Huang Kaixin is three years old and misses her mother, Ms. Luo Zhixiang, very much. Ms. Luo was tortured to death in the Huangpu Drug Rehabilitation Center in Guangzhou City, and her father, Mr. Huang Guohua is homeless, trying to avoid being captured and tortured for his belief.

Ms. Luo lived in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. After graduating from a university in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, she worked as an engineer. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1996. In her workplace, she was known as a kind and hard-working person. After the central government banned the practice of Falun Gong, she and her husband, Mr. Huang Guohua, went to Beijing to appeal to the government for the right to practice. Since then they have been arrested, detained, and tortured many times. 

In May 2001, Ms. Luo gave birth to their daughter. To avoid recapture and persecution, she was forced to leave her three-month-old infant in the care of her mother-in-law and become homeless. Local authorities put her name on a wanted list and posted a reward of 30,000 Yuan for her capture. After her husband was released from the Huadu Labor Camp Guangzhou City, he joined Ms. Luo and became homeless too.

On November 22, 2002, local police found the couple and arrested them. Ms. Luo's husband was sentenced to forced labor again at the Huadu Labor Camp. She was released after an examination revealed that she was three months pregnant. However, the authorities from the Tianhe District's "610 Office" arrested her again and sent her for forced brainwashing at the Huangpu Drug Rehabilitation Center in Guangzhou City. She started her hunger strike again and was subsequently tortured. On November 30, 2002, while still in police custody, her head was injured when she fell from the third floor of a building under very suspicious circumstances. She was sent to a hospital for treatment.

On December 1, 2002, Ms. Luo’s family was notified that she was on the verge of death. Her mother-in-law brought little Kaixin to Guangzhou City on December 5, but Ms. Luo was already dead. She had passed away, along with her unborn child, at the young age of 29. Her family members saw that her face was badly deformed. The local authorities tried to conceal the torture, claiming that she had committed suicide by jumping from a building. Before Ms. Luo’s death, she had been on a hunger strike for seven days; she was too weak to walk. There were three persons who monitored her every day, and even followed her to the restroom; it would have been impossible for her to find a chance to jump from a building. After her death, only her head was injured. This is not what one would expect if she had actually jumped from a building.

Ms. Luo’s family refused to cremate her body and requested an autopsy. However, the local authorities threatened them, and tricked her husband into signing papers allowing the cremation. Since her parents-in-law had no income, they filed an application for living benefits, but were denied. Her parents-in-law and little Kaixin were forced to wander homeless on the streets for more than four months.

Ms. Luo’s husband was released several months after her death. He became homeless again to avoid recapture and further persecution. Ms. Luo’s parents-in-law, who are also Falun Gong practitioners, were also detained and tortured. The police released them after torturing them for one month and confiscating the only cash they had.

Kaixin, who is less than three years old, now lives with her grandparents in Rujia Village, Wujing Town, Linqu County, Shandong Province, where their living conditions are so poor that the house is made of mud bricks and there is a one-meter-long crack in the ceiling. She misses her mom, and often kisses her mom’s picture. She frequently tells her grandparents, "I saw Mom. She is so beautiful, Mom often comes to see me."