Testimony of sister Li Ying

China Aid Association
Li Ying, Christian name Li Enhui, female, of Han nationality, was born on February 8, 1965 of the lunar calendar, in Houzhuang Village, Guangsi Brigade, Xuzhai Township, Zaoyang City, Hubei Province. She did not graduate from middle school. She was arrested at a reception household in Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province on the morning of May 27, 2001 and detained at the Jingmen City Penitentiary, Hubei Province. She was sentenced to death penalty with 2 year reprieve at the first trial on December 19 to 21, 2001. Later she was re-sentenced at the second trial to 15 years imprisonment on October 9 to 10, 2002. Currently she is serving her sentence at Sub-section 2, Section 3 of the Wuhan Women’s Prison, Hubei Province.      
Sister Li Ying is the eldest daughter of five siblings in the family, with 3 younger sisters and one younger brother. She and her second youngest and youngest sisters are all engaged in evangelical outreach services outside of their home village. She is the fourth generation Christian since her great grandmother. The grandmother of Li Ying’s mother was a devout Christian and used to the local church and listened to the preaching of missionaries from overseas. She was so good at singing hymns that her singing was recorded by the missionaries and brought abroad. Li Ying’s Grandmother Li Chun’ai was also a devoted Christian and often received preachers and believers at her house. In addition she also has a younger uncle who is transparent to God, has a clear and staunch faith, and understanding of God’s will. Her younger uncle is Rev. Gong, the founder of the South China Church. The faith of her grand parents and her uncle has influenced her faith in Jesus Christ and her commitment to sacrificing herself to evangelical work and embarking on the path of the Cross ever since her childhood and later in her life.   
Li Ying’s mother Gong Shuqin was born in a church at Cangtai Street, Cangtai Township, Tangxian County of Henan Province. A pastor named her Ruth, intending that she would be closely following God and receiving God’s blessings like Ruth did in the Bible. Mother usually attended church worship gatherings with grandmother ever since her childhood. When she reached age 21, mother married Li Wenju, Li Ying’s father, through a matchmaker. Back at that time Li Ying’s father did not believe in the Lord yet and, being the only son of grandmother and spoiled since early childhood, did not like to work or care about people. Moreover, grandmother was domineering and biased and she loved only her son but not her daughter-in-law, so Li Ying’s mother was often ill treated at the hands of Li’s family. She did not have time to attend worship or practice her faith since marriage, yet she thought she should have testimonial life as a Christian and act like salt and light in the family. Therefore she always endured everything. Father did not take care of the family at the spoiling of grandmother. Though he was born in a peasant’s family, he could not and would not till the land. He was not good at plowing, sowing, or harvesting. Mother had a tough personality and would not lag behind anybody, so she shouldered the heavy duty of farming the land.     
Though Li Ying was the first born, nobody liked in the family. She was sent to her grandmother’s home at about one year old, and taken care of by her two aunts and younger uncle. She spent her infantry at her grandmother’s home. Her elder younger sister was born when she was one year old, and her second younger sister and younger brother followed soon afterward. Mother had to work in the land to support the family, so 7 year old Li Ying had to look after the younger ones. When she reached the age of 8, she had to go to school carrying her younger brother on her back and took care of him while studying. Nevertheless she was still the best pupil in her class. The poverty of her family taught her thriftiness since childhood and she treasured every piece of pencil and other school utensils. She would pick up three baskets of firewood for cooking the three meals at home everyday, when her younger brother grew older. During summer vacation she had to cut grasses to feed sheep, cows and pigs, and even traded in her grasses and sometimes helped grown-ups thresh wheat on the threshing ground in the evening to supplement family income and alleviate difficulty.          
Her youngest sister was born when she was 9 years old. Her father also believed in Christ and adhered to the doctrine of restraining himself in fasting. He was very enthusiastic after converting to God and served outside all the time. The household chores naturally fell on Li Ying as the eldest daughter who was still young and thin and slim. She was influenced by her parents’ devout devotion to God, especially her mother. She began to simulate her mother in fasting for a week. Her mother practiced fasting frequently, and once fasted for 40 days without eating anything. While Li Ying was at school she kept reading the Bible and singing hymns at spare time and observed Sunday worship. She particularly liked to read the Bible and sing songs praising the Lord. She would sit by the preachers who came to her house and asked them to tell stories about Jesus and teach her to sing songs. She was often moved to tears while listening. She admired preachers and dreamed of herself becoming one some day in the future.          
She was intelligent, aspiring to study and hard working, so she never felt difficult at exams. The middle school graduation exams would be very easy for her. However, she did not pass because somebody else took her deserved position. Though she earnestly desired to continue schooling, she had to suspend her education because her parents could not support all children at school, and the family had a debt of RMB600. She did not want to burden her mother, so she left school to return home helping her mother working to support her younger sisters and brother in school. In 1982 the farming production was allocated to households and her family received 4 acres of responsibility land. Since her father still preferred to evangelize outside the house, she and her mother carried out all the farming work of the household. Sometimes she had to join in team work on quarrying, ditch digging and dike building. All these did not dampen her enthusiasm to the Lord and she read the Bible whenever she had time. She never missed Sunday worship and she attended Bible study sessions.            
Christian believers were targets of the 1983 severe crackdown on crimes nationwide. Her father was captured and detained in the penitentiary on July 8 because of faith in Christ. Mother could not withstand this heavy strike and, plus her originally ailing health, was unable to farm the land any longer. Li Ying and her elder younger sister supported this family in crisis by taking up all the farm work in the land. Besides, she had to visit her father at the county prison and bring him supplies bicycling a dozen miles or more. She was engaged to a brother in Christ by a matchmaker at age 19 in 1984. At that time many people admired the brother for finding such a sister with pious devotion to the Lord and skillful in household chores, and deemed marrying Li Ying an honor to the family. However, this marriage was later revoked due to her dedication to the evangelical ministry for salvation and blessing.                 
As she grew older she still liked to go to her grandmother’s home and often attended Sunday worship at her younger uncle’s home, because she liked her younger uncle, and to see the preachers staying at uncle’s house. In March 1985 Li Ying got a clear vision of her own salvation under blessing and became even more dedicated to the Lord and strengthened her faith without any doubt. The Lord’s life inside her was also urging her and she felt that it was imperative to repay the Lord’s grace, to preach the Gospel to those suffering and wandering, and water those hungry and thirty souls with the Lord’s Word. All these motivations and passions in her heart compelled her to cast aside the household chores and the family that needed her care, and embark on the road of evangelism. She began to work in coordination with Sister Sun Minghua preaching the Gospel, convening gatherings and leading people to salvation in such places as Lutou, Xinshi, Sanhedian, Taiping, Yangdang, and Zhangguanying of Zaoyang County, Hubei Province and Cangtai of Henan Province. In 1985 she attended a theological training course in the North. After studying about a month or more, due to the need of opening the fields, she was dispatched with a coworker to Mianyang of Sichuan Province sowing the seeds of the Gospel of salvation in the virgin land there. On lunar January 18, 1986 she returned from Sichuan to Huangludian of Henan and attended a session of theological training on God’s calling in March. After completion she worked as theological lecturer of the No.3 school together with Sister Xinxiang. She taught in five terms of theological courses to more than a hundred students in a period of just over two years. Her prayers and preaching during the theological teaching were directly facing the Lord. As she told the coworkers by her side: “I have had the closest relationship with the Lord during these terms of theological teaching. Whenever I thought of the Lord sacrificing himself and shedding his blood and myself being chosen by the Lord, my tears would be rushing out without stopping.” Her knees and foot backs were left with thick layers of callus, which would be admired by some caring people. While she was teaching students, she concentrated her efforts on in-depth studies of the Bible. The students she taught had a purpose in life and embarked on the way of serving the Lord, being dispatched to preach the Gospel of redemption in various places. The second term of theological teaching was conducted at Huangludian, Henan in coordination with Sister Liu Rong. The third term was at Lutou of Zaoyang County, Hubei, also with Sister Liu Rong. The fourth term was at Zhongshan of Zhongxiang, Hubei with Sister Ling Jie. The fifth term was at Huangludian, Henan with two of the students. All the students of this term were originally intended to be dispatched to the South. In the middle she had to lead a workers’ retreat and a Pillars Conference elsewhere and when she came back, the students were transferred and dispatched to the North. At her request, three students were left for dispatching to the South. The situation at that time was that too many coworkers were in the North while there was an urgent need of workers in the South.       
In order to fill in the need of younger workers for evangelism and missionary services in the South and to train local coworkers with solid standing for reinforcing churches there, the Pillar Training Conference was scheduled for May 10-21, 1989 at Pingqiao of Zhongxiang, with Sister Li Ying and Rev. Gong as the lead speakers and more than fifty attendants from Sichuan and various counties of Hubei like Badong, Zaoyang, Chaihu and Zhongxiang, who were designated as the main caretakers of churches in various places. This conference prepared materials and laid solid foundation for the establishment of churches in the South, just as the two meetings presided by Saint Peter had laid the foundation of original churches. Immediately after the Pillar Conference came the summer workers retreat to study the “Complete Grace in Salvation”. Thus a group of preachers had been trained suitable for use by the Lord to preach the complete truth of the Gospel for the Lord. Afterwards, an enlarged Communications Conference was convened at Tianmen, Hubei to witness the blessing aroused by the resurgence of human spirit, and the evangelical mission forged ahead without resistance like a blaze in grassland spreading to Jingshan, Qianjiang, Shashi, Zhongxiang, Jingmen, Guanghua, Jingzhou, Xiantao, and other places of Hubei. She came back on an inspection tour to Sichuan in winter 1989 and had many impressions. She felt even more deeply about the heavy duty of fulfilling God’s mission in this province with vast territories, high mountains, poor people, yet plenty of temples and idols. She made the determination of evangelizing all over Sichuan in three years. In order to achieve this goal, she designed an action plan according to actual guidance by the Holy Spirit, released the messages based on different levels of faith of the coworkers, led and organized the faithful to re-focus on God’s wills, and carried out the heavy tasks of preaching the Gospel to Sichuan and Chongqing. Thus the process was rapidly starting to spread the Gospel all over the place like wild fire, and encountering counter-attacks from Satan wherever there was resurgence. Just as she was to expand evangelical mission according to her vision and the burden inside her heart, she received sad news concerning the life and death of the church and rushed back to the interior of Hubei. She was deeply worried and distressed by the future and fate of the church and attended the yearend workers retreat at Zhongxiang to strengthen coworkers’ footing, and presided at meetings and preaching at various places.          
Seeing that the church was at the edge of collapse by February 1990, Sister Li Ying felt extremely distressed. She could not control herself and cried out loud at a household receiving her in Zaoyang on the evening before the lunar New Year’s Eve, regardless of attempts to comfort her by those around. Finally brothers and sisters sent for her mother who did not know how to comfort her daughter seeing that she was so deeply buried in sorrow. Mother only said: “If you really want to preach the Gospel, just go ahead and do it until nobody will receive you. And then I will accept you if you come back.” She stopped crying right away at mother’s words and felt greatly comforted and encouraged. She coordinated with Rev. Gong to convene an enlarged Communications Conference on December 8, 1990 and divided the church into spots (each with one or two dozens of believers), sections, and communications conferences, and established posts and positions to accomplish service ministries, and reorganized five branch churches (each with one or two dozens of spots) in Tianmen, Chaihu, Zhongxiang, Zaoyang, and Sichuan, to coordinate for preaching together with local followers, thus supplementing deficit in coworkers.     The South China Church being condemned, slandered, and outlawed made her feel downcast and depressed. She attended the 1991 yearend Coworkers Retreat with a suffering and injured heart, and led the coworkers in studying “The Pathway to Truth”. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the dozens of brothers and sisters gradually obtained a clearer understanding of God’s plan that seeks not only the individual salvation through grace, but also the establishment of churches, the expansion of God’s kingdom and implementation of God’s powers so that the kingdoms on earth be turned into Kingdom of the Lord and of Jesus Christ. The coworkers seemed to have dispelled the clouds in their hearts and realized their standings in God’s plan and their tasks granted by history and times. At the juncture when they felt weakened, powerless, hesitating, and crushed, the revelation of God’s salvation plan strengthened their dedication to service and clearly showed them the purpose in life and goals of struggle, and made them willingly sacrifice themselves on the altar of the Lord who died to salvage them. This was the turning point in the lifelong service of every coworker and signaled the entrance of a new historical stage for the South China Church. A vigorous project for implementing salvation was thus launched.        
She went to Sichuan with a fiery heart in late February 1991 to attend the Coworkers Retreat and brighten the heart of every coworker with the flame of salvation. It indicated that the flame of salvation would soon be raging widely throughout Sichuan and their action enraged Satan. By the end of the Retreat the public security police surrounded the meeting house at the tip of someone in the village. The police had somebody curse and humiliate Sister Li Ying and beat her if not obeying orders. She was punished to kneel on the bench for the entire night because she could not perform crouching with her arms stretching backwards. During this raid the police fined each person RMB¥30, and confiscated RMB¥380 from her and RMB¥600 from the reception household. Since the police did not discover any evidence of crime, so they released all of them after some intimidation. Following that she gathered the coworkers in a house and allocated them in matched groups for missionary services. And then she immediately returned to Zaoyang to attend an enlarged Communications Conference for carving out spots and sections and designating deacons for administration, and clearly laid down God’s salvation plan so that the church in Zaoyang could embark on the road of regular services. By the end of the conference, 11 young brothers and sisters dedicated themselves to the evangelical services. Thereafter she was busy engaged in the theological training in April, and in presiding at the summer camp, yearend Coworkers Retreat, and various Pillars Conferences and Communications Conferences during 1991 through July 1992. The conclusion of every meeting brought spiritual inspiration to the attendees and promoted the progress of salvation.                    
After the conclusion of the Coworkers Retreat in July 1992 she shifted focus from presiding at large meetings to external liaison. She visited Song Tianying, the eldest daughter of Song Shangjie, and Elder Yuan Xiangcheng and others in Beijing. After traveling to Handan of Hebei Province, Datong of Shanxi Province, and Beijing, she returned to Taiqian of Henen Province and Yanggu of Shandong Province, conducting preaching while extending contacts. Relying on the gift granted by the Holy Spirit, she courageously gave testimony to the truth of the Lord in these places, and won over many hearts due to the power and effect of God’s Word. The crowd followed her wherever she went. And many followers earnestly requested to accompany her back to Hubei Province for more preaching when she was about to leave for home. Since those who made the request were almost all from the Three-self churches, it would cause her a lot of trouble if the information leaked out. Nevertheless, she was touched by the earnestness of the people seeking truth regardless of long distance and travel expenses, so she would not dare to obstruct the work of the Holy Spirit and brought two dozens of them back to the inland of Hubei to study the “Complete Grace in Salvation”. Those people acquired a clear understanding of the truth and no longer felt confused on their way. This meeting established the solid foundation for the expansion of the Gospel to Henan and Shandong. The tide of salvation would be introduced into Henan and Shandong by the small group, heralding that the Gospel of salvation would be blazing in these two provinces. After the meeting, she led three coworkers to Taiqian of Henan and, assisted by the two dozen followers who heard the truth, convened local faithful to study the “Complete Grace in Salvation”. Those who got enlightened withdrew from the Three-self churches one after another. They elected some of them who had influential power to attend the Communications Conference, and gradually evolved into the Henan and Shandong churches later.       Next she went to preach the truth, plant churches, and implement salvation in Datong, Shanxi Province and gradually built up the embryo of the Shanxi and Inner Mongolia churches. After completion of the Shanxi missionary tour, she returned to Taiqian, Henan and presided at a Pillar Conference for eight days. At the end of the conference, over a dozen of young brothers and sisters registered for theological training, and many followers with families expressed willingness to serve part time. After that she went to Handan, Hebei to visit and consolidate believers, and then returned to Hubei. On July 15, 1993 she returned to Taiqian, Henan to convene a Pillar Conference with about three scores of followers from Henan, Shandong, and the North China Oilfield. After conclusion of the conference she led 18 young brothers and sisters to Shanxi for theological training with about three dozen attendants. After arrangement of the training she returned to Taiqian, Henan to attend an enlarged Communications Conference and formally established the Henan and Shandong churches. Later she substituted teaching at theological training and took charge of dispatching missionaries. After returning from Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, she began attending various Communications Conferences and presided at the Three Parties Conference and yearend Coworkers Retreat and the second level Pillar Conference for next year (1994). She went again to Henan and Shandong in August 1994 to convene Pillar Conference of more than 100 followers for ten days during which she assumed the leading role and did the bulk of teaching while her coworker played a minor part. After returning from Henan and Shandong she took charge of the autumn and winter Coworkers Retreat and the second level Pillar Conference in spring 1995. From autumn 1994 to spring 1996 she was constantly engaged in training coworkers and pillars as the two major channels of expanding the Gospel. On April 4, 1996 she met on her way a coworker who was chased by the police. She came to her rescue by carrying her on her own bike. Unfortunately both of them were captured and detained at Duobao police station in Tianmen. Later she was transferred to the penitentiary to do forced labor for one year. During the period she was working all the time pasting paper boxes until the sentence was served. After release she returned to the church and resumed her work entrusted by God and led brothers and sisters in the studies of “Samuel”, “Ruth”, “Numbers”, “Judges”, “Kings 1 and 2”, “Chronicles 1 and 2”, “Ezra”, “Esther”, “Nehemiah”, and so on.           
At the 605 and 707 conferences in 1997 she exposed herself in public for the sake of the church’s fate and future and for healing the diseases of the multitude, and the church was saved.  With her self sacrifice God gave her a more important role as an author of the Journal. In October 1997 she went with Rev. Gong and two others on a liaison tour to Xiaoshan, Zhejiang Province, and talked with elders in Christ on faith, canons and God’s guidance for the South China Church. She was very eager to unite with the various denominations on the principle of “one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God” to achieve the goal that all peoples can become one in the truth. However, because of the sect’s insistence on its uniqueness and independence, the talk ended with the statement that “your canons and guidelines are good, but not suitable for us”. The failure of this liaison plunged her and the whole church into deep reflection. Finally the Holy Spirit guided her to realize the importance of creating the Journal and she devoted herself to the enormously extensive work of compiling and editing the Journal and books. She sorted out all her preaching and the guidance and revelations given to her by God over the past years, and wrote these into contributions to the Journal. She became the major author and advocate of the Journal, encouraging others to write for the Journal.                
In spring 1998 she went again, entrusted by the church, to Henan and Shandong and convened a conference of 200 caretakers from churches of Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, North China, and Handan. The attendants’ hearts became stimulated and motivated by the Word after the study of “God from eternal to eternal”. They not only knew the consistent will of God for the universe, but also understood the goals that they should have for themselves. As the information got disseminated with the publication of the Journal, the morale of the people was boosted to a new height filled with enthusiasm to God. The previously ignited fire of salvation in this place now found perfect implementation and accomplishment of salvation here through the promotion of books and the Journal. Not only did she encourage others to write, she set an example by plunging herself in writing of books and for the Journal. And three sisters were sent out to learn printing techniques for future tasks of printing the Journal and books.    
After the retreat in autumn 1998 she concentrated on writing for the South China Journal and occasionally presiding at large evangelical meetings. Otherwise she would be absorbed in writing without any distractions from outside of the windows. She went to an enlarged Communications Conference in Inner Mongolia and Shanxi in March 1999 and allocated spots and sections, established deacons and servants, and set up schedules for Communication Conferences of various sections so that the Inner Mongolia and Shanxi churches were put on the right track of ministry. Then she went on a liaison tour to Xilinhaote of Inner Mongolia and came back. She continued writing for the Journal for the most part of 1999 and 2000 and fell ill due to overwork and was hospitalized and operated on. She resumed writing before she got fully recuperated. She designed a daily schedule for herself: getting up every morning at 5, reading a chapter of the Bible and praying, drafting an outline of subject and content for today’s writing, washing and writing for about one hour and having breakfast. She would get down to writing immediately after breakfast. She seemed to have countless words to write and would keep on writing until 11 or 12 midnight to sleep everyday. Once she wrote more than 40,000 characters on Chinese church history in 20 days. She used up countless pencils and piles of paper for writing her manuscripts. The middle finger of her right hand grew a thick layer of callus, and her right shoulder got hurt due to long time of continuous writing. Parts of the manuscripts that she wrote and compiled were published on issues 1 to 48 of the Journal, and the unpublished parts piled to a height of 2 to 3 feet. One sister of a reception family said to her: “Sister Li Ying, I saw that you are thinking of how to write for the Journal all the time, even the little time when you are out of the bedroom into the bathroom.” Indeed, Sister Li Ying made indelible contributions to the Journal.              
Just as she was forging ahead in writing about God’s revelations guided by the Holy Spirit, sorting and compiling speeches and events of various large meetings, she went out carrying her bag with sorted manuscripts to a reception family at Yingzhong, Zhongxiang on May 27, 2001. The moment she entered the house, she was captured by the public security personnel ambushing there. She was escorted to No. 1 Penitentiary of Zhongxiang City and subject to consecutive interrogation for 5 days and 5 nights in a row being prohibited from closing her eyes or moving. She sustained a variety of torture and ill-treatment, including beating with electric shock baton, being submerged under water, “tiger’s bench”, “shouldering sword on back”, etc. But neither of these succeeded in shaking her faith. She was transferred on December 7, 2001 to No. 1 Penitentiary of Jingmen and locked with three sisters in a cell. At that time she began to preach the Gospel to those non-believers, talking about the creation of God, the degradation of men, and how the degraded men need to have God, and teaching them to sing God’s hymns. All the non-believers liked to be near her and listen to her talk about God. One 17 year old girl who got into the penitentiary charged with robbery believed in God so intensely that she prayed and sang hymns (“Not that we do not have home”, “Walking together on the road”, “The road of the cross needs sacrifice”, etc.) every morning and evening. And Sister Li Ying made a birthday card for a non-believer man out of love of souls, with the words: “Need Jesus. Everybody needs Jesus.” The Jingmen Intermediate People’s Court opened the first trial on December 19 to 21. She received the verdict on December 29 and learned that she was sentenced to death penalty. With the verdict in hand, she felt extremely heavy hearted and despaired. She recalled, examined, and reflected on the past with the three sisters and cried out to God in despair and prayed for God’s pity and salvation. She still had hope in her heart because of her faith and began to tell the three sisters about Abraham’s offering of Isaac and the sufferings of Job’s family, and guided them to realize where God’s wills were as He made the South China Church undergo such extremely harsh ordeals. She also talked to them about the history of the church and of the missionaries’ services to plant the roots of faith in China. All these words greatly encouraged the three sisters to publicly defend the pure faith of Christianity in court. In addition to the three sisters, she also encouraged and comforted the 16 brothers and sisters and Rev. Gong as codefendants of the same case, making an elegant birthday card for each of them with many a soothing words to relieve their despair. She also shared the money and supplies sent in by her family with brothers in need, and bought or ordered food for brothers sentenced to capital or harsh penalties, while she was very grudging on herself. She was re-sentenced on October 9 and 10 of 2002 at the second trial by the Jingmen Intermediate People’s Court to 15 year imprisonment. She and the codefendants extended gratitude and praises from their hearts to God who rescued them from death. On the lunar New Year of 2002 she initiated singing such songs as “Though we are thousand of miles apart”, “Thousand branches converging to the root”, “Thus we are no longer panic-stricken” with the three sisters in her cell. Brothers and sisters in other cells followed singing when hearing their sound. The singing reverberated in the prison yard and moved the other inmates to tears while listening. The sound of singing vibrated in the hearts of the inmates and shook the prison compound, just like the singing and praising by Saint Paul and Silas. The singing gave brothers and sisters comfort, strength, encouragement, and hope for eternal life.         
During the 77 weeks in the penitentiary, she insisted on worshiping, fasting, praying, and singing, and led sisters praying and singing hymns together. Sometimes she also preached the Gospel and asked each other questions and engaged in discussion. She conducted fasting in the penitentiary for two days, three days and one week, and once she fasted for seven days without eating or drinking for the right to visitation. Inside the penitentiary she wished to accomplish the promise that she had made to fast for 40 days after the model of Moses and Jesus, but could not fulfill the wish due to a variety of circumstances. Having gone through the heartfelt journey to death did not reduce her devout faith in the Lord. After the re-sentencing, Sister Li Ying was transferred on December 2, 2002 to Wuhan Women’s Prison to serve her sentence. There she had to endure physical labor of exceeding intensity over-time every day, yet she spared some time from her busy schedule to write letters to the church and to her family, in order to comfort and strengthen the brothers and sisters who had been weakened in their faith due to persecution. In September 2003 her family came on visitation intending to have a lunch party with her. Yet this time was different from previous ones and they had to pay fees. After a while one warden came out saying: “You are not permitted to have lunch party, since she believes in the South China Church. We cannot hear what you talk if you have a party together.” Therefore, Sister Li Ying was deprived of the right to have lunch party with her family, and could only have interview by telephone. Looking through the soundproofing glass, the family could see Sister Li Ying with withered and yellow face, blackened eye sockets, and dejected and apathetic. She is serving her sentence at sub-section 2, section 3 of the Wuhan Women’s Prison, Hubei Province up till now.