Clearwisdom Collection: Special Collection - Exposing Slave Labor Practices Inside Chinese Labor Camps Part V
1. Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang City Uses Slave
Labor to Assemble Christmas Lights for Export to the U.S. http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/5/8/47833.html 2. Slave Labor and Disguised Extortion in
Detention Centers in Wubei, Hubei Province http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/5/4/47705.html 3. Falun Gong Practitioners Jailed in Changsha
City, Hunan Province, Forced to Do Slave Labor http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/7/8/50007.html 4. Items Produced by Slave Labor in Chinese
Labor Camps Appear on Renowned Italian Brand-Name Website (Photos) http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/6/28/49611.html 1. Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang City Uses Slave
Labor to Assemble Christmas Lights for Export to the U.S. By a practitioner in Hubei
Province, China (Clearwisdom.net)
Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang City, Hubei Province, forces the prisoners to work
long hours under slave labor conditions, assembling products for export. This
prison has many contracts with companies in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu
and Fujian. It has been learned that many products manufactured in Fanjiatai
Prison are regularly destined for export to western countries. An example of these kinds of
export products are strings of colored Christmas lights. There are several
styles and colors of the Christmas light products, normally used for decorating
a Christmas tree, a window or the exterior of a house. Each string of lights may
be installed with 150, 200 or 300 tiny, colored bulbs. A string of fifty
2.5-volt bulbs, for example, is designed to require a 110-volt electrical
outlet, which is the same voltage used in the U.S. Some of the products assembled at
Fanjiatai Prison are also transported to Zhejiang Province, where they are
assembled for bulk shipment to Taiwan, because these products are to be exported
to the U.S. by Taiwanese businesses only. The Christmas lights assembled at
Fanjiatai Prison are among the most popular type purchased in the U.S. Falun
Dafa practitioners formerly held in this prison have some samples of these tiny
lights in their possession, as proof of their allegations. [Note: it is
against U.S. law to import any product, of which any part was manufactured or
assembled using penal or forced labor.] Postal code of Fanjiatai Prison,
Shayang City, Hubei Province: 448200. Phone number of Fanjiatai
Prison's "Re-Education" Department: 0724-8575505. 2. Slave Labor and Disguised Extortion in
Detention Centers in Wubei, Hubei Province By a Hubei Dafa practitioner (Clearwisdom.net) Detention
center guards in Wuhan, Hubei Province force detainees to do slave labor in
their prison cells. For example, in Xiangfan City No. 1 Detention Center, they
force the detainees in their cells to produce medicine boxes, and to assemble
elementary and preschool textbooks. The criminals, including drug addicts,
robbers, murderers, ruffians, and people who have committed all sorts of crimes
and are of low moral character, do unbelievable things during this process. For
instance, when they produce the medicine boxes and fit the books together, these
criminals purposely wipe filthy things onto the products, such as excretions
from rotting wounds on their feet, blood, pus, and other filth. The detention
center officials do not bother to do anything about this. The detention center enforcers
also collect tainted money. Not only do the slave laborers not get a single
cent; but on top of that, some detainees are forced to pay 20 Yuan in
"accommodation and meals fees" for each day they are locked up. Family
members are not permitted to help the detainees with daily necessities such as a
washbasin, toilet paper, or slippers (once they enter the detention center they
have to throw away their shoes and bare their feet). Family members must send
money, the only thing the detention centers will accept! The detention center
controls the money - the detainee only gets a piece of paper as proof of
such-and-such a cash balance "deposited" with the detention centers.
The daily necessities are bought and sold at the detention centers' stores at a
price set by the detention centers. They buy the poorest quality goods for the
detainees, yet deduct cash that is two to three times the original cost. For
example, for a bar of soap and a pack of toilet paper, the cost is less than 1
Yuan, but they deduct 2.5 Yuan. A box of instant noodles costing 10 Yuan is sold
for 40 Yuan. It costs the detainee 100 Yuan for the prison doctor to ask,
"Are you sick or not?" without the detainee actually undergoing any
kind of examination. Disinfecting of the prison cells is carried out in the
summer. Each cell is charged 10 Yuan for one disinfecting. The detention center
officials deduct at will from the detainees' cash balances and then reduce the
cash balance in the bookkeeping records. This is obviously a disguised form of
extortion. The policemen in the detention
centers verbally and physically abuse Dafa practitioners. It is also common
practice for the common criminals to verbally and physically abuse the
practitioners. Many Dafa practitioners suffer severe persecution and inhuman
torture. For example, they are punished by being forced to stand against the
corner of the wall, being heavily fist-punched in the heart by criminals, being
slapped, being forced to maintain a half-squatting position (squatting down with
legs apart and both arms raised forward, parallel to the ground), and having
cold water poured on them during winter time. If Dafa practitioners do the Falun
Gong exercises, they are handcuffed and shackled. Additionally, Xiangfan No. 1
Detention center has a homemade kind of handcuff. This handcuff is a most cruel
torture device made with steel bolts. Once put on, these handcuffs can cause the
person to faint after a time. The lawless guards also force-feed Dafa
practitioners who hold hunger strikes to protest the persecution. This place is
indeed hell in the human world. Chinese version available
at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/4/18/72602.html 3. Falun Gong Practitioners Jailed in Changsha
City, Hunan Province, Forced to Do Slave Labor By a Falun Dafa Practitioner in
China (Clearwisdom.net)
According to Falun Gong practitioners released from Changsha Prison in Hunan
Province, they were forced to perform slave labor for 13-14 hours every day.
Being forced to work until 11:00 p.m., or until sunrise the next day, was not
uncommon. In one detention center there was an accident after a criminal inmate
was forced to work for five days and nights, under threat of the electric baton.
Four fingers on his left hand were crushed by an iron gate. When Falun Gong
practitioners requested the right to observe an 8-hour work day and have Sunday
off, they were thrown into solitary confinement for up to 90 days. Many
practitioners have been subjected to this treatment. Recently the Changsha Prison was
contracted to produce electronic products. The products were ordered by a
Xinglong Electronic Factory in Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, for a company
named "Taida" in Taiwan, which is a supplier for Sony. We want to appeal to the
international community, and overseas companies and enterprises to pay attention
to the violations of human rights and the persecution of Falun Gong
practitioners in China. We offer this special warning to Sony and Taida: many of
your products manufactured in China were made using forced labor with no human
rights protections, and your investments may have been used by the Jiang regime
to persecute Falun Gong. This is not something a person of conscience would like
to see. Please do not supply capital to the regime. Let us expose the
persecution and safeguard human rights. Twelve practitioners are being
jailed in Changsha Prison as of June 1. Initially, all Falun Gong practitioners
were jailed in this prison. However, the practitioners continued to practice in
prison and resisted the persecution. Many of them were called
"diehards," and were thrown into solitary confinement, where some of
them held hunger strikes for as long as 10 days to protest the ill treatment. In
April 2003, the practitioners were transferred to the Changde Jinshi Farm. Responsible Staff in Changsha
Prison Warden of the Prison: Geng
Shaoyun (responsible for transforming inmates) Director of Jail Administration:
Cao Xinfei Official at Educational Section:
Huang Ying (responsible for Falun Gong issues) Director of Educational Section:
Yao Jiabin (responsible for Falun Gong issues) Director of Lufeng Division: Wu
Guixiang (does not know the truth, can be saved) No. 1 Brigade of No. 1 Division,
Official Tu No. 2 Brigade of No. 1 Division,
Guidance Gao Lisheng (relatively inexperienced, refused to listen to the facts
about the persecution of Falun Gong) Captain of No. 1 Division, Huang
Hao (hardliner, but still reasonable) Guidance of Strict Class: Luo
(responsible for solitary confinement) Postal Code for Changsha Jail,
Hunan Province: 410007 Switchboard of Hunan Province
Ministry of Public Security, 86-731-4590600 Staff responsible for persecuting
Falun Gong at the Ministry of Public Security: 86-731-4590134 Ministry of Justice, Hunan
Province, 86-731-4586415 Forced Labor Camp Management
Bureau, Hunan Province, 86-731-2275121 Prison Management Bureau:
86-731-4592688 Hunan Province Administration
Website Contact number 86-731-2211410, 86-731-2211107 Chinese version available
at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/6/21/77561.html 4. Items Produced by Slave Labor in Chinese
Labor Camps Appear on Renowned Italian Brand-Name Website (Photos) By Li Ying in Australia (Clearwisdom.net)
(Note: LiYing, the author of this article, was imprisoned in the Shanghai
Women's Forced Labor Camp from December 2001 to October 2003 because she
practices Falun Gong. In late November 2003, she was released from the labor
camp and went to Australia. This was made possible with help from Falun Gong
practitioners in Australia, the Australian government and other kind-hearted
Australian people.) When anyone looks at these
pictures, it is unlikely that they would associate the young girls pictured,
dolls in their hands, with Chinese forced labor camps. All of these pictures
were downloaded from www.mydoll.it/
. Dolls exactly like this were made in Division Three of the Shanghai Women's
Forced Labor Camp between June 2002 and May 2003. Some were packaged and shipped
directly to Italy, and others were sent to other locations for further
processing or assembly. The dolls, in three sizes,
arrived at the labor camp in large sacks. The largest size, as seen in the first
picture, came 100 dolls per sack. The smallest size came 500 dolls per sack. The
dolls were laid out on the ground after they arrived. Some were moldy from the
summer heat. Prisoners put clothes on them, so the buyers could not see how
filthy the dolls really were underneath. There were time deadlines for the
products that were about to be exported. Labor camp detainees, including
illegally held Falun Gong practitioners, were forced to work from at least 7:00
a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Most people worked until around 11:00 p.m. since the daily
work quota was impossible for them to finish in 10 hours. Dolls like the one in the hands
of the girl on the right were packaged in Group One of Division Three. The
detainees were forced to work until past midnight in order to finish by the
deadline. The process of packaging was as
follows: we put a T-shirt and pants on the doll, put a belt on a coat, put the
coat on the doll, put a headband on the doll and put shoes on the doll's feet.
We cut off thread ends from inside to outside, combed the hair, put the fully
clothed doll in a white cloth sack, put a drying agent under the doll's
buttocks, then wrapped it in a transparent plastic bag, folded the paper box and
put the fully packaged doll in the paper box. Each person was assigned 120 dolls
a day. The doll on the left wears
overalls. The flower pattern on the bottom end of the right pant leg is
completely handmade. First, we put the agglutinated lining on the back of three
pieces of cloth altogether, and used an electric iron to iron the cloth onto a
yellow base cloth, and then used a pencil to draw the two antenna of the snail,
and used three different color threads, sewing the three pieces of cloth to the
yellow base cloth according to the requirements. The stitch was no longer than
0.5 centimeter, and the distance between two stitches was around 0.5
centimeters; the stitches had to be symmetrical and the stitch-lengths had to be
the same. The antenna was embroidered with a coffee-colored piece of thread
clipped to a pin. The bottom end of the left pant leg also followed the same
requirements. It had to be in the shape of a curve and could not look rigid. We
also embroidered a line around the collar of the overalls with 0.5 centimeters
between stitches. The doll on the right had its collar embroidered on the same
way. Who would imagine that not only
are the dolls in the hands of these cute young girls products of slave labor,
but so are the hats and pants the girls are wearing. In Picture 1, the flower on the
right pant-leg of the girl on the left was embroidered by hand, stitch by
stitch. The requirement was that the thread had to be invisible; the edges could
not be rough; the flower could not be oblique and had to be smooth. The labor
camp was only responsible for embroidering the flower; the pants themselves were
manufactured elsewhere. The hats worn by both girls and
the flowers on them were also made at the labor camp. A circular line was
embroidered onto the hat, and the line could not get inside of the hat lining. The little house with a chimney
pictured on the carpeting was also partially made in the labor camp and
consisted of seven pieces of cloth. Every piece of cloth was embroidered to the
bottom cloth according to their sequence. The flower and little house on
the dresses worn by the girls were also embroidered at the labor camp. The packaging process of the
dolls the girls are holding was as follows: first we put the pants on the doll,
making sure the tag was in back. We put a dress, an apron and shoes on the doll.
We cut off the thread and combed the ponytails. We put the hat on the doll and
put it in a white cloth sack, put a drying agent under the doll's buttocks, then
wrapped it in a transparent plastic bag, folded the paper box and put the fully
packaged doll in the paper box. Each person was assigned to package 120 dolls a
day. The strawberry bag in front of the
girl's feet was made at the labor camp. Both sides of the bag were embroidered
with lines. After completion, it was diamond-shaped with a three-dimensional
feel to it. The lines could not curve and the stitches had to be even and
smooth. The pants and the flower pattern on
the right pant-leg of the toy bear sitting on the chair were also partially made
in the labor camp. Picture 6 The sunflower on the dress of the
doll on the rear left was embroidered on. A line was sewn onto the bottom of the
apron and the collar. It was required that the stitches be even and that no more
than a 0.5-centimeter gap existed between stitches. The connecting stitches and
threads should be invisible. The head flower was also made in the labor camp. The packaging process was as
follows: we put the pants on the doll. We positioned the pants so the doll's
legs were not exposed; we put shoes with white socks on the doll's feet, we
folded the socks twice down and put the dress on the doll, affixed the head
flower on the doll and wrapped it around its head two times. We cut the threads
and combed the hair. We put the hat on the doll and put it in a white cloth
sack, put drying agent under the doll's buttocks, then wrapped it in a
transparent plastic bag, folded the paper box and put the fully packaged doll in
the paper box. Each person was assigned to package 120 dolls a day. The rubber band used to fix the
head flower onto the doll's head was very tight and we had to wrap it around
twice. After one day's work, our thumbs and index fingers were red and swollen.
Nevertheless, we had to continue our work the next day, until the skin on our
fingers broke open and bled. The flower patterns on the doll
dresses in this picture were all embroidered at the labor camp. One line was
embroidered smoothly on the collar and the bottom of the apron, with a space of
0.5 centimeters between stitches. The packaging process and amount of work is
the same as in picture 6. The butterflies and their wake [the
trail by which the butterfly flew] on the dolls' clothes were done at the
labor camp. It was required that the line along which the butterflies were
stapled be invisible and the butterflies' traces must be even and smooth, with
no rigid corner or lines. The packaging process for this
doll was the same as the doll in picture one. The photos published on this
website only show some of the products we were forced to make at the labor camp.
We were also assigned to work on the single-packed clothing, backpacks, and
other accessories that went along with the dolls. Chinese version available
at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/6/18/77245.html
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/4/18/72604.html
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Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/8/15/81404.html
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