Ms. Bai Jingyi, female, 24, resident of Nanniu Township, Zhengding County, Heibei Province. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, Ms. Bai went to Beijing twice to appeal for the end to the persecution of Falun Gong. The first time the police detained her for 3 months.

In July 2001, the police of Zhengding County arrested her for the second time. During the interrogation, in order to force Ms. Bai to cooperate with them, police beat her until she lost consciousness. Then the police sent her to the county hospital for emergency treatment. A hospital nurse observed that her legs were covered with bruises from beatings. After detaining her for two months, the police sentenced Ms. Bai to three years of forced labor and transferred her to Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp. Ms. Bai was tortured in the labor camp because she refused to denounce Falun Gong.

Around May 2002, after being detained and tortured for eight months Ms. Bai’s left leg muscles atrophied and she was disabled. The forced labor camp officials had to release her, but the police continued to harass her at her residence and she was forced to leave her home in order to avoid further persecution.

type=Case, Torture; type=Case, Women; type=Labor Camp, Shijiazhuang Labor Camp; location=Hebei, Zhengding