Mudanjiang Prison in Heilongjiang Province holds and persecutes Falun Dafa practitioners from Heilongjiang Province's eastern area. More than 100 practitioners have been detained here in different prison wards.
Prison director Chen Shougang and deputy prison director Luan Jinghe openly torture practitioners and mentally torment them to reach their "reform1" rate. Many practitioners were ruthlessly abused under the persecution, and several of them died as a result. Prison guard Wu Xuejun was said to use "humane management" on criminals and "forceful management" on Dafa practitioners - meaning beating and cursing them every day. He also claimed that this was the "policy" that prison director Chen Shougang had stipulated in a prison meeting.
Mudanjiang Prison has more than 20 different wards, each holding more than three Dafa practitioners. Every practitioner is closely monitored according to the "five-united-into-one" policy -- which means having four inmates monitor one practitioner, or at least two inmates per practitioner.
The main parties involved in persecuting Dafa practitioners are the prison ward heads, political heads and guards who manipulate inmates to persecute practitioners. If practitioners study the Falun Dafa teachings, practise the Falun Gong exercises, talk to each other or pass notes, the inmates will be punished, such as having their sentence extended or losing any opportunity to have their sentence reduced. Prison authorities force inmates to monitor practitioners using these methods. The prison guards in some wards beat practitioners themselves, shock practitioners with electric batons, send practitioners to solitary confinement cells, forbid practitioners from sleeping, goad inmates into beating practitioners, and torture practitioners savagely in attempts to force them to write the so-called "statement of repentance2."
The prison director and the deputy director are the main persons who instigate inmates to persecute Dafa practitioners in the Mudanjiang Prison. They instigate the prison Education Section and the Administration Section, especially the heads, political heads, and guards of different prison wards to persecute practitioners. In December of 2004, in order to reach their "reform" goal, they held a meeting and set a goal of 85% "reform" rate of practitioners. All the heads, political heads and guards were to be held accountable for meeting this quota.
In April of 2006, the "law enforcement team" discovered three MP3 players among Dafa practitioners that had the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party 3 recorded on them. They immediately held a prison-wide meeting, requiring all prison wards to intensify the persecution of practitioners. They also had the law enforcement team do several more consecutive searches. If any MP3 players or camcorders were found, it meant a 2000-yuan4 fine and lock-up in solitary confinement cells. The corresponding political head would be fined 2,000 yuan as well.
After anyone arrives at the Mudanjiang Prison, they have to participate in the so-called group training with new inmates. The group training usually lasts for three months, and then people are sent to different prison wards. But for Dafa practitioners, in order to reach the so-called "reform" quota, the training usually gets extended. The duration can last up to one year.
The conditions in the group training team are worse than that in the prison wards. During group training practitioners are forbidden to shower or do laundry. Beatings and verbal abuse happen on a regular basis. The guards incite inmates to gang up and beat practitioners. They deprive practitioners of sleep, make practitioners sit with their legs crossed for long periods of time and forbid practitioners from meeting with their families. They also maintain that if practitioners don't "transform" they will be kept in the group training team. Their policy is to torment practitioners for as long as they can to force them to give up cultivation practice.
In different prison wards, they use "guilt by association" rules on the regular inmates in order to incite them to persecute Dafa practitioners. They also use solitary confinement cells to torture practitioners. The conditions in such cells are extremely terrible. A solitary cell has room for only two people to lie down flat on the floor. If there are three people, they have to lie on their sides. Such cells are completely isolated. There is only a small hole in the small door to let air in. It is hard to breathe in the cell and one has to sleep on the concrete floor. A period of confinement lasts at least 15 days. Some practitioners are handcuffed or shackled to an iron ring affixed to the floor. Some practitioners were brutally beaten and shocked with electric batons by the guards and some were forced to sit with their legs crossed from 5:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
In December 2004, instigated by deputy prison director Luan Jinghe, a group of prison guards were trained specifically for "transforming" Falun Gong practitioners. They use very brutal torture methods on practitioners, such as not allowing practitioners to go to sleep, physical abuse, heavy physical labour, and beatings with plastic tubing or wooden boards. In the meantime, they also instigate inmates to persecute Dafa practitioners. They offer inmates rewards (privileges and reduced terms) for participating. When higher authorities visit the prison to check on their status, in order to cover up the persecution and the fake "transformation" reports, they hide the practitioners who refuse to give up their beliefs and have the inmates watch them.
I. Death Cases of Falun Gong Practitioners Due to Persecution
Mr. Du Shiliang, a practitioner in his 50s, lived in Hailing City, Heilongjiang Province. On January 27th, 2002, Mr. Du Shiliang and his wife were arrested by the Political Security Section of the Hailing City Police Department. Mr. Du was sentenced to six years of imprisonment and his wife was sentenced to three years. In September 2002, Du Shiliang was sent to Mudanjiang Prison. On January 13th, 2006, Mr. Du's wife went to Mudanjiang Prison to visit him, and his health condition was normal. On January 20th, she suddenly received a message saying that Mr. Du Shiliang had died.
Mr. Pan Xingfu was a talented young man. In 1998 he was awarded the distinction of "Trans-century Talent in the Postal and Telecommunications System of Heilongjiang Province." He was the former deputy director of the Telecommunications Exchange Centre in Shuangyashan City and also deputy director for the Telecommunications Bureau in Youyi County, Heilongjiang Province. Pan Xingfu persisted in his belief in Dafa and continued to firmly protect Falun Dafa. He was arrested several times. Early in 2002 he was unlawfully sentenced and sent to the Qitaihe Prison in Heilongjiang Province and was then transferred to Mudanjiang Prison. He was brutally tortured, repeatedly beaten and compelled to do odd jobs. In July 2004, when he was tortured to near death, he was released. In January 2005, Pan Xingfu's physical condition suddenly deteriorated. His family couldn't afford to send him to a hospital, and he died on January 31st, 2005. He was only 31 years old.
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| Dafa practitioner Pan Xingfu | Pan Xingfu after being released from Mudanjiang Prison after he was tortured to the verge of death |
Mr. Wei Xiaodong, not yet 34 years old, formerly lectured at the School of Engineering at the Bayi Land Reclamation University in Heilongjiang Province. On April 26th, 2002, Wei Xiaodong was arrested by the Political and Security Section Police from Jiguan District. He was handcuffed and suffered inhumane beating. The handcuffs made his wrists bleed. After enduring beatings and torture, Mr. Wei was sent to the Jixi No. 1 Detention Centre. Because he was persecuted for such a long time, his physical condition became worse and worse. He became skinny and lost most of his hair. In October 2002, Wei Xiaodong developed tuberculosis. The detention centre not only did not give him any treatment, they asked his family for more money to cover his daily expenses. They extorted more than 2,700 yuan from his family. Wei Xiaodong was detained at the Jixi No. 1 Detention Centre for eighteen months. According to his personal testimony, his family paid at least 600-700 yuan each month to cover his daily expenses. His family paid over 10,000 yuan, which did not include medical expenses of over 3,000 yuan.
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| Dafa practitioner Wei Xiaodong |
In December 2003, the Jixi Detention Centre sent Wei Xiaodong to Jianshanzi Prison in Mudanjiang for further persecution. By the end of 2004, Jianshanzi Prison started a month-long "compulsory transformation" campaign on Falun Gong practitioners. Led by the deputy prison director, Luan Jinghe, all of the team leaders, the political heads, the guards and the inmates beat practitioners every day, forced them to do heavy physical labour, would not allow them to sleep, and subjected them to other forms of brutal abuse. After repeated beatings and ongoing sleep deprivation, Wei Xiaodong's illness became serious. Afraid that he would infect other prisoners, the prison police detained him in the prison hospital for further persecution.
On March 20th, 2005, Wei Xiaodong was dying. The police still tried to force him to give up Falun Dafa. They tried to deceive him by saying, "We will let you go home as soon as you say you do not practise anymore." He firmly said the last word of his life, "Practise!" On March 21st, 2005, Wei Xiaodong died from the persecution.
After Wei Xiaodong died, with the excuse of checking for the root cause of his death, without agreement from the family, the Procuratorate of Mudanjiang City performed an autopsy on his body to destroy the evidence of abuse.
Mr. Li Ruqing, 66 years old, was a retired worker from the Shangyashan City Mine Bureau of Heilongjiang Province. In no more than two months after he was detained in the prison, he was tortured to death around October 9th, 2003.
Mr. Ning Jun was 50 years old and lived on Xiertiao Road in the Xian District of Mudanjiang City. Mr. Ning had a firm belief in Dafa and was sentenced to forced labour several times. In the labour camp he suffered inhuman torture many times. On September 9th, 2002, he was reported to the police for clarifying the truth at the Hongqi Hospital of Mudanjiang City. He was arrested and sent to the Aimin District Police Department, where he was tortured until he almost died. The Aimin District Police Department was notified twice by the detention centre that Mr. Ning's condition was critical, but the detention centre authorities refused to respond. They sentenced him to five years of forced labour. At the beginning of 2004, Mr. Ning was sent to Mudanjiang Prison. He was in critical condition in the prison in September 2004 and had a physical exam performed by a city hospital. They declared that he was dying. The prison administration did not send him to the Public Security Hospital until November. Eventually, Mr. Ning's family was allowed to take him home, but the long-term persecution had destroyed his health, and he passed away on August 12th, 2005.
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| Dafa practitioner Mr. Ning Jun |
Mr. Wang Jiguo, 40 years old, was an employee of the Mudanjiang Normal Institute. He was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labour. In August 2000, Wang Jiguo was tortured to the brink of death and was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, liver ascites, and comprehensive hepatorenal syndrome. The labour camp officials reluctantly allowed Mr. Wang Jiguo medical parole to receive treatment. Mr. Wang Jiguo was then hospitalised. In December 2000, three months after Wang Jiguo left the hospital, perpetrators from Mudanjiang Normal Institute arrested him again and sent him back to the labour camp. They ignored the fact that Wang Jiguo was urinating blood and almost blind in both eyes. Mr. Wang was later sentenced to prison and was incarcerated at Mudanjiang Prison. He was cruelly tortured until he was again on the brink of death. Medical treatment failed to revive him and he passed away in September 2003. Wang Jiguo's wife is also a Falun Gong practitioner. She is currently being detained at a labour camp. Their child is eight years old.
Mr. Yu Junxiu was from Zhejiang Province. He was formerly a criminal sentenced to a life term. In 1997, he learned Falun Gong from the prison guards. In 2000, Mr. Yu was transferred to Mudanjiang Prison. Because of his belief, he was put in solitary confinement at the Fourteenth Division of the Jianshanzi Prison between April and June of 2003. He was brutally persecuted. Guards Lin Liming and Liu Ping put handcuffs and shackles on Yu Junxiu, connected them from behind with a chain and locked the chain to an iron ring on the ground. They also often beat Mr. Yu with plastic tubing. Policeman Xu Shujun would shock him with electric batons for an hour at a time. When Yu Junxiu's health condition was extremely precarious, they sent him to the hospital. He died several days after he was released from solitary confinement. However, the prison blamed Falun Gong and claimed that he died because he refused medical treatment after he had gotten ill in solitary confinement.
Contact information for prison authorities:
Main switchboard: 86-453-6404715, 86-453-6404755
Internal line extension after dialing the main switchboard: 8000
Chen Shougang, prison director: 86-453-6404715 dial 8000 to connect ext. 8388, 86-13904676888 (Mobile)
Yu Jinghe, political secretary: 86-453-6404715 dial 8000 to connect ext. 8388, 86-13904835888 (Mobile), 86-13904935558 (Mobile)
Sun Jiujie, head of the Politics Section: 86-453-6404715 dial 8000 to connect ext. 8298
Li Bin, secretary of the Disciplinary Committee: 86-453-6404715 dial 8000 to connect ext. 8398
Song Xiaobin, head of the Education Reform Section: 86-453-6404715 dial 8000 to connect ext. 8333, 86-13766603777 (Mobile) 86-453-6179431
Note
1. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")
2. Repentance Statement: In this statement the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
3. Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party: Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is a series of essays published in late 2004 that reveal the true nature of the Communist Party. The Nine Commentaries have led millions of people to renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "A book that has shocked all Chinese around the world. A book that is disintegrating the Communist Party." http://ninecommentaries.com
4. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/4/18/153000.html
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