Mother Ms. Wang Shouhui

Son Mr. Liu Boyang

Ms. Wang Shouhui was 57 years old and an employee of the Songjia Neighborhood Administration in Changchun City, Jilin Province. Her only son, Liu Boyang, 28 years old, was a doctor employed by the Qianwei Hospital in Changchun City. Ms. Wang’s family of three (her husband, her son, and herself) all started practicing Falun Gong in 1995.

After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, personnel from the Zhengyang Police Station and the Zhengyang Neighborhood Administration in Luyuan District, Changchun City constantly harassed them. Ms. Wang was detained in October 1999. In February 2000, because she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong, she was sent to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp. She was tortured with an electric baton, deprived of sleep, forced to do slave labor, and tied down on a “death bed.” They released her only when she was tortured to the edge of death.

On April 11, 2002, the police from the Zhengyang Station in Luyuan District and the police from the First Department of Changchun City Police Station arrested her. They blindfolded her and took her to a place located at Jingyue Mountain, Jingyuetan in Changchun City. There they brutally tortured her, including shocking her breasts with two electric batons at the same time. Three men punched her face and upper body, and pulverized her left cheekbone, causing her to vomit large amounts of blood. Later, her lung became infected. She was not allowed to go to the bathroom. They forced a catheter into her but did not take care of it properly. The catheter was left in her for five days and nights, causing urinary incontinence. She was later released.

On June 27, 2002, the police again arrested Ms. Wang at her home. In the Zhengyang Police Substation they tied her up tightly for a whole night. Later, they detained her in the Changchun City Third Detention Center, where they chained her handcuffs and ankle shackles together for 18 days, and brutally force-fed her for a month. Ms. Wang was later sent to the Police Hospital of Jilin Province, where they tied her arms and legs to the bed and forcibly gave her infusions and force-fed her for more than 30 days. Only when she was very close to death did they finally release her.

Ms. Wang’s son, Mr. Liu Boyang also practicing Falun Gong. One time, when he was detained at the Zhengyang Local Police Station, police punched and kicked him, slapped his face with shoes, tied him with ropes, covered his head with a plastic bag, handcuffed his arms behind his back, hung him up in the air and, while he was hanging, swung his body or pulled his feet downwards. At that time, Yuan Dachuan, a male guard, announced, “I have already tortured a few Falun Gong practitioners to death. I won’t bear any responsibility if I also kill you!”

On October 29, 2002, Mr. Liu was sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City for two years of forced labor. In December, the guards made him sit on the icy-cold cement floor for an entire day, depriving him of sleep. They also tried to brainwash him. Mr. Liu was supposed to be released in June 2004, but the forced labor camp refused to release him. They extended his term for 47 more days.

On August 17, 2004, staff from the Zhengyang residents' committee, the Luyuan District “610 Office” and two policemen from the Zhengyang Local Police Station took Mr. Liu to the Zhengyang police station, and tried to make him write a guarantee statement (not to practice Falun Gong). Mr. Liu refused.

On October 28, 2005, around noon, policemen from the Kuancheng District Department arrested Ms. Wang and her son, Mr. Liu, and sent them to the Luyuan District Police Department where they interrogated and tortured them. They tortured Mr. Liu to death that night. Mr. Liu had three wounds on the left side of his head; His legs and ribs were all fractured, and his lungs were filled with blood.

After the interrogation, on October 28, 2005, Ms. Wang was transferred to the Shuangyang Detention Center. On November 10, 2005, her family received a phone call saying that Ms. Wang had a heart attack at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital and died. Witnesses said that Ms. Wang’s body had not been checked, but people saw that her face and eyes were very badly bruised, and her left ear had blood in it.