The Comment Factory: The story of William Huang, Falun Gong and human rights activist, imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese Communist dictatorship

William (Kui) Huang is one of the people who spent their youth cutting open [pistachio] nut shells with pliers. During an interview he told me that he had to work at least sixteen hours a day. The work was done in Cell No. 27 of Zhuhai 2nd Detention Center, which according to Huang was less than twenty square meters in size and was home to over twenty people.