Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A196-M22
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A196-M22
Release Date: April 15, 2006
发布日：2006年4月15日
Topic: The Hard Labor Shi Tao Has Been Forced to Perform -- Exposing the Secret Truth of Jewelry Processing (by Chen Shaowen)
标题：师涛被强迫劳动之苦役 ——“宝石加工”真相揭秘 (陈少文)
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The Hard Labor Shi Tao Has Been Forced to Perform
-- Exposing the Secret Truth of Jewelry Processing
by Chen Shaowen
Mr. Shi Tao has been and is still currently performing hard labor in the Crimson Mountain Jail (i.e. the Hunan Province No. 1 Jail) in Yuanjiang City in Hunan Province. Crimson Mountain Island, on the misty Dongting Lake, can be said to have one of jails that hold the most political prisoners in China, which is also the darkest and most inhuman place in China.
Outside of having a few indigenous residents, Crimson Mountain Island is completely home to police officers and prisoners with heavy sentences who wear black-and-white striped uniforms and with shaved heads. The complex is separated into nine jail sections, with Jail Section No. 1 as the Capital Construction Brigade. Most of their work includes digging up bogs, pulling out sand from the lake, performing work on construction projects, and other high-exertion, high-danger labor. This was the section I was in the most in my three years there. Jail Section No. 2 is the "Hunan Electrical Machinery Factory", where they make Single-Phase, Three-Phase, and other types of electrical machinery. Nearly all of the heavily sentenced prisoners there are gang leaders, murderers, and arsonists. Jail Section No. 4 is the Hunan Construction Machinery Factory, where excavators, bulldozers, and other equipment are manufactured. This is the place with the largest amount of detained Falun Gong "leaders." One Falun Gong disciple named Jia Zefa, a quick-witted and brave man who had a legendary quality to him, mysteriously escaped on October 18, 2004. Even today the Chinese Communist Party is searching for him. This soul-stirring prison escape drama occurred in Jail Section No. 4. Jail Sections No. 3, 5, and 7 are called the "Labor Service Corporation", with most prisoners. These places have the highest number of detained Falun Gong disciples, members of the political elite, and democracy advocates. The detainees of these three jail sections are forced to process handiwork such as knitted and weaved objects, jewels, bamboo mates, and holiday lanterns.
Since I worked in the Capitol Construction section, it was convenient for me to move around among the jails, and so I had a basic understanding of the jail production and activities and was basically able to contact the political elites, democracy advocates, and Falun Gong disciples. I thus came to know this most dark, bloody, violent, and solemn situation like the palm of my hand. Now, according to disclosures from overseas media and democracy elites from Hunan Province, Shi Tao, the former editor of the Hunan Business Daily, the famous poet and democracy elite, has been forced to perform hard labor as a member of the Labor Service Corporation, and has been put to work on the jewel production process.
The jewel processing work is distributed between Jail Sections No. 3 and 6, with a small number of people from Section No. 7 also working on it. Since Shi Tao was put to Crimson Mountain after I left there on August 5 of last year, I'm not clear about which jail section he was assigned to. Yet regardless of which jail section or squad he is in, he won't be able to escape that inhuman persecution, that barbaric oppression, and those horrific threats!
The entire production and activity sections of the Crimson Mountain Jail were built during the 1950s. Thus, the buildings are extremely simple and crude, and the ventilation and lighting are both of extremely poor quality. Moreover, the stink of having so many people there is overwhelming, the booming sounds of the machinery deafen the ears, and the struck-up dust that covers the sun causes the prisoners to live in a dark world, where they struggle in an abyss of suffering and torment.
In the pitch-black morning before the sun had come out, the strident and oppressive work bell would begin to toll throughout Crimson Mountain Island. The reveille is for the five squads working for the Labor Service Corporation. According to Stipulation No. 58 (Part of the "Criminal Living Standards" Promulgated by the Ministry of Justice), all criminals must wash and clean themselves up within five minutes and then assemble on the lawn. If people want to understand what this is like, they can obtain from Mr. Xia Yan's "Indentured Servant" an understanding of prisoners' grief, helplessness, and misery! The reality is even more shocking than the images of slaves that would prostitute themselves in that novel.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner are all eaten outside of the work shed. Only 15 minutes are allotted for each meal, and outside of this time for eating, 12 hours are spent squatting in a dark world, listening to the whine of grindstones. There is a small aqueduct by the workstations, as the fast-spinning adamantine grindstones rely on water for lubrication and cooling. Prisoners hold a man-made grindstone, less than 5mm wide, and, under feeble light, carefully work to polish the gems. They have to use this irregular grindstone to fashion six-sided, translucent, and standards-meeting jewels. This work is highly difficult even in women's hands, not to mention those of hardened men. This work is tantamount to destroying their bodies and souls, their spirit and confidence. Thus, when ever I watched from afar as they let the prisoners out for exercises or to relieve themselves, the prisoners' eyes seemed to have lost all expression, their hands and feet shuffled around in an uncertain manner, they knew nothing of time and space, human language, warm and cool, or bright and dark. Each person on the lawn either stood or squatted, silently passing those 15 minutes of rest time before they re-entered the cave of the man-eating beast.
Each prisoner has duties that they can't possibly complete, and so they could face bloody violence at any time. First, the jail police have "three treasures" await each person: hemp cord, "thumb string", and high-voltage electric batons. Then work committee members supervise the workers. The "supervisors" also have their "three treasures": bamboo planks, fists, and bamboo shoulder poles. The method of supervision is "using criminals to deal with criminals." Under the instigation of the police, these criminals use extreme violence against their own kind and use bamboo planks to forcefully lash the older or sickly prisoners who are unable to fulfill their quotas, and use their bamboo shoulder poles to beat those young prisoners who dare to cry or shout. After the beating, the prison guards take those who don't obey through a "class," using brutal tortures against people that - the less painful is by using "thumb strings" to hold their hands from behind and hang on the pillars, while the more severe one are having all the limbs tighten tightly. For those who are tougher, they use several hundred thousands volts electric batons to shock them on their shins, private parts, and armpits, the most sensitive parts of the body!
Why aren't they able to finish the quotas stipulated by the "cadres"? There are two reasons. The first is that even though the jewelry work isn't that physically hard, it's mentally stressful, as it requires lots of concentration and dexterity, and those who perform these tasks are force to do so in an environment of deafening sounds, dust, and foul smells. No matter how hard you work to finish today's assignments, you won't be able to finish tomorrow's, not to mention if you have to do the same task every day for years. The second reason is that the "cadres", in order to making high profit themselves, have committed extremely evil deeds. They raise the quotas daily, making them impossible to complete. They force you to use your living expenses from your family for bribes to appease them. If you give me some benefits, then today you can drink beer and be free today, and your duties will fall on someone else's shoulders. But if you don't give me some money today, then you'll have to go back to work on the jewels tomorrow. Day after day, year after year, the Party henchmen use the prisoners' blood and tears for their own power!
Mr. Shi Tao is a part of this terrible situation, and could be destroyed by the state apparatus just like Mr. Yu Dongyue was. I don't know, and neither does he!
Written in a hurry on April 7, 2006, at 3:22PM, in Lianyuan City in Hunan Province
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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A196-M22
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A196-M22
Release Date: April 15, 2006
发布日：2006年4月15日
Topic: The Hard Labor Shi Tao Has Been Forced to Perform -- Exposing the Secret Truth of Jewelry Processing (by Chen Shaowen)
标题：师涛被强迫劳动之苦役 ——“宝石加工”真相揭秘 (陈少文)
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师涛被强迫劳动之苦役
——“宝石加工”真相揭秘
陈少文
师涛先生目前在湖南省沅江市“赤山监狱”暨“湖南省第一监狱”内服苦役，烟波浩渺的洞庭湖里的“赤山岛”真可谓是目前中国关押政治犯最大的监狱之一，也是中国目前最黑暗、最惨无人道的世界。我曾经把这座人间炼狱比作台湾的“火烧岛”，那是台湾民主斗士们最为痛楚的地方，同时也是台湾民主自由之圣地，故后来被改称为“绿岛”。
赤山岛内除少量原住民外，全是身披警服、手执警具的警察，全是身着黑白相间铁窗形囚服、脑袋被刮得溜光光的重刑犯。全狱划分九大监区，第一监区即“基建大队”，主要从事挖泥塘、挑湖沙、建筑工程等高强度、高危险的苦役，是我三年蒙难里呆得最久的地方。第二监区即“湖南电机厂”，生产单相、三相多种电机，里面关押的重刑犯，几乎全是所谓的“黑社会”大哥和杀人放火的江湖大盗。第四监区是“湖南建筑机械厂”，生产挖掘机、铲土机等建筑机械，是关押法轮功领袖人物最多的地方，大法弟子“贾则发”在2004年的10月18日，机智勇敢而具有传奇色彩，神秘地拂手而去，至今仍旧逃避中共围追绞杀。这出惊心动魄越狱大剧，就发生在第四监区。第三、五、七监区即“劳务公司”，人数最多，是关押法轮功弟子、政治精英、民主斗士最多的地方，三个监区，全部从事针织加工、编织加工、宝石加工、竹席加工、节日灯加工等手工艺。
由于我从事基建苦役，就方便于在各监区活动，也就基本了解到监狱里的生产、生活情况，也就基本能与全狱的政治精英、民主斗士、大法弟子们取得联系，更对监狱里最黑暗、最血腥、最惨烈、最悲壮的情况了如指掌。现在据海外媒体和省内民主精英的披露，《湖南商报》总编、著名诗人与民主精英师涛先生在赤山监狱的“劳务公司”里被强迫劳动，从事宝石加工苦役。
宝石加工分布在第三、六监区，七监区亦有少部分人从事宝石加工。由于师涛是在我去年8月5日出狱后分配到赤山，所以，我不清楚师涛先生分在哪个监区。但无论师涛先生分在哪个监区、哪个小队，都逃避不了那种非人的折磨、那种兽性的压迫、那种恐怖的威胁！
赤山监狱的生产与生活区全部修建于50年代初，因此，房屋非常地简陋，通风和照明是非常地恶劣，且人多浊气熏天、机器躁声震耳、灰尘扬沸遮目使囚徒们生存在一个黑暗的天地里，又挣扎在水深火热的熬煎中。
太阳还没有出来，天地还是一片黑沉沉，赤山岛上就响起了沉闷又尖鸣的钟声。那是“劳务公司”辖下五个大队的起床号。按照《五十八条》（司法部所颁布的“罪犯生活准则”）规定，所有囚犯必须在五分钟的时间里洗刷完毕，大操坪里整队集合。其中的状态，人们可以从夏衍先生所著的《包身工》那里得知犯人们那种悲哀、无奈、凄惨！其形象却更比起那时候的卖身奴还要触目惊心。
早、中、晚的饭是在工棚外的空地上吃的，每餐的时间仅15分钟，除了这吃饭的时间外，12个小时全部是蹲在黑暗的世界里听着磨具凄厉的嘶叫。工具台上有一根细细的导水管，飞速运转的金钢磨石依赖于水的润滑和降温。囚徒们的手捏着一粒直径不到五微米的人造金钢石在微弱的灯光下悉心地打磨抛光，要把这粒不规则的金钢石打造成一个具有六面体而相互透光的符合规则的饰品，其难度在女人们手中尚属高难度，何况在大丈夫的手里，无异是在摧残他们的灵魂与身体，无异于是在摧毁他们的精神与信心。因此，每当我在工地上远远地望到他们放风的时候，全体囚徒们完全精神仿佛，眼神失色、手脚打鼓，全然不知日月星辰，全然不知人间语言，全然不觉冷暖睛阴。每一个人在大坪上或立或蹲地默默无闻地渡过这15分钟的稍息时间，接着又爬进那个噬人的魔鬼洞窟里。
每一个囚犯均有无法完成的任务，于是暴力和血腥随时等待着。首先是狱警的三大宝贝在伺候着每一个人：苎麻绳！姆指扣！高压电棍！然后是所谓的“积委会”监工。他们也有三大宝贝：竹板！拳头！篇担！“积委会”的监工是用来“以犯制犯”。他们在警察的唆使下，动用非常的暴力，对着与他同样身分的人拳打脚踢，用竹板死劲地抽打那些无法完成任务的老年犯人与病弱之囚，用扁担劈向那些胆敢哭泣、怒吼冲天的年轻囚徒。打完之后，狱警们又把这那些不服的人过一次堂，轻的则用姆指扣把左右手反手扣住吊在木柱上，稍重的则用苎麻绳索五花大绑地勒住手脚，其残酷度无异于五马分尸。严重的反改造分子则用几十万伏的高压电棍猛烈地攻击犯人的胫部、阴部、腋部等神经最为敏感的部位！
为什么完不成“干部”（实则是积委会头目们）定下的任务？有二个原因！一是磨宝石虽然不那么地超负荷、超体力的劳动，但它却是精神最为紧张、思想最为集中、手脚最为灵巧、心息最为平和的劳动，且长时间地站立在恶劣地环境里，每时每刻地被躁音、尘灰、浊气所吞噬。尽管你用了最大的努力完成了今天的任务，明天的任务你绝对地无法完成。何况每年每月每日每时重复地操作同样的工作。其二是“干部”为了中饱私囊，干下伤天害理的事情。他们天天加码，日日增添，把任务定得无法完成！逼迫你用家里邮来的生活费去打理他们。今天你给了我好处，则你今天在监房里喝酒逍遥，其任务则加在其它囚徒们的身上。如果你今天没有交纳好处费，则你明天又要去与打磨机为伴。日复一日，年复一年，党徒们就会用囚徒们的血、泪垒就了他们的淫威！
师涛先生蒙难于其中，是否与喻东岳先生一样被这国家机器所粉碎，我不知，他也无法知道！
（于2006年4月7日下午15时22分匆笔于湖南省涟源市）
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