China forcing prisoners of conscience into organ donation
Dai Ying, a middle-aged Chinese woman, has fake front teeth. She says she lost her real ones when guards at a Chinese prison forced her to end a hunger strike by ramming a screwdriver between her clenched teeth. Her fingers are also deformed. She says that’s because the guards forced her and other prisoners to make leather shoes each day from 7:30 a.m. to midnight. She’s also blind in her left eye, a result of guards repeatedly shocking her with electric prods.
Her crime? Refusing to recant her belief in Falun Gong, a banned spiritual movement in China based on Buddhism and qigong exercises.
Dai calmly described these experiences from her stay in a Chinese prison from 2000 to 2005 as she sat in front of the China Tribunal in London last December. Headed by Sir Geoffrey Nice, a prosecutor at the UN criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the China Tribunal was initiated by the International...
E. A. Johnston | 10/6/2012
