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At the end of 2002, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gong Zihui from Miyi County, Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province went to Beijing to appeal to the government for the right to practice Falun Gong and freedom of belief. However, she was arrested and escorted back to her hometown. She was then sent to Zizhong Women’s Forced Labor Camp. After she was released, she became homeless to avoid police harassment.
After the persecution started in 1999, she was detained once at the Neijiang Detention Center in Sichuan Province. At the detention center, the police instigated cellmates to beat her, grab her hair, and bang her against the wall while pinching her. Eventually her whole body turned black and blue. She went on a hunger strike for 42 days to protest the persecution. At that time, police injected a red toxic chemical into her body every day. Gong Zihui said that after the chemical was injected she felt pain all over. The pain inside of her body was even more excruciating causing such agony that she lay on the ground rolling from side to side without end.
After 42 days had passed, the police at the Neijiang Detention Center saw that Gong was about the die, so they notified her husband to come and get her. When her husband arrived he found that she was barely breathing, and she was just skin and bones.
Now she is still alive and she has survived after continuing her Falun Gong practice. However, the side effect of the toxic substance that was injected in her still causes her to suffer from time to time. She can feel pain all over her body at any time. When her muscles hurt, it causes her head to twist. She sometimes has difficulty breathing because she feels a lot of pressure around her heart, and her other internal organs suffer as well. type=Case, Women; type=Case, Toture; type=Case, Psychiatric Torture; |
