(Clearwisdom.net)

In March 2009 the Heizuizi Labor Camp refused to release a Falun Gong practitioner from the 4^th Squadron, although her term had officially ended. Instead, they arbitrarily extended her term and beat her. In protest, other Falun Gong practitioners at the camp refused to perform forced labor, put on the prisoner uniform and name card or to answer roll call. In retaliation, many of those steadfast practitioners were tortured on the so-called "death bed".

On March 20, 2009 the practitioners of the 2^nd Squadron joined this form of protest. Among them were Ms. Jin Yingshi, Ms. Meng Chunfang, Ms. Qin Xiuli, Ms. Xu Qin, Ms. An Fengxiang, Ms. Zhang Shuxian, Ms. Liu Lihua, Ms. Liu Shumei, Ms. Zhao Guiping, Ms. Zhou Shuzhi, Ms. Zhang Xiuqin and Ms. Zhang Yu-er. Ms. Jin Yingshi was then taken to the prison guards' office by group leaders Liu Lianying and Ren Feng. Many prison guards shouted at her, beat her, and tried to force her to put on the prison uniform, but she refused. After six continuous days of torture she became bedridden and became unable to go to meals on her own. At the same time, Ms. Meng Chunfang and Ms. Zhang Shuxian were forced to stand by a wall for long time periods. Ms. An Fengxiang's ribs were broken when she was beaten by prison guards Liu Lianying and Wang Xiaoling.

On Sunday, March 22, on-duty guard Liu Lianying noticed that Ms. Zhang Shuxian and Ms. Liu Lihua were not at work and not in prisoner uniform. She forced them to stand in the corridor and assigned someone to watch them. On May 23, practitioner Ms. Jang Guiyun, who had been kept in isolation said the words "Falun Dafa is good," so she was bound to the so-called "death bed" and injected with an unidentified drug. Unexpectedly, guard Ma Tianshu who administered the injection, suddenly suffered acute pains in her waist and had to leave to seek medical attention.

Ms. Lei Xiaoting, a practitioner from Changchun City, was taken to the Heizuizi Labor Camp in April 2009. She has remained steadfast in her convictions and has therefore been kept in isolation ever since. On April 9 or 10 she was taken to the prison guards' office by group leader Ren Lan and guard Zhang Xiaohui. Zhang Xiaohui shouted at her loudly and launched into a crazed tirade about Falun Gong. Karmic retribution probably caught up with her that night when she suffered from acute pain in her stomach. The next day, she got up at 4 a.m. to go to a hospital, but the pain in her stomach lasted for many days.

On September 19, 2007 four officers from the Management Section arrived at the 3^rd Squadron. They were Yue (female), the chief of the Management Section, police i.d. 2200193, Xu, the administrative secretary, police i.d. 2200195, and two male officers, including one named Chen, about 55 years old, police i.d. 2200147. Chen said: "Let's hurry up. We still have other groups to visit in the afternoon and tomorrow." They wasted no time torturing practitioners. Chen punched practitioners in the face, stepped on their toes with heavy leather shoes and viciously beat practitioners on the lower back with an electric baton. The brainwashing officer of the 3^rd Squadron, Jin Lihua, was also involved in the incident. Jin's police i.d. is 2200292.

They selected three practitioners (aged 35, 47 and 59) from three subgroups and beat them with electric batons because they had allegedly practiced Falun Gong in the labor camp. They asked the accused if they would continue to practice Falun Gong and continued the electroshocks when they received no answer. They kept up the shocks until the victims agreed to sign statements promising to give up Falun Gong.

According to the labor camp regulations, the prisoners are supposed to work for three to six hours each day. In reality, they are forced to labor from 7:10-10:40 a.m. , from 12:00-4:40 p.m., and 5:10-7:10 p.m.. The 9.5 hours of labor does not include the time for breaks. The end of the workday arrives only at 9 p.m. Even prisoners who are sick or suffer from hypertension are forced to work under this system.

Ms. Rong Chunlin (55), suffers from hypertension. Between February 2 and May 22, she was forced to work so much that she often fell unconscious, and is now in precarious health. She was forced to labor for 9.5 hours although she was mentally confused. Practitioners are not allowed to rest when they are ill. Instead, they are forced to take drug infusions in the workshop and are then forced to continue working.

In Chinese prisons and detention centers, items required for personal hygiene are usually supplied by families of the inmates. However, imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners are often not allowed to receive such items during family visits because prison guards tried to earn extra money by selling these goods to them at inflated prices. For these, and many other reasons, Falun Gong practitioners suffer greatly in prisons. The poor quality of food has caused hair to turn prematurely white in many cases.

Many practitioners were arrested with no legal procedures. Some of them were suddenly taken to local police stations and taken to a labor camp without being allowed to stop at home first. Neither the practitioners nor any of their family members had ever signed any official document relating to the sentence. Any existing documents are often faked by the local police stations. To avoid lending credibility to the forced labor term they were forced to serve, many practitioners refused to sign or fill in official forms provided by the labor camp prior to their release, and received arbitrary extensions to their sentence.

Other practitioners received extensions to their sentence term on various pretenses, such as refusing to attend brainwashing classes, writing statements saying that they would continue to practice Falun Gong, or doing the Falun Gong exercises. In principle, practitioners should be allowed to go home immediately upon their release. However, often the local police ask to have them brought to the police station in order to ensure future harassment.