Ms. Cao Fengying, 62, lived in Jinchang City, Gansu Province. She left for Beijing on February 7th, 2000, to appeal for Falun Gong, but was intercepted by police officers from Jinchang City at the Jinchang Train Station and detained for sixteen days. She set off for Beijing again in late October 2000 and was arrested by police in Tiananmen Square. She was sent to the Jinchang Liaison Office in Beijing and was returned to Jinchang and held in a custody centre for more than a month.
On the evening of January 17th, 2001, Liu Tianying, Zhang Yaoqiang, and others from the street Administration Committee deceived Ms. Cao. They transported her to a brainwashing centre and detained her for more than seventy days.
In September 2002, Ms. Cao was reading Falun Gong books at home when a local police officer harassed her. He saw a Falun Gong book on her bed and took her and the book to the police station. She was again held at the Jinchang City Detention Centre for more than forty days. Her daughter eventually bailed her out using her job as the guarantee and gave 2,000 yuan1 to the authorities before Ms. Cao was released.
Two months later, another practitioner was sent to the Jinchang City Detention Centre and was held in the same room where Cao Fengying had been held. A woman in her thirties who was arrested for selling drugs told this practitioner about the abuse that Ms. Cao was subjected to while she was held at the detention centre. When Ms. Cao was on a hunger strike, the guards ordered the inmates to drag her and run around in the courtyard. When she was exhausted and could no longer run she lay on the ground. The guards refused to let anyone hold her to support her. She crawled back to the cell.
After Ms. Cao went home, officers from Guangzhou Road Police Station in Jinchang City frequently went to harass and threaten her. Her husband soon passed away.
Her son, Zhang Yonglong, also a Falun Gong practitioner, was sentenced to nine years in prison at the Jinchuan District Court for making materials exposing the persecution. He is currently being held at the Jiuquan Prison in Gansu Province.
Her daughter-in-law was also sent to a labour camp.
Ms. Cao Fengying passed away on January 8th, 2003 (Chinese lunar calendar), from the persecution of terror by the Chinese Communist Party.
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://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/7/15/133057.html
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