(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa practitioner Ms. Xu Xiuwen in Chongqing City was persecuted because of her steadfast faith in Falun Dafa. Police in Nanquan Police Station cruelly tortured her in order to extract a confession. She was later imprisoned in Banan District Detention Center and Yongchuan Prison, and persecuted for three and half years before she was released. Her body was severely injured.

Ms. Xu Wenxiu is 65 years old and lives at 5 Youth Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing City. After the CCP began persecuting Dafa in July 1999, Ms. Xu went to Beijing to appeal for justice on December 29, 1999. It was then that she was illegally arrested and imprisoned in Liziba Detention Center located in the center of the city for nearly a month.

Under high pressure from the CCP, Ms. Xu's workplace put her under house arrest for three months, beginning on May 8, 2000. On January 25, 2001, because she made several banners proclaiming "Falun Dafa is Good", Ms. Xu was arrested again by the Nanquan police. The Nanquan Police Station set up a torture room, where the police handcuffed Ms. Xu's hands behind her back. Liu Xianghai, Yang Daibing, and two other officers interrogated, beat, and cursed at her, demanding that she reveal who had encouraged her to make the banners. When Ms. Xu did not answer, the police raised her cuffed hands that were still behind her back, which caused her hands to swell and suffer very badly. They tortured her for several days and nights, denying her food and sleep. After those several days, the handcuffs cut into her flesh. Both of her hands became paralyzed from the persecution, and she has not been able to take care of herself since then.

Later, Ms. Xu was imprisoned in Banan District Detention Center for a year and a half. She was forced to sleep on the dampest area of ground everyday. When it rained hard, her quilt became so drenched that water could be wrung out of it.

She was later imprisoned in Yongchuan Women's Prison. After being tortured for so long, she became severely sick. Her lower abdomen swelled and she could not eat, drink, or move. However, the guards still forced her to work. Only after realizing that she was dying did they take her to a hospital for emergency treatment. She was not released until she had been tortured for three and half years, even though she was the caretaker for her 95-year-old mother and her husband, who was almost 80 years old.

August 5, 2006