Gangs of Male Prisoners Sexually Abuse Women in Chinese Labor Camp

A survivor of torture and extreme sexual abuse has fled from China to Thailand and now wants the world to know how the Chinese regime set up a special cell block in a men’s labor camp for sexually abusing female Falun Gong practitioners. She has published an account of her experience on the Falun Gong-website Minghui.org, from which this report is adapted.

On Jan. 7, 2000 Ms. Yin Liping, then 32 years old, was arrested, sentenced to one year and six months in labor camp, and taken to the Tieling Forced Labor Camp.

Over the next nine months she would be shuffled from Tieling, to Liaoning Forced Labor Camp, and then to Masanjia Labor Camp.

Along the way she endured various tortures, sleep deprivation, and crushing loads of daily work. Her weight plummeted from 165 pounds to 135 pounds, and she began vomiting blood regularly.

The door was open to Yin to gain easier treatment—give up her belief in Falun Gong, to agree to be what the authorities called being “transformed.” But she refused to do so.

On April 19, 2001—at this point Yin had served over 15 months of her 18 month sentence—Yin and 9 other inmates who had refused to be transformed were called together and told they were being transferred.

One of the guard captains said with a wry smile, “We are sending you to a place where you can practice Falun Gong better.”

Yin went to one of the guards in charge of her team and quietly asked her not to mistreat the Falun Gong practitioners anymore.

She looked at another guard, one her own age who had been in charge of the prisoners who tormented Yin, and Yin felt compassion for her. She hugged her and whispered in her ear that she would eventually have to pay for harming others; she should stop.

The guard teared up and said to her, “Tell them you are sick. You are sick.” Yin realized later that the guards knew what was in store for them.

The Men’s Labor Camp

A bus took this group of female Falun Gong practitioners to Zhangshi Men’s Labor Camp.

“We were made to stand in a row in the camp’s yard,” Yin Liping said. “Two very strong-looking policemen called the roll. Then one of them read a list of rules. He said, ‘If Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to transform die, their deaths will be counted as suicide.’ These were said to be orders from [then-Communist Party head] Jiang Zemin. The guard sounded very fierce. I don’t remember the other rules that were read.”

The group was taken to a white building and their blood pressure was checked. One of them was taken away, and nine stayed. There was a guard’s office beside metal bars with a barred door. Beyond the door was a hallway with rooms leading off it.

The nine were taken in and each was put in one room. Yin’s room had a queen bed and a wooden cabinet for hanging clothes.

Four men were already in her room. When she walked down the hall to go to the bathroom, she saw a large room with 30 men sleeping on the floor. Yin was afraid and wondered what she was doing in this place.

At 10 p.m., she asked the men who were in her room to leave, so she could go to sleep. “Sleep?” a middle-aged man said, and laughed. “Are you going to sleep? No one is allowed to sleep without being ‘transformed’. One woman was ‘trained’ here for 18 days and not allowed to sleep. In the end, she became crazy.””

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