These two photos show the same woman, Ms. Gao Rongrong, before and after two policemen shocked her face with three electric batons nonstop for seven hours.

Ms. Gao was a Falun Gong practitioner, and that was the only reason why the policemen cruelly disfigured her on May 7, 2004.

Since July 1999, the Chinese government has categorically denied using torture and killing in its persecution of Falun Gong; that is why the Chinese authorities were so shocked when Ms. Gao, with the help of fellow Falun Gong practitioners, escaped from police custody on October 5, 2004. Luo Gan—the head of “610 Office,” the Chinese Communist Party’s extrajudicial organ for eradicating Falun Gong—stated that the exposure of Ms. Gao’s pictures and her escape “have grave international repercussions” and must be “handled well.” The Ministry of Public Security set recapturing Ms. Gao as a top priority. The authorities even used public radio to solicit information to aid their search.

On March 6, 2005, the police captured Ms. Gao and those who had helped her. The Chinese government was not to let Ms. Gao live and be evidence of its barbarity; she was secretly detained in the infamous Masanjia Labor Camp. Her parents tried for several months to locate her, but were given the runaround. Not until June 12, 2005, when Ms. Gao had lost consciousness and was on the verge of death, were her parents notified to see her in an emergency room in a hospital. Even in her parents’ presence, the police repeatedly asked the doctors “when can she die.”

Ms. Gao died on June 16, 2005, at the age of 37.

Gao Rongrong’s Last Words to the People of the World

“My bitter experience is only the tip of the iceberg of how millions upon millions of Falun Gong practitioners have been persecuted. More tragedies are still covered up and not known to people. Torture and killings happen every hour in the evil labor camps, prisons, detention centers, brainwashing centers, and mental hospitals.

From the beginning of the persecution, [former Chinese president] Jiang’s regime has never treated Falun Gong practitioners according to the law. On the contrary, Falun Gong practitioners are deprived of rights guaranteed by the constitution and laws, including the right to appeal, the right to freedom of belief and speech, and even the right to life. More than one thousand people have been tortured to death, and countless others have been imprisoned, tortured, and mentally devastated.

This calamity has brought upon Falun Gong practitioners and their families enormous suffering that defies description. The persecution of Truth-Benevolence-Forbearance is the most vicious trampling of humans’ benevolent nature and a ravaging of world justice and legal sanctity. Every human being with a conscience has the responsibility to speak out for the everlasting existence of justice and morality in the world.

I sincerely ask all righteous organizations and individuals throughout the world to pay attention to the persecution of Falun Gong happening in China, help stop the torture and killing, bring the criminals to justice, and restore justice to humanity.”

A Brief Chronology of Ms. Gao’s Suffering under the Chinese Government’s Persecution

• July – December, 1999: Arrested five times in Shenyang and Beijing for petitioning the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. Suffered beating and force-feeding in jails.
• February 2000 – January 2001: Arrested and detained in Masanjia Labor Camp. Suffered various tortures.
• June 20 – July 7, 2003: Arrested and detained in Shenyang Detention Center. Suffered electric baton shock, beating, and forced-feeding.
• July 8, 2003: Sentenced to three years of forced labor in Longshan Labor Camp. Suffered various tortures.
• May 7, 2004: Handcuffed to a steel pipe and shocked on the face by two policemen with three electric batons for seven hours. Face was disfigured.
• July 7, 2004: Ms. Gao’s photos were published on a Falun Gong website (http://www.minghui.ca/).
• May 8 – October 4, 2004: In police custody at a hospital.
• October 5, 2004: Escaped police custody.
• March 6, 2005: Rearrested.
• June 6, 2005: Sent to a hospital’s emergency room.
• June 12, 2005: Parents informed to come to the hospital.
• June 16, 2005: Died in the hospital.

Our Previous Appeals for rescuing Gao Rongrong's Case
After Exposing the Torture, Ms. Gao’s Life is in Danger

For more information regarding Ms. Gao’s case, please see pages 114-137 of: http://www.falunhr.org/reports/2005/Report2005.pdf

Many people who had helped Ms. Gao are in police custody. As witnesses to Ms. Gao’s case, their lives are in great danger. They are:

• Ms. Dong Jingzhe
• Ms. Zhang Lirong
• Ms. Ma Xiaolian
• Ms. Dong Jingya
• Ms. Xui Hua
• Mr. Sun Shiyou
• Mr. Feng Gang
• Mr. Liu Qingming
• Mr. Ma Yuping
• Mr. Wu Junde

How you can help:

1) Call or write to your head of state.
2) Call or write to your elected representatives.
3) Call or write to the United Nations:

• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms. Louise Arbour;
• United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Question of Torture;
• United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Execution