Two Women Persecuted to Death in Liaoning Province's Women's Prison

In mid-January of 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Lihua was in critical condition in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison. Her family was advised to bail her out "for medical treatment," but she passed away on January 27th. The details are still under investigation. Ms. Wang Xiuxia, 41, was also persecuted into critical condition at Liaoning Province Women's Prison. She passed away on January 24th after being released.

Ms. Liu Lihua, 61, was a Falun Dafa practitioner in Zhuanghe City, Liaoning Province. She began practising Falun Gong in early 1996. She was arrested several times after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its frenzied persecution of Falun Gong in 1999. On September 4th, 1999, more than 30 practitioners, including Ms. Liu, were arrested while attending an Falun Dafa experience sharing conference in Zhuanghe City. Ms. Liu was detained for 48 days.

In June 2000, Ms. Liu was arrested again from her home. She was sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp. She was persecuted in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province until her release in March 2001.

In July 2001, Ms. Liu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. After she returned, Xingda Police Station in Zhuanghe City arrested her while she was distributing flyers exposing the persecution. She was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. She suffered brutal persecution for nearly five years in Liaoning Province Women's Prison (formerly called the Dabei Prison of Shenyang City, now named the Shenyang Prison).

On around January 16th, 2006, the prison staff advised her family to bail her out "for medical treatment," however, they would not allow her family to take her back to her own home. Ms. Liu Liuhua was brought to her son's home in Dalian City, where she passed away on January 27th, 2006.

Ms. Wang Xiuxia, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shenyang City, was brutally persecuted in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison for nearly four years. She was brutally beaten, forced to sleep on a cement floor, and forced to work overtime doing slave labour. The guards poured buckets of cold water on her. In December 2005, she was tortured until she was nothing but skin and bones. Her whole body was swollen, and she was in critical condition. The prison released her to avoid responsibility. Ms. Wang passed away on January 24th, 2006 after enduring all kinds of persecution. She was only 41 years old.

Liaoning Province Women's Prison
Main Office: 86-24-89296733, Operator: 86-24-89296600
Warden: Li Sen
Warden Office: 86-24-89296666
Hospital office: 86-24-89296857
Hospital political instructor: 86-24-89296861

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/2/14/120769.html