On June 16, 2005, after enduring brutal persecution,
Ms. Gao Rongrong, 37, died in the emergency room of China Medical University Hospital,
located in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. According to Clearwisdom website
statistics, Ms. Gao Rongrong is the fifty-fourth Falun Dafa practitioner to be
tortured to death in Shenyang City. Ms. Gao’s body is currently at the Wenguantun
Funeral Home in Shenyang City. The persecutors are pressuring her family to cremate
her body quickly, in order to destroy all evidence of their crimes.
CCP
Defectors Prove the Policy of “Practitioners Who Die While in Detention Will be
Counted as Suicides”
During the past six years, the Clearwisdom
website has been exposing the Jiang regime’s persecution ‘policy of
“Ruin their reputations, bankrupt them financially, and destroy them physically,”
and the many death and injury cases resulting from this policy.
A
former high ranking official of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) State
Security Bureau, who lives in Canberra, Australia, was in hiding, fearing his
family members’ safety in China, after he decided to defect. On June 9, 2005,
he asked his lawyer, Mr. Collaery, to expose the tortures that he personally witnessed
within China’s State Security system. According to the Australia Associated
Press (AAP) report of June 9, this former CCP Official proved that he saw a Falun
Dafa practitioner tortured to death inside the police department where he used
to work. “He heard brutal beating in progress, ran to stop it, but was told to
leave. He had to go back upstairs. His conscience was severely affected by this
incident and he couldn’t stop thinking about it. He went downstairs, and
said ”You must stop.”” Later, he saw that the Falun Dafa
practitioner had been beaten to death. “He saw the naked man’s head fall
down from the chair. His two legs spread apart, and it was obvious that he was
dead. He was very shocked having witnessed this incident.”
Former Chinese
Political Consular Chen Yonglin, who recently defected the Chinese Consulate in
Sydney, Australia, said, “Information on Falun Dafa practitioners being tortured
to death in China is kept secret, because normally these tortured-to-death practitioners
would be labeled “suicides.” This kind of information is kept top secret.
Ms.
Gao Rongrong’s Face Deformed Due to Electric Baton Shocks
Photo
1. – Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Gao Rongrong, an accountant at the Luxun Fine
Arts College in Shenyang City
Photo
2 & 3. On May 7, 2004, Gao Rongrong’s face is covered with burns from
electric baton shocks. These pictures were taken ten days after the torture.
Falun
Gong practitioner Ms. Gao Rongrong, an accountant at the Luxun Fine Arts College
in Shenyang City, was abducted by lawless officials in July 2003, and taken to
Longshan Forced Labor Camp. On the afternoon of May 7, 2004 at 3:00 p.m., Ms.
Gao Rongrong was called to the office by camp Ward Leader Tang Yubao (male) and
Jiang Zhaohua (male). These men, shocked her for about seven hours with electric
batons. Ms. Gao’s face was severely deformed, and covered with blisters.
Her burned skin was stuck together with her hair and blood, and her eyes were
barely visible due to the intense swelling of her face. Her mouth was severely
swollen and the prisoners in the same cell could hardly recognize her when she
was returned there. The second and third photos above show her after the blisters
dried up and the swelling subsided,. In some places on her face the scars were
very thick, indicating the severity of the burns. Many blisters and burned spots
overlapped each other due to repeated shocks at the same spot.
On the evening
of May 7, 2004, after being shocked for seven hours, Ms. Gao jumped from the second
floor police office window, because she could not bear the brutal torture any
longer. From the fall she suffered two hip fractures, a broken left leg, and a
fractured right heel. The forced labor camp sent her to the Shenyang Army Hospital,
and she was later taken to the Shenyang City Police Hospital. On May 18, 2005,
her family demanded that, she be transferred to the China Medical University First
Hospital. She was, checked into room 0533 on the fifth floor of the hospital,
in the orthopedics department. But the doctors could not operate on her at this
time because she was too weak.
Before Ms. Gao Rongrong’s torture,
two other Falun Dafa practitioners, Ms. Wang Xiuyuan and Ms. Wang Hong, were severely
tortured at the Longshan Forced Labor Camp, and both died within a few days of
being released.
Ms. Gao Rongrong was Rescued after Being Monitored
Five Months in the Hospital
On August 9, 2004, after more than
three months of miserable suffering, Ms. Gao Rongrong had blood in her urine,
could not eat or drink, could not close her eyes, and was severely emaciated.
Doctors said that she was dying, but the Shenyang City Judiciary Department (the
Longshan Forced Labor Camp’s governing agency) refused to allow her release
from the hospital. They said that if her life was in danger, doctors were to save
her, but they would not let her go home even if she dies.
During the
five months that Ms. Gao Rongrong stayed in room 0533 at the hospital,, she
was always closely monitored. The police did not allow her accept telephone calls,
and they censored all of her mail. Anyone who wanted to visit her had to receive
permission from the Shenyang City Judiciary Department head. No one was allowed
to call from room 0533. Items that her family brought to her had to be checked
by the police.
On October 5, 2004, a group of many Falun Dafa practitioners
miraculously rescued Ms. Gao Rongrong from the hospital, and exposed her photos
to the world. This, severely shocked and frightened the evildoers.
Luo
Gan Personally Organized the Persecution Plan
The police officials
ignored criminals who were incited by guards to torture Ms. Gao Rongrong. They,
called Ms. Gao’s escape the “Number 26 Case,.” At this point the 610
Office system head Luo Gan personally took charge of the continued persecution
plan. Instructed by Luo Gan, the Liaoning Province CCP Political Judiciary Committee,
the Procuratorate, the Department of Justice, and the Police Department were combined
together to conceal information about Ms. Gao Rongrong’s case. Those practitioners
thought to have been involved in Ms. Gao’s rescue were rounded up and, cruelly
tortured. One person in the judiciary system said, “Luo Gan gave the order. He
said that this matter (Ms. Gao’s cruel torture case being exposed) has too
much international impact. We must handle it carefully now (indicating that further
persecution would be carried out secretly).”
Ever since then, the Shenyang
City Police Department, State Security Division has been using all their resources
in tapping into phone lines, and monitoring, detecting, and following local Falun
Dafa practitioners. Mr. Feng Gang and the group of Falun Dafa practitioners who
helped rescue Ms. Gao Rongrong were arrested and detained in a brainwashing class
held at the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang City. It was learned that Mr.
Feng Gang was checked into Masanjia Hospital after holding a thirteen day hunger
strike. His current situation is under investigation. Another practitioner who
joined the rescue effort, Mr. Sun Shiyou, was also arrested. Officers at the Tiexi
Criminal Police Division brutal beat him, and shocked his private parts with electric
batons. They shouted, “Injuries from shocking you in other places can be seen
(such as Ms. Gao’s face), so we are shocking your private parts!” They also
poked inch-long needles under his finger nails. Mr. Sun’s mother-in-law,
his wife, and his sister-in-law are also currently detained in the brainwashing
class at Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp.
Ms. Gao Rongrong Arrested Again
and Dies of Weakness
From March 6-9, 2005, Ms. Gao Rongrong was
missing after apparently being arrested again. We learned that she was arrested
on March 6, 2005. Ms. Gao held hunger strikes since that time to protest the persecution.
On June 6, she was taken from Masanjia Forced Labor Camp to the Medical University
Hospital.
On June 10, 2005, Ms. Gao Rongrong’s parents went to
Masanjia Forced Labor Camp to request her release. Director Wang (male, previously
head of the Management Office) did not tell her parents that she had been taken
to the hospital, but said to them, “We never wanted to accept her to begin with.
Higher authorities forced us. It is up to the higher authorities to decide whether
you are allowed to visit her or if she is to be released,.”
On June
12, 2005, Ms. Gao Rongrong’s parents finally received notice that they could
visit her in the hospital. They rushed to the hospital, but by the time they arrived
there, Ms. Gao had already passed out, her organs were atrophying, and she was
breathing through a machine. She was only skin and bones at this point. The doctors
told them, “She arrived in severe condition.” A guard from the Masanjia Forced
Labor Camp said, “She could talk when she arrived here.”
Witnesses
said that there were many strangers watching each door and gate of the hospital.
The many plainclothes security and uniformed officers asked each other frequently,
“When will she die?” The Masanjia Forced Labor Camp officials refused to give
her proper medicine. Only at the request of her family did the doctor increase
her nutritional supply feeding.
On June 16, 2005, Ms. Gao Rongrong
died in the emergency room of Medical University Hospital, at the age of only
37 years. Her death is another bloody debt that Jiang Zemin and his regime owe
Falun Dafa practitioners. All who joined this persecution will ultimately meet
with karmic retribution for their misdeeds.
Posting date: 21/Jun/2005
Original article date: 20/Jun/2005
Category: News from China
