Ms. Liu Xiaolian, female, 61, is a resident of Chibi Town, Chibi City, Hubei Province. In December of 2000, she was detained at a labor camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province because she went to Beijing’s Central Government Appeal Office to appeal for Falun Gong practitioners’ rights of practicing.

During her detention, she was denied drinking water for nine days and police stomped on her back. Later she was escorted to a detention center in her hometown. She was detained at the detention center for 20 months and suffered various forms of torture. She was never allowed a family visit or a full night’s sleep. Once she was forced to kneel down on the ground for twelve hours. She was so heavily pummeled that she lost consciousness several times. As a result of the severe torture, Ms. Liu could not even walk, sit down, eat, move, or get up, and she lost vision in both of her eyes. Once Officer Ye Jun beat her up and kicked her lower abdomen with his boots so hard that her internal organs were severely damaged and she had to be sent to a hospital for treatment. As a result of the torture, her lower abdomen has remained swollen for more than two years; she vomited blood and had blood in her stool for one month and during a second period for more than two weeks. On the way to the hospital, she was handcuffed underneath her clothes; the guard squeezed the handcuffs tighter and tighter until Ms. Liu cried out from the pain. In the hospital, despite her injuries and blindness, she was forcibly injected a poisonous substance that caused her to have blood in her stool again. She was released only after she went on a hunger strike. However, she was still closely monitored at home and arrested again once her eyesight recovered.