(Minghui.org) I was illegally arrested in 2005 for posting truth clarification materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in public areas. I was held in a detention center, where I was told to wear the detainee's vest. When I refused, the guards forcibly put the vest over my head and then handcuffed me.
When I went on a hunger strike, they cuffed my hands behind my back and put my legs in shackles. The handcuffs and shackles were then joined together and fastened to the ground. As a result, I could only kneel down in a strenuous position. I was forced to stay like this for 24 hours a day. Inmates had to collect my urine and feces. I was sworn at and abused by them. A tube was inserted in me to force-feed me, but the tube was not removed after they had finished. It remained in my stomach wriggling, causing me great pain. When the tube was eventually removed, it was completely black.
Locked in a warehouse
I was later taken to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province. Every practitioner there was monitored around the clock by two inmates. We were not allowed to talk to each other and were only given moldy biscuits to eat, which had mouse droppings in them. We had to get up at 5 a.m and were forced to work until 10 p.m. If we did not finish our work, we had to take it back to our cells and continue working on it. I was slapped in the face by team leaders Zhang Xiurong and Xiang Kuili for not complying with their demands. Often I was taken to the washroom and made to stand in the freezing cold for long periods of time.
The guards tried to make me listen to broadcasts slandering Falun Gong. But when I refused, team head Pei Feng locked me in the warehouse for five days, and I was handcuffed to an iron chair. I was not allowed to sleep and had to listen to loud broadcasts slandering Falun Gong. Practitioners imprisoned in the same cell as me went on a hunger strike to protest my treatment. Some of them became so weak that they collapsed onto the ground. The team head was afraid that the incident would get worse, so I was allowed to return back to my cell.
Torture re-enactment: Iron chair
Once, I refused to recite the labor camp rules and guard Wang Shuzhen slapped me hard in the face. As I fell down I hit my head on a thermos bottle, scrapping a piece of flesh off my face.
Tied to a bed frame
I was often tortured by the guards because I refused to do the hard labor. Once, a guard pushed me out of the cell and into the corridor. Another time, guard Wang Shuzhen ordered inmates to cuff my hands to the sides of the bed frame in such a way that my body was stuck under the metal railings of the bed. I could neither stand up nor kneel down. It was extremely painful.
On one occasion, I refused to slander Dafa and was slapped by guard Ma Jishan. Political head Ren Huaiping then ordered inmates to beat me.
On another occasion, practitioners came together to resist the persecution, refusing to wear the labor camp uniforms. We were not given any food for three days and had to relieve ourselves in buckets, which were placed in the cells. The head of the team was afraid to enter the room because of the smell and wore a face mask. In the end, the labor camp hired thugs from outside the camp to brutally beat us and force us to wear the uniforms again.
Guards Ren Hongzan and Wang Shuzhen once handcuffed me to the end of a metal bed frame. Wang then tied my legs together with a rope. I could not move my legs and my back was bent 90 degrees. I refused to obey her and so she pinched my thigh with all her might and I was badly beaten. Wang then locked me in the room, while I was still tied to the bed.
Practitioners detained in the labor camp decided not to do the hard labor one time. I was hit in the face with a large cup. Another inmate kicked my leg very hard. As a result I could not stand up, and for more than a month after that I walked dragging my leg along. Other practitioners were beaten so badly that they resumed the hard labor.
An inmate started to kick and beat me. Blood oozed out from the corner of my mouth and my arms were badly bruised. Guard Ma Jishan slapped me in the face, pulled my hair and smashed my head against the wall. I was then forced to sleep with both hands cuffed to the bed.
Force-fed
When I went on a hunger strike to protest my persecution, team head Zhang Xiurong and a group of guards pressed hard on my hands, which were cuffed to the bed, and pushed a tube into my nose everyday to force feed me. I was in excruciating pain. After a while, my nose, eyes and face became swollen and they could not push the tube in anymore. So they inserted the tube directly into my mouth and down my throat. After force-feeding, I was hung up in a slanted position, and was only allowed to go to the toilet once a day.
At night, I had to sleep with both hands cuffed to the bed and had to remain in a fixed position. Guard Ma Jishan opened all the windows at night. The camp was in a rural area and many insects flew into the cell in large swarms all throughout the night.
As I refused to stop my hunger strike, guard Ma Jishan cuffed my hands and legs to a death bed. Then my body was tied up with rope. A dozen officers surrounded me as Ma Jishan pried my mouth wide open with a torture device called a mouth opener. It is made of thick steel wire. When the device is extended to its fullest the throat becomes blocked. I nearly suffocated and my heart began racing. A doctor took my pulse and said: “Take away the mouth opener quickly, we cannot continue to use it.” Many practitioners' lips have been torn as a result of this torture. After the device is removed, their mouths would bleed and for a long time and they had difficulty eating.
Torture re-enactment: Death bed
I developed heart problems as a result of prolonged periods of physical and mental torture, so they temporarily stopped using the mouth opener on me. Several days later, they used the mouth opener again. Initially I bit on it with all my strength and stopped it from prying my mouth open. I was tortured with this implement for eight hours everyday.
When I was tied to the death bed, a radio was placed above my head, transmitting messages slandering Falun Gong. The windows were covered with newspaper so that nobody could see inside. They tortured me using different means. Sometimes they tied me to the bed with thick rope. When I refused to get on the bed, four strong men came in, grabbed my hands and legs and threw me onto the bed. They took away the mouth opener in the evening, before they went off duty. I was only allowed to sleep when it was very late at night, and both my hands were cuffed to the bed. Other times, I was not allowed to sleep and was left suspended by the handcuffs till dawn. When I was finally let down and allowed to lie on the bed, I was told to get up immediately.
When guard Ma Jishan saw that I persisted in my hunger strike for over 20 days with the mouth opener in me, she force-fed me with a small bowl of corn gruel four hours in the morning and four hours in the afternoon. She adjusted the mouth opener so that there was a small opening in my mouth and fed me a spoonful of corn gruel. Then she adjusted the device to its maximum capacity, and left me alone in the room with the radio on. The guards returned after a short while and fed me another spoonful of corn. After that, my mouth was pried wide open and I was tortured like that repeatedly. Four hours went by in the morning and the force-feeding continued for another four hours in the afternoon. My teeth became loose as a result of constantly biting the mouth opener and the metal wire cut into my gums.
One day, when no body else was in the room Ma Jishan turned the mouth opener to its maximum setting. I shouted out as best I could, and when she heard someone running over, she immediately walked away. When nobody was in the room, she manipulated the device again. My mouth was already numb by then. When the guards removed the mouth opener in the evening, it was covered in blood. Four of my bottom teeth had fallen out. They held me so that I could not move and snatched any fallen teeth, as they did not want to leave evidence of their crimes.
The next day, I was forced to wear the mouth opener again. Again, a tooth fell out and the wire cut into my gums. My gums and tongue were swollen and started to fester. I told the guards that I would take them to court for their crimes against me. Guard Liu Yong replied: “You can do whatever you like. Nobody cares if you lose a tooth, five teeth or even ten teeth. That's normal.”
I saw a guard punch a practitioner in the face one time, and four of her top teeth were knocked out. Another practitioner, who had uterine cancer before, was pushed onto the ground by the guards. They lifted her clothes so that her bare stomach was touching the cold concrete ground and then they kicked her at will. It was winter at the time.
Two practitioners were hit in the face with handcuffs. They were then beaten with a bamboo clothes rack. Ma Jishan hung a practitioner's hands on the upper frame of a bunk-bed and tied one leg to the lower bed, leaving one leg standing on the ground.
Practitioner Yuan Shuzhe went on a hunger strike for three days. She became deaf as a result of beatings by a guard. She was handcuffed opposite me and guards slapped her hard a dozen times. They made her write a guarantee statement to renounce her belief.
Guard Wang Qi stabbed a 58-year-old practitioner in the back with a long needle. The practitioner immediately fell unconscious on the ground.
I was handcuffed to the bottom bed, another hand was cuffed to the small ladder leading to the upper bunk. As a result, my body was bent 90 degrees. I could not lift my head and the words slandering Master were written on the plank of the bottom bed. After a while, I was in excruciating pain and my whole body was covered in sweat. Guard Liu Yong then kicked me in the back to add to my pain.
Given unknown drugs
Before my release, an inmate secretly told me that another inmate named Gao Hua who was convicted for prostitution had been putting drugs into my food everyday. I was very shocked to hear that. I asked her what drug I was given. She said that she did not know. Team head Wang Shuzhen instructed Gao Hua to do this. I recalled that every time I took my meal, team head Dai Yuhong would stand in front of us and watch us eat. She also asked me, “How's your food?” The drugs they gave me has made me forget things easily till this day.
Seven years have gone by and my arms are still swollen from the torture.
