Li Jingyi, a practitioner from Dalian City, about 50 years old, was arrested in Beijing on April 5, 2001 and detained in the Beijing Changping Detention Centre. She insisted on practicing Falun Gong and refused to be fingerprinted. A warden, Liu Xiaobing, instigated five or six criminals to beat her. They kicked and stomped on her, beating her until she had severe lumbar displacement and her lower back was injured. The chief of the detention centre, Gao Deren, was on the scene. Liu Xiaobing asked criminals to hold her while she was outfitted with implements of torture. Her hands were cuffed and ankles shackled with a distance of less than 0.3 meter (1 foot) between her handcuffs and shackles. The handcuffs and shackles were chained together so closely that she could neither stand up nor lie down, but could only crouch down. Even death penalty criminals seldom have this kind of torture applied. Wardens then asked some criminal prisoners to drag Li Jingyi into her cell.
[…] On her seventeenth day of detainment, Li Jingyi began a hunger strike. Her weight dropped from 65 kg (143 lbs.) to less than 50 kg (110 lbs.) On the second day of her hunger strike, the torture implements were removed because she could not take care of herself due to her serious lumbar displacement. In order to resist the persecution, however, she continued the hunger strike. On the seventh day of her hunger strike, August 28, she was transferred to a Beijing detention centre. Her present situation is unknown.
Source: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/1/19/17908.html
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