Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Deng Yulian lived in Xiangxiang County, Hunan Province. After being released from Baimalong Forced Labor Camp, where she had been brutally tortured, her body was severely damaged. She never recovered and died on March 12, 2007, at age 42.

Ms. Deng was an employee of the Xiangxiang County Stone Material Factory (under the Changsha City Shun'an Railroad Material Limited Company, Changsha Multiple Corp). She started practicing Falun Gong in July 1997.

On November 30, 2004, police officers from the Shaoshanchong Police Station (Chief: Sun, male, given name unknown) arrested Ms. Deng when she was passing out materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Her family was fined 5,000 Yuan, and she was detained for 20 days in the Xilipu Detention Center in Xiangtan City. She was then taken to the Baimalong Women's Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City for an 18-month term.

Inside the camp, Ms. Deng endured all sorts of inhuman torture. She was also forced to watch a video and read books that slandered Falun Gong and its founder. She was not allowed to talk or use the toilet, and she was forced to sit on a tiny stool for more than 20 hours per day, causing the flesh of her buttock's to be cut and bleeding.

In July 2005, guards forced Ms. Deng to stand facing the wall for more than ten hours, and forced her to squat in the steaming boiler room on her hands and knees, forbidding her to step out of an area of less than one square foot. Due to holding that position for a long time, her anus prolapsed. Guards encouraged prisoners to beat her brutally for several days in a row and forced her to stand beside the power exchange room, where there were many mosquitoes.

The tortures used at the Baimalong Forced Labor Camp are very cruel. In order to force practitioners to renounce Falun Gong, the camp administration ignores basic human dignity and rights. They put straightjackets* on practitioners, inject them with nerve-damaging drugs, fasten them to the window frames, force-feed them, force them to balance on the legs of a small upside-down stool, etc. Under extreme mental and physical torture and pressure, some practitioners suffer nervous breakdowns.

In April 2006, twenty days before Ms. Deng’s term ended, she started coughing, her toes felt numb and cold, she had difficulty walking, her eyesight was blurry, and she lost her sense of taste. Upon returning home, she could only eat porridge. She became weaker each day, her muscles atrophied, and she became as thin as a skeleton.

By February 2007, Ms. Deng Yulian was bedridden, could not eat at all, and was deformed beyond recognition. She died on March 12, 2007.

Ms. Deng’s family is also under persecution. Her sister Ms. Deng Yuqun has been forced to leave home to avoid persecution. Local authorities constantly harass her elderly mother and young brother who remain at home.

Posted on April 26, 2008