Additional Details on How Falun Gong Practitioner Wang Yunjie from Dalian City Died as a Result of Persecution

Ms. Wang Yunjie, a Falun Gong practitioner from Dalian City, Liaoning Province, was taken to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, where she was severely tormented by prison officials. After a while, her breast started to fester and was horrible to look at. She died in mid-July, 2006. What follows are additional details about the torments she suffered before her death.

Wang Yunjie, female, was 40 years old. She started practising Falun Gong in 1998. She explained the truth about Falun Gong to people following the start of the persecution on July 20th, 1999. On October 8th, 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. Dalian City 610 Office¹ personnel and police officers took her back to Dalian City. She was then detained at a drug rehabilitation centre in Dalian City and 7,000 yuan² were extorted from her. Later, she was transferred to Yaojia Detention Centre in Dalian City and imprisoned for one month.

In 2001, a portrait of the then Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin, in the Paoya area of Dalian City, was smeared. Police from the Paoyazi Police Station suspected Wang Yunjie of vandalising the portrait and went to the stall where she was selling clothes with the intention of "illegally arresting³" her. However, she luckily escaped arrest. On May 14th, 2002, police from the Paoyazi Police Station again went to her stall and arrested her without any legal basis. Unauthorised personnel sentenced her to three years in a labour camp and sent her to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, where she was continuously tortured.

During an intensive brainwashing session held in December 2002, a group of people in charge of "transforming⁴" Falun Gong practitioners locked Ms. Wang in the Zonghe building, where they tormented her for six consecutive days and nights. She had been placed in the 2nd team of the 1st division. The division leader's name was Shi Yu. One day in 2003, several guards took her outdoors and beat her maliciously. The leader of the 1st division at the Masanjia Labour Camp Wang Xiaofeng, Shi Yu of the 2nd division, and Ren Hongzan of the 6th team all participated in the torture.

At Masanjia Labour Camp the guards used all kinds of brutal methods to torture Wang Yunjie in hopes of "transforming" her, which caused her to develop symptoms of end-stage breast cancer. When a doctor determined that she would only be able to survive for another two months, in November 2003, the Masanjia Labour Camp authorities told her family to take her home in order to avoid responsibility for her death.

After Wang Yunjie got home, the Residential Committee and the local police kept harassing her, which caused her health to deteriorate further. She died in mid-July of 2006.

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

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

3. Illegally arrested: Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would like the world to believe, practising Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China. Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practising the exercises or distributing flyers. For a more complete discussion of the illegality of the persecution of Falun Gong, please refer to the article "The Ban on Falun Gong—A Dictator's Whim, Not the Rule of Law". (Variation: "illegally sentenced")

4. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/7/29/134274.html