Gansu Province Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Fu Jinmei, In Her Fifties, Died as a Result of Abuse Suffered in Detention

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Fu Jinmei from Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, was unjustly incarcerated several times and her home was also searched many times. On December 8, 2003, she was again arrested. She became very ill and lost consciousness because of the abuse she suffered in detention. After she was sent back home, Ms. Fu Jinmei was completely bedridden. She died on September 18, 2004. More of her story follows:

Ms. Fu Jinmei was 54 years old. She was a former employee of the Lanzhou City Feikong Apparatus Factory. In 1996, Ms. Fu started to practise Falun Gong.

During the 2000 Chinese New Year, Ms. Fu went to Beijing to peacefully appeal for Falun Gong, in order to tell the authorities that Falun Gong is good. She was arrested and sent back to her home area, where she was incarcerated for half a month and extorted by 6,000 yuan (1). Since that time, perpetrators from the police station and personnel from the "610 Office" (2) often illegally searched her home and arrested her at will.

In March 2001 the security section of her work unit forced Ms. Fu Jinmei to write a "guarantee statement" (3) to give up practising Falun Gong. Even after that, they continued to harass her many times. On December 8, 2003, the police searched Ms. Fu's home and detained her. While in detention this time, she suddenly suffered from a high fever and she felt such pain all over her body that it was difficult to endure. The policemen and people from the "610 Office" said that Ms. Fu was pretending to be ill and declared they still would not release her. Finally, Fu Jinmei lost consciousness. She was sent to the hospital and was diagnosed as having lung cancer, but even then the perpetrators still would not notify her family.

After Ms. Fu was sent back home, she could no longer get up and remained bedridden. She died on September 18, 2004.

Note:

(1) "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

(2) "The 610 office" is 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.

(3) "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/10/96981.html