Masanjia Labor Camp
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Masanjia Labor Camp is in Masanjia Town in Yuhong district in the Liaoning
province of China
.
It also is called the Ideology Education School of Liaoning Province and was opened under China's re-education through labor, or 'laojiao' policy. It is claimed by Falun Gong supporters that several thousand Falun Gong
pratictioners were detained at Mansanjia Labor Camp from 1999 to 2007. Dr. Veron Mei-ying Hung reported to the United States Congressional Executive Commission on China in 2002 that:
On August 23, 2001, spokesman Zhang Yuanyuan of the Chinese embassy in the United States
denied a claim that "130 Falun Gong practitioners at the Masanjia Rehabilitation Center in China's Liaoning Province have been on hunger strike for more than 20 days in protest of the so-called extension of their terms".
The Labor Camp includes a women’s section and the penal labor they do as part of their sentence is mainly that of textile production. According to Falun Gong websites, the workshops there have mainly processed and produced toxic arts and crafts products for profit, many of them for export, over the past few years and eighteen female practitioners were stripped naked and forced into the cells of male criminals to be repeatedly raped and abused.
The directors of Masanjia in 2003 were believed to be Sun Fengwu, Zhang Chaoying and Su Jing.
According to the People's Daily
it is the institution most heavily attacked by Li Hongzhi
and his organisation.
The Falun Gong
organisation abroad claimed many members of Falun Gong had been tortured.
It is near Sujiatun prison camp.
Inmates lead an easy life according to the People's Daily
.
Most Masanjia Labor Camp Falun Gong practitioners have been moved to Sujiatun Concentration Camp.
Masanjia Labor camp has been mentioned in a U.N. Special Rapporteur report.
It is connected to Masanjia Xinsheng Farm.
Liaoning
' is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the northeast of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is "辽" , a name taken from the Liao River that flows through the province. "Níng" means "peace"...
province of China
China
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.
It also is called the Ideology Education School of Liaoning Province and was opened under China's re-education through labor, or 'laojiao' policy. It is claimed by Falun Gong supporters that several thousand Falun Gong
Falun Gong
Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline first introduced in China in 1992 by its founder, Li Hongzhi, through public lectures. It combines the practice of meditation and slow-moving qigong exercises with the moral philosophy...
pratictioners were detained at Mansanjia Labor Camp from 1999 to 2007. Dr. Veron Mei-ying Hung reported to the United States Congressional Executive Commission on China in 2002 that:
China has not disclosed the exact number of Falun GongFalun GongFalun Gong is a spiritual discipline first introduced in China in 1992 by its founder, Li Hongzhi, through public lectures. It combines the practice of meditation and slow-moving qigong exercises with the moral philosophy...
followers held in re-education through labor campLabor campA labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons...
s. But it confirmed in January 2001 that at least 470 followers were held at the Masanjia Education-Through-Labour Education Institution in Liaoning Province and the official media reported in August 2001 that “th[is] camp has also succeeded in `re-educating’ more than 90 per cent of the 1,000 female Falun Gong members housed there.”
On August 23, 2001, spokesman Zhang Yuanyuan of the Chinese embassy in the United States
United States
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denied a claim that "130 Falun Gong practitioners at the Masanjia Rehabilitation Center in China's Liaoning Province have been on hunger strike for more than 20 days in protest of the so-called extension of their terms".
The Labor Camp includes a women’s section and the penal labor they do as part of their sentence is mainly that of textile production. According to Falun Gong websites, the workshops there have mainly processed and produced toxic arts and crafts products for profit, many of them for export, over the past few years and eighteen female practitioners were stripped naked and forced into the cells of male criminals to be repeatedly raped and abused.
The directors of Masanjia in 2003 were believed to be Sun Fengwu, Zhang Chaoying and Su Jing.
According to the People's Daily
People's Daily
The People's Daily is a daily newspaper in the People's Republic of China. The paper is an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China , published worldwide with a circulation of 3 to 4 million. In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, it has editions in English,...
it is the institution most heavily attacked by Li Hongzhi
Li Hongzhi
Li Hongzhi is the founder and spiritual master of Falun Gong , a "system of mind-body cultivation" in the qigong tradition. Li Hongzhi introduced Falun Gong on 13 May 1992 in Changchun, and subsequently gave lectures and taught Falun Gong exercises across China...
and his organisation.
The Falun Gong
Falun Gong
Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline first introduced in China in 1992 by its founder, Li Hongzhi, through public lectures. It combines the practice of meditation and slow-moving qigong exercises with the moral philosophy...
organisation abroad claimed many members of Falun Gong had been tortured.
It is near Sujiatun prison camp.
Inmates lead an easy life according to the People's Daily
People's Daily
The People's Daily is a daily newspaper in the People's Republic of China. The paper is an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China , published worldwide with a circulation of 3 to 4 million. In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, it has editions in English,...
.
Most Masanjia Labor Camp Falun Gong practitioners have been moved to Sujiatun Concentration Camp.
Masanjia Labor camp has been mentioned in a U.N. Special Rapporteur report.
It is connected to Masanjia Xinsheng Farm.