Chinese House Church Leaders First Time Testify at UN, Video Testimony from Tortured Women Believers Released [China Aid]
Cao Hongmei testimony:
“They questioned me for about a month. When I didn’t answer them, they would use different kinds of ways to torture me. For instance, they hung my two hands up on the door frame, and my feet couldn’t touch the floor. My hands and shoulder became numb. They used a sharpened bamboo stick to beat my hands and shoulder. I couldn’t bear this tremendous pain any more so I began to scream, but they didn’t allow me to do so. They threatened me, “If you keep on shouting, we will stuff your mouth and make you shut up.” Every time they hung me, it would last at least half an hour, sometimes even one hour. All together, they have hung me about a whole day.
They also threatened me, saying, “We can beat you to death, and throw you into the Han River, or dig a hole somewhere to bury you. Who will question us about that? You count for nothing. They went on to say, “Don’t you know? A South China Church believer has been beaten to death by the police in Zhong Xiang, just because she kept silent and didn’t confess. After her death, nobody has come to us asking for an account. So we also can beat you to death, because you little believers count for nothing.”
All they wanted from me was a false testimony. They said, “If you just confess according to what we tell you, I will release you and let you go.”
I kept silent. They saw this didn’t work, so they tried another way to torture me. They used handcuffs to pound my fingers. One of them would hold my elbow, and the other one used a pair of handcuffs to hammer my fingers. My fingers began to bleed and my fingernails began to break but they were not fully satisfied. Then they used a cigarette lighter to burn my fingers. All my fingernails had been burned, and you still can see the scars here. My middle fingernail was totally broken, and this is the newly grown one.
Not only did they burn my fingernails, they also use the lighter to burn my ears, my face, and my lips. They used all these tortures forcing me to confess that I had sexual relationship with Pastor Gong Shengliang.
[full story including two more testimonies]
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