Ms. Li Chunzhi Died as a Result of Persecution

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Chunzhi, 41, lived in the Family Housing of the Baoding City Second Cadre Retirement Home in Hebei Province. She started cultivating Falun Dafa in August 1995. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa on July 22nd, 1999, and was arrested, detained one month in Beijing Public Transportation Detention Centre, and later detained for another 20 days in Baoding Detention Centre. She was fined 1600 yuan¹ by Religion Affairs Office Head Tang of the Baoding City Police Department.

On January 2nd, 2001, police officer Wang Yuehua and others arrested Ms. Li from a hospital, where her parents had been taken for emergency treatment due to gas poisoning. Ms. Li went on a hunger strike to protest, but her father died before she was released.

Before January 24th, 2001 (the Chinese New Year), Ms. Li was again arrested and detained, this time for two months in Xushui County Detention Centre. She went on a hunger strike until she was near death. Political Security Office Head Lu Guanjiang (male) of Beishi District Police Department insisted on detaining her in the Baoding City Detention Centre, but the Centre rejected her due to her physical condition. Finally Lu Guanjiang had to allow her husband to carry her home.

On April 25th, 2001, Ms. Li unfurled a banner on Tiananmen Square. She was arrested and detained in the Yanqing County Detention Centre in Beijing. She was cursed at and beaten with sticks, so she went on a hunger strike for 24 days. After she was released, she had to leave home to avoid being arrested again.

In July or August 2001, Ms. Li was arrested by policemen from Youanmen Station in Beijing. Four male officers stripped her, shocked her with an electric baton when she had only her underwear on, verbally abused her, and beat her. She was released after she stopped eating for four days.

On February 17th, 2003, policemen from Beishi District Department in Baoding City arrested Ms. Li when she visiting her daughter. She was sentenced to three years of forced labour and detained in the Baoding City Forced Labour Camp for three months. She was released after she went on a hunger strike for 47 days.

Over the past several years, due to the police's constant harassment, threats, arrests, and detention, Ms. Li Chunzhi had no stable life, and that greatly damaged her physical and mental health. She died on June 19th, 2006.

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.org/mh/articles/2006/6/30/131812.html