As a Result of Torture in Dalian Detention Centre, Ms. Hou Chunli's Legs Broken and Her Kidneys Injured

On July 6th, 2012, Ms. Hou Chenli, a Falun Gong practitioner from the Jinzhou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, was arrested by police officers from the Jinzhouxin District in Dalian. She was then held in Dalian Detention Centre and cruelly tortured. As a result, her legs were broken and her kidneys were injured.

Ms. Hou, 28, began to practise Falun Gong in 1998. After that, she was willing to help others, and she was also the mainstay of her company.

After the Chinese Communist Party began to openly persecute Falun Gong, Ms. Hou was arrested four times and held in detention centres, brainwashing centres, and forced labour camps.

She has been in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp twice. One time she was detained for one year, another time, for two years. She was brutally tortured and brainwashed. At that time, she was only in her early 20s.

The first time Ms. Hou was released from Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, as a result of fear, she stopped her Falun Gong cultivation. A year later, she realized that the repentance letter and guarantee statement to renounce practising Falun Gong that she had written against her will as a result of torture and brainwashing were wrong and that she should have continued to practise by holding herself to the standards of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. She then began to call Masanjia Forced Labour Camp and declare that the guarantee statement and repentance letter that she had written under duress were null and void and that she would continue to practise.

Officials from Masanjia Labour Camp immediately sent agents to Ms. Hou's home in Jinzhou City. They arrested her at home and put her in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp again, this time for two years. After she was released, she was dumbstruck and confused, and she didn't talk to anyone. Not until a few years later did she fully recover.

On June 29th, 2011, Xinqu Police Sub-Bureau in Dalian City, Domestic Security Department, and Zhongchang Police Station arrested Ms. Hou and her mother, Ms. Qin Shulan and held them in Dalian Detention Centre for nearly two months. On August 23rd, they were released. However, before they had been at home for even a day, on August 24th, officers from Zhongchang Police Station in the Jinzhouxin District arrested them and took them to Longwangmiao Brainwashing Centre, where they were held for one week.

On July 6th, 2012, Ms. Hou and her mother were arrested again and put in a detention centre. It was said that when the police officers broke into their home to arrest Ms. Hou and her mother, her father was standing at the door to try to stop them from breaking in, as he was truly afraid that they would persecute his wife and daughter to death. Sure enough, within only three months, Ms. Hou's legs were broken as a result of brutal beatings, and her kidneys were not functioning well.

Only then did authorities allow her to be taken home.