May 29, 2003
(Clearwisdom.net) At the end of June 2002, the Hebei Province TV station produced a program claiming that the No.5 team of the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp of Baoding City treats Falun Gong practitioners gently in order to "transform" them. A team leader named Ma Li said that she held rice bowls in front of Falun Gong practitioners on hunger strikes, trying to persuade them to take food, claiming that she would not even treat a family member in the same way, etc.
But what are she and the labor camp really like? Inmates of the No.5 team called Ma "a professional killer." Her brutality toward Falun Gong practitioners is well known to everyone in the labor camp. She shocked an elderly Falun Gong practitioner's feet with an electric baton, badly mutilating them. Although young, she was promoted numerous times, receiving credit for persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
How did this small forced-labor camp became so well-known across the country? The No. 5 team, which was designated to detain Falun Gong practitioners, had new buildings built one after another. In order to enhance its police force, it recruited many temporary staff, who did their utmost to physically and mentally abuse practitioners. The only reason it has become so famous lies in the fact that it is infamous for torturing and mistreating Falun Gong practitioners.
Many Falun Gong practitioners who remained steadfast to Dafa in other places were transferred to the No.5 team in the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp. There are two special approaches being utilized here: one is brutal physical torture, and the other is to use lies from former practitioners who had turned against Dafa and policemen to deceive the practitioners. These two methods were jointly adopted here, and this camp was deemed to be the "No. 1 transformation camp in the country".
The cruel punishments from Gaoyang forced-labor camp include:
The practitioners are forced to squat down in one position for a long time and not allowed to stand up. Sometimes, a practitioner is forced to remain in that position for an entire day. In some cases the practitioner is handcuffed in that position for weeks, and if he tried to move without permission, the police would shock him with an electric baton or beat him.
The practitioners are locked in the warehouse at the back of No.5 team's facilities, then tied to stakes nailed into the ground with both arms outstretched. The practitioners are left to squat or sit, not allowed to move or lie down at night. If a practitioner nods off, he is shocked by electric batons or beaten.
There are electric batons everywhere in the forced labor camp. The staff not only shock Dafa practitioners themselves, but also instigate inmates to shock Dafa practitioners as well. Especially during forced brainwashing sessions, several electric batons are used at the same time, and some practitioners were shocked for hours. There was a veteran practitioner of over 50 years old, who was pushed down by six people. Wang Zhitai and Wang Guoyou are two policemen who sat on a couch and shocked him for more than two hours. Both his legs were covered with blisters. The room was filled with the smell of scorched flesh.
Wang Guoyou is a prison doctor who is familiar with the acupuncture points. He connects the two telephone wires to the acupuncture points, then he continues shocking the practitioner to the point of nearly making him lose consciousness. This punishment is extremely painful. Policeman Zheng Qi used this punishment against a female Dafa practitioner, who was shocked for over an hour, as she screamed in agony.
The police also use very thin rope to pull the practitioners' arms all the way to the back, until they reach the rear of head, and then tie off the ropes. This punishment can't be sustained for more than a few minutes, otherwise it would lead to both arms becoming disabled. Usually, one or two ropes are used. However, once eight ropes were used on a Dafa practitioner at the same time.
The police also use the punishment of pouring boiling water into the practitioners' mouths, burning them with cigarettes, hammering nails into their hands, inserting bamboo splints into their finger names, throwing practitioners into pits and then covering them with dirt, throwing practitioners into an enclosure for pigs, freezing them in the snow, force-feeding the practitioners by inserting pipes into their noses twice a day, beating practitioners and slapping them with shoe bottoms, extremely heavy labor, etc.
The above is only a partial list of the cruel physical punishments that are administered to Dafa practitioners at Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp.
The perpetrators from the No. 5 team of the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp include:
Male team:
No.5 team leader: Yang Zemin
Deputy team leader: Hu Chengtang
Correction officer: Duan Guizhong
Correction officer: Li Jianjun
Person in charge of administration: Zang Haili
Team leader: Liang Baoke
Team leader: Wang Zhitai
Police doctor: Wang Guoyou
Police: Zheng Qi, Li Lixing
Female team:
General Team leader: Li Yajie
Team leader: Ye Shuxian
Team leader: Ma Li
