Famous Chinese Calligrapher Survives the Most Vicious Torture – IOTW Report

Famous Chinese Calligrapher Survives the Most Vicious Torture

The inmates used a wide variety of methods to torture Liu, including pouring salt water on his wounds and then rubbing the wounds with a brush, inserting a burning cigarette into his nose, burning his skin with a lighter, pricking his fingers and toes with a needle, wiping chemicals in his eyes, or force-feeding him with filthy water from the bathroom.

Epoch Times:

The six-day exhibition showcasing the works of renowned calligrapher Liu Xitong was a well-received success. Thousands of people visited the exhibit, held in the Publishing Art Hall in Qingdao City, and the media widely reported on it.

But Liu made a worrisome observation: throughout the exhibition, several plainclothes policemen were loitering about, mingling with the crowd.

A few days after the exhibition ended, Liu was arrested. The home he shared with his wife was ransacked and many of his calligraphy works were confiscated.

This was just one of the more than 20 times over 16 years that Liu was arrested and detained for practicing Falun Gonga meditation practicehanded down from ancient China that teaches living by the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The Chinese Communist Party initiated a persecution campaign against the practice in 1999 that continues today and has resulted in widespread illegal imprisonment, torture, and death of adherents.

Liu was given a three-year sentence at a forced labor camp in 2003, and a four-year term at the No.1 Shandong Provincial Prison in 2008, according to Minghui.org.

What he went through in those years defies imagination. more

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