A Teacher Lost Her Sanity Due to Persecution

Name: Deng Xiaomin
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Address: Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province
Occupation: English teacher
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 13th, 2000
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jiangxi Women's Forced Labour Camp
City: Nanchang
Province: Jiangxi
Persecution Suffered: Brutal beating, detention, handcuffed and shackled, brainwashing, forced labour reform, sleep deprivation, hanging, long-term standing, locked up in a small cell, denial of toilet use, denial of shower.
Key Persecutors: Warden Songbo, Director Wang Junsheng

The Minghui/Clearwisdom website previously reported that Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Deng Xiaomin lost her sanity due to persecution.

It has been about eight years, and Ms. Deng is still mentally unstable. We all wonder what the guards in the labour camp did to her. Her elderly parents had no choice but to take her to a mental hospital.

Deng Xiaomin was a teacher and had been working in Baihuazhou School, Jiangling Elementary, Nanchangtie No. 2 Elementary, Nanchang Yuxin School, and Xiaoxingxing English Education Centre.

When the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Deng went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was brutally beaten at Tiananmen Square, arrested, and escorted to Nanchang Detention Centre. She was held there for over a month, handcuffed and shackled. They attempted to brainwash her, at which time she began a hunger strike, then was later released.

On February 13th, 2000, she returned to Beijing for a second time. She was again arrested and escorted back to Nanchang City. The court ignored legal procedures and she was sentenced to three years in a labour camp, the Jiangxi Province Women's Forced Labour Camp.

While in the labour camp, Ms. Deng began a hunger strike. Guard Wang Junsheng and another guard named Lu knocked her down and shocked her with an electric baton, causing her to pass out. After 40 days on a hunger strike, she was force-fed through a tube pushed through her nose. Her nose bled, her face was swollen and bruised, and the tube was not taken out. Her injured nose continued to bleed frequently during her three years in the labour camp.

Ms. Deng would not give in and continued to practise Falun Gong even in such a horrific environment. Once the guard handcuffed her to the bed rail, forcing her to stand all night, for two months.

The labour camp began to intensify the “transformation” [forcibly renounce Falun Gong] of Ms. Deng at the end of 2000. She refused to give in and was severely persecuted. She was forced to stay in a squatting position in a small dark cell for a long time and was shocked with an electric baton. For over two years, her room had no lights or windows. Her health was failing, and she looked pale. After a lot of high pressure brainwashing, she was mentally unstable. She could no longer take care of herself and did not know to go get food; the other inmates would not help her, and she was often hungry. She also lost the ability to clean herself. Once again, the other inmates would not help her. She was often beaten by the three inmates who closely monitored her and was frequently covered with bruises. Her family insisted they be allowed to take her home, but the labour camp officials would not let them because she refused to be “transformed.”

The severity of her symptoms and the persistence of her illness make us wonder what really happened to her at the hands of the guards in the labour camp.

After she was released from the labour camp in March of 2003, she never recovered. She would wear a hat and sunglasses all year long. Afraid to see anyone or any light, she often displayed irrational behavior. One day she wandered away to Hunan Province. Her family was deathly afraid for her. Fortunately, a kindhearted person helped her and notified the family. Her father had to go bring her home. Her parents have been exhausted worrying about her since her release. Her father is already in his mid 70s.

In January 2011, filled with despair, her parents felt they had no choice but to take her to a mental hospital. It has been eight years since she lost her sanity.

Main perpetrators:

Song Po, warden
Wang Junsheng, director
Lu, deputy director
Deng, leader

Related article:

http://clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2005/6/4/61517.html

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/8/14/245309.html