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35-year-old Ms. Li Huiqi was tortured for two months in
a Chinese Labor Camp, leaving her paralyzed and emaciated.
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Two
months in the Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp in Hebei Province transformed
a healthy, vibrant woman into a mere skeleton of herself.
Ms.
Li Huiqi, 35, worked at the Shijiazhuan Paint Factory in Hebei Province.
On December 2, 2001, police from the Weiming Street Police Station in
Shijiazhuang City detained her because she practices Falun Gong. On February
2, 2002, after being illegally detained at Shijiazhuang First Detention
Center for two months, she was sent to the Second Squad, Fourth Brigade
of the Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp for a one-year term.
At
the Shijiazhuang Labor Camp, “610
Office” officials and Labor Camp police tortured Ms. Li until she
was on the brink of death.
During
the time Ms. Li was detained and tortured in the labor camp, her health
deteriorated dramatically. Still, the labor camp refused to release her.
During
her detention, Ms. Li’s family came to the camp many times and begged
to be allowed to visit her. However, policewoman Qi Xiaoxia of the Second
Squad, Fourth Brigade of the labor camp reportedly told them, “Falun Gong
practitioners have no visitation dates. ‘Visitation day’ is
not for Falun Gong!”
Sources
say the camp also demanded money from Ms. Li’s family.
On
April 8, 2002, due to the torture Ms. Li had endured, the labor camp sent
her to the People’s Hospital of Hebei Province to be resuscitated.
Ms. Li was emaciated. Many of her major organs were malfunctioning. Her
pulse could not be detected, and she had to be put on a ventilator.
Ms.
Li remained in serious condition, and was transferred to the Third Hospital
of Hebei Province on May 30, 2002. Her condition remained serious and
she had to be resuscitated several times.
Family
members say they began funeral preparations on at least three separate
occasions.
Throughout
Ms. Li’s ordeal in the hospital, labor camp police monitored her
24 hours a day, apparently fearing what she may reveal regarding the torture
she experienced in the labor camp. The police also arrested Falun Gong
practitioners who came to visit her.
“They
used every way they could to prevent her persecution from being exposed,”
says one source from Hebei Province.
On
the morning of December 12, 2002, Li Yong, a director from the labor camp
and head of the fourth squad, and police officer Zhou Yilin went to the
hospital. Stating that Ms. Li had “fulfilled her sentence” at the labor
camp, they indicated she should be released, which meant the labor camp
would no longer provide further medical treatment. The responsibility
of caring for the now paralyzed Ms. Li was passed to her family.
Currently,
Ms. Li is suffering from a urinary tract infection, pneumonia, and frequent
muscle spasms. She cannot breathe without a ventilator. She is being cared
for at home by her oldest sister, who is always by her side.
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NEWS
– Mar. 3, 2003
Falun
Dafa Information Center, www.faluninfo.net
http://faluninfo.net/displayAnArticle.asp?ID=7068
Posting
date:5/March/2003
Original article date:4/March/2003
Category:News from China
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