Practitioner Zhang Guiqin Tortured to Death -- Authorities Attempt to Recruit Her Sister-in-Law as Spy

On December 4th, 2006, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Guiqin from Qiqihar City, Heilongjing Province was tortured to death. Soon after her death, agents from the City 610 Office¹, State Security Division, Police Department, and Dongshichang Police Station threatened her sister-in-law, who had just been released from a labour camp, to become a spy.

In March 2006, Ms. Zhang went to her aunt's house to do some business, but was arrested by waiting police. The police from Tongdong Street Station in Tiefeng District detained her in Qiqihar City First Detention Centre. When officials from the City 610 Office, City Police Department, and Teifeng District Department were visiting the Detention Centre, Ms. Zhang shouted "Falun Dafa is great!" The guards got angry, hitting her mouth with a mop very hard, causing it to bleed. At the end of October 2006, Ms. Zhang went on a hunger strike to protest. She was later taken to the Hepingchang City Hospital in a deep coma. She had difficulty breathing, was incontinent, and vomited blood in large quantities before her death. A female guard said, "She would be fine even if she vomits half a pan of blood." At around 1:00 a.m. on December 5th, 2006, Ms. Zhang died as the result of the tortures in the Hepingchang City Hospital.

Soon after Ms. Zhang's death, the agents from the City 610 Office, State Security Division, and police from the City Department and Dongshichang Station went to her mother's house, and threatened her sister-in-law, who had just been released from labour camp, in attempts to recruit them as spies. They took them to a restaurant, forced them to drink (Falun Dafa practitioners do not drink), and told them, "You keep in contact with whoever comes to contact you. We will not arrest these people, but only arrest whoever contacts them."

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.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/4/21/153201.html