MELBOURNE, Australia—The husband of a female Falun Gong practitioner has called on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to immediately release his wife following an horrendous account of sexual torture used against her by CCP “trained personnel.”
Speaking at a press conference outside the Chinese Consulate in Melbourne on Aug. 15, the women’s husband Qi Xiong detailed the torture his wife Jiang Yongqin—52-year-old university lecturer, and mother-of-three—went through as she was coerced into renouncing her faith in Falun Gong, an ancient spiritual practice that is currently banned in China.
“Between 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. on July 7 or 8, the police covered my wife’s head with a black hood, put earplugs in her ears and dragged her from the hotel to a secret location, where she was sexually assaulted by the officers. They used a grave new form of torture called the “toolbox,” which contained toothpicks, instruments, medicine bottles, wires, aphrodisiacs, and other torture devices, all of which were designed to inflict excruciating pain upon the victim,” Qi said….