(Minghui.org) Ms. Yao Yufen, 66, in Baishan City, Jilin Province, is serving a four-year prison term because she practices Falun Gong, Minghui.org learned recently.
Ms. Yao was sentenced around late 2024. She has over two years left to finish her term. Details of her arrest, indictment, trial, and sentencing are unknown.
According to an insider, Ms. Yao is being held in Cell Seven of the Eighth Division in the Jilin Province Women’s Prison. Head inmate Dai Yu, who was convicted of fraud and is serving a 12-year term, was instructed by the guards to monitor and torture her.
Dai forced Ms. Yao to sit still on a small stool with a bumpy surface all day, with her hands in her lap. During the hot summer Dai made her wear warm clothes and did not give her any water to drink.
She tortured Ms. Yao this way from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day. When Ms. Yao was finally allowed to go to bed, she was ordered to do night duty from 11 p.m. to midnight. After one hour of sleep, she had to get up again at 1 a.m. to cover someone else’s night duty for almost two hours. She finally lay down at 3 a.m. but had to wake up at 4 a.m. to begin the sitting torture again.
Ms. Yao was not allowed to sleep if Dai saw her dozing off during night duty. The long-term sleep deprivation wrecked havoc on her mental health, and she became dazed.
Dai also did not give Ms. Yao enough food to eat or allow her to use a comforter during when it was cold. She had to ask permission before she used the restroom. Whether she was given toilet paper depended on Dai’s mood. Dai even poured cold water on her bed.
An inmate saw Dai suddenly kick Ms. Yao from behind while she was made to sit on the small stool. She was knocked over and could not get up for a long time because her hands and feet were swollen after sitting for hours and she was weak. Dai and another inmate swore at her when they pulled her up.
Dai’s verbal abuse of Ms. Yao irritated the other inmates, and they asked to be switched to a different cell.
Ms. Dai spent the first few decades of her life dealing with various diseases. She had a lung disease when she was a child. She recovered but was left with calcified lungs. At 16, she contracted scarlet fever and suffered a perforated eardrum as a result. She became deaf and had to read lips. No treatments helped. She was diagnosed with bile duct stones at the age of 26. The medications she took caused severe allergic reactions, and her doctors warned her the side effects could be life-threatening if she continued using them.
In the spring of 1996, Ms. Yao developed a breast tumor that caused fever and pain. The condition worsened in the winter of 1997. Her breast became red, swollen, and suppurated. She couldn’t lift her arm, and she had fever, nausea, and weakness. She even had fainting spells.
Two elderly people came to her vendor counter in a shopping mall and suggested that she try Falun Gong. She heeded their advice, and all her ailments disappeared in seven days.
After the communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Yao was put on around-the-clock surveillance, with people monitoring her outside her home and at her vendor counter, even during holidays.
She was arrested at home on May 8, 2001, after being reported for telling someone “Falun Dafa is good.” After she was detained for almost seven weeks, she was given two years of forced labor and driven to the Heizuizi Labor Camp. The camp refused to admit her because of her health issues.
The police then took her to a prison hospital. Several doctors decided to do a biopsy on her breast. She objected to the procedure because she was allergic to anesthesia, but they ignored her. At the first incision, she bled profusely. The head nurse drew a small amount of her blood and stitched her up.
Ms. Yao was then taken to the labor camp, which admitted her despite her condition. The guards forced her to sit on a small stool from 5 a.m. to midnight. Event though she was allergic to medications, they instructed the inmates to hold her down to give her injections. She was not told what the injections were, but her teeth loosened on the first day. An incisor fell out on the second day, and she lost another tooth on the third day.
Ms. Yao became confused after the injections. The labor camp guards ordered her to sign their prepared statements to renounce Falun Gong. She refused to comply, so they shocked the incisions on her breast with an electric baton. Her wound bled, and her right side turned black. Her throat was injured and she could not drink.
The labor camp sent her back to the police department in Baishan City over five weeks later. The police, fearing that she might die in their custody, released her, then placed her under residential surveillance. She read the Falun Gong teachings and did the exercises. Three days later she walked into the police department to attest to the miraculous power of Falun Gong. The police couldn’t believe that she'd recovered in just three days.
On May 3, 2012, a woman in her 60s came to Ms. Yao’s vendor counter and said she had no money to see a doctor about her health problems. Ms. Yao suggested she try practicing Falun Gong.
The woman returned a few days later and complained about the same thing. She came a third time, this time with several police officers.
The police handcuffed Ms. Yao and searched her vendor counter. They also broke into her home and confiscated all her appliances and flashlights.
The detention center refused to admit Ms. Yao due to her health issues, and she was released that night.
The police arrested Ms. Yao again at her vendor counter in November 2014 and dragged her from the third floor to the first floor. She became incontinent and her heart stopped momentarily. The police nonetheless took her to the police department and handcuffed her. Her heart stopped once again.
Ms. Yao had allergic reactions to the drugs they used when her blood was drawn. Her arm swelled up, her heart was affected, and she had a convulsion and lost consciousness. After she was resuscitated, the police called her family to take her home.
Ms. Yao recovered by practicing Falun Gong. She was beyond grateful that Falun Gong saved her life once again.