Persecution of Older Practitioner Ms. Li Chaoying from Suning County, Hebei Province

Ms. Li Chaoying, 65, used to suffer from numerous illnesses including severe uraemia. She experienced frequent dizzy spells, hallucinations and disorganized speech. The first day she read a Falun Gong book, however, she felt very light and walked as though someone had removed all the illnesses from her head. She was able to live a joyous and disease-free life because of Falun Gong. Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal in 1999 to appeal for Falun Gong but was taken back by the local government officials and held for two weeks. The officials deprived her of sleep during that time and tried to force her many times to write a guarantee statement to renounce Falun Gong. Ms. Li appealed in Beijing again in 2001. She was taken back and held at the County Detention Centre where she was tortured. She was handcuffed, stretched on the Death Bed¹, and frequently beaten. A guard once violently rammed a practitioner's head into a wall. Ms. Li stood between the guard and the practitioner, and the guard slapped her to the ground. She refused to cooperate and was sentenced to three years of forced labour. She was tortured at the Baoding Forced Labour Camp, where the guards used the Death Bed torture method, forced standing, and electric shock, among other things. After she returned home from the labour camp in 2004, officers from the County Police Department still frequently harassed her.

Note

1. "Death Bed" torture: A practitioner is tied to a bed with his hands handcuffed above his head to the bed rails, and his legs tied with thin nylon ropes. The rope is then tightly wrapped around the practitioner's body and the bed, from his legs to his chest. The rope is wrapped so tightly that the practitioner has difficulty breathing and eventually loses consciousness.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/4/5/152196.html