I first meet Ms. Wang Haiyan in Beijing on July 20, 1999. We both had traveled to Tiananmen Square to peacefully appeal for Falun Dafa. At that time, her eyes were beautiful and shining. In November 2002, Wang was sent to the Third Division in Guangzhou City's Chatou Forced Labor Camp. I met her there as I too was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor for practicing Falun Dafa.

When I saw her in the forced labor camp; however, she looked totally different. She was being held up by two people, and she could not see out of either eye. Her right eyeball was sunken and had shrunk, and the black pupil of her right eye had completely turned white. She had great difficulty walking and was unable to look after herself. Though she had been barbarously abused, the forced labor camp still arbitrarily locked her up in the guardhouse. This made her injuries worse.

When Wang was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment and became conscious again, the police threatened her at once, trying to prevent her from telling the true details to the doctor about her injuries. Then she lapsed into unconsciousness. After emergency intervention, she regained consciousness. She was in pain and tired, and her body and mind were traumatized. Wang temporarily lost her memory. One of the doctors told her that the tissue of her eyeball and optic nerve were damaged, and there were several bruises on her brain. Additionally, her left eardrum was damaged, and she lost the ability to hear in one ear. There were black and blue marks and blood all over her body, and she had contusions on several parts of her soft tissue. The doctors wanted to know more about her injuries, but the police dragged them away.

After a round of emergency treatments and examinations, the doctors suggested to arrange for her to stay in the hospital for careful treatment. But the policemen from "610 Office" instead ordered the doctors to disconnect the intravenous tubes and make arrangements for her to leave immediately. Then she was sent to Guangzhou City Dongshan District Detention Center, where the administrator refused to accept her due to the seriousness of her injuries.

In order to get the detention center to accept Wang, the city "610 Office" enforcers and the officers from the police station sent her to the armed police hospital and forced the doctor to issue a certain certificate and obtained some medicines for her. They took the chance when the detention chief was off work to have her admitted and illegally detained her in the detention center for almost four months. During the first month she had to totally rely on others to look after her. She could not walk, and could not see anything. She requested medical treatment several times, but was refused, simply because she was a Falun Gong practitioner. Eventually her injuries deteriorated and she suffered headaches and eye pain every day. She often felt such harsh pain that her body trembled and she could not sleep, night after night. Eventually her right eye became blind, and the eyesight in her left eye declined very quickly to the point that she could not see clearly with that eye either.

She did not know that she had been sentenced to two years of forced labor until she was forcibly sent to the Guangzhou Chatou Forced Labor Camp at the beginning of November 2002. She was locked up in the guardhouse, during which time she was tortured again. She was deprived of sleep, dragged from the bed, and brainwashed with defamatory materials. The guards kept torturing her around the clock in order to coerce her to give up her Falun Dafa practice. Soon afterwards, Wang's family applied for medical release and came to take her home.