Excerpt from Four Years in a Red Hell: The Story of Father RigneyON february 1, 1949, Peiping (peking), China was captured by the communists.From then until July 25, 1951, I daily expected to be ar rested by the communists in reprisal for my fight before and after their capture of Peiping, to preserve the Eu Jen Catholic University of Peking (peiping), over which I was rector, as a true center of culture.On July 25, 1951, I was arrested by the Chinese communist Sepo (security Police, the Gestapo of Red China), on unjust, false and outrageous grounds. After a veritable hell of four years and two months of physical and mental tortures, I was released from prison on September 11, 1955, as a result of the prayers and written petitions of my relatives and many friends in the u.s.a. And other parts of the world.I was then expelled from communist China into the free territory of Her Majesty's Crown Colony of Hong Kong, on September 16, 1955.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.