(Clearwisdom.net)

Ms. Wang Xia, born in 1974, was a resident in Linhe City, Inner Mongolia. Because she firmly cultivated Dafa, she has been subjected to arrest and detention numerous times since 1999. The last time she was arrested, she was sentenced to 7 years in prison. While being detained in the Inner Mongolia First Women's Prison, she was subjected to brutal torture. Moreover, she was once sent to a mental hospital to be further tortured, which caused her to lose her memory.

In November 1999, Wang Xia was sent to the Inner Mongolia Women's Labor Camp. She was the first Dafa practitioner in Inner Mongolia sent to a labor camp. She was detained there until August 2000, when she was about 8-9 months pregnant. In February 2002, she was arrested again and sent to Hohhot Detention Center. In March 2002, Wang Xia went on a hunger strike but after 29 days of hunger strike, she was sent home because the detention center did not want to be held responsible should she die there. However, they kept a close eye on her after she returned home. On the third day of her return, in order to avoid further harassment, she escaped by climbing over the wall of her yard, but her back and face were badly injured. After finding out she had run away, the police issued an arrest warrant and started to look for her everywhere. On May 21, 2002, she was captured in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia and sent to Baotou Detention Center. On May 23, Wang Xia began a hunger strike, for which she was beaten and brutally force-fed. On July 28, 2002, she was transferred to the Hohhot Detention Center, where she joined other detained practitioners in a group hunger strike. In August 2002, she was sentenced to 7 years in prison and sent to the Inner Mongolia First Women's Prison.

While in detention, Wang Xia started to hunger strike again. In December 2002, she was sent to the Second Hospital in Hohhot, where she was closely monitored by four inmates, including Li Xuemei, Liu Xiaojie, Gu Mo and Liu Xiaoyuan. Every day these people thought of more ways to torture her. The hospital did not pay any attention to her at all. Once while personally force-feeding Wang Xia, the hospital head had his whole body stained by the milk that came out of Wang Xia's mouth.

Wang Xia was beaten almost every day, adding new bruises to her body even before the old ones healed. The four people who monitored her used inhumane methods to torture her. For instance, they split the handle of a mop into two sticks and wrapped them up with some cloth. Then they used them to beat Wang Xia. What was even more horrific was that they thrust the mop handle into her vagina. Once, Wang Xia did not follow an order, so they grabbed her by the hair and dragged her downstairs from the third floor. They gave her a severe beating in the courtyard. Then they inserted safety pins into her fingernails and heated them with a cigarette lighter. At other times, they would tie her up while they played cards. During detention, the police also brought in her father, husband, and baby to come and pressure her into giving up cultivation. In the summer time, she was tied to a bed all day long, with a feeding tube inserted into her nose and she was unable to move at all.

On June 29, 2004, the police released her upon seeing that she was dying. They stopped beating her only two days before her release. When she was carried out, her head drooped and the bones in her body could be seen very clearly. Her nose still had the tube attached. At that time, she had already lost her memory.

A dying Wang Xia (taken in July 2004)

Several people who monitored her said, "It's good she doesn't remember anything. Otherwise, she may reveal what we did to her to the outside world."

One week after Wang Xia returned home, her father called the prison telling them that she had survived. Then the police came to take her back to the prison again.

Now Wang Xia does not remember anything at all. While in the prison, she eats whatever is given to her. If no one gives her food, she does not know to ask for food.

Posting date: 9/28/2005
Original article date: 9/27/2005
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/9/18/110644.html

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