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NEW YORK (Falun Dafa Information Center) — A 39-year-old
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| Two months after Ms. Hongyue Hu, 45, disappeared mysteriously, Public Security officers could only show her family a photo of her body. Hongyue was one of 25 Falun Gong practitioners reported dead from police torture and abuse over the last month. |
Upon arrival at the labor camp, Huajiang was tortured by police to force him
to renounce Falun Gong. Huajiang died sometime around midnight. Police called
Huajiang’s 15-year old son at approximately 1:00 AM, telling him to take his
father home “because he is ill.” When his son arrived at the labor
camp, however, Huajiang was dead. Huajiang’s son says there were strangulation
marks around his throat and other signs of torture. Huajiang’s body has been
transferred to a different location for cremation.
According to sources familiar with this case, the labor camp’s Deputy Warden,
Wang Yongxiang, is in charge of Falun Gong cases. His phone numbers are: (86)
4680996 (office), (86) 4631816 (home), (86) 13069642099 (cell). The labor camp
warden is Ying Chengli (tel. (86) 4661192).
Oct. 26, 2002: Tortured to Death by the Ping’antai Forced Labor Camp
in Gansu Province
On Oct 16, 2002 Ouyang Wei, (male, 32 years old) from Lanzhou City was detained
by three police officers from Lanzhou City, Anling District Police Station National
Security Squad. The next day he was sent to the Gansu Province First Labor Camp
(Ping’antai) to serve a one-year sentence. At 6:30 p.m. October 24, Qiying
Wei, Director of the Safety Department of Gansu Province Civil and Housebuilding
Company, brought an ailing Ouyang home. He died two days later. Before his death,
Ouyang told family members that criminals beat his head severely. Additionally,
according to eyewitnesses, there were needle marks on both of Ouyangýs
wrists where an unknown drug had been injected
Nov. 29, 2002: Woman Dies from Torture at the Ping’antai Labor Camp
in Gansu Province
On November 29, 2002, Ms. Hou (female, 40’s) was tortured to death at the
Ping’antai Labor Camp in Gansu Province. Eyewitnesses say that her ribs and
pelvis were severely fractured, and she suffered from severe hemorrhaging. Shortly
after her death, the police sent her body to be cremated. Since the police are
blocking the news tightly, many details of her death are still unknown. Sources
say that in order to prevent the news from leaking, the labor camp has transferred
some policemen involved in the death of Ms. Hou to different work units.
Nov. 17, 2002: Veteran Teacher Tortured to Death at the Songlindian Police
Station in Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province
Xiuqin Xing (female, 61 years old) was a resident of Beima Village, Songlingdian
Town, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province. She had been a teacher for over 30 years.
Because Xiuqin insisted on practicing Falun Dafa, she had been constantly monitored
for the past three years and had no freedom. Her pension was cut off, and she
had been illegally fined and detained many times.
Around 8:00 pm on September 15, 2002, Xiuqin was forcibly taken away from home
and sent to Songlindian Police Station for a brainwashing class. Because she
refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong, she was handcuffed to a tree for
three days and nights. Afterwards, she was hung for half a month, incapacitating
the lower half of her body. At about 4:00 pm on November 16, 2002, the police
asked her family members to pick her up and take her home. When they arrived,
she was already cold all over her body. She died the next morning at around
4:00 am on November 17. When her family members went to the town government
to find out the reason for her death, the officials refused to meet with them.
Nov. 2, 2002: Woman From Harbin City Tortured/Force-Fed to Death
Yunping Bi (female, exact age unknown) had previously been arrested by local
policemen in 1999 for appealing for Falun Gong. On January 22, 2002, while on
her way to pick up Falun Gong materials, Yunping was kidnapped by policemen
from the Harbin Power Plant Police Substation. She was detained at the Harbin
No. 2 Detention Center. On October 13, Yunping was illegally sentenced to three
years in prison and transferred to the Harbin City Female Prison. To protest
her illegal imprisonment, Yunping starting a hunger strike. She was subsequently
tortured and force-fed, and died at 1:00AM on November 2, 2002, inside the Harbin
City Female Prison.
Nov. 27, 2002: Retired Worker from Yushu City Dies After Beatings
and Torture
Baochen Huang (male, 65 years old) was a retired worker from Yushu City, Jilin
Province. In July, 2002, 4 policemen from the Yushu City Public Security Bureau
woke Baochen up in the middle of the night to interogate him at his home. Upon
discovering that Baochen still practiced Falun Gong, the policemen detained
him. Soon after, Baochen was transferred to the Weizigou Labor Camp in Changchun
City. In the labor camp, policemen ordered inmates to beat him, and refused
to give him food or water for days at a time. Baochen was not on hunger strike.
On November 7, the labor camp sent two policemen and a doctor to take him home.
Baochen had to be carried into his home, and could not recognize anyone. His
whole body was swollen. Upon seeing his condition, Baochen’s family sent him
to the hospital immediately, but he died 20 days later while still in the hospital.
His family had no money and had to borrow 6000-Yuan to pay the medical fee.
Approx. Nov. 15, 2002: Woman from Xindu County, Sichuan Province Dies
in Police Custody
Hongyue Hu (female, 45 years old) was a resident in Xindu Town, Xindu County,
Sichuan Province, and an employee of the Xindu County Oil Pump Factory. On September
28, 2002, Hongyue and another practitioner of Falun Gong disappeared mysteriously
near Funanhe River in Chengdu City. In November 2002, her work unit received
a notice from the Public Security saying that she had died. The policemen only
showed a picture of Hongyueýs body and told her family that she “died
from starvation.” On November 19, 2002, the police cremated her body without
the consent of her family. In fact, neither her family members nor her coworkers
were allowed to see her body before the cremation. The details of her death
are still under investigation.
Approx. Nov. 28, 2002: Man from Shandong Province Beaten to Death
Hongjie Shi (male, 40’s) was a resident in Wubei Town, Laixi City, Shandong
Province. Policemen ransacked Mr. Shi’s home and found some Falun Gong
materials. They started to beat him in order to discover the source of the materials,
but Hongjie refused to reveal any information. He died shortly afterwards, and
as of Dec. 11, his body had not been cremated.
Oct. 4, 2002: Elderly farmer from Panzhihua City Miyi County Dies
in Police Custody
On April 2, Xinzhi Gu (female, 64 years old) was arrested because she posted
Falun Gong flyers around Miyi County. She was taken to the local police station
political and safety branch and was beaten severely. She was then sent to the
Miyi detention center where she went on hunger strike to protest her illegal
detainment. During her hunger strike, she endured force-feeding torture for
one month. On October 4, Xinzhi was sent to the hospital and died that night.
Police cremated her body without the familyýs permission. Those responsible
for her death are Xianjinfa (Police station Political and safety branch) Liutaiming
(director of the police station). Tel: 0812-8171988
Dec. 4, 2002: Woman Dies from Prolonged Force Feeding
Yurong Zhou (female, 39) was illegally detained by Tacheng city police station
on March 15, 2002. She immediately started a hunger strike to protest the detention.
Over the next eight months, police force fed Yurong through her nose. By late
November, Yurong’s weight was down to 80 pounds and it was clear she was
dying. Mr. Wang, the director of the Tacheng city detention center, notified
her husband to come see her “one the last time.” Yurong’s husband
and 14-year-old son hurried to Tacheng People Hospital. On the morning of Dec
4, 2002, Yurong was released, but died at 1pm that afternoon.
Nov. 13, 2002: Woman Dies in Jilin Province Female Prison
Guiqin Yang (female, 40s) was killed by policemen of No.4 Brigade, Team 2 in
Jinlin Province Female Prison on November 13, 2002. All other details regarding
Guiqin’s death are being withheld.
Nov. 15, 2002: Man from Fushun City Dies after Months of Torture and
Abuse
Zaixin Wei (male, 63 years old) was a senior engineer of Fushun City Advanced
Study Technologies. On Febuary 7, 2002, Zaixin was kidnapped by policemen from
the Fushun City Public Security Bureau Section 1 and Liangshizhan police substation.
Zaixin was tortured for most of the night and then sent to “control classes”
at the Wujiabao Labor Camp. Because Zaixin insisted on practicing Falun Gong,
the labor camp forbade his family members to visit him or send him clothes.
In June 2002, Zaixin was sent to the Fushun City Jiangjun police substation
No.2 detention center to await his sentence. While being held at the detention
center, policemen incited other inmates to torture him. In July, police thought
Zaixin would die and so sent him to the city hospital. Although he was later
released to his family, Zaixin never fully recovered and died on November 15,
2002.
November, 2002: Woman Beaten and Tortured to Death
Fengwei Wang (female, 40 years old) was an employee of the Drinking Water Company
of Shen County, Liao City, Shangdong Province. She was fired because she practices
of Falun Gong. After the persecution of Falun Gong was launched on July 20,
1999, Fengwei went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was arrested on eight
separate occasions. On January 14 when she was hanging banners that read “Falun
Dafa is good,” she was kidnap by police from Yanggu County, Shandong Province.
Fengwei was severely beaten and then sent to the detention center of Shen county.
In the detention center police adopted every means possible in an attempt to
force her to give up the practice of Falun Gong. Fengwei refused to renounce
Falun Gong and died from repeated beating and torture in November 2002 in the
Detention Center of Shen County.
Oct. 3, 2002: Tortured to Death in Dongsanmalu Police Station of Zhengzhou
City, Henan Province
Gaidi Zhu (female, exact age unknown) was from Chengguan District, Zhengzhou
City, Henan Province. In the summer of 2002, Policemen from the Donsanmalu Police
Station came to her home, forcibly took her away and then sent her to a detention
center. While in detention, she was beaten by criminals, and tortured. She refused
to renounce her practice of Falun Gong and after one month’s torture, was in
critical condition. The police attempted to send her to the Shibalihe Labor
Camp in Zhengzhou City. The doctors at the forced labor camp, however, refused
to accept her because of her health condition, so they released her on “medical
parole.” Her condition deteriorated and she passed away on October 3, 2002.
Sept. 21, 2002: Man Tortured to Death in Huazi Jail, Liaoyang City,
Liaoning Province
Jingyi Wang (male, 56 years old) was from Dong-xi-zhen-li Village in Zhao Township,
Wafangdian City, Liaoning Province. In February 2000, he was abducted by police
for making Falun Gong materials and taken to Wafangdian City Detention Center.
In September 2002, Jingyi was unlawfully sentenced to a five-year jail term.
After only 18 days of being transferred to Liaoyang City’s Huazi Jail in Liaoning
Province, he was tortured to death on September 21. The details of Mr. Wangýs
death are still under investigation.
Sept. 16, 2002: Woman Tortured to Death by the Mudanjiang City Police
in Heilongjiang Province
Hongmin Li (female, 50 years old) was from Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province.
On the morning of September 16, 2002, she was kidnapped by the city police department.
In the afternoon of the same day, she had been beaten to death. According to
sources familiar with her case, the police dropped her corpse from a building
and then claimed that she committed suicide in order to shirk responsibility
for her death. Her body was cremated on September 19. The police department
threatened her family members not to leak the news and asked them to say to
the outside world that she went out to visit relatives and she was not dead.
Mudanjiang City Political Security Department: 86-453-6282628, Department Director:
Li Fu
Dec. 4, 2002: After Torture in Detention, Woman Dies Falling from
a Building
Zhixiang Luo (female, exact age unknown) was an engineer for the Guangdong Province
Farming Construction Company. Due to continuous persecution from local police,
she was forced to leave her home in 2000. On November 29 2002, Zhixiang and
her husband Guohua Huang, both practitioners of Falun Gong, were kidnapped from
a leased apartment in Haizhu District of Guangzhou City by “610 Office”
policemen. The couple were detained in the Haizhu District Detention Center,
where they were both tortured severely. Zhixiang protested the torture by going
on a hunger strike. Police continued to persecute Zhixiang as her health deteriorated.
Zhixiang was sent to the hospital on or before December 4, where police continued
to pressure her to renounce Falun Gong. Sources in China indicate Zhixiang died
on December 4, 2002 by falling from a building. The details of Zhixiang’s case,
however, are still under investigation. Her husband remains in detention.
Sept. 8, 2002: Tortured to Death at the Jiujiechun Detention Center in
Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province
Deming Shen (mail, exact age unknown) was from Xiantao City, Hubei Province.
Deming was arrested while distributing Falun Dafa materials in Shenzhen City,
where he was working temporarily. He was then detained for six months in the
Jiujiechun Detention Center. Due to the severity of the torture, he suffered
a mental breakdown and his health deteriorated. On September 8, Deming passed
away.
Sept. 8, 2002: Woman in Huangshi City, Hubei Province Dies After Severe
Long-Term Persecution
Xiang Chen (female, 50s) from Huangshi City, Hubei Province was arrested on
April 18, 2000 for holding up a banner saying, “Falun Dafa is Good”
in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. She was sent back to her hometown by Beijing police
to be detained in Huangshi City No.1 Labor Camp. Police in the camp cuffed Chenýs
ankles and forced her to stay sitting on the bed to prevent her from sitting
cross-legged on the floor and practicing the Falun Gong exercises. The shackles
cut into her flesh, and she became very ill, sometimes becoming breathless and
passing out, forcing other inmates to call for help. The handcuffs were never
taken off of Chen until she was released 15 days later on a 2000 yuan bail paid
by her family
Following the induction of the Huangshi City brainwashing class in 2002, Xiang
was repeatedly kidnapped to each term of the classes, typically lasting 15 days,
by police. Due to the long-term, continuous physical and psychological abuse
she suffered, Xiang passed away on September 8 2002.
November 20, 2002: Woman Dies from Electric Baton Beatings
Rongzhen Jiang (female, 42 years old) was an employee from the Cooking Element
Emporium, Coal Engine Factory, Jixi City. She was tortured to death on November
20, 2002 in the Haýerbin Drug Rehabilitation Center. The Center claimed
that she died of a heart attack. According to eyewitnesses, however, Rongzhenýs
body was full of wounds and marks left by electric shocks. There were also holes
on her forehead and back.
November 17, 2002: Man Dies Following Hunger Strike in Linxi Police
Station, Guye District, Tangshan City
On November 6, 2002, policeman Zhenhai Wang from the Linxi Police Station, Guye
District, Tangshan City, detained Laihe Wei (male, exact age unknown). At the
police station, Laihe was accused of making Falun Gong materials. As a result,
he was detained indefinitely, his home searched and his possessions confiscated.
On November 10, Laihe started a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention.
On November 15, pressured by Laihe’s family, police released him, but he
died two days later. The Linxi police station phone number: 0315-3561550
May, 2002: Retired Teacher from Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province
Dies After Prolonged Persecution
After July 20, 1999, Xiwen Liu (male, 60 years old) had been the target of continuous
persecution from the Beilin District Education Committee and Zhenxing Elementary
School. Especially after he appealed in Beijing in December 2000, the officials
intensified their tactics. Xiwen had been detained and beaten in detention centers
on numerous occasions. He passed away on May 20, 2002. Prior to his death, Xiwen
had been living in the streets for 14 months to avoid persecution by police
and his pension had been suspended for 18 months.
May, 2001: Man Tortured to Death in the Daqing Forced Labor Camp
Huaiyi Niu (male, exact age unknown) was an employee of the 6th Plant of the
Daqing City Oil Extraction Factory Mr. Niu was detained in the Daqing Forced
Labor Camp in August of 2000 without any due process. Inside the labor camp,
Mr. Niu was tortured and subjected to severe forced labor. Mr. Niu’s health
deteriorated quickly. By April 2001, he was dying. Fearful of taking on responsibility
for his death, the Daqing Forced Labor Camp sent him home. Mr. Niu passed away
within a month of returning home.
July, 2001: Zhao Zichu from Wuxue City, Hubei Province Tortured to Death
by Police
Zhao Zichu, (male, 51 years old), was a resident of Longping Township, Wuxue
City. For studying and practicing Falun Gong, he was kidnapped by local police
and sent to the Wuxue City No. 1 Detention Center, where he was tortured to
the brink of death. He was not released until, in July 2001, the police saw
him spitting up blood. Mr. Zhao could not recover and passed away shortly afterwards.
Jan. 24, 2000: Woman Thrown to Her Death From 5th Story Window
Qunhua Shu (female, 40 years old) was a resident of the 3rd community of Banshan
Village in Suining City, Sichuan Province. After July 20, 1999, Qunhua was arrested
twice and detained for a total of 2-3 months. During her detention, she was
severely torture. On the afternoon of January 24, 2000, Chief Yang of the local
police station surrounded Qunhuaýs home with 5 police vehicles. Chief Yang,
Shixue Deng and several other policemen ambushed Qunhua’s 5th-floor apartment
and tried to force her to turn over the Falun Gong materials she had in her
possession. She immediately threw the flyers out of the window to people on
the street, infuriating the police to the point that they threw her out the
window. Qunhua died on the spot.
Posting date: 31/Dec/2002
Original article date: 31/Dec/2002
Category: News from China
