(Clearwisdom.net) Several inmates in the Hebei Province Women's Prison began practicing Falun Gong after coming into contact with Falun Gong practitioners imprisoned there. These new practitioners were subjected to extra abuse and torture at the hands of the prison guards and other inmates. Ms. Peng Yun and Ms. Yin Meisu are two examples.
Ms. Peng Yun, a former bank clerk, was in prison for embezzling state funds. In prison she came to truly understand Falun Gong after talking to and learning from practitioners. Ms. Peng began practicing Falun Gong and followed the requirements of the practice as taught by Falun Gong's founder, Master Li Hongzhi. She talked to others about her new understandings and the positive and fundamental changes in her life: how she raised her moral standards, the purity of her thoughts, and her sound health. Ms. Peng studied the teachings of Falun Gong and did the exercises with the practitioners.
Because of her crime, Ms. Peng had been sentenced to several years in prison. After she became a practitioner, she wished to validate Dafa and spoke to the police officers and her relatives in court about how she had benefited from Dafa cultivation. When the judge learned that Ms. Peng had become a Falun Gong practitioner, he sentenced her to life in prison. Even so, Ms. Peng's firm belief in Dafa has never wavered. Since she began serving her term, Ms. Peng still continues her cultivation practice and has told the prison guards that Falun Dafa is great. The prison guards tried to make Ms. Peng give up cultivation and subjected her to brainwashing sessions on numerous occasions over the past seven years. The guards often deprived her of sleep and beat her, her family is forbidden to visit her, and she was placed in solitary confinement many times and was monitored around the clock. The guards forbade Ms. Peng from talking to others. Ms. Peng has been on hunger strike many times to protest the persecution and has endured tremendous physical and mental suffering.
Ms. Yin Meisu also began practicing Falun Gong in prison. She talked to prison guards and other inmates about Falun Gong and the persecution and also exposed the Chinese Communist Party's lies. Ms. Yin was grossly abused and mistreated for talking to others the truth about Falun Dafa. The prison guards used electric batons to threaten Ms. Yin and then took her to a brainwashing facility. Since her release from the brainwashing center, Ms. Yin still remains steadfast in her cultivation. During the past six years she was placed in solitary confinement numerous times, each time for ten to 15 days at a stretch and was only given one steamed bun per day to eat.
Ms. Yin was again put in solitary confinement in early 2010. Seeing that she still persisted in her cultivation practice, the guards spread a rumor that Ms. Yin suffered from a mental problem and ordered the prison doctor and criminals to force-feed her psychiatric drugs daily. Ms. Yin refused to comply with taking the drugs. The guards ordered criminal inmates to slap her and grab her by her hair, then four criminals held her down to force-feed her, twice a day. Ms. Yin was subjected to another 15 days of solitary confinement over the following four months.
