Women’s Soccer Next to Women’s Torture Camp

Friday’s women soccer matches took place minutes from what are reputedly some of China’s notorious torture camps.
Women’s Soccer Next to Women’s Torture Camp
Gao Rongrong was mutilated by electric batons in Longshan Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City - she later died from torture. faluninfo.net
Matthew Robertson
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<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/quinsoc82231310_medium.jpg"><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/quinsoc82231310_medium.jpg" alt="Carli Lloyd (L) of the United States and Yuki Nagasato of Japan compete for the ball during an Olympic soccer match in Qinhuangdao, near the Qinhuangdao Detention Center, where torture is commonplace. China. (Noriko Hayakusa/Getty Images)" title="Carli Lloyd (L) of the United States and Yuki Nagasato of Japan compete for the ball during an Olympic soccer match in Qinhuangdao, near the Qinhuangdao Detention Center, where torture is commonplace. China. (Noriko Hayakusa/Getty Images)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-72152"/></a>
Carli Lloyd (L) of the United States and Yuki Nagasato of Japan compete for the ball during an Olympic soccer match in Qinhuangdao, near the Qinhuangdao Detention Center, where torture is commonplace. China. (Noriko Hayakusa/Getty Images)
Friday’s womens soccer quarter finals were said to have taken place minutes from some of China’s notorious torture camps, according to a comprehensive “Guide to Labour Camps”  report.

The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) released the report in July, giving precise locations of the Re-education Through Labour (RTL) camps and their proximity to Olympic venues.

These camps are said to contain practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice, where they have been beaten, tortured, raped, and put to forced labor.

Among the listed camps was the Masanjia women’s facility, located around 10 km from Friday night’s Sweden vs. Germany soccer match venue of the Shenyang Olympic Stadium.

Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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