Shocking Video Footage Captures Woman Near Death after Two Years of Torture(Photos)

Emaciated Falun Gong practitioner
is spared being cremated alive after her case is exposed via the Internet

30-year-old Ms. Wang Xia pictured before the persecution of Falun Gong started in China (left). After two years of torture (right), prison authorities gave her up for dead, demanding her family to take her home to die.

LOS
ANGELES (FDI) – Video footage smuggled out of Inner Mongolia shows the skeletal
body of Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xia. Two years of torture have reduced
her frame to 20 kilos and left her fading in and out of consciousness.

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At one point in the video, in a rare moment when Ms.
Wang is conscious enough to speak, she struggles to say: “they persecuted my body,
so it has now turned into this kind of state … they persecuted me for two years.”

Ms.
Wang was sentenced to seven years in jail for distributing information about Falun
Gong. At Inner Mongolia’s Huhhot City Prison she was tied to a bed with all four
limbs stretched out, hung, and shocked with electric batons.

Seeing
that she was on the verge of death, the prison guards who were frustrated with
her refusal to sign statements renouncing Falun Gong sought to cremate Ms. Wang
alive.

According to witnesses, the head of the “610
Office” refused, saying: “Her story was published on Minghui [website]; we
can’t let her die in prison.” Minghui is a Chinese-language website that carries
daily detailed reports on the persecution of Falun Gong, often including the names
and phone numbers of perpetrators. The English version of Minghui is www.clearwisdom.net.

The
610 Office head told the guards to tell Ms. Xia’s family to take her home. “If
she dies there we’ll say she committed suicide,” he reportedly said.

At
home, however, not only did Ms. Wang, 30, continue living, but pictures of her
emaciated body were soon also posted online, followed by the recently obtained
video (see above for link).

In the video Ms. Wang is shown
lying on her back as the camera zooms in on several scars above her knees left
by ropes. A child, perhaps her four-year-old son, can be heard crying in the background.
Ms. Wang sits up to reveal a large protrusion at the bottom of her spine, and
the video footage captures Ms. Wang’s weak frame tilting and collapsing to her
side.

Currently, police and the local 610 Office (about)
are threatening to send Ms. Wang, who still goes in and out of coma, back to detention.

Posting
date: 12/Oct/2004
Original article date: 11/Oct/2004
Category: News from
China