(Clearwisdom.net)

Dafa practitioner Ms. Wu Guifang from DongmaoTown, Chicheng County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province is undergoing severe abuse in the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp. The abuse is so severe that she is on the brink of death, and the labor camp has informed her family to be mentally prepared for her impending death. The family members requested that Wu Guifang be paroled for medical treatment, but because Dongmao Town's Party secretary Su You refused to sign the form for Wu Guifang, the labor camp would not release her and continues to imprison her. Wu Shouzhi, Wu Guifang's younger cousin on her paternal side was tortured so severely she suffered a mental collapse in the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp.

Dafa practitioner Ms. Wu Guifang is 1.65 meters tall (5 feet and 5 inches) and her original body weight was over 130 Jin (143 lb). The torture had caused her to become a mere skeleton who weighs only 70 Jin (77 lb). She has been on hunger strike for over 70 days protesting the persecution. Division head Wei has force fed her two times per day, knocking out her teeth in the process. He inserts a big tube through her mouth into her stomach, causing her to constantly throw up. She is having serious, acute gastric illness due to the repeated force-feedings, and this suffering made her extremely weak.

On November 23, 2003, the authorities dragged Wu Guifang from her room to the corridor to brutally beat her. Since she could not walk after the beating, criminal inmates carried her outside into the yard and cuffed her to a flagpole (with both arms hugging the flagpole).

She was cuffed to the pole from 9 o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock at night. During this period, the guards frequently came over to her to beat her, kick her and slap her face. On December 29 she was again cuffed to the flagpole for a long period of time. Because of the long-term torture, her body has become extremely emaciated, and her life is in extreme danger.

Wang Chunmei from the Tangshan District, Hebei Province has been handcuffed without relief for over two months, in addition to suffering other brutal tortures. Her whole body is covered with wounds and bruises. Wu Guifang's younger female cousin, Wu Shouzhi, was tortured so severely she became mentally traumatized and is still this way, even after her family paid a lot of money to get her released from the camp.

Guards in the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp persecute the Dafa practitioners with unparalleled savagery. They once forced Dafa practitioners to work in the fields for over 20 hours a day, every day, without rest. The extreme, excessive work load wore down many Dafa practitioners' physical health. Now Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp authorities sell Dafa practitioners as cheap labor to a rug factory, where they are forced to work over 20 hours a day, every day, under extremely vicious working conditions. The rug factory owner pays 20 Yuan per day per person to the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp.

There are two forced labor camps in Baoding City, Hebei Province torturing Dafa practitioners with extremely vicious means. One is the Baoding City Labor Camp and another is the Gaoyang Forced Labor Camp. The Dafa practitioners being illegally detained in these places are living as slaves and are subjected to constant violence from the guards.

On May 10, 2004, the Baoding City Forced Labor Camp adopted a campaign they called "attacks on the stronghold," to escalate the persecution against Dafa practitioners and force them to renounce their belief. They locked nearly 20 steadfast male Dafa practitioners into the darkened fourth floor, each in a separate room. In the room was a wooden board for a bed. They tied the Dafa practitioner up on the bed so that he could not move. The guards, led by Liu Yuesheng, then relentlessly shocked the Dafa practitioners with electric batons, trying to force them to give up to their belief in Dafa.

The police have lost their rationality and their humanity under this highly intense political pressure. They have shocked several Dafa practitioners' genital areas and caused them to suffer beyond description, making their life being worse than death. The Dafa practitioners being barbarically tortured include Hao Hui, Liu Wen, Gao Qiusheng, Ma Xinshun, and Wang Deqian.