Japanese Practitioner, Ms Yoko Kaneko, Recalling the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in the Tenth Ward of the Beijing Police Hospital

By Yoko Kaneko

In the Tenth Ward (located in a basement) of the Beijing Police Hospital, the police and doctors worked together to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Every day, they chained one leg of the practitioners to a bed and force-fed them. If practitioners refused to be force fed, all of their four limbs would be chained to the bed for several days.

One female practitioner had been on a hunger strike for three months. The police there often tortured her. She was on the verge of death.

Another 64-year-old female practitioner was sent to a mental hospital in 2000 where she was persecuted for a year and a half. Every day she was injected with unknown drugs. After she was released from the mental hospital, she was sent straight to a detention centre. The elderly lady had high blood pressure, her four limbs could not stop shaking and she was in very bad shape. Later she was sent to the police hospital to be further tortured. She was force-fed. But she firmly resisted. Several nurses worked together, but still failed to insert the tube into her stomach. Later, the doctor came to insert the tube himself, with dozens of policemen restraining the elderly lady tightly. The lady struggled for about one hour until she was exhausted. Only then did they insert the tube into her stomach. Several days later, the police announced (verbally, without showing any legal document) that she was sentenced to one and a half years of labour reeducation and they sent her to a forced labour camp.

There was another female practitioner who refused the injection of unknown drugs. The police then shackled all four of her limbs to a bed. She bit at the needle and wouldn't let go. The police then tried hard to open her mouth, but they failed. Later the police used handcuffs to pry open her teeth, causing three of her teeth to break. She had blood all over her mouth.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/2/21/68098.html