| The Sichuan Province Women's Prison Uses
Slave Labor and Sells Prisoners' Blood for Profit By a Falun Gong practitioner in Mainland China
(Clearwisdom.net) The Sichuan Province Women's Prison, also called
Sichuan Jianyang Yangmahe Clothes Plant, is located in the southeastern
part of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. It is close to Yangmahe County,
along the highway from Chengdu City to Longquanyi. Therefore, it is also
called Jianyang Yangmahe Women's Prison. There are over 3,000 prisoners,
including many Falun Gong practitioners. We do not know the exact number
of practitioners detained there. There are nine sections (or nine workshops) in the prison, producing
goods all year long using slave labor. It is well known that goods
produced by slave labor are forbidden on the market, especially for
export. But Jianyang Yangmahe Women's Prison produces market goods using
slave labor all year long. They export the goods produced by prisoners to
obtain foreign currency. The goods are mainly exported to Russia. In order
to sell the goods, they always label them with a famous brand. The
conditions in the workshops are hellish. Prisoners work 12 to 14 hours a
day. Every day there are work quotas assigned. If the prisoners cannot
finish the assignment, they are forced to work longer hours and are not
allowed to eat. Due to the intensity of the forced labor, incidences of
suicide occurred in the 3rd, 4th and 6th
workshop in 2004 alone. We can see that the prisoners' lives are not
cherished there at all. What is more despicable is that, in addition to exploiting prisoners'
hard work without paying them, the prison management has come up with an
inconceivably evil idea. They use every means they can think of to get
profit, even by selling the prisoners' blood. Under the pretext of
examination for AIDS, they forcefully take 10ml blood from each prisoner.
(They, however, use the same needle for multiple prisoners, which could
actually cause contamination). The fact is that, 10ml of blood can sell
for 120 yuan. The blood from 3,000 or 4,000 people could be sold
for 360,000 to 480,000 yuan. They are not only exploiting workers, but
also draining their blood. To forcefully take blood is a form of torture
to practitioners as well as to the other prisoners. This action of getting
profit by risking people's lives is the worst abuse of human rights and
the worst crime against human life. Last year, the People's Congress of China included the issue of human
rights in the law. But the very organization entrusted with implementing
the law is the same one committing crimes that seriously violate and abuse
human rights. We hereby want to expose the crimes conducted by the Chinese
Communist Party to the world, and let everybody know what they are
doing. List of personnel in Jianyang Yangmahe Women's Prison: Yu Zhifang, Chairman of the Department of Education, who once
persecuted Cui Xiaoping, a Falun Gong practitioner from Leshan City,
Sichuan Province Huang Yonghui, Team Leader, who has persecuted Falun gong practitioner
Liu Ying and others. Department of the Prison: Guo (Last Name) April 04, 2005 Posting date: 4/26/2005 |