Ms. Huang Zhao is Tortured to Death by Police in Wuhan City - The Murderers Try to Cover up the Truth

Ms. Huang Zhao, 32 years old, was an employee in Grain Bureau of the Qiaokou District in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. At 3:00 a.m. on April 16, 2004, Ms. Huang Zhao died as a result of torture. She was tortured to death by Wuhan City Police Department and Qiaokou District "610 Office"

Police broke into the home of Ms. Huang Zhao and her husband Liu Ning around 10:00 p.m. on April 1, 2004. Their family learned this in the morning of April 5, 2004. At around 2:00 p.m. of April 5, Ms. Huang's mother carried her 78-year-old husband, a disabled veteran, to see officer Jin Zhiping and inquired about Ms. Huang's whereabouts. After first denying she had been taken into custody, he answered, "She was sent to the City Police Department for interrogation. You should go home. We'll inform you at the proper time."

From April 5 to April 15, the police department did not tell the family anything. Ms. Huang's parents were waiting with anxiety. Suddenly at approximately 4:30 am on the morning of April 16, police knocked on the front door of her parents home. Three policemen came and told her parents that Ms. Huang had "hurt herself" at about 4:00 p.m. on April 2 and was sent to the No.1 City Hospital for emergency care and died around 3:00 a.m. on the 16th of April. Sergeant Yang Gang asked Ms. Huang's parents to view Ms. Huang's body in the hospital. The two elderly parents were overwhelmed by the sad news and asked Huang Gang, "Why were we not informed during the two weeks Huang Zhao was in the hospital?" The officials argued, "We were worried that you could not handle it." The elderly couple asked, "Then, how do you think we can handle you coming to tell us an hour after her death? Why didn't you tell us so we could see her for a moment before she was going to die?" The officials could answer them and just asked the parents to come and view Ms. Huang's body in the hospital. However, the elderly couple refused because they knew that if they went to view at the body, the police would use their visit to fabricate a claim that Ms. Huang's parents had admitted that Ms. Huang had hurt herself, thus covering up their crime.

Later that day, a total of five people from the Qiaokou Police Department came to see Ms. Huang's parents. They surrounded the elderly couple and harassed them until almost midnight in attempts to get them to view Ms. Huang's body in the hospital. All they would keep repeating to the elderly parents was about Ms. Huang Zhao "hurting herself" and the need for "emergency care". The family requested the police department to provide details about how Ms. Huang had supposedly "hurt herself" on the April 2nd. Yang Gang said, "Huang Zhao smashed a glass. She then picked up the broken glass with her right hand, cutting herself approximately seven times across the artery on the left side of her neck. The policemen who were guarding her immediately used napkins and towels to wrap her to stop the bleeding. Then, they send her to the No. 1 City Hospital for "emergency care"."

Ms. Huang's family then asked Yang Gang a series of questions and requested him to answer with a "Yes" or "No" reply to prevent him from lying.

Question: After Huang Zhao's artery was severed, was she still able to talk in the hospital?

Yang Gang: No.

Question: Could she eat anything?

Yang Gang: No.

Question: Was she conscious?

Yang Gang: No.

Question: Was Huang Zhao convicted of being guilty at the time?

Yang Gang: No.

Question: Was Huang Zhao a free person then?

Yang Gang: Yes. He also said, "In order to save Huang Zhao, an expert brain surgeon and chest surgeon from Tongji Hospital were asked to come. The medical expenses were over 70,000 Yuan (1). If the family is questioning or doubting, you could hire an attorney as well as a medical examiner to examine the body."

The family debated the above two issues with the police for three days. The family insisted that it was impossible for Ms. Huang Zhao to commit so-called "self-injury" because she treasured her life very much. Even when she was handcuffed and hung up in the prison, around the clock, for 9 consecutive days she did not give up her belief in Falun Dafa and had never "injured herself" despite the brutal torture she was subjected to. She was not even in prison. The family insisted that the Qiaokou Police Department provide material evidence if Ms. Huang had "injured herself" and was in "emergency care". Yang Gang and the other police claimed they had evidence but they were not able to produce anything to show the family. They could not even provide any evidence such as a Notice of Terminal Illness or Death Certificate, not to mention things like the broken glass, record of the "emergency care" and hospital care, receipt of medical bills, etc.

Actually, Huang Zhao's family had already realized that Huang Zhao did not die from a so-called "self-injury"; instead she was tortured to death in the Qiaokou District Police Department on the afternoon of April 2, less than 24 hours from her arrest. The police fabricated an excuse that her death was the result of "self-injury" and that she died after "emergency rescue" in order to delay telling Huang Zhao's parents until April 16 so they would have enough time to cover up their role in Huang Zhao's murder. For three days, the police kept sending more officers to harass Huang's family but did not accomplish their goal. On noon of April 18, not having been successful with deceiving Huang's parents into signing off on their fabricated story about Huang's death. The police decided to go ahead and publicly announce that Ms. Huang Zhao had "committed suicide due to her dread of punishment for her crime".

We urge all international organizations to investigate this case.

(1) Yuan is the unit of currency in China, where the average monthly salary of an urban worker is 500 Yuan.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/7/27/80448.html