On April 1st, 2004, Chinese police ransacked the home of Ms. Huang Zhao and her
husband, stealing valuables and detaining the couple who both practice Falun Gong.
Two
weeks later, Huang was dead.
Witnesses say by the second day
of her detention, Huang had been severely beaten and could no longer walk. Because
she refused to renounce her beliefs, on April 4th Huang was transferred to the
No.1 Branch of Wuhan City Police (the local “6-10 Office”) where she
was tortured further.
Huang died at 3 a.m. on April 16th at
the Wuhan City No. 3 Hospital.
Sources familiar with Huang’s
case say local police are monitoring Huang’s family members and the hospital
where she died to ensure information about her death is not made public. Everyone
walking in and out of Huang’s residential building is questioned, they say.
Huang’s
husband, Liu Ning, was also beaten and tortured after being detained, but he was
later released to his family. When Liu visited his mother-in-law to enquire about
his wife’s whereabouts, he was arrested again.
Posting
date: 26/May/2004
Original article date: 16/May/2004
Category: News from
China
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31-year-old
Ms. Huang Zhao was beaten to death by Chinese police on April 16, 2004. Her husband
was also beaten and tortured. |
