Siping City Police Admit They Tortured Ms. Dai Chunhua to Death (Photo)

Ms. Dai Chunhua, a thirty-four-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was a nurse at the First People's Hospital in Jilin Province. On February 19, 2002, she was arrested by police from Siping City, and detained at the city's detention centre. Twenty days later, she was tortured to death.

On February 19, 2002, while working on truth-clarifying materials, Dai Chunhua was arrested by police, who destroyed the materials production site and sent her to Siping City Detention Centre. She went on hunger strike to protest her illegal detention and was thus cruelly tortured. Twenty days later, on the morning of March 9, she was tortured to death. After her death, it was discovered that on her corpse there was a puncture mark at her collarbone, and her breasts were full of punctures that were apparently a result of piercing with some sharp metal objects. Moreover, her back had turned purple and red with bruises. Surprisingly, the police department of Siping City acknowledged that they tortured her to death, and therefore the police department paid the funeral expenses. In many cases, the police do not admit responsibility and grieving families are forced to bear the funeral expenses.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/3/22/70580.html