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Ms. Xiang Taonv Tortured in a Multitude of Ways in 2000-2001

September 09, 2010 |   By a Clearwisdom correspondent from Jiangsu Province, China

Name: Xiang Taonv (相桃女)
Gender: Female
Age: 59
Address: Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province
Occupation: Employed at the Zhenxing Roof Tile Factory in Zhangpu Town, Kunshan City

Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 18, 2000
Most Recent Place of Detention: The Jurong Women's Forced Labor Camp(句容女子勞教所)
City: Jurong
Province: Jiangsu
Persecution Suffered: Home ransacked, detention, beatings, interrogation, food deprivation, torture, force-feedings, brainwashing, extortion, sleep deprivation

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Xiang Taonv and her husband, Mr. Liu Liubao, have practiced Falun Dafa since 1996. They have been persecuted the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime for the past 11 years.

1. Brutality in the Pinggu County Detention Center in Beijing

On June 20, 2000, Ms. Xiang, Ms. Chen Xiufen (who died in June 2001 due to persecution), and several other practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Dafa. Police officers at Tiananmen Square beat them, then jailed them in the Tiananmen Square Police Station. That afternoon, Ms. Xiang and the other practitioners were transferred to the Pinggu County Detention Center in Beijing.

In the Pinggu Detention Center (actually a prison), all practitioners were tortured during the investigation. A drunken inmate slapped Ms. Xiang, grabbed her hair, and pulled her backwards. Holding Ms. Xiang's face upward, the prisoner vomited in her face.

The next day, Ms. Xiang's hands and ankles were bound while she was beaten. A blow to her head was so hard that she almost fainted. She was once handcuffed with one arm over her shoulder and the other forced up behind her back. She was forced to walk around the detention center yard in humiliation. The shackles were clamped on her so tightly that they cut deep into her flesh as she walked.

Handcuffed behind the back.

The prison food was often mixed with sand and unknown objects. Ms. Xiang refused to eat in protest. Five days later, guards force-fed her by holding her down and inserting a tube into her mouth. They pinched her nose, which prevented her from breathing normally, and the food nearly went into her windpipe.

2. Torture, Force-Feeding and Brainwashing in Jurong Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Xiang was sent back to Kunshan City and held in the Kunshan Detention Center for one month. Less than two months after her release on September 18, 2000, Qian Yongming, deputy director of Zhaoyang Police Station, had her brought back to the police station. Agent Sun Ming from the City Public Safety Bureau 610 Office showed her a notice of her one-year sentence in a forced labor camp. She was taken to Jurong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province.

In the camp, Ms. Xiang was forced to watch video that slandered Falun Dafa. She was not allowed to sleep and underwent continuous brainwashing sessions. The guards tried to force her to sign statements which renounced Falun Dafa.

When Ms. Xiang refused to wear a prisoners uniform, several guards started beating her. When she fell down, the guards held her down and continued beating her. They bent her fingers backward and almost broke them. The beating started at 7 a.m. and lasted until after 10 p.m. When the guards got tired, they ordered inmates to continue the beating. The prisoners who worked hard to beat practitioners received commendations and reduced sentences.

Ms. Xiang went on a hunger strike for almost two months. During that time, 22 people took turns to force-feed her. As a result, her mouth and nose bled continuously.

One day, several guards took Ms. Xiang to a bathroom and tried to force-feed her with feces. Later, the guards tried to force a piece of paper with Teacher's name on it into her pants. She struggled even harder. Then, she was beaten until she was severely injured and disfigured. Her cell mates could not bear to look at her when she was sent back.

When a practitioner publicized how Ms. Xiang was tortured in the camp on the Internet, agents from the Kunshan 610 Office and the Domestic Security Division sentenced the practitioner to two years and took her to Jurong Women's Forced Labor Camp.

On scorching hot summer days, guards forced practitioners to march and exercise outdoors. In the freezing cold of winter, practitioners were forced to stand in windy locations.

Ms. Xiang refused to renounce her belief in Falun Dafa, so her sentence was extended for three months. She was not released until November 18, 2001. However, authorities continued persecuting her. She was subjected to two brainwashing sessions--once in Kunshan City, the other time in the Shangfangshan Brainwashing Center in Suzhou City.

Although many years have passed, Ms. Xiang and her husband are still monitored and followed by officers and agents from the 610 Office.

Those actively participating in the persecution:

The Kunshan City 610 Office
Guan Zuxing, former head of the 610 Office
Sun Ming, guard
Shen Ping
Tao Xiaoyu, current head of the 610 Office

Jurong Woman's Forced Labor Camp in Jiangsu Province
Niu Zhongping, director
Xu Ping and Han Xiaoxi, deputy directors