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Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Guirong from Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province was abducted from home on February 4, 2002, by Li Shuqing, the deputy head of the Jiamusi City Police Department and agents from the "610 Office" (1). After having been illegally sentenced to prison and tortured, she became seriously ill. Ms. Sun was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer while held at the Harbin City Women's Prison. She was released on medical parole on February 6, 2004. The perpetrators continued to harass and threaten her at home, until she passed away at 9:00 p.m. on January 20, 2005. Following is her story:
Ms. Sun Guirong was 65 years old. She used to suffer from numerous illnesses and had difficulty walking prior to practising Falun Gong. All of her illnesses disappeared after she started practising Falun Gong in 1995, and she could walk faster than even some young people.
On February 4, 2002, 610 Office agents broke into Sun Guirong's home and took away her Falun Dafa books, videotapes, VCDs, a radio, two walkmans, and other personal belongings. They abducted Sun Guirong, accusing her of "disrupting public security" and sent her to a detention centre.
At that detention centre, 16 or 17 practitioners were held in a small, dark and damp room, about 12 square meters in size (about 130 square feet). They were forced to lie on their sides at night [for lack of space] and could not sleep. The food provided was very poor quality. Soon, Sun Guirong developed scabies; blood and pus seeped from her body and she started vomiting and had bloody bowel movements. Under pressure from her family, the authorities let her go to the Central Hospital in Jiamusi City, where she was diagnosed with a severe anal fistula. The doctor determined that she needed hospitalization, but the detention centre took her back. No treatment was allowed to be administered to her.
Sun Guirong's condition worsened and she was taken to the Jiamusi City Dental Hospital. Police strictly monitored the whole medical examination, which ended up being only a formality. Agents from the Jiamusi City 610 Office and police constantly interrogated Sun Guirong during the whole process, took photographs and videotaped her against her will, and fabricated charges against her.
On a police report it falsified the number of Dafa materials and books they had confiscated from Sun Guirong's home, which was over ten times the actual number, in order to sentence her to prison. Because of their scheming, Sun Guirong was sentenced to seven years in prison without any due legal procedures. Her family received the verdict in the mail after the fact. Sun Guirong appealed, but it was rejected.
During her illegal detention, the perpetrators also took Sun Guirong to a mental hospital to have an examination of her mental status. They extorted over 900 yuan (2) from her family as an "examination fee."
On January 17, 2003, Sun Guirong was sent to Harbin City Women's Prison, but the prison authorities refused to take her because she was in such terrible physical condition.
On the insistence of the police, the prison eventually accepted her and sent her to the Group Drill Team, where she was put under "strict control" and subjected to brainwashing. Her condition declined drastically and she could hardly walk. After more than four months, she was transferred to a so-called "service division" for mostly invalids and terminally ill patients.
In November 2003, the prison authorities sent her for a physical exam and extorted 5,000 yuan from her family. She was diagnosed with colon cancer, which required immediate medical attention. The prison authorities claimed that since she had not yet served two years, she could not be released. With repeated strong protests from her family, the perpetrators eventually allowed her to be taken home on February 6, 2004.
The prison authorities constantly called to harass and threaten her. They demanded that she return to prison. She grew sicker by the day under tremendous pressure and passed away at 9:00 p.m. on January 20, 2005, after nearly one year of excruciating suffering.
Note:
(1) "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.
(2) "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/2/13/95397.html
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