(Minghui.org) A 73-year-old woman has been subjected to ongoing, brutal torture while serving a five-year term for her faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Ms. Wang Lijuan of Luoyang City, Henan Province, was arrested on January 31, 2023, with her husband Mr. Li Shulin after they were reported for distributing materials about Falun Gong. Because it was during the Chinese New Year holiday, they were released and put under residential surveillance.
The two were taken back into custody between March and April 2023 and secretly sentenced to prison by a local court, with Ms. Wang receiving five years and Mr. Li four years.
While serving time in the Henan Province Women’s Prison, also known as Xinxiang Women’s Prison, Ms. Wang was brutally tortured for not renouncing Falun Gong. She had a large festering ulcer on her back. The guards forbade her from taking showers in the summer, which only made her condition worse.
This isn’t the first time that Ms. Wang and her husband have been targeted for their faith. Mr. Li was repeatedly arrested, detained, and held in brainwashing centers between 2000 and 2005.
Ms. Wang was held in a brainwashing center three times between 2000 and 2008 and had her home ransacked twice. After she was later sentenced to four years and fined 2,000 yuan, her elderly mother was so distressed that she became deaf.
Wang Yunlong, the secretary of the Jianxi District Political and Legal Affairs Committee, and more than ten officers went to the couple’s home on July 25, 2008, and arrested Ms. Wang. Their excuse was to prevent her from talking to the public about Falun Gong during the Beijing Olympics. She was taken to a brainwashing session set up in the Hua Mountain Hotel, where over ten practitioners were already held before Ms. Wang’s arrival.
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The Brainwashing of Falun Gong Practitioners in Xinxiang City Women’s Prison in Henan Province
Xinxiang Women’s Prison in Henan Province: A Place That Destroys Humanity
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