Deng Shiying Tortured to
Death for Revealing the Persecution
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| Ms. Deng Shiying |
Ms. Deng Shiying was from the Longtan District of
Jilin City in Jilin Province. She suffered from sclerosis of the liver, a
slipped disk, a spinal injury, serious heart problems, and an overall feeling of
hopelessness regarding her life. In 1996, she began practicing Falun Gong and
soon recovered from her many sicknesses. She regained her health and vibrancy.
Those who knew her remember her kindness, warmth, and courage.
One day in February 2000, as she was sharing her
personal story and appreciation of Falun Gong at a fellow practitioner's home,
she was arrested and sent to the Heizuizi Women's Labor Camp for one year of
forced labor. At the camp, Ms. Deng was forced to do heavy labor during the
daytime, but was not allowed to sleep during the night. The guards repeatedly
shocked her with electric batons and tied her four limbs to the four corners of
a cold metal bed with her body completely stretched in four directions for
varying lengths of time. She could not move, nor could she get up to eat, drink,
or go to the bathroom. Throughout this time, she not only firmly continued to
practice Falun Gong, but also explained to others the nature of the practice so
that they could understand that the persecution was wrong. Her inner strength
inspired some of the other inmates at the camp, but also frightened the labor
camp authorities who decided to punish her more severely and at the end of her
original one year term, they extended her sentence by another nine months and
eight days. When Ms. Deng went on a hunger strike to protest her prolonged
detention, she was tortured and force-fed to the point that she vomited blood.
After her release, she remained deeply committed to
letting her fellow Chinese citizens know about the facts of the persecution of
Falun Gong. She was arrested again on September 15, 2002 while she was
distributing flyers containing information about the persecution. She was
detained at the Yongji County Detention Center. On February 18, 2003, the
Intermediate People's Court in Jilin Province sentenced her to seven years in
prison. During the trial, Ms. Deng wrote in her statement to the court: "Restore
my Teacher's good reputation, immediately announce that I am innocent, and
release me at once."
In March 2003, she was sent to the Jilin Province
Women's Prison to serve her 7-year term. The prison guards ordered eight inmates
to torture her daily until she renounced Falun Gong, but she never did. Because
of the torture she became very weak and could hardly eat, yet the guards began
force-feeding her and continued to do so until she was unable to eat at all, was
almost unconscious, and vomited frequently. Her weight dropped down to 25 or 30
kg.
Her family was generally not allowed to visit her, but
on the morning of July 18, 2003 as she lay in a coma close to death, her family
was ordered to pick her up at the prison. They immediately took her to a
hospital for emergency treatment. The doctor informed them that her vital organs
had suffered severe injuries and were not functioning - her gallbladder was
destroyed, her cranial nerve had suffered from fibrosis and her cerebellum had
withered and calcified.
The hospital could do nothing to save her life. The
following day, on the afternoon of July 19, 2003, at the age of 42, Ms. Deng
passed away because of the injuries she sustained in prison.
A Pregnant Woman was
Tortured to Death
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| Ms. Luo Zhixiang |
Ms. Luo Zhixiang lived and worked in Guangzhou
City, Guangdong Province, after she graduated from university in Wuhan City,
Hubei Province. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1996. In her work unit,
she was well known for being a kind-hearted person and a hard worker. After
former president Jiang Zemin banned practicing Falun Gong, she and her
boyfriend, Huang Guohua, went to Beijing to appeal to the government for the
right to practice Falun Gong. As a result, they were arrested and detained in
Guangzhou City. Then Ms. Luo was dismissed from her job. After their release,
they both became homeless in order to avoid being illegally arrested at homes.
They were married on April 5, 2000.
In October 2000, the couple was arrested because they
distributed Falun Gong flyers. She was released since she was pregnant at that
time; however, her husband was detained for 135 days in Baiyun District
Detention Center.
In May 2001, Ms. Luo gave birth to their daughter. To
avoid being illegally arrested and persecuted, she was forced to send her
3-month-old infant to her mother-in-law and become homeless again. To find her,
local authorities put her name on the "Wanted List," and posted a 30,000 Yuan
(the average monthly wage is 500 Yuan in China) reward.
On November 22, 2001, local police found Ms. Luo and her
husband; they sentenced her husband, who is still being detained in the Huadu
Detention Center in Guangzhou City. They sent Ms. Luo to the Zhuhai Detention
Center, where she went on a hunger strike to protest the detention. After the
seventh day of her hunger strike, she was examined and found to be three months
pregnant. The local government, therefore, released her to avoid being
responsible if she or her unborn child were to die. Then the Tianhe District's
"610 Office," and the Nationhood Administration arrested her at her home, and
sent her for forced brainwashing, where she again went on a hunger strike. She
was then sent to the Tianhe Traditional Medicine Hospital. Under suspicious
circumstances, she "fell" from the 3rd floor on November 31st, which caused a
fatal head injury. She died December 4, 2001, when she was 3 months pregnant.
On December 5, 2001, upon hearing that Ms. Luo was
dying, Mr. Huang's mother arrived in Guangzhou on December 5, 2001, with Ms.
Luo's young daughter. Once there, she found that Ms. Luo had died the previous
day from the persecution she received. Since her husband is still detained, Ms.
Luo's young daughter is currently being cared for by her husband's parents.
A Couple Tortured, Paralyzed
and Sentenced to a 10-Year Prison Term
for Distributing Falun Gong Materials
Mr. Song Jianmin, male, resident of Zhengding
County, Hebei Province, employee of the Zhengding County government; Mr. Song's
wife, Ms. Zheng Lanrui, female, 39, resident of Zhengding County, Hebei
Province, a secretary in the office of the Sports Commission of Zhengding
County.
In June 2001, the police of Zhengding County arrested
Mr. Song and Ms. Zheng because they practiced Falun Gong and distributed
information about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. The police broke
into their homes and confiscated cash and personal property worth more than
30,000 Yuan (the average monthly salary is about 500 Yuan).
During the interrogation, Cai Shengli, the Deputy Chief
of Politics and Security Section, handcuffed Mr. Song's hands from behind,
forcing the handcuffs to cut into his flesh. As a result, Mr. Song twice lost
consciousness from the pain. Cai then kicked Mr. Song's shins with his leather
boots and broke his leg. He also ordered a policeman named Zhang Dongpin to beat
Mr. Song with a wooden club. Mr. Song's back, legs, and buttocks were bloody,
blue and black, and swollen due to the beating. At night, his hands were
handcuffed behind his back and tied to a bedpost at a height where he could not
stand up or squat. He was forced to stay in this position until 8:00 a.m. the
next day. The torture lasted for three days. Later, Mr. Song was sentenced to
ten years in prison and sent to Zhengding County Detention Center.
At the same time, the police beat Ms. Zheng to the verge
of death and also sent her to Zhengding County Detention Center. At the
detention center, the police continued to torture her. After six months of this
torture, they sent her to the county hospital for emergency treatment. Ms. Zheng
was left paralyzed and unable take care of herself. The couple's employers
stopped paying their salaries, leaving them and their children with no source of
income to provide for their daily living.
Husband Tortured to Death,
Wife Forced to Abort Fetus
During Eighth Month of Pregnancy
Mr. Shen Lizhi and his wife Ms. Luo Fang
lived in Leshan City, Sichuan Province.
On February 1, 2002, while this couple was on a bus in
Chengdu City, police officers from the Yingmenkou Police Station in Chengdu City
arrested them because they carried information that described the persecution of
Falun Gong. They were detained in the Chengdu Detention Center, where officer
Tian Xinming, and others from the Chengdu City "610 Office" tortured Mr. Shen.
Because Mr. Shen was on the verge of death due to the
torture, he was sent to the Qingyang District People's Hospital in Chengdu City
for emergency treatment. On March 3, 2002, Mr. Shen died at the age of 33. The
authorities blocked the information and did not notify his parents about his
death until one year later.
Ms. Luo was eight months pregnant at the time she was
detained. Officer Tian Xinming forced her to have an abortion. Ms. Luo was
released from the Chengdu Detention Center on May 8, 2002, and immediately
started looking for her husband. However, the authorities denied that Mr. Shen
was detained and hid all information about his death.
On December 5, 2002, policemen from the Leshan City
Police Station arrested Ms. Luo, beat, and tortured her because she refused to
give up Falun Gong. In August 2003 she was sentenced to 12 years in prison and
sent to the Chuanxi Prison in Sichuan Province, where she is still being
detained.
Chen Yinghua Tortured for
Distributing Materials,
Force-Fed and Left in Critical Condition
Ms. Chen Yinghua, female, is a resident of
Zhejiang Province. On August 8, 2003, the Jiaxing City police arrested her for
distributing materials containing information about the persecution. On
September 13, 2003, she was taken to a local detention center, where she went on
a hunger strike to protest her detention. The guards ordered criminal inmates to
hold her down and force-feed her by inserting a tube through her nasal passage
and into her stomach. They handcuffed her, shackled her feet, and tied her
tightly to a bed. She was not allowed to go to the restroom. After several days
of torture, she was unable to walk.
On September 26, 2003, she was sent to the Zhejiang
Province Prison Hospital for further force-feeding. She was kept tied to a bed
using a special straightjacket and belt, with a tube through her nasal passage
and esophagus. If she attempted to pull out the tube, the inmates that were
watching her pulled the straightjacket belts tighter. After one force-feeding by
an inmate her entire body convulsed with pain and she vomited blood. The
authorities ignored this incidence and continued to force-feed her. After she
began throwing up dark red blood with a strong odor, the authorities realized
that her stomach lining had hemorrhaged because the feeding tube had adhered to
her stomach lining. Her blood pressure was extremely low and she was in critical
condition. The authorities switched to forcibly injecting her. When she was
finally untied from the bed, she was too weak to walk, her face was very pale,
and her hands and feet were ice cold. Her arms were swollen and black and blue
with bruises. The blood vessels in her legs collapsed, and blood could not
circulate properly. They continued to torture her by inserting needles into her
bruises.
On October 13, 2003, the authorities permitted Ms. Chen
to be bailed out because her brother in Canada exposed her torture to the
public. She is awaiting a trial in China.
A Woman Six Months Pregnant
Beaten For Practicing Falun Gong
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| Wounds of a Female Pregnant Falun Gong
Practitioner |
I have practiced Falun Gong for four years. I have
become very peaceful, and my health has improved since then. After the
government started persecuting Falun Gong, I was monitored like many other
practitioners. One day when several other practitioners and I were attending a
Falun Gong sharing experience conference, we were reported. The police
surrounded the meeting place. At that time I was six months pregnant. We were
not allowed to use the restroom there. When I requested to use restroom, one
policeman beat my abdomen with a wooden rod. Then the police forced us to get in
a police vehicle. Because I refused to cooperate with them, they pushed me to
the ground, beat my body with a wooden rod, dragged my hair, and punched my face
with their fists. My face and mouth were covered with bruises and blood, I had
loose teeth, and my clothes were bloodstained.
In the police station, I was forced to stand for a long
period of time. Later I was locked in a small cell. Finally, because they were
afraid to be held responsible for beating a pregnant woman, they released me
after extorting 3000 Yuan (the average monthly income of a Chinese worker is
about 500 Yuan) from my husband.
Widespread Sexual Abuse
Used to Torture Female Falun Gong Practitioners
at Dalian Labor Camp in
Liaoning Province
Dalian Labor Camp is located at 175 Nanlin Street in
Dalian City, Liaoning Province. Since the Chinese government began persecuting
Falun Gong in July 1999, thousands of male and female Falun Gong practitioners
have been detained at this labor camp. The authorities of the labor camp use all
means imaginable to torture practitioners and force them to renounce their
belief in Falun Gong.
In the Women's Section of the labor camp, sexual abuse
is a common form of torture used by guards for this purpose. The guards often
strip off practitioners' clothes and use various methods to torture them,
including beating them on their breasts, pushing brushes into their vaginas
until they bleed, and inserting hot pepper paste and dirty rags into their
vaginas. As a result of this torture, many female practitioners are now disabled
and have difficulty walking; four female practitioners were recently tortured to
death at this labor camp.
The following stories relay the abuse suffered by eleven
women from Liaoning province who were all detained at Dalian Labor Camp simply
for practicing Falun Gong:
Ms. Jin Guirong, a 58-year old woman from
Jinshitan District in Dalian City, has been detained for over a year at Dalian
Labor Camp. At the end of December 2002, after being detained at the labor camp
for more than 10 days, she was taken to the brainwashing center of the labor
camp because she continued to stand by her belief in the practice. There, the
guards instigated other inmates to deprive her of sleep, as well as curse at and
beat her. When she still would not denounce Falun Gong, they locked her inside a
one-meter by one-meter iron cage in which she was unable to stand up or lay
down. Even after having been released from the cage, she still has difficulty
walking.
Ms. Xu Jinhuan is 54 years old. On one occasion,
the guards coerced other inmates to beat her because she sang songs that
mentioned Falun Gong. Then, several of the camp guards tied her hands and feet
together and hung her up in the air while they beat her inner thighs with wooden
boards. These beatings caused her thighs to turn black and blue.
When Ms. Wang Lijun, age 33, refused to renounce
Falun Gong, the camp guards locked her inside a one-meter by one-meter iron cage
for over a month. During that time, she was unable to either stand up or lay
down but was forced to sit or squat. As a result, she had difficulty walking
even after being released from the cage. Later, the camp guards rammed brushes
used for cleaning shoes into her vagina, which caused vaginal bleeding. They
also broke both her legs; today Ms. Wang is disabled because of this torture.
When Ms. Wang Xiumei refused to recite the rules
of the labor camp as a way of protesting her unlawful detention, the camp guards
forcefully beat her, breaking two of her ribs and knocking out one of her teeth.
Upon Ms. Bi Daihong's arrival at Dalian Labor
Camp, several guards beat her from which she sustained injuries such as bruises
on her nose and eyes, swollen feet, and black and blue marks on her legs. As a
result of this abuse, she now walks with a limp.
Ms. Chang Xuexia, age 34, was locked in an iron
cage and beaten by other inmates because she stood by her belief in Falun Gong.
At the behest of the camp guards, the inmates stripped her and tortured her by
placing a basin of water underneath her and forcing brushes used for cleaning
shoes into her vagina. The inmates continued to torture her in this manner until
her vagina began to bleed and she lost consciousness because of the extreme
pain.
When Ms. Man Chunrong refused to renounce her
belief in Falun Gong, guards at the labor camp injected hot pepper paste into
her vagina.
Ms. Cheng Hui is a 27 year-old woman from the
Jinzhou District of Dalian City. Guards at the labor camp locked her into an
iron cage and then hung her from the window bars with her hands handcuffed
behind her back and only her toes touching the ground.. The guards also coerced
inmates to insert hot pepper paste into her vagina, take it out and put it into
her mouth. As a result of the torture she has suffered at the labor camp, Ms.
Cheng now has difficulty walking.
Ms. Qu Sumei is from the Shahekou District of
Dalian City. Because she refused to renounce her practice of Falun Gong, she was
locked in an iron cage. On another occasion, she was hung up with her hands and
feet tied together while inmates inserted dirty rags, hot pepper paste, and
other items into her vagina. As a result of this torture, she was unable to lie
down on a bed for three months.
Ms. Han Shuhua from Dalian City became disabled
after both her legs were broken from beatings the camp guards meted out while
she was locked in an iron cage.
Because Ms. Sun Yan from Dalian City said "Falun
Gong is good", she was locked in an iron cage and tortured for over ten days..
As a result of this torture she is now unable to walk without assistance.
Because of her Belief, Qing
Mingzhen Persecuted and Her Family Harassed
Ms. Qing Mingzhen, female, from Chengdu City,
Sichuan Province was detained twice by the Xiaotianzhu Police Station. She was
sentenced to forced labor for going to Beijing on November 29, 1999 to appeal to
the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. In March 2000, Ms. Qing,
along with her nine-year-old daughter, went to Beijing to appeal again. She was
detained for over thirty days and also dismissed from her job. In December 2000,
Ms. Qing was sentenced to one and a half years in the labor camp because she
distributed flyers containing information about the persecution.
Ms. Qing was not released until June 2002. In early July
of 2002, Ms. Qing spent a vacation at her relatives' home in Hongyuan City,
Sichuan Province. Local government officials constantly telephoned to harass
her, and even had people follow and monitor her, causing tremendous stress to
her family. This continued until her return to Chengdu. A few days later, when
Ms. Qing visited her daughter at her mother-in-law's home, policemen harassed
them by telephoning at around 1 o'clock in the morning. Her nearly 70-year-old
parents and other family members were scared, and the disturbance caused her
father-in-law's high blood pressure to relapse. A few days later, less than ten
minutes after Ms. Qing's return home, three policemen went to her home and
attempted to abduct her. The next morning, deceived by the police, Ms. Qing's
brother sent her to a brainwashing class. A policeman slapped her face
forcefully 18 times in front of her family, causing her dizziness and profuse
bleeding from her nose. Police then handcuffed her hands behind her back to a
tree. Later, Ms. Qing managed to escape but has become destitute and homeless.
Wang Zhiguo, a Handicapped
Man,
Shocked by Electric Batons while Sitting in the Water
Mr. Wang Zhiguo, male, handicapped, resident of
Jianping County, Liaoning Province. On January 26, 2002, police from the Hebei
Police Station in Jianping County arrested Mr. Wang, and detained him at a
detention center in Jianping County, because he practiced Falun Gong.
At the detention center, he was deprived of sleep twice
for a total of eight days and nights. Since Mr. Wang was not able to stand or
walk, police put him on the floor in a puddle of water, and shocked him with
several electric batons for six hours. The strong electric current made Mr. Wang
twist and spasm, and his whole body was covered with sweat. After the torture,
his hands became badly swollen for several months and he became very weak and
emaciated.
After a few months of detainment, Mr. Wang was sentenced
to three years of forced labor. However, no labor camp would accept a disabled
person like him, so the police wanted to extort 7000 Yuan (500 Yuan is the
average monthly income for an urban worker in China) from his family and
release him. Since his family was unable to pay the money, he was sentenced to
seven years in jail. Mr. Wang has been detained in the No. 4 Dabei Prison in
Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. The persecution on Mr. Wang had great impact
on his family. He has elderly parents, his wife who is mentally unstable, and
two children who are students, used to depend on his income to survive. Without
his income, they have become indigent.
Wei Xingyan was Publicly
Raped by Police in Chongqing City
Ms. Wei Xingyan, 28, is a third-year graduate
student majoring in high-voltage electricity transmission at Chongqing
University. Ms. Wei was arrested and interrogated by the "610 Office" in
Shapingba District, Chongqing City on May 11, 2003 because police suspected that
she had put up balloons and banners that have the words of Falun Gong around the
campus.
On the evening of May 13, 2003, one policeman took Ms.
Wei to a room in the Baihelin Detention Center in Shapingba District. He then
ordered two female prisoners to strip her naked. Then, the policeman pinned her
to the ground and raped her in front of the two female prisoners.
Ms. Wei then began a hunger strike to protest the
torture at the detention center. The guards force-fed her. During the forced
feeding, they purposely damaged her trachea and esophagus with the feeding tube,
which disabled her in such a way that she could no longer talk. On May 22, 2003,
she was on the verge of death and was sent to the Southeast Hospital in
Chongqing City. Many plainclothes police from the "610 Office" monitored her
around the clock to prevent her from sharing the truth about how she had been
tortured and raped.
Due to the extremely tight information blockade, little
else is known about Ms. Wei's current situation. Since June 2003, out of fear
that Ms. Wei's case might be exposed, the "610 Office" has arrested more than 50
Falun Gong practitioners in Chongqing City.
Yang Jingfang Sentenced for
Appealing to the Government
Ms. Yang Jingfang, born on September 30, 1949,
was a senior technician working for Jianghuai Instrument and Meter Plant in
Hefei City, and lived in Room 507, 25 Shuihu Road, Hefei City, Anhui Province.
She went to Beijing in May 2000 to appeal for an end to the persecution of Falun
Gong, for which the Western District Court of Hefei sentenced her to one year of
imprisonment. After her release in 2001, she was deprived of rights of working
and welfare.
On October 30, 2002, while away from Hefei on a business
trip, Ms. Yang received a phone call from her workplace asking her to return
immediately. Police abducted her immediately upon her return.
From October 30 to December 1, 2002, Ms Yang was
detained in the post office building, where the police kept her handcuffed her
to a chair for 32 days and nights continuously. She was only allowed to sit but
not allowed to sleep; nor was she allowed to wash, shower, or change. Due to the
long time sitting chained to a chair, her wrists were lacerated, feet swollen,
and her hips in pain. She twice entered a prolonged unconscious state from the
severe pain in her pelvis, back, spine, and neck. From November into the winter,
the room was heated and the air was very dry. The police would not allow her any
drink of water, which caused her to have cracked lips and a very painful throat.
On June 5, 2003, Shushan District Court of Hefei
sentenced Ms. Yang to three and a half years' imprisonment in the absence of the
major "witness", Ms. Wen Yan, and using forced "evidence" extracted by torture,
which Ms. Yang had not acknowledged. Ms. Yang is in the process of filing an
appeal. She is presently being incarcerated in Hefei Detention Center.
Force-Fed Boiling Water, a
Farmer was Tortured to Death
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| Mr. Zhang Xuewen |
Mr. Zhang Xuewen, 54, was a farmer living in
Fangtai Town, Hulan County, Heilongjiang Province. He began practicing Falun
Gong in 1994.
After July 1999, when the Chinese government banned
Falun Gong, he was arrested and detained many times because he continued to
practice. In April 2003, local police arrested Mr. Zhang and sent him to the
Hulan County Detention Center because he was distributing flyers exposing the
persecution of Falun Gong. At the detention center, he went on a hunger strike
for more than 90 days to protest the persecution, during which time he was
tortured and force-fed. As a result, Mr. Zhang lost so much weight that his
condition became very serious. His body appeared to be only skin and bones, his
face was ashen, his eyes were tightly closed, and he could not stand.
On June 20, 2003, the guards at the detention center
claimed that Mr. Zhang had appendicitis and sent him to the detention center
clinic to undergo surgery. The surgery results, however, showed that he did not
have appendicitis. Later, to torture him, the doctor and guards at the detention
center force-fed him boiling water. The internal damage he sustained caused him
to have blood in his stool. In an attempt to hide the torture, the authorities
at the detention center would not allow his family to visit him, nor would they
let Mr. Zhang seek medical care. Each day, he would lie on a wooden board,
unattended.
At the end of July 2003, without any legal process, the
legislative and judicial departments of Hulan County sentenced Mr. Zhang to five
years in prison. He was already on the verge of death when he was transferred to
Hulan Prison in Harbin City on August 7, 2003. Mr. Zhang died of the torture on
the morning of August 8, 2003. When his family received notice of his failing
condition and went to the prison, he was already dead. His body was all skin and
bones, and he had lost all of his teeth due to the torturous force-feeding.
On August 9, 2003, Mr. Zhang's corpse was cremated under
the guard of more than ten armed policemen.
Zhao Chunying Tortured to
Death, Organs were Taken
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| Ms. Zhao Chunying |
Ms. Zhao Chunying, female, 56, was a Falun Gong
practitioner from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province. Ms. Zhao had been arrested
and detained at the Hengshan District Branch Office of the Jixi City Police D
epartment in 1999 after the crackdown on Falun Gong began. She was sent to the
Wanjia Labor Camp. After her release, she wrote about her ordeal in the labor
camp and posted it on the Internet. When the local police from the Hengshan
District Branch Office discovered this, they arrested her again on April 15,
2003 and sent her to the Jixi City No. 2 Detention Center. On May 10, 2003, her
family was notified of her death.
Ms. Zhao's body was kept at the Jixi Funeral Home. Her
family members were extremely shocked upon seeing her injured body. Her eyes
were slightly open, her face was a purple-blue color, and there was a big crack
on the back of her head. There were bloodstains everywhere, and her ribs were
fractured. Her bones and the joints of her arms were clearly visible. Her family
decided to take photos and lodge an appeal regarding her death. The guards tried
to stop them, saying that no photos were allowed. Ms. Zhao's family persisted
and finally managed to take several photos. A forensic doctor then examined her
body, but lied under police pressure, saying that the body might have been
wounded due to self-inflicted punches, or because she was sick, or that perhaps
other prisoners had beaten her to death. Her family asked him, "Why do you
refuse to say that it is possible that she was beaten to death by police?" The
doctor was silent.
Due to the wretched condition of Ms. Zhao's body, her
family requested an autopsy. Through their persistent efforts, the request was
granted. The Jixi Province Procuratorate carried out the first of two autopsies
on Ms. Zhao's remains. They found a large knife wound on her head. They also
found four broken ribs and many black and purple bruises that they concluded
were the results of a severe beating. According to their findings, the beating
also caused considerable internal bleeding. On November 15, 2003, the
Heilongjiang Judicature Appraisal Committee conducted a second autopsy. They
found not only broken ribs, but also a fractured skull. They also found that her
heart, spleen, pancreas, and other internal organs were missing and could not be
accounted for.
Ms. Zhao's family members were trying to sue the people
who are responsible for her death. For the past several months, Ms. Zhao's
family has appealed to the local court, police stations for justice for her
death but so far they have not obtained any results. Ms. Zhao's murder and the
doctor's subsequent silence are two pieces in a large and complex cover-up in
China
Following are some photos taken during Ms. Zhao Chunying
autopsy
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