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22-year-old Ms. Gao Xi Suffers a Mental Breakdown After a Month of Torture in Labor Camp
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Gao Xi is from Huangmei County, Hubei Province. She
lived and worked in Shunde City, Guangdong Province. She was introduced to Falun
Dafa in 2005. After becoming a practitioner, she strove to follow the teachings
and experienced improvements in her health and moral character. On September 30, 2007, Ms. Gao was illegally arrested by the
local police while distributing Falun Gong informational materials in the
Daliang area of Shunde City, Guangdong Province. Later she was illegally
imprisoned in the "Strict Discipline Team" of Sanshui Women's Labor
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 labor camp twice. In November 2007 Ms. Chen was taken
to Sanshui Women's Labor Camp. Because she would not give up her belief in Dafa,
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. |