22-year-old Ms. Gao Xi Suffers a Mental Breakdown After a Month of Torture in Labour Camp

Ms. Gao Xi is from Huangmei County, Hubei Province. She lived and worked in Shunde City, Guangdong Province. She was introduced to Falun Gong in 2005. After becoming a practitioner, she strove to follow the teachings and experienced improvements in her health and moral character.

On September 30th, 2007, Ms. Gao was arrested by the local police while distributing Falun Gong informational materials in the Daliang area of Shunde City, Guangdong Province. Later she was imprisoned in the "Strict Discipline Team" of Sanshui Women's Labour Camp. At the time of her arrest, she was a typical, intelligent and attractive 22-year-old woman. After a month of torture, she had reached the point of mental breakdown, her body was weak, and she was no longer able to speak. In 2008, during the Chinese New Year season, each time she had her menstrual period, drug addicts assigned to monitor Ms. Gao forced her to take a cold bath for up to two hours, and they cut off her hair. Sometimes she was forced to stand continuously day and night, her face was covered with fingernail scratches, and the back of her head was swollen, bruised and was bandaged. The drug addicts frequently abused and berated her. In April 2008, she was released because she showed symptoms of schizophrenia.

At the same, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Chen Yufang, about 48 years old, was suffering persecution too. She was from Xingning City (south of Meizhou City, Guangdong Province). Because she refused to renounce Falun Gong, she was forcibly taken to a forced labour camp twice. In November 2007 Ms. Chen was taken to Sanshui Women's Labour Camp. Because she would not give up her belief in Falun Gong, during the 2008 Chinese New Year season she was locked up in "confinement" in a cold basement, with only a tattered, smelly, thin cotton-lined quilt. At night, when she was taken out of confinement, she was allowed to go to bed, but not until 3:00 a.m., and she was forced to get out of bed at 6:00 a.m. She has suffered greatly and the mistreatment still continues.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/9/12/185779.html