Victim:

Ms. Li Dongqing, female, born in 1962, lived on Suichuan Road in the Heping District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. She worked as a lab technician at the Xinchenzi Chemical Factory in Shenyang. She lost her job in the 1990's due to the factory's declining finances.

Locations:

1. Dongling District Mental Hospital, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.
2. Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, Liaoning Province.
3. Shenyang City Detention Center, address: Wangshi Village, Sujiatun District, south of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.
4. Shenyang Dabei Women's Prison, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.

Perpetrators:

1. Police from the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, Liaoning Province.
2. Police from the Shenyang City Detention Center.
3. Police from the Shenyang Dabei Women's Prison, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.

Description:

On May 24, 2008, CCP Official, Zhou Yongkang went to Shenyang City and arrested dozens of Falun Gong practitioners. Police had compiled a "blacklist" to arrest practitioners before the Olympic. Ms. Li Dongqing was one the practitioners who were arrested. The police forced her family to provide false evidence and sent Ms. Li to the Shenyang Dongling District Mental Hospital. This is after she had already been in prison for eight years.

At the mental hospital she was injected with drugs, which made her body turn black, her leg veins protruded and she suffered severe psychological damage. Ms. Li is in poor health and she has dropsy.

Previous Persecution:

In July 1999, Ms. Li Dongqing went to Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong, but before she arrived at the municipal bureau, the police intercepted her and took her to Shenyang Liaison Office in Beijing and detained her. On the following day, the Suichuan Police Station sent someone to Beijing to bring Ms. Li back to Shenyang. They immediately sent her to a detention center and kept her there for 15 days. Afterwards, they sent her to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp for another three years of detention. Her family was not notified.

In the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp the head of the Women's No. 2 Ward, Su Jing led the guards to persecute Ms. Li. They physically and verbally abused Ms. Li, and they beat her and humiliated her. In October 2001 and May 2002, Ms. Li spent nearly 90 percent of the time in a dark small cell.

In September 2002, her three-year labor term was up, and the Masanjia Labor Camp should have released her; however, the authorities fabricated additional charges and prosecuted her. On August 22, Shenyang City Middle Court and the Procuratorate held a so-called "litigation" in the Masanjia Camp. They sentenced Ms. Li to another five years, and prohibited her from pleading, petitioning, appealing or sending notice to her family. There were another two practitioners, Li Liming and Sun Caihong, who were sentenced along with Li Dongqing on the same day. The three of them were detained in Shenyang City Detention Center for over a month before they were transferred to Shenyang Dabei Women's Prison. They all held hunger strikes at the time.

In late December 2002, Ms. Li was infected with acute hepatitis at the Dabei Women's Prison. As hepatitis is contagious, certain prison personnel wanted to let Ms. Li out of prison for her to see a doctor, but the Suichuan Police Station in the Heping District refused, claiming, "We won't be able to control her if she comes back." Ms. Li’s continued to be tortured in the prison.

In early 2003, Ms. Li Dongqing held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. She resisted being forced to say that she was guilty and refused to wear the prison clothing. There were two to four prisoners monitoring her. Because she did not obey the unreasonable demands made on practitioners, she was often cursed at, beaten and shocked with electric batons.

In 2007 Ms. Li Dongqing was released and she returned home after being in jail for eight years.

Summary:

Ms. Li Dongqing was persecuted and imprisoned for 8 years from 1999 to 2007. On May 24, 2008, the CCP Official Zhou Yongkang went to Shenyang City and arrested dozens of Falun Gong practitioners. Ms. Li Dongqing was put into the Dongling District Mental Hospital in Shenyang. She was injected with drugs, which made her body turn black, her leg veins protruded and turned black and thick, and she has suffered severe psychological damage. Ms. Li is in poor health and she has dropsy that is sometimes worse than other times.

Published on April 22, 2009