Ms. Zhao Shuying Becomes Crippled as the Result of Torture - Elderly Mother Dies Awaiting Her Release

Ms. Zhao Shuying, a practitioner from Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, is being held at the Gaoyang Labour Camp, a provincial camp in Gaoyang County, Hebei Province. As a result of the persecution to which she has been subjected, she has become so weak that she is unable to walk on her own. Sadly, Ms. Zhao's elderly mother died several days ago after a long and futile wait for her youngest daughter's return.

Ms. Zhao was transferred from the Xuanhua Detention Centre in Zhangjiakou City to the First Team, Fifth Row, at the Gaoyang Labour Camp in January 2005. In April, while returning to her cell from a labour assignment, she experienced spasms, fell to the ground, and lost consciousness. The labour camp neglected to give her any treatment, and she became disabled as a result. She has lost the use of her right leg, and she experiences dizziness regularly. She has become so weak that she sleeps 15 to 17 hours per day, and she experiences agonising pain every ten to fifteen days. Those episodes are accompanied by severe vomiting, leaving her bedridden and unable to eat.

In July or August 2005, Ms. Zhao and Ms. Chen Aihong wrote a letter to expose the scandalous conditions in the Fifth Row, but the guards discovered the letter during a routine search. In retaliation, Chief Li Xuejun (male) sneaked into the women's area while the practitioners were on their way to the cafeteria and viciously hit Ms. Chen in the head. She suffered a heart attack as a result. Ms. Zhao and the other practitioners went on a hunger strike in protest. As punishment, the guards put them in solitary confinement and force-fed them. The guards inflicted other tortures on them as well, including taping their mouths shut and shocking them with electric batons and crank telephones wired to their bodies.

In May 2006, among various brutal attempts to "transform¹" practitioners, the chief allowed criminal inmates to beat Ms. Zhao until her legs became black-and-blue. He also had them deprive her of sleep. In August, all inmates had their sentences reduced by four months--except for Ms. Zhao.

Fifth Row office telephone: 86-312-6816141

Note

1. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/4/19/153050.html