One interviewee was sent with his older brother to prison for 15 months. The brother killed himself during that stay. How was he treated? "Just like animals. An animal without a name..."

Another was asked the normal questions about why she went to China and whether she had had contact with a church or missionary. During the interrogation she was forced to kneel the entire day. Whenever she moved, guards beat her. This guard asked prisoners to hit each other. If they disobeyed, the guard would hit them. Her brother was sent to jail for 10 years after admitting he had contacted Christians in China.

Another victim states, "They didn't ask whether I had encountered Buddhists but asked whether I had contact with Christians. I was kicked and struck severely. I had to stand all day long and I was not permitted to move or speak. It was impermissible to raise my hand or to walk. If I went to the bathroom, a guard followed me..."

Interviewee 23 saw it this way: "I was beaten up and ate nothing for three days after being detained... They knocked my head with an iron hook. I was hung head down from the prison bars with shackles on my legs and I was beaten with an iron hook. My shoulder was also beaten. Those sufferings resulted in the rupture of a capillary. I had to sit and could not make a motion all day long from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m., which continued for six months..."

"When I was sent to Onseong, the officer said to me, ‘... I'll beat your face!' and they poured cold water on me and kicked me. There were about 50-60 people in a cell, so we had to sleep in a seated position because there was no room to lie down. There was one toilet in the cell... Many people died of colitis because of the polluted water. There were so many lice. We got a mouthful of overcooked noodles three times a day."

"I really thought that dying would be better," said yet another. "There was a woman who gave birth in the cell, but the guards took the baby away. It seemed like in my cell about 10 people out of 80 were believers. They kept praying. So I started to pray with them."