EFGIC: Young Woman Suffers Mental Breakdown Following Untold Torture and Rape

Family members described 32-year-old Zhu Xia has “healthy and vibrant” before untold torture and rape in police custody made her suffer a mental breakdown.

LONDON [EFGIC]– Thirty-two-year-old Ms. Zhu Xia cries, laughs, and often bangs on doors and windows madly. She soils her clothing uncontrollably, and has frequent hallucinations, tossing and turning restlessly amidst unseen enemies.

At night Zhu often throws her arms around her head defensively, screaming “Are you going to rape me?” She has removed her blankets to sleep in the cotton fibres of her mattress and often curses “those terrible men,” muttering she “can't take it anymore.”

This is not the young woman her family members described as “healthy and vibrant” before the police took her away because she practised Falun Gong. Like hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions – of others in China, Zhu was detained by Chinese authorities and sent to brainwashing classes in order to force her to renounce Falun Gong.

She was held at the Pi County Brainwashing Centre in Xinjin County, Sichuan Province.

On April 2, 2004, Pi Country authorities released Zhu. According to her family, Zhu’s mental and physical well-being had been devastated, and she had suffered a complete mental breakdown. Zhu screams, cries uncontrollably after being released from a brainwashing centre where she was held for practising Falun Gong.

Zhu screams, cries uncontrollably after being released from a brainwashing center where she was held for practising Falun Gong.

Zhu is no longer able to take care of herself, and is under the care of her mother. The exact details of what Zhu went through in the Pi Country Brainwashing Centre are unknown, although family members say her mental state and behaviour leave little doubt she suffered untold torture and was repeatedly raped.

Thousands of eye-witnesses and victims have documented severe and systematic tortures used on Falun Gong practitioners in order to force them to renounce their beliefs. Such methods include shocks with electric batons often in sensitive areas such as the genitals, anus and mouth, violent beatings with pipes, burning with hot irons, rape and gang rape.

At the Dalian forced labour camp, numerous reports say women detainees have been hung spread-eagle from the ceiling as sticks and pepper oil are shoved into their vaginas – a torture technique known as “hip-splitting.” The men are stripped naked and shocked with electric batons shortly after being doused with water to intensify the electric currents.

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News – August 13, 2004

European Falun Gong Information Centre, www.clearharmony.net

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Background

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa (about), is a practise of meditation and exercises with teachings based on the universal principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance." Practised in over 50 countries world-wide, Falun Gong has roots in traditional Chinese culture. With government estimates of as many as 100 million practising Falun Gong, China's Communist leader Jiang Zemin outlawed the peaceful practise in July 1999 (report). Since that time, Jiang's regime has intensified its propaganda campaign to turn public opinion against the practise while imprisoning, torturing and even murdering those who practise it. The European Falun Gong Information Centre has verified details of 1022 deaths (reports / sources) since the persecution of Falun Gong in China began in 1999. In October 2001, however, Government officials inside China reported that the actual death toll was well over 1,600. Expert sources now estimate that figure to be much higher. Hundreds of thousands have been detained, with more than 100,000 being sentenced to forced labour camps, typically without trial.

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