Ms. Xia is a Chinese dissenter and a former political prisoner. As a brave young human rights activist, she was detained and tortured by CCP solely for her outspokenness during the White Paper Movement in 2022 and her white paper Halloween costume in 2023.
Citizen Power Initiatives for China is proud to arrange for Ms. Xia to deliver her powerful speech at the 16th Annual Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on May 16, 2024.
Here is her speech script:
Imagine one day you wake up to realize that you’ve turned into a caterpillar, with your short limbs barely touching the ground, your eyes blindfolded, and your tongue cut off. You’re trapped inside an empty cement room and can’t feel anything except cold air flowing over your skin. A giant incandescent lamp hangs over your head; so bright that you can see a red halo when you close your eyes. You can hear people talking around you and water flowing through the ground. You know this is only an illusion created by your devastated brain. But you are grateful to hear anything – even if it’s not real.
That was my life inside a Chinese detention center after the ‘white paper protest’ in 2022. They threw me in solitary confinement twice, for a total of 65 days. When they finally released me, I was in a state of schizophrenia, with slurred speech… [Continue Reading]
Source: https://www.yibao.net/2024/05/18/ms-rei-xias-speech-at-the16th-annual-geneva-summit-for-human-rights-and-democracy/