(Warning: GRAPHIC PHOTOS) [This is an updated article of the original article published on December 2, 2005.]
Three days after the U.N. special rapporteur on torture arrived in China to investigate human rights abuses, two female Falun Gong practitioners were violently raped at the Dongchengfang Town Police Station in Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province. Graphic photos of the women show deep, large bruises all over their lower bodies.
Police from Dongchengfang Town Police Station, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province, took the two Falun Gong practitioners into custody on Nov. 24 under the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) official, but unconstitutional, policy of persecuting Falun Gong.
According to firsthand reports from one of the victims, Ms. Liu Jizhi, 51, she and Ms. Han Yuzhi, 42, were raped by a policeman named He Xuejian while in police custody. Encouraged by a fellow policeman to “beat her up,” officer He sexually assaulted Ms. Liu despite her pleas to stop. According to Ms. Liu, the assault escalated until the officer violently raped her.
