(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners in Sichuan Province recently filed a request on the government website that the authorities disclose information about the Xinjin Brainwashing Center. Using the name “Chengdu Legal Education Center” for the general public, the Xinjin Brainwashing Center in Sichuan Province has persecuted a large number of Falun Gong practitioners for the last 11 years.

The request (in Chinese) can be accessed via the following links: http://www.minghui.org/mh/article_images/2014-3-19-chengdu-gov.png or http://www.chengdu.gov.cn/govopenapply/govopenapply_search.jsp by entering the number 20140317160653. Please call WOIPFG at 001-347-448-5790 if you need to contact the requester.)

Content of the Request :

Requester: Falun Gong practitioners in Sichuan Province Respondent: Chengdu Legal Education Center, also known as the Xinjin Brainwashing Center

Chengdu Legal Education Center is located at Caiwan Village, Huaqiao Town in Xinjin County. Although it belongs to a government agency, it has engaged in various illegal activities.

The center has been in operation since April 2003, but there was no signage until 2013. It was reported that the center is currently being overhauled. For the past 11 years, many innocent citizens were illegally detained and forced to undergo brainwashing at this facility. Their physical and mental health were impaired. The “education center” was in fact set up to brainwash people and operated like a Nazi concentration camp. Thus, it is has become known as the Xinjin Brainwashing Center.

According to the evidence obtained so far and the statements from numerous victims, the Xinjin Brainwashing Center staff held “closed classes” and conducted “residential surveillance” for more than ten years. As a result, they deprived hundreds of innocent citizens of their freedom without any legal proceedings.

There were multiple surveillance cameras and phone-tapping devices installed in the brainwashing center. All the victims were closely monitored around the clock by assigned personnel. Based on inside information, it cost nearly 7000 yuan every month to have two individuals monitor each person detained.

At the brainwashing center, Falun Gong practitioners who refused to renounce their belief were beaten, berated, forced to stand, deprived of meals, and deprived of sleep. The staff added nerve-damaging drugs to the food and water. As a result, the victims suffered from drowsiness and lethargy, depression, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle twitching, irrational fear and anxiety, severe auditory and visual hallucinations, bulging of the eye(s) and other symptoms.

Some victims became paralyzed or partially paralyzed, and their organs malfunctioned; some became blind or deaf; some victims' internal organs were seriously damaged such that their bodies were swollen or they vomited or excreted blood; some suffered from memory loss and slow mental response, and some suffered other mental problems. It is known that seven people died because of the nerve-damaging drugs, but the death toll might be higher if additional victims can be identified.

A number of Falun Gong practitioners went on hunger strikes to protest the illegal detention. Yin Shunyao, director of the brainwashing center, led his staff to tie the Falun Gong practitioners' hands and feet to a wooden bed. They used both feeding catheters and urinary catheters on the victims who were sometimes tortured with force-feeding for several days.

The staff sometimes used a device to pry open victims' mouths for force-feeding. They opened the victims' mouth to a maximum and poured in raw eggs, brine and then syrup to induce vomiting. Ms. Zhan Min suffered from force-feeding for several days and wasn't released even when she appeared to suffer from hepatitis B. Ms. Li Xiaojun's front teeth came out during force-feeding.

Ms. Huang Min was held on the floor by half a dozen people and fed by force. She lost one tooth and her esophagus was bleeding during force-feeding. The staff kept re-inserting the tube each time Ms. Huang removed it and shouted at her, “We'll continue to insert it and you'll suffer more.”

The language and behaviors of the brainwashing center staff are outrageous. However, the facts were deliberately concealed until they were gradually exposed by the Falun Gong practitioners who had been previously held at the detention center.

In view of the reports of abuse at Chengdu Legal Education Center (i.e. Xinjin Brainwashing Center), we'd like to request Chengdu Legal Education Center to release the following information in accordance with Article IX of "Regulations on Open Government Information." This includes information regarding the long-term detention of innocent citizens without any legal proceedings, abuse and torture of citizens, impairment of victim's health, and abuse of human rights, as well as the power structure of the center including:

1. Foundation for the set-up, and exercise of the powers of administrative rules, regulations and normative documents; 2. Organizational structure, main responsibilities, personnel qualifications, business processes, and rules for fees; 3. Annual reports for the last ten years, including expenditure and other relevant information.

We request that the above information be stipulated within the pre-established 15 working days by the Government Gazette , government websites, press conferences, or media including newspapers, radio, television so as to facilitate public awareness.

Appendix: Signatures from Chinese citizens calling for the release of Mr. Jiang Zonglin, Dean of the Institute of Architectural Design in Chengdu, and his two family members who are currently detained in the Xinjin Brainwashing Center.