(Clearwisdom.net) Xinhua Forced Labor Camp is located in Mianyang City, neighboring the Xinhua Labor Farm. Since the persecution of Falun Gong started in July 1999, this labor camp has become a concentration camp for practitioners in Sichuan Province. Camp personnel have killed six practitioners as a result of abuse and torture. The practitioners who died are Yuan Shengqian, Tang Jianping, Ding Feng, Zhang Xiaohong, Li Xinze, and Xi Zhimin. The director of the camp tortures practitioners for prolonged periods of time. Some of the prison guards openly say, "This labor camp is supposed to be a hell on earth."

The labor camp limits contact from the outside, and they arrange for other prisoners to monitor the practitioners daily. The "Transformation Team," formed by the common prisoners, takes turns trying to force the practitioners to write the "Guarantee Statements." They do not allow practitioners to practice the Falun Gong exercises, and force them to watch videos and read articles that slander Falun Gong. Prison guards force the practitioners to perform unsanitary work while using drug addicts and other criminal inmates to monitor them. In this way, the practitioners are exhausted, mentally and physically.

Xinhua Forced Labor Camp employs several prison guards to form a special "personal guard" for practitioners. They beat and torture practitioners with various cruel methods. Some of the methods employed are: prolonged physical punishment (forced to stand for a whole day, squat, do push ups, etc.), plucking their hair out, groping their bodies, prohibiting them from taking a shower or washing their clothes, depriving them of sleep for long periods of time, locking them in a brick room and exposing them to high temperatures, tying their hands behind their backs, and beating them with electric batons. In this article we will expose some of these tortures.

"Roping" is a very cruel method of torture. First, the perpetrators tie a rope around the practitioner's arms a few times, then bring the arms behind the back, and finally bring the rope over the shoulders. The more the rope is tightened, the higher the arms are pulled up behind the body. When the ropes are over-tightened, the victim cannot even stand up. It only takes a few minutes to disable someone in this manner and it is very painful. When the rope is removed, the bones in the two arms feel like they are cracking, and the arms are numb for long periods of time.

In early 2002, the labor camp posted pictures and words that slandered Falun Dafa. Steadfast practitioners Peng Fangjian from Suining and others suppressed the slander by removing the offending materials. The "personal guards" took all these practitioners to a small room to undergo the "roping" torture and then beat them with electric batons. They removed the winter clothes from practitioners, forced them to the ground, and tied them with nylon ropes (see photos). The prison guards ordered several prisoners to physically hold down the practitioners, and then proceeded to shock them on the lips, nose, ears, neck, and stomach with electric batons. The following photos are re-enactments of the "roping" torture based on descriptions given by practitioners who underwent this form of torture.

After the tortures, Tian Xu of Anyue County lost control of his bowels, and Peng Fangjian and others' lips were severely burnt by the electric batons. Their arms became numb and weak from lack of blood. On the second day, pus ran from their lips and blood filled their mouths. A practitioner from Huaying was too weak to hold chopsticks or use the restroom for several days after the tortures.

After the New Year's holiday in 2002, four steadfast practitioners, including Peng Fangjian, were transferred to the labor-intensive brick factory's third squadron, in charge of pushing the brick carts and stacking the bricks. They were not given protective gloves, and their hands were soon cut and infected. The deputy squadron leader, Wei, and prison guard director, Wang, physically punished the practitioners, and made them stand against a wall until midnight. After six weeks of such punishment, the practitioners' feet were severely swollen. The prison guards forced the practitioners and the Transformation Team to watch videos that slandered Falun Dafa, and they ordered other prisoners to force-feed Peng Fangjian with drugs by prying open his mouth with toothbrushes. His mouth was bleeding as a result of the forced feeding.

In 2001, the local police beat practitioner Deng Jiangang of Pengshan until he lost his hearing and suffered weakened eyesight. Then they sent him to Xinhua Forced Labor Camp. In August 2002, while in the Fourth Group, Fourth Squadron, the prison guards and prisoners under their orders beat and broke three of Deng Jiangang's ribs, and they extended his labor camp sentence for several additional months. When he had served his time, the local 610 Office took him away. Soon they brought him into the labor camp again and continued the persecution and torture.

Practitioner Lu Zhiyong, while in the Fourth Group, Fifth Squadron, refused to sing for prison authorities, so the prison guards tied him up and shocked his face with electric batons before meal times for about four days. His face was completely burnt. The squadron leader was Zhao Yu. The prison guard directors were Jia Lianhui and Tang Xuefeng.

The guards dragged practitioner Deng Fangjun from Liaoning, into the bathroom, beat him severely, and humiliated him. On one occasion they forced him to the ground while a prison guard spat on him and smeared the spit on his face and lips with his shoes. They put a motorcycle helmet on him and forced him to wear it even when he slept. He couldn't take off his clothes. His hair was soaked with sweat, and the odor was very bad.

In February 2003, practitioner He Yuanbing, suffered mental trauma after prolonged squatting punishment and various other tortures.

On February 13, 2004, the Sixth Group, Second Squadron held a meeting to slander Falun Gong. Practitioner Wang Renwei from Quxian and another six practitioners stood up to protest. The guards beat Mr. Wang, causing his eyes to become congested with blood, and his face to turn purple and blue. They also brutally beat the other practitioners.

These are but a few examples of the ongoing persecution of Dafa practitioners in Xinhua Forced Labor Camp. Many practitioners underwent prolonged detention from two to six months. The prison guards routinely beat, mock, humiliate, physically punish, and abuse the practitioners. They don't let practitioners talk to each other, not even to say hello. The practitioners have to report all their coming and going, even to use the restroom. The authorities separate the newly arrived practitioners for an extended period of time.

Currently, the practitioners are being concentrated in the Sixth Group, Second Squadron for a forced brainwashing session.

Xinhua Labor Camp, Mianyang, Sichuan, phone number: 86-816-2274441
Sixth Group: 86-816-2830597
Sixth Group leader, Zhu Huaizhong: 86-13035651945
Wu Zhengjun: 86-13035665588
Huang Ming: 86-13808118055

December 12, 2004