Further Information Regarding the Death of 55 Year Old Female Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Xu Fuzhi from Heilongjiang Province

Ms. Xu Fuzhi, 55 years old, lived in Mudanjiang City in China. She used to work in the Bei'an Dahui Foundry. After she practised Falun Gong, the cardiac arrhythmia and high blood pressure she had suffered from for many years had all disappeared. She and her two daughters had a happy and harmonious family. After she started to practise Falun Dafa both her physical and mental health improved and she told everyone she met that Falun Dafa is something good.

During the night of the 6th of November, 2002, Xu Fuzhi was abducted by the police and taken to the National Security Team of the Aimin Police Department in Mudanjiang City. Peng Jun and other policemen covered her head and force-fed her with extremely spicy mustard oil to try and force her to tell them the source of the materials containing the true facts about Falun Gong. The Mudanjiang City police frequently force fed those who practise Falun Gong with mustard oil as a method of torture. The oil is so caustic it can leave chemical burns on any part of the skin where it is applied and the fumes can cause choking and leave the person with a sensation of suffocation. After the authorities failed to obtain any information, they held Xu Fuzhi in the Mudanjiang City Detention Centre.

Ms. Xu refused to renounce her belief in Falun Dafa or agree to stop practising, and she did not cooperate with the criminal authorities. In March 2003, she was sentenced to three years by the Aimin Court and was sent to the Harbin Women's Prison on the 16th of June, 2003. During her incarceration she suffered from scabies that had developed all over her body due to the extremely poor living and unsanitary conditions that were allowed to exist in the prison. The high blood pressure and heart disease that she previously had overcome returned in the poor environment of the detention centre. Due to her poor health condition, Haibin Women's Prison officials refused to accept her and sent her back to the Mudanjiang City Detention Centre. She should have been released on a medical parole to receive medical treatment, but the authorities from the Mudanjiang City "6-10 Office"¹ and the detention centre refused to release any Falun Dafa practitioners who were rejected by the prison for health reasons and refused to send them to a hospital to get medical treatment. When the family members tried to obtain their release on medical grounds, the authorities created obstacles and would not release the practitioners. Xu Fuzhi's husband sold their house in order to have enough money to obtain her release for medical treatment, but was rejected. Xu Fuzhi's blood pressure reached 260 in the detention centre, and the scabies made her skin itch uncontrollably. Due to gross abuse in the detention centre, coupled with the denial of medical treatment for her heart and blood pressure condition, Xu Fuzhi suffered a stroke and died on May 26, 2004

Many practitioners have been detained in the Mudanjiang City Detention Centre. They were illegally sentenced, tortured to disability and the prison refused to accept them due to their poor health condition, which resulted from the torture they had received. The Falun Gong practitioners' physical and mental health was traumatised, but the detention centre did not release them and refused them any medical treatment. Only when a practitioner's life was in danger would medical treatment be permitted, as the authorities feared having to take responsibility should any practitioner die in the detention centre. When they were in a critical condition, the practitioners were sent to the Mudanjiang City Police Hospital.

Xu Fuzhi's death was completely preventable. The actual cause of her death was due to torture and being denied medical treatment. When her family members finally learned about Xu Fuzhi's condition, she was already in a critical condition. In those instances, the authorities of Mudanjiang City Police Department, Detention Centre and the city "6-10 Office" feared their crimes might be exposed, so they strictly monitored her family members who were visiting Xu in the police hospital. Only one family member at a time was permitted to go to Xu's bedside and their entry and exit were tightly restricted.

After Xu Fuzhi was abducted by authorities and taken to the detention centre she was detained for a year and six months. She was tortured to death by the Mudanjiang Cities "6-10 Office" enforcer Peng Jun together with people from the national security team of Mudanjiang City Aimin Police Department, Bei'an Police Station, Sun Hongliang, and others from Aimin Court.

So far, seven Dafa practitioners in Mudanjiang City have died as a result of torture. Nearly 600 practitioners have been sent to the Jianshan Prison, the Harbin Women's Prison, Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre, Mudanjiang City Detention Centre, the Forced Labour Camp, the Mental Hospital. The authorities responsible for these deaths are all from the Mudanjiang City "6-10 Office," from the Aimin Court, other courts of the city and people from the police department. The practitioners were subjected to torture in all those locations.

Li Changqing and others from Mudanjiang City's "6-10 Office" received merit awards as a result of having tortured practitioners with such enthusiasm. These awards, which were touted as "political achievements," were gained at the expense of these peoples lives. Practitioners in Mudanjiang City are being ruthlessly persecuted and their family members and friends will not keep silent about it. Several lawsuits against the Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin for his crimes of genocide are pending around the world. Those criminals who follow Jiang's decrees and persecute practitioners will not escape the judgement of history.

Term:

1. "6-10 Office" - 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/2004/7/17/79613.html