The Death of Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhang Xuefeng

Ms. Zhang Xuefeng was a Falun Gong practitioner from Qinghai Province. During her two-year incarceration in the Duoba Forced Labour Camp in Qinghai Province, she was forcefully administered drugs damaging to her central nervous system, and thus became mentally deranged. Ms. Zhang Xuefeng passed away within a year of being released.

Before Ms. Zhang started to practise Falun Gong, she was frail and afflicted with an illness in her uterus. She often had to go to the hospital because of her ailment. Her life and work was also compromised because of this ailment. Ms. Zhang's illness disappeared without a trace since she began to cultivate Falun Gong.

After Jiang Zemin's group started to openly persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, Ms. Zhang Xuefeng and her father travelled to Beijing together to appeal for Falun Dafa. Unfortunately, the police abducted them and sentenced Ms. Zhang to two years in a forced labour camp.

While Ms. Zhang was incarcerated in the Duoba Forced Labour Camp, the prison police subjected her to severe torture and torment. They tried to force her to give up Falun Dafa, but she refused. The police then started to force her to take drugs that would damage her central nervous system. When Ms. Zhang refused to comply, they forcefully administered the drug, which caused her to become mentally deranged and to lose her cognitive functions. When her father and her husband visited her in Duoba Forced Labour Camp, she tragically could not recognize either of them.

Ms. Zhang's parents are both Falun Gong practitioners. According to their testimony, their daughter was released in December 2002. During the few times when Ms. Zhang was clear-headed, she spelled out clearly that the police had forcefully administered the drugs to her that caused her mental derangement. Despite her health condition, Ms. Zhang persevered in studying the teachings of Falun Dafa and practising the Falun Gong exercises at home. While she was studying the teachings with her parents, she appeared to be more clear-headed and mentally stable. However, she was still fighting with her mental trauma from the appalling torture in the labour camp. She was hard on herself for some of the things she had done against her conscience in the labour camp while she was not clear-headed because of the drugs. The memory of the horrid persecution in the forced labour camp continued to haunt and torment her. The painful memory was an unbearable burden on her mind. What had happened in Duoba Forced Labour Camp continued to bother her enormously and the damage to her central nervous system could not be undone. When she was alone she was not clear-headed and often became mentally deranged. When that happened, she was not herself. She would be confused, and say strange things and do strange things. However, she once said, "They tried to kill me, but I must not die. If I should die, I would have given Falun Dafa a bad name."

The "610 Office" in Qinghai Province and the Duoba Forced Labour Camp have tortured and mutilated Ms. Zhang Xuefeng to a point beyond repair. Even time had failed to ease her physical and spiritual trauma. After nearly a year since Ms. Zhang returned home, she decided to end the painful memory that Jiang Zemin's regime had inflicted upon her with death. She killed herself by jumping out of the building on November 20, 2003.

[The "610 Office" is a Gestapo-like 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. Due to pressure from the international community, the Chinese Communist government has renamed the "610 Office" on October 15, 2003, and lied to the world, stating that the "610 Office" has been "disbanded."]

That day, the Public Security officers in Qinghai Province came to check the case and tried to shift responsibility for her death from them to Falun Gong. "Was she a Falun Gong practitioner?" Her mother replied, "She was persecuted to death! She practised Falun Gong for several years and had always been healthy. Why did she become mentally deranged after she was released from the forced labour camp?" They fled without a reply.

This is the true story of Ms. Zhang about her illegal incarceration in Duoba Forced Labour Camp, her release, and her death. Our group is currently investigating the physical and spiritual torture that Ms. Zhang Xuefeng had been subjected to.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/2/13/67109.html