Police Torture Ms Jiang Lanying of Jiangxi Province to Verge of Death and Force Family to Accept Responsibility

Ms Jiang Lanying, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, has been tortured and force-fed for two years and eleven months at a hospital connected to the Jiangxi Province Forced Labour Camp. She is now on the verge of death. In June 2005, the police forced her parents to sign a document making her family responsible for whatever happens to her at the hospital. The police told her parents, "We will not release her. Let her die here."

Ms. Jiang Lanying is 39 years old. In November 1999, she went to Beijing three times to appeal for Falun Dafa. She was arrested by police in Nanchang City then detained at the Third Detention Centre. Liu Xiuying, a policewoman who was later imprisoned for selling drugs, ordered thugs to brutally beat Ms. Jiang, and to throw ice water and urine at her in the winter. When she joined seven others in a Falun Gong group exercise, she and the others were handcuffed together by the political chief of the detention centre named Deng. When one practitioner needed to use the toilet, the other seven had to go too. For two days, the practitioners were forced to sit on the concrete floor. Ms. Jiang was illegally sentenced to one year of forced labour and sent to the Women's Forced Labour Camp of Jiangxi Province in January 2000. Because she held a hunger strike, she was bound to her bed for long periods of time and deprived from using the toilet. She was force-fed and jailed in a small and dark cell with two other people. In this cell, they ate their meals and used the space as a toilet. Eventually Ms. Jiang Lanying became emaciated, and was on the verge of death. At that point she was released to her home. It was January 2002.

At around 1:00 in the morning of July 11, 2002, Ms. Jiang was taken from her home by police from the Qingshanlu Police Station. At the police station, police officers beat her with electric batons and an iron club for two entire days. Wang Wei even sat on a stool to beat Ms. Jiang's feet. Later, when she was transferred to the First Detention Centre, her family was not allowed to see her.

At the end of February 2003, the Women's Prison of Jiangxi Province suddenly notified Jiang Lanying's family that they may visit her at the Long March Jail Hospital. This was the first time her family knew that she was illegally sentenced to five years in jail. Liang Lanying had refused to eat in protest and was sent to the hospital to be force fed. Her mother was allowed to visit her periodically up until July 25. She had become extremely thin, weighing only 40 kilograms (88 lbs.) although she was 1.65 metres (5 ft. 5 in.) tall. Her mother begged to take her home. The hospital staff told her they could not release Ms. Jiang because of orders from higher up. They said that if she did not eat, she would have to die there.

Ms. Jiang's mother read in the newspaper on May 27, 2005 that the head of the police department would handle problematic cases [such as hers]. So Ms. Jiang's mother went to the Donghu District Police Department in Nanchang City on May 30. The department head, Yu Xiaoguang, interviewed her in the presence of the Chief of Pengjiaqian Police Station. They appeared to be in very good spirits at the time. In the company of ten police officers, on June 1, the political director of the Pengjiaqian Police Station, Wang Wei, took Jiang Lanying's parents to the hospital.

Ms. Jiang was bound to the bed. The authorities arranged reporters to videotape everything. They then told Ms Jiang's parents and the reporters, "You have seen, we gave her an injection, and she refused to eat. Now we will leave her alone. She needs to be responsible herself for whatever happens." Then, they asked Ms. Jiang's parents to sign a document.

Although extremely weak, Ms. Jiang spoke clearly, "Mum, you can't sign. I'm not afraid of death. They never gave me injections or cared for my condition. Every day I was forced to drink a bottle of salted water. I was injected today only because the reporters came."

Ms. Jiang's parents did not sign. The authorities said, "We won't let her go. If she dies, she will die here, because once she is released, she will go to Beijing." A police officer named Wang Wei said maliciously to the family, "I am not afraid, regardless of where you take your protests. I want her to die, so what? "

We call on everyone to be aware of Ms. Jiang's condition and call for justice.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/6/27/104965.html