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Sixty-Year-Old Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Xu Guixia Tortured on Tiger Bench for Three Days in Huichun City

February 21, 2011 |   By a Clearwisdom correspondent in Jilin Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Xu Guixia is a 60-year-old practitioner in Huichun City, Jilin Province. Li Shaohong and five other agents from Huichun Domestic Security Division arrested Ms. Xu at home on the morning of January 13, 2011. They ransacked her home and confiscated all Falun Gong materials and other personal belongings. While she was illegally detained, agents tortured her on a Tiger Bench for three consecutive days—a very painful experience—and then sent her to a forced labor camp. Ms. Xu suffered tremendously during this time.

Since the CCP began to persecute Falun Gong 11 years ago, on numerous occasions Ms. Xu has been harassed, arrested, detained, sent to labor camps, and brutally beaten. She has suffered tremendously both physically and mentally.

Four officers from the Huichun Domestic Security Division and the Guangmingjie Police Station went to Ms. Xu’s home at 9 a.m. on September 11, 2008, and searched everywhere without permission. She asked, “Do you have a search permit?” The agents said carelessly, “No, but this is a special situation.” They arrested her and confiscated her Falun Gong books and some personal belongings. After taking her to the police station, they took her to a detention center at 4:00 p.m.

Five days later, someone came and told her to sign a document, but she refused. Two agents from the Domestic Security Division then handcuffed her and took her out of the detention center. Ms. Xu shouted, “I am innocent! This is unlawful persecution! Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!”

They took Ms. Xu to a police van. One agent came up and slapped her in the face, “Are you going to you keep shouting?” With those words, he covered her head with a big cloth bag. In a short time, Ms. Xu was suffocating and could not breathe.

When the police van stopped, they took Ms. Xu to a room and began to shock her with an electric baton. There were many people in the room and they began to beat her. Her head was covered with the bag and she did not know the identity of those who beat her. They especially hit her head, face, and ears and also kicked her legs. Her face was swollen and her ears were ringing. One agent from the Domestic Security Division punched Ms. Xu in the forehead really hard. (Many days later her forehead still hurt.) The handcuffs were very tight, leaving deep marks on her wrists.

They beat Ms. Xu from 10:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. They asked her, “Where did you go on September 11?” She said, “I was already in custody on September 11.” They did not listen and continued to beat her. In the end, seeing that she would not give in, they had to send her back to the detention center.

Fifteen days later Ms. Xu was sentenced to one year of forced labor and sent to Heizuizi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. The labor camp did not accept her because she had high blood pressure. Police sent her back to the Huichun City Detention Center and extorted money from her family.

Ms. Xu follows the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She did not break the law nor commit any wrongdoings. It is the CCP officials and police agents who unlawfully went to her home, took away her personal belongings, arrested her, detained her, and tortured her. Why is the CCP afraid of an elderly lady like Ms. Xu?

Over the past 11 years of persecution, Ms. Xu and her family have suffered tremendously, both physically and mentally, for no good reason. This must end now.