A Chinese woman braved through hellish abuse and physical assault to honor her spiritual belief rooted in the universal principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. Li Erying, of Qiqihar city, in Heilongjiang province, China, was incarcerated for four years without her family’s knowledge in a trial that she herself knew nothing about until she was taken to the court. She was persecuted endlessly for refusing to give up her faith or submit to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) draconian atheistic ideologies. The torture she endured included being brutally beaten by criminal inmates to the point that she was on the brink of death and being force-fed for a long period of time. Li, who began practicing the self-cultivation practice of Falun Gong (or Falun Dafa) in 1996, has been arrested multiple times and sent to forced labor camps twice. The communist regime didn’t even spare her family members, who have …