More Information on How Practitioner Ms Deng Jianping from Sichuan Province Was Tortured to Death

Deng Jianping

42-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms Deng Jianping was from Chengdu City of Sichuan Province in China. On the 17th of March, 2004 she was abducted from a house near the Chengdu North Train Station. She was jailed in a County Detention Centre. During her detention there, she refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong and its principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance," and as a consequence had to endure brutal tortures. She went on a hunger strike as a form of peaceful protest against the persecution, which was met with more torture. She was tortured to death at 12:30pm on the 11th of August, 2004.

On the 22nd of July, while in critical condition, she was sent to the People's Hospital. For safety reasons, she had been using aliases. So, the police didn't know her real name. After being on a hunger strike and clarifying the truth about Dafa for an extended period of time, she was physically and mentally exhausted. She fell into a trance and told the police her real name on the 27th of July.

Using her name, the police found out from the Internet that her elder-brother works for the Qingbeijiang Sichuan Chemical Group. They asked her family members to persuade her to stop fasting and to give up her belief. So on the 10th of August, her parents and elder brother were taken to the hospital to visit her. What they saw broke their hearts! Deng Jianping was reduced to a mere skeleton. She couldn't move and was in a trance. Her feet were still in shackles, which weighed several dozen Jins (1 Jin=500 Gram, a little more than 1 pound). Her feet had become deformed due to the weight of the shackles. At the time, it was mid-summer, and in the sweltering heat, she was still wearing the red sweater she had on when she was abducted. She could only lie on her back and couldn't turn over. Most areas of her buttocks were festered and covered with blood. She could only urinate and have bowel movements in bed. She was too weak to respond to her family members. They kept talking to her. Gradually, she started to talk, but she was not in her right mind.

She looked at her mother and said in a thin voice: "You're the Communist Party secretary. You tortured me." Her family immediately questioned the policemen there: "Is this what you called 'treating her nicely and taking good care of her'?" Upon her family request, the doctor came to treat her wounds. She came to and could recognise her parents and her elder brother. She pointed at one young armed policeman and said, "I will sue them. They tortured me." The policeman said, "She is talking nonsense." Her parents refuted him. Seeing that Jianping's life was hanging on by a thin thread, her family urged the police to release her. The policeman said, "That's not possible. It takes one to two weeks to review and then approve." Her family said, "If she dies here. You will be held accountable!" The next day (August 11), the police called her elder brother in the morning to notify him that they agreed to grant her bail status and that her family can take her. They immediately hurried to the Chengdu City Police Department Qingyang branch to take care of the paperwork. Then they were taken to the Bi County Detention Centre. After waiting for several hours, they were told that Jianping died at 12:30pm that day. At 4:00pm that afternoon, they visited the funeral parlour to see her remains.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/9/6/83538.html