(Minghui.org) In Hanting District of Weifang City, Shandong Province, the 610 Office controls a group of organizations that collaborate in the persecution: The Hanting District Anti-cult Division is in charge of the persecution of Falun Gong, the police stations on different levels play cooperative roles, and the Hanting District Domestic Security Division is responsible for arresting practitioners. The 610 Office itself is mainly responsible for persecuting practitioners mentally, so as to have the practitioners renounce Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. In Hanting District 610 Office, Wang Shuwen is the head, Liu Zuobao is in charge of the brainwashing, other officers like Ji Xiaofeng and Li Jie, and others were transferred from other departments.

1. Organizing brainwashing classes

After the international community condemned brainwashing, the CCP began naming their brainwashing classes with various names such as, “Law Training Site”, “Law Training Class”, or simply “The Class”. Seemingly it is a training structure, but actually it is just designed to persecute good people.

In the beginning, the brainwashing center in Hanting District was located in the Kuiwen District Party School, and later it was moved to the Judiciary Office in Nansun Township. Now it is on the second floor of the Traffic Management Station of Zhuli Town, Hanting District.

No matter where they are or what they call themselves, everything is done behind closed doors. On the surface it seems very quiet and it appears nothing out of the ordinary is going on. But let's take a look at the brainwashing sessions conducted by the 610 Office in Hanting District.

(1) Confinement and isolation

The Hanting District Brainwashing Center has changed its location several times. It is always held in remote places, like abandoned buildings far away from the city. They persecuted practitioners in a closed environment and one is overwhelmed by the suffocating and scary atmosphere, where you don't know what to expect next.

Torture display: Sitting as punishment

Sitting as punishment means that they force practitioners to sit for a long time without moving on a small square stool, with others monitoring them at their sides. This torture is very harmful to the lower back. Some practitioners were unable to straighten up for a long time after being tortured this way; some developed black spots on their hips; and others had their hips bruised and broken because the stools they sat on had sharp edges on the surface.

On March 18, 2011, officers from the Hanting District Domestic Security Division arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Chunying, and detained her at the Nansun Township Brainwashing Center. Ms. Yu was deprived of sleep for over 10 days, and was forced to sit on a small square stool all day long. The punishment known as the sitting torture caused the skin on her hips to break, her feet and legs to swell, and her toes to become black and blue. In groups of two, the police officers took turns interrogating her. They also forced her to sit on the ground, splashed cold water on her face, and cuffed her to the window frame. She was chilled and trembled uncontrollably, her heart felt like it was being split apart by the torture, and she could not straighten up her back after the torture.

Mr. Xu Jianhua was arrested at the end of March, 2011 and was persecuted in the Nansun Brainwashing Center. He described it this way: “The 'Transforming Class is actually a small prison. An iron door and two layers of yards isolate you from the outside. There they monitor you, threaten you, and force you. Deputy head Guan Congchao beat me badly, they tortured me with different means.”

On the morning of April 9, 2012, Mr. Wu Chuanzhong, a retired worker from the Hanting District Woodware Factory in Weifang City, was forcibly taken to the Zhuli Town Brainwashing Center. Several officers from the Domestic Security Division cuffed him behind the back, pressed his head to the ground, trampled on his back, and lifted him by the cuffs hard.

(2) Forced to watch slanderous TV programs

After the 610 Office staff set up that terrifying atmosphere, they began to torture practitioners mentally. They often forced them to repeatedly watch TV programs that slander Falun Gong. Usually at the first glance, the slanders can be seen through. To destroy practitioners' ability to differentiate, the brainwashing class isolates them in a horrifying environment and forces them to watch these TV programs for a long time. This can lead to psychological distortion.

(3) Deprivation of sleep for a long time

They have another despicable method to try to make practitioners delirious: depriving them of sleep. If a person cannot sleep for a long time, he will lose his ability to think clearly and therefore lose the ability to discern good and evil. Almost all practitioners who have been sent to the brainwashing centers have experienced this mistreatment.

(4) Intimidation, threats, and cajoling

Besides the persecution methods stated above, one of the more evil methods they use is their stick-and-carrot approach: when practitioners step into the class, the guards pretend to be very kind and take good care of them, but once one refuses to accept their slander against Falun Gong, their attitude immediately changes: “Where do you think you are? You must be obedient, otherwise we'll send you to the forced labor camp!” “Quickly, go write the Guarantee Statement and quit Falun Gong. When you write it we'll let you go, otherwise you'll stay here forever!” They can detain practitioners indefinitely without following legal procedures. The head of the brainwashing center Liu Zuobao often extorted practitioners' family members .

2. Threatening and extorting money from family members

Everyone who has gone through the political movements launched by the CCP fully understands that the CCP is good at tricking, deluding, and cheating. The Hanting District 610 Office is also very good at this. They even told the husband of Ms. Zheng Meie, an employee of the Hanting District Film Corporation, that Ms. Zheng would stay in the center for only a couple of days. Tricked by them, he sent his wife to the center; however, after two weeks had passed, she still hadn't returned home. Only then did he understand that he had been deceived by the 610 Office.

In June 2013, the 610 Office evildoers sent Ms. Zhu Meifeng, who was working for Hanting District Electricity Bureau, to the Brainwashing Center. They also deceived and threatened her husband, telling him to stay in the center to “accompany” her, and made both of them pay for their room and food and other expenses. This isn't new behavior for the CCP: it persecutes people, and then forces them to pay for being persecuted!

3. Controlling residential committees to participate in the slander

Besides persecuting the practitioners on their own, the 610 Office in Hanting District also orders other functional departments on different levels to participate in the persecution. Under their instruction, all residential committees and community offices hung up banners which slander Falun Gong and posted notices about the persecution. Meanwhile, 610 Office staff manipulated those committees and offices to hire street cleaners and people who wandered around on the streets to work as spies to monitor and follow practitioners.

The Hanting District 610 Office is so evil that they even make children participate in the persecution. They ordered the Education Department and all schools to force children to speak against their own will, to sign the “Commitment Card”, to write compositions that defame Falun Gong, and to make their own handwritten newspapers to slander Falun Gong, so that the children lose the chance to learn the truth.

All companies that have Falun Gong employees were pressured by the 610 Office. Some company leaders who did not understand the truth would direct their anger at the practitioners. Many practitioners have been fined or had their salaries reduced.

4. Manipulating the Domestic Security Division to arrest practitioners for sentencing

The Hanting District 610 Office has arrested over 10 practitioners and sentenced them to forced labor or imprisonment. All of the sentences against practitioners are backed up by the 610 Office.