I think the urging coming from international society has something to do with that. I think the calls the Canadian government made had an impact on the Chinese government. It applied pressure. If people have nobody behind them making these calls, they will wait until they die. If for a period of 10 years there were voices calling for my release, they would know not to kill me. They would say, “Okay, I'll make you suffer. I'll torture you, but I won't kill you.” Otherwise, they would be under enormous pressure from international society. That's why, when they saw that I was about to die, they took me to the hospital, so that I could go on living.
I saw with my own eyes the police.... The police would not use their own fists to beat us. They would use those murderers who are in jail. These people form a monitoring group that watches over other people who are in prison, especially the Falun Gong practitioners. All these physical abuses were carried out by these people in that group. The police never beat us; they did not do it themselves with their own fists.
The physical abuse was extreme. For example, there was a man whose genitals were beaten until they fell apart. It was inhuman. They would tie you on the bed and pour feces on you. These types of inhuman behaviours are not uncommon. It's hard for a normal person to imagine it. They would be applied to either a man or a woman.
The urging of the Canadian government has an impact and applies pressure on the Chinese government. I was a result of it. I would like to thank you for it.
There was another person. When they put the wire in his stomach, they had to actually open his stomach to take the bits out of his stomach. This is extreme.
There's a person by the name of Xin Foo Goo. After they opened up his stomach to take the residue out, they did not even give him anesthetic. Can you imagine how much he suffered? This happens too much in China every day.