(Clearwisdom.net)
Ms. Chen Weijun is a Falun Gong practitioner from Nenjiang County, Heilongjiang Province. The following is a description of some of the tortures that Ms. Chen suffered at the Shuanghe Women's Labor Camp in Qiqihar City.
She has been hung up, force-fed and jailed in a small cell 1 meter wide and 2 meters long. She was locked to a metal ring cemented into the floor of the cell, which was infested with bugs, toads and mice. A criminal named Li Xiaoyang caught a big toad and purposely put it in the cell. Sometimes Ms. Chen awoke to find the toads on her body.
Chen Weijun was continuously monitored and tortured by criminals at Shuanghe Labor Camp from April to May 2004. Division head Wang Yan beat practitioners with electric batons because they did the Falun Gong exercises together. Chen Weijun's lower back and legs were covered with dark bruises from the beating. Practitioners were jailed in the small cells and hung up with their hands tied behind their backs and with only their toes able to touch the ground from morning to night.
During the day a criminal named Zhang Jing took practitioners one by one to a room that was used solely for beating people. Several criminals would ask the practitioner if he or she still intended to practice Falun Gong. If they answered "yes," the criminals beat and kicked the practitioners. Some practitioners started hunger strikes to protest the unlawful persecution. Zhang Jing and other criminals force-fed them. They used an iron spoon, a screwdriver or chopsticks to pry open practitioners' mouths, which often broke their teeth. Zhang Jing used an iron spoon to open Chen Weijun's mouth and seriously injured her gums, which caused Chen Weijun's face and nose to swell for long time. After prying her mouth open, Zhang Jing inserted a plastic bottle into Chen Weijun's mouth. Then she removed the bottom of the bottle and poured very salty corn gruel into her mouth. Zhang Jing also force-fed practitioners with cornbread which had been discarded in a toilet. Practitioner Xiang Aizhen was force-fed with water every 2 hours, which caused a lot of pain.
Chen Weijun started a hunger strike and performed the Falun Gong exercises in the small cell. Zhao Jing sat on her stomach. The prison doctor surnamed Chen inserted a tube into Chen Weijun's stomach, pulled it out and inserted it again. He also shook the tube in Chen Weijun's stomach to torture her, causing Chen Wejun to throw up. The doctor threatened her, saying, "If you dare to throw up on me, I will cause you extreme pain."
Prison doctor Chen force-fed practitioner Xu Jinfeng, causing a nosebleed so severe that the blood sprayed the wall. Practitioners Fu Hui, Xu Quanfeng, Wang Guofang and Wang Yanjie were forced to bend down for 24 hours because they performed the exercises. They were also jailed in a small cell for several months. They were given only a small piece of cornbread every day. Their hands were tied behind their backs, and the cornbread was placed on their knees. They had to strain their bodies to reach the cornbread. If they accidentally knocked the cornbread off their knees, no one would help them retrieve it.
In July 2000, practitioners started a hunger strike to protest being beaten for doing the exercises. Police group leader Wang Mei's husband, who is the guard team leader, along with other strong guards, force-fed the practitioners. They held the practitioners' heads back by clutching their hair and fastened them to a chair. While stepping on the practitioners' feet, they used a spoon, screwdriver or chopsticks to stab their gums and pry apart their teeth, and then they poured salty corn gruel into their mouths. The police left the corn gruel in the hallway, which was filled with flies and other insects. The cereal went bad very quickly on the hot days, but they still fed the practitioners with it.
The unlawful police also applied a torture called "carrying a sword on the back." During this torture, the practitioners' hands are tied behind their backs, with one hand over the shoulder and the other hand against the lower back. Practitioners' hands became swollen very quickly. They gagged Chen Weijun's mouth with a dirty cloth and then sealed it with tape. Policemen and criminals beat her. They hung her up, not letting her down even when she had to go to the washroom. Chen Weijun passed out twice during the torture.
Once, Chen Weijun was hung up just because she tried to do the exercises. Her roommate, practitioner Li Ping, refused to go to sleep and insisted on waiting for Chen Weijun. A policeman then forced her to go to sleep. He pushed Li Ping down several times, and dragged her into the hallway. Chen Weijun saw this and yelled, "Don't beat people." The policeman turned back and asked, "What did you say?" Chen Weijun answered, "You should not beat people." The policemen yelled, "Say it again!" Chen Weijun said it once again. The policeman then hit Chen Weijun in the face, grabbed her by the hair and took her outside. Li Ping's head was jammed between two tree branches, and her hands were locked to the ground. The police forced Chen Weijun's head between the tree branches too. Later, the two practitioners were both hung up in the hallway on a single rope for the entire night. If one moved, the other one had to move too.
One night, several collaborators came to "transform" Chen Weijun. Chen Weijun noticed that one of them still had Dafa in her heart, so she recited Master's articles and Zhuan Falun to that person, which woke up the enlightened side of that person and she decided to write a solemn declaration to make up for betraying Dafa. However, a police officer stopped her, and separated her from Chen Weijun. The next day Chen Weijun's sentence was lengthened by 3 more months, and she was sent to an even smaller cell within a small cell.
The small cell was only 1 meter wide and 2 meters long. There were 2 iron rings on the ground, and a 1-foot square vent on the wall. It was completely dark with the door closed. The guards locked Chen Weijun to the rings on the ground. The glass on the window was removed to enable the cell to become infested with mosquitoes, insects and mice. A criminal named Li Xiaoyang put a large toad in the cell. Sometimes Ms. Chen awoke to find the toads on her body. Often, in small cells, bugs as big as olives fly all over the place and sometimes go into practitioners' clothes.
In October 2000, 80 practitioners were sent to a drug rehabilitation center and forced to undergo brainwashing. Chen Weijun was deceived by the brainwashing. Shortly after she returned home, her enlightened side woke up and she devoted herself to exposing the evil and clarifying the truth again.
In July 2001, Chen Weijun was arrested by authorities from the Harbin Police Department. She was jailed in the 7th detention center for 40 days. Chen Weijun started a hunger strike to protest. Some police officers used the widest pipe they had to force-feed her. When she refused to cooperate, they beat her badly. The plastic pipe was wide and hard. When she threw up from the force feeding there was blood from internal bleeding mixed with the corn gruel. Finally, her body grew very weak, and the police were afraid that she would die in the detention center, so they released her.
In November 2001, Chen Weijun and her husband (not a practitioner) went to Nenjiang farm to pass out truth-clarifying material with 7 other practitioners. They were reported and arrested by the local police. The policemen took away their materials, beat them and jailed them in the police department. They were put on trial that evening. The police did not let them use the bathroom, and tortured them with a type of torture called "carrying a sword on the back." Policeman Yang Xiaoming fiercely struck Chen Weijun's elbow, and a young policeman beat her for 30 minutes until she almost passed out.
Chen Weijun lay on the ground and her whole body shook. Later, she was jailed in Jiusan Farm Bureau Detention Center in Heilongjiang Province. Chen Weijun started a hunger strike to protest. All the practitioners who were on the hunger strike were released. Shortly after she returned home, Chen Weijun was forced to become homeless to avoid another arrest.
Before the moon festival of 2002, Chen Weijun was arrested in Jiagedaqi City for making "truth-clarifying materials." The court in Jiusan Farm Bureau, Heilongjiang Province sentenced her to 11 years in jail. Chen Weijun didn't pass the physical inspection at the Harbin Women's Prison, so the prison refused to take her. The Jiusan Police Department bribed the person who was in charge, so the prison took her. Chen Weijun suffered all kinds of brutal torture in the prison, such as being: force-fed (the police inserted the tube into her stomach and shook it; fungi grew on the pipe after they left it in her stomach for a long time), hung-up, forced to sit for prolonged period of time, jailed in a small cell, handcuffed behind the back, and so on.
Phone numbers of the relevant workplace and people:
Qiqihar City, Shuanghe Labor Camp, section of management: 86-452-2451139
Qiqihar City, Shuanghe Labor Camp, the chief of the 2nd division, Guo
Li: 86-452-2451139
The bureau of labor camp management in Heilongjiang Province: 86-451-82725638; director: 86-451-82724371
The rehabilitation center in Heilongjiang Province: 86-451-82412884 86-451-82424093 86-451- 82412172 86-451-82424014
The section of management: 86-451-82447047 86-451-82415994
The reception office: 86-451-82424046
The vice-director: Chen Guiqing, female, 50, 86-451-82412172, 86-45182424014,
86-451-82424046
The chief of section of management, Yang: 86-451-82415994(Office)
May 26, 2005