Witnessing History

Michael Connolly
Sep 18
1 min read

Witnessing History: One Chinese Woman's Fight for Freedom by Jennifer Zeng, Soho Press, 2006.

The author was sent to a women’s labor camp in Southern Beijing in 2000 as punishment for being a member of Falun Gong. At this camp she was forced to knit sweaters, deprived of sleep, and tortured by women guards with electric cattle prods.

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