63-Year-Old Ms. Qin Qingfang Dies from Persecution at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp

Ms. Qin Qingfang, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Fushun City, Liaoning Province, died at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp on July 9th 2005, after being unjustly detained and persecuted for many years. She is one of many Falun Dafa practitioners who have died while being persecuted at this notorious institution.

Ms. Qin Qingfang, 63, began practising Falun Gong in 1998. Before she started practising Falun Gong, she had various illnesses. After she began practising, however, all of her illnesses vanished without treatment. Both her body and mind were purified.

Since July 20th 1999, Qin Qingfang had gone to Beijing many times to appeal for Falun Gong's good name, and was arrested and detained every time. In December 2000, Ms. Qi was sentenced to three years of forced labour.

In December 2000, Ms. Qi was arrested for being persistent in her practice of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." Her husband witnessed her arrest and was so frightened that he suffered a stroke, losing the ability to speak and also becoming paralysed. With no one else to look after Ms. Qi's ageing father and her eight-year-old grandson, the authorities still sentenced Ms. Qi to three years of forced labour.

Hearing the news of his daughter's arrest and sentencing to forced labour, Ms. Qi's already blind father could not take the shock, and passed away over the Chinese New Year of 2003. Ms. Qi's paralysed husband contracted vasculitis, and his right leg had to be amputated. This once happy family was thus devastated by the persecution. Ms. Qi's husband was sixty-three years old. He lost his job and had no income. The sixty-year-old Qi Qingfang was also unemployed. The community forbade them from applying for even the lowest degree of social welfare, so the family lived under great hardship.

Ms. Qi suffered brutal persecution while detained at the Fushun City Forced Labour Camp, including torture methods such as handcuffing, dousing with cold water, electric shock, sleep deprivation and beatings by multiple culprits in an isolated room. After enduring such inhumane torture and severe persecution, she was released on the Chinese New Year in 2004.

After she returned home, these lawless people did not stop persecuting her. Her phone was tapped, and she was followed and closely monitored day and night.

In July 2004, just a few months after she was released, personnel from the Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs of the Shuncheng District and Jiangjun neighbourhood arrested Ms. Qi once again and sent her to a brainwashing centre. She firmly refused to cooperate at the brainwashing class, and was thus sent to Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in September 2004 for three years of forced labour. On July 9th 2005, she died as a result of persecution at the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. The details of her death are not yet known, but the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp returned Qi's ashes to her family in a box.

Relevant telephone numbers:

Qi Qingfang's family: 86-413-8249300
The Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs of Shuncheng District in Fushun City: 86-413-7503680
Wang Xianting, the Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs of Shuncheng District: 86-413-7503571(Office) 86-413-8262339(Home) 86-13304132908(Mobile)
Zhang Shaobin, the Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs of Shuncheng District: 86-413-7503571(Office) 86-413-4630074(Home) 86-13942315933(Mobile)

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/6/107850.html