Word: confessions
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...white, and their hands holding the prepared statements shook. None looked in my direction. The man with the tinted spectacles said, ''You have listened to the mountain of evidence against you. Your crime against the Chinese people is extremely serious. You can only be reformed by giving a full confession telling us how you conspired with the British imperialists in their scheme to undermine the People's Government. Are you going to confess?'' ''I have never done anything against the Chinese people and government. The Shell office was here because the Chinese government wanted it to be here.'' Everything...
...confess?'' the man asked again. I was silently reciting to myself the 23rd Psalm, ''The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want . . . '' ''Have you gone dumb?'' ''Confess!'' They were shouting. I lifted my head and said in a loud and firm voice, ''I'm not guilty! I have nothing to confess.'' The young man from the police pulled my arms behind my back and put the handcuffs on my wrists. Then we got into the Jeep and drove off into the dark streets...
...bronchitis. My body shook with spasms of coughing, particularly severe during the night when the cell became extremely cold. A few nights later a man's voice announced over the loudspeaker that the No. 1 Detention House had been placed under military control. ''Some of you have not confessed,'' he said. ''The policy of our Great Leader Chairman Mao is 'Lenient treatment for those who confess, severe punishment for those who remain stubborn and reward for those who render meritorious service by denouncing others.' Tonight we will deal with some of the outstanding cases here.'' Then he called...
...Shaoqi did wrong.'' ''You are not allowed to refer to a traitor as 'chairman'!'' they all shouted. When they quieted down, I said, ''I wonder if the material on which the Central Committee based its judgment was reliable. You know how easily people can be frightened into making false confessions.'' I couldn't resist this dig. I was sure they at least suspected that the case against Liu was manufactured. (After Mao's death an official Central Committee document described how activists selected by Jiang Qing and Lin Biao tortured Liu's associates to make them provide false evidence...
...while, the other guards continued to shout at me. My ears were ringing, my head was splitting and my body was trembling. I collapsed into a chair and closed my eyes. Suddenly a stinging blow landed on my cheek. A female guard shouted, ''Are you going to confess?'' A sharp blow landed on my other cheek as several voices shouted, ''Are you going to confess?'' I kept my eyes closed and ignored them. One of the female guards gave my cheek another smart slap, took my arms and draped them around the back of my chair. Another guard grabbed...