While held at a Chinese labor camp, Henry Yue was forced to wind metal coils used in television sets, day in and day out. The grueling conditions were such that blood would sometimes gush out from Yue’s nose, leaving large crimson patches on his blue-and-white striped prison uniform.
The first time it happened, Yue held up his head and patted his forehead for about a minute to stop the bleeding. There was so much blood that even on the second day he was coughing it out.
Yue was at a facility in eastern China’s Tianjin city serving a 1.5-year sentence in 2001 as a punishment for doing Falun Gong’s meditative exercises during a “brainwashing” session, a program mandated by the communist regime designed to coerce adherents of the spiritual practice to renounce their faith….