What's up with this group, are they using "persecution" as a sales tool or is the PRC really persecuting them viciously? If so, why? Just statist paranoia?
Their beliefs seem about as innocuous as can be and they seem as harmless as the early Christians. Of course the early Christians were lion food so maybe I've answered my own question.
There, he was subjected to electric shocks, medical tests, forced feedings, beatings, violent sexual assaults and other barbaric forms of torture designed by prison guards to humiliate and inflict maximum pain.
But it was one particularly savage punishment that etched the deepest psychological scar on Liu.
“The incident which marked me the most was when they, four of (the prison guards), stripped me of my clothes, and used the toilet brush to pierce my anus, saying that they would pierce until I turned homosexual,” Liu told news.com.au.
“They pulled my pubic hairs and played with my genitals.”
His only “crime” was to practice Falun Gong, a spiritual meditation based on the guiding principles of “truth, compassion and tolerance.”