sexual torture

Despite torture being officially forbidden in China, it is widely and systematically used across the country’s vast prison system, human rights organizations say.

Gao had travelled to several provinces to investigate abuses against practitioners while they were detained, and he included some of their accounts in the letter.

After acclaimed human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng began investigating the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign of persecution against adherents of the Falun Dafa spiritual practice, he was horrified at the scale of the brutality.