practitioners tortured to death there are sent for immediate cremation without ever being seen by their family members. The perpetrators find a few criminals to be false witnesses by saying that the deaths were caused by heart disease or some other untruthful reason. They hand in the falsified death reports to higher authorities, who do nothing to check up on the reports and simply rush through death certificates based on the falsified records.
The Persecution Facts of Some Falun Gong Practitioners:
The police of Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp do not allow Falun Gong practitioners to speak to each other.
They are deprived of their freedom and cannot move around as criminals watch over them. Their outgoing mail is not allowed to mention anything about the persecution in the labor camp. If the persecution is mentioned, they beat the practitioners or simply do not allow the letter to be mailed. They do not allow practitioners to exchange goods, and often deprive them of sleep. The police brutally torture practitioners with electric batons, handcuffing behind the back, iron pipes, rattans, triangular-shaped belts, broad-axes (used by Yang Guang, 2nd team leader), physical punishment, pouring cold water over them and other inhuman methods. The small cell they use to detain Dafa practitioners is very damp, and it is so small that one cell can only fit one person.
Before September 2001, police did not release any Falun Dafa practitioner who did not denounce their practice, even if they had already been illegally detained for a few years.
After September 2001 they started to release some practitioners as a result of rising international outcries. They stopped releasing practitioners again in the summer of 2002. After United Nations personnel came to China to negotiate many issues on November 16th, they started to release people after December, but after 2003 Lantern Festival, they again stopped releasing practitioners again. As long as practitioners do not write "five statements" to give up their practice, they will be sent for brainwashing after their terms are due.
The Jilin Province government actually flaunts Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp as "the most advanced unit". The law has lost its rationality here. I hope the international community can truly pay attention to the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.