Family Members Appeal for Practitioner Ms. Li Baojie, Who was Persecuted to Death

Thirty-two-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Baojie, from Panjin City, Liaoning Province, was imprisoned at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp for practising Falun Gong. Her family members had tried legal appeals on her behalf, but on April 8, 2005, Ms. Li died as a result of persecution.

On April 12, 2005, four days after Li Baojie passed away, her family members went to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp to meet with a male director whose last name is Xie. They requested financial compensation for Li Baojie's death. After a half-day of negotiation, Xie agreed to reimburse the family 8,000 to 10,000 yuan (1) for funeral expenses after the cremation. Li's family asked Xie to sign an agreement as acknowledgment. Xie refused to do so. When Li's families again made the request, Xie threatened them with orders from the head of the labor camp and said that if they disturbed his plans, he would take action against them. Li Baojie's family members were very sad and indignant, and had to return home without the signature.

After Li's funeral was held on April 15, 2005, her family went to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp to show them the funeral expenses, which amounted to almost 20,000 yuan. Xie said that the head of the labour camp, Su Jing, went to a meeting in the provincial capital city and told them to go back home and wait. On April 27, Li's family called Xie. This time, Xie told them that the labour camp could only reimburse 3,000 to 4,000 yuan. The family members realized that they had been tricked. The 8,000 to 10,000 yuan reimbursement Xie had promised was just a lie.

Two days later, they again went to the labour camp. Xie didn't want to face them and asked Cui Yang, a labour camp staff member in her twenties, to talk to them. The head of the labour camp also dared not meet with them. Under her orders, Li's family members were asked to write a financial aid application letter, in which they were supposed to say that Li Baojie had been released on medical parole. In fact, Li Baojie was never granted medical parole. The family members were also asked to thank the labour camp in the application for the financial compensation. Because of the outrageous requests, they refused to write the application letter. At around noon, they finally received 4,000 yuan from the labour camp.

Li's family told people their experience with the camp. People were sympathetic about their situation and encouraged them to appeal to higher authorities.

During the following month, Li Baojie's family consulted a lawyer. However, the lawyer accepted payment from them, but did not do anything for them. It is a reflection of the fact that the Communist Party controls the entire country, including the legal system.

On June 1, 2005, the family called the provincial Supreme People's Procurator's Office to see what they could do. On June 2, they went to the Prison Inspection Section of the Liaoning Supreme People's Procurator's Office. They met with a receptionist and described what had happened to them. The receptionist took detailed notes and told them to talk to the Shenyang City Suburban People's Procurator's Office. As instructed by the receptionist, the family went to appeal at the Suburban People's Procurator's office, which has inspection offices in each labour camp to investigate allegations of improper treatment of inmates. Staff at the Suburban People's Procurator's Office told Li's family that they needed to talk to the Judicial Department of Liaoning Province and the Liaoning Province Forced Labour Bureau. So, they went there and told the receptionist about the injustices they suffered. The receptionist asked them to write an appeal letter detailing what happened to them, and the reason and purpose of their appeal, and then to go to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp and talk to officials at different levels. The so-called Liaoning Ideological Education School (in fact a brutal brainwashing centre) is a subsidiary of the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp.

Relevant Phone Numbers:

Liaoning Supreme People's Procurator Office switchboard: 86-24-86686000

Negligence Monitoring Office: 86-24-86686130

Appeals Office: 86-24-86686160

Note:

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

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/6/6/103454.html