Excerpt from a report by the United Nations High Commisioner for Human Rights
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YOKO KANEKO, of the Association of World Citizens, said that, as a member of
Falun Gong, she had been held hostage in China for 548 days by the regime of
Jiang Zemin. In those months, she had been moved back and forth from police
stations to a detention centre to various hospitals, then to a labour camp.
Among other mistreatment, there had been attempts, at the hospital, to make
her renounce her beliefs, including through handcuffing her so tightly she
was cut and bled, force feeding and the insertion of a catheter. She had
subsequently been sentenced to one and one-half years forced labour
reeducation. In the labour camp, she had been deprived of sleep and
subjected to brainwashing. She had almost gone blind and had begun having
heart trouble. However, she had been treated fairly easily in comparison to
other Falun Gong practitioners, as it was known she had married a Japanese
man. The possibility of being tortured to death hung over the detainees at
every moment. Today, more than 951 Falun Gong practitioners had been
confirmed dead, more than 100,000 had been sent to labour camps and prisons,
several thousand had been sent to mental hospitals and countless others had
been forced to attend brainwashing classes. The persecution had done much
damage, was it not time to bring it to an end?
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