(Clearwisdom.net)
Below are the personal experiences of two practitioners I witnessed being persecuted in the Hebei No.1 Labor Camp, also known as Kaiping District Labor Camp of Tangshan City.
A female practitioner in Hebei Province was illegally kidnapped in June 2002. To protest the unreasonable persecution, she went on a hunger strike. Then she was force-fed and a group of vicious police and criminal inmates stepped on her hair, dragged her ears and pressed her weak and thin body firmly against the ground. Because she refused to cooperate in the force-feeding, she was slapped in face, kicked and beaten; she was oftentimes not allowed to sleep for days and nights on end. After she had been on hunger strike for over 90 days, simply because she shouted "Falun Dafa is good," she was taken out by a group of police and criminal inmates and roped to a big tree from 10 p.m. to midnight during an early winter's night. At this time police chief Jia Hongmei called in 6 policemen to beat her mouth so harshly that she almost lost her life. When she had been on hunger strike for over 100 days, seeing her health starting to fail, the police sent her to a hospital. After she recovered a little bit, they then subjected her to a second round of brainwashing and forced her to read books and watch movies that slandered Falun Gong. The police also ordered the criminal inmates to torture her, failing which their sentences would be extended.
However, if the inmates could torture her harshly, they would be released ahead of time. Some criminal inmates totally lost their conscience and pinched her face with their nails, which deeply cut into her face and turned it black and blue with bloodstains. In order to torture her to get rewards, a criminal inmate named Tu Ruying, a northeasterner, roped her onto a bed, slapped her mouth; continuously crunched her ankle with a comb; hit her ankle bones with a glass bottle; bound her mouth with a dirty and stinky cloth bag which was twisted up with her hair. Both her legs were folded back and tied together with her arms tightly. She was forced to sit on the cement ground for several hours at a time. When we departed, she had been on hunger strike for more than four months. Her current situation is unknown.
Hui Zhiyi, female, a 60-year-old college graduate, lives in Qinhuangdao City of Hebei Province, and was kidnapped in July 2002. To protest the persecution, she went on a hunger strike. The police asked her, "Why have you gone on a hunger strike?" She said: "I didn't break the law, so I shouldn't be locked in here. I will eat only if you let me go home. I was kidnapped because of my belief in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. The rogue (former leader Jiang Zemin) in power is breaking the law in enforcing this action and is depriving people of their human rights and freedom of belief. This is my silent protest. In China, we are cruelly force fed and forcefully sent to hospitals. Think about it: who's persecuting the innocent and kind people in China; who's breaking apart thousands of happy and harmonious families?! Who's using the investment from foreign businessmen to build numerous jails, detention centers and brainwashing centers to persecute the good people believing in Truth-Compassion-Tolerance?!" After hearing those words, the police were speechless.
Female brigade chief Zhou ordered all those who gave in under pressure to conduct "transformation work" on Hui Zhiyi, forcing her to remain standing over night and didn't allow her to sleep. This mental and physical torture on a 60-year-old lady who was still on a hunger strike lasted for over one month. As a result, she lost 50 pounds. When I left, she had been on a hunger strike for over 110 days. Her present situation is unknown.
The world needs sincerity, peace and goodness; life needs Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. I hope that the international community can stand on a fair ground and bring justice to and put the Jiang regime on trial.