(Minghui.org) According to a Falun Gong practitioner who was recently released from the Hebei Province Women’s Prison, two other practitioners jailed there were driven insane after repeated torture.
One of the practitioners is Ms. Wang Ruiling, around 73, from Tangshan City, Hebei Province, who is serving an eight-year term. She was illegally arrested during a group arrest on July 6, 2019 and sentenced at an unknown date. She was admitted to the prison on April 16, 2021. Minghui.org previously reported that the prison guards beat her three times a day and the floor of her cell was covered in blood splatters. They slammed her head against the wall and poured cold water over her. When she refused to open her mouth to be force-fed unknown drugs, they pried her mouth open, and in the process knocked out some of her teeth.
Despite the brutal torture, Ms. Wang refused to renounce her faith. In retaliation the prison did not allow her family to visit her. Her family made numerous requests to see her, but were always told that, “No transformation, no visits.”
The insider who was recently released from the prison revealed that Ms. Wang was tortured to insanity, and she cried and screamed every day. Another practitioner, nicknamed Xiao Ai (real name unknown), also had a mental breakdown after repeated torture. The unmarried woman in her 30s exhibited the same symptoms as Ms. Wang.
The prison guards threatened other practitioners that they’d be tortured to either insanity or death, like Ms. Wang and Xiao Ai, if they refused to renounce Falun Gong.
Those who submitted under pressure were then forced to “work on” steadfast practitioners. When the steadfast practitioners refused to yield, the guards beat those who were transformed. Some steadfast practitioners renounced their faith against their will in order to stop the beating of those former practitioners.
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