(Minghui.org) The article “I Still Tremble When I Think About It – I Was Locked Up In a Men's Cell at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp” reminded me once again of the intensely evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
I used to work as a teacher, and was imprisoned for exposing the brutalities committed against Falun Gong in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and for telling people the truth behind the “Tiananmen Square self-immolation” (a propaganda stunt cooked up by the CCP to demonize Falun Gong).
My Own Experience of Torture and Imprisonment
In order to stop my young child and I from clarifying the facts, the police brutally abused me. Four police hit me violently in front of my young child as they interrogated me. They ignored my child’s screams and pleas and kept hitting me. One officer later dragged my child into another room.
That evening, a few of them came back drunk and started to interrogate me again. The leader of the Domestic Security Division poked me hard between my breasts with his fingers. He kept poking me violently and asked, “Do you confess or not?” I didn’t say anything. He then started kicking me and forced me to repeatedly squat and stand. My arms were covered with black and blue bruises.
I was taken to a detention center in the evening and a police officer removed the belt from my pants and forced me to stand barefoot on the concrete floor. The next morning, he came back and slapped my face repeatedly, which caused me much pain in my gums and ears for a long time.
After I was taken to another detention center out of town, a female police officer grabbed my collar and started hitting me hard. Her fingernails scratched my neck, causing it to bleed.
A month later, I was transferred to a different detention center where the police hung me up to a heating pipe for two weeks, with my toes barely touching the ground. Sometimes, they cuffed four of us together to an iron door. We could neither stand up nor squat down.
While I was hung up, the head of the detention center came. He grabbed my hair and started to shock me with an electric baton. I screamed out in pain and everyone could hear me, but no one dared to say anything. The whole detention center was silent except for my screaming.
Torture illustration: Hanging up
I was locked up in solitary confinement for most of my time in prison. Police and a few inmates took turns torturing me, and I was deprived of sleep for over ten days. My legs became so swollen that I could no longer walk. They looked as if they could burst open at the slightest touch. I became delirious and could hardly stand.
One police officer pretended to be nice and prepared a bed for me, telling me to have a good sleep. At the same time she tried to made me doubt Dafa, saying, “See, you’ve suffered so much. You were once so attractive but now you look so awful. I really care about you.” The once vicious police seemed to have turned into a completely different person, telling me how much she cared about me, and she even allowed me to meet with a fellow practitioner. This fellow practitioner had allowed herself to be “transformed” four days after she was locked up in solitary confinement. I took the opportunity to share with her. She became clear-headed again and after she went back she also helped those who had been “transformed” realize they had made a mistake.
I was subjected to even more severe persecution because I had helped this other practitioner see reason. The police treated me with extreme cruelty. I was tortured for over thirty days, during which time I was not allowed to sleep.
Due to lack of sleep, my internal organs stopped functioning normally and my heart beat became very fast. Every evening, the inmates would take turns reading aloud slanderous works against Dafa throughout the night. I refused to listen and closed my eyes.
The inmate assigned to keep a watch on me grabbed my collar tightly as if she were strangling me. She shook me violently and deliberately tightened up the collar around my neck. They tortured me this way throughout the night till dawn, and I was almost suffocated. I protested their conduct and reported them to the head of the prison zone. The head just looked at me and said, “Why do you think they treat you this way? Have you thought about your own problems?” The truth is they instigated the inmates to beat me and torture me.
While being locked in solitary confinement, I was forced to stand for six months. In the scorching summer, they refused to let me have water. For two months I wasn’t able to use any water, so I couldn’t wash my clothes, brush my teeth or wash my face, hands and feet.
Transferred to Brainwashing Center After Prison
When my term was up, because I refused to give up my belief, I was taken directly to a brainwashing center from the prison. I looked like a totally different person due to the long-time persecution, and my family members couldn’t even recognize me when I walked past them. At the brainwashing center, I suffered even more mental torment. Under the heat of over 30 degrees Celsius, my child cried outside the iron fence, pleading with me to come home. My child’s face was marked with sweat, tears and dirt.
Even now, it's very painful to recall all this. The path permeated with tears and blood records the unyielding will of Dafa cultivators.
Rape and Gang Rape All Too Common in China's Prisons
I would like to take this opportunity to recommend to you two articles published on the Minghui website. One is titled “ Rape – the Base Means of the Hoodlum Party” Part I and Part II The article was published on February 3 and 4, 2013. The cases mentioned in the article are unthinkably horrendous, and at the same time, they have fully revealed the despicable and shameless conduct of the CCP police.
In the article it reported such a shocking case: “At Beijing Changping Mental Hospital, a nine-year-old girl was gang raped”. In the summer of 2002, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu from Jilin Province went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was taken to Changping Detention Center. Because she protested the illegal detention, she was taken to Changping Mental Hospital, where she didn’t see any doctors or nurses, but police and hired thugs. Each of them was holding a leather belt in their hands. Most people locked up there were Falun Gong practitioners or petitioners, who were constantly beaten with leather belts. They were not allowed to move, but the thugs were free to come in and out of their rooms at any time.
Ms. Liu was locked up there for three nights, and she spent every night in extreme terror amidst screams. At night, three thugs with the nick names Big Head, Long Hair and Dump would come to their room to gang rape a nine-year-old girl. The little girl’s parents were both Falun Gong practitioners. They had all been locked up in the mental hospital. After her parents died as a result of torture, the little girl was violently gang raped by the three thugs every night. The screams from the little girl were heart-wrenching, but nobody in the room dared to voice their protest. It was so terrifying, like hell on earth.
Another recently published article is “I Still Tremble When I Think About It – I Was Locked Up In a Men's Cell at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp” . From it, we can see that rape (gang rape) is a form of “punishment” used by the CCP. Nine female Falun Gong practitioners were thrown into cells filled with male inmates as a means of torture.
In April 2001, female Falun Gong practitioners Zoe Ironing (died from torture), Si Zhengzhou (suffered a mental collapse and passed away), Yin Piping (lower body paralyzed and suffered a mental collapse for a while), Thou Min, Wang Li, Thou Banyan, Re Dingdong (unmarried) and Chaos Subhuman were taken to Changsha Men’s Forced Labor Camp and locked up together with male prisoners.
They were lock up in separate cells, each with five or six male prisoners, who took turned keeping watch on them, torturing and humiliating them. Yin Piping was stripped almost naked (leaving only her underwear and bra). She and Zoe Ironing both protested such inhumane persecution with their lives.
Re Dingdong was still an unmarried young lady. Yin Piping and Zoe Ironing were very concerned that she would be raped, so while they were being persecuted themselves, they kept calling out Re Dongle’s name, and Re also tried her hardest to respond in the room next door. The police told the male prisoners: “Take it easy during the day, but you can do anything you like at night.” One female Falun Gong practitioner (name unknown) suffered a severe mental collapse after 18 days of such torture.
Anyone with a conscience would feel deeply disturbed after reading these articles and they would see clearly the ugly nature of the CCP. We all know that “what goes around, comes around” – that whatever good or evil we may do, we will receive reward or punishment in equal measure. Imagine what fate waits for the CCP and its evil henchmen?
