Her Three Daughters Persecuted--One to Death--Ms. Yu Xiulan Dies in Despair and Fear

Ms. Yu Xiulan, 80 years old, lived in Hegang City in Heilongjiang Province. She started practising Falun Gong in 1998. Three of her daughters also practise Falun Gong. Her second daughter, Du Guilan, was persecuted to death in 2004. Her fifth daughter, Du Guijie, has been detained in Harbin Women's Prison. The third daughter, Du Guihua, was arrested and persecuted several times. Even her grandson, who does not practise Falun Gong, was also arrested and tortured.

At the end of 2003, her second daughter's husband and her youngest son (around 20 years old) were brutally arrested and taken to Nandaying and tortured by local police officer Zhang Zhipeng. Additionally, the policemen used the "Carrying a Sword on the Back" method to persecute them. Ms. Du Guilan's youngest son passed out. Later, the police told him that he must find his mother in a few days. They then extorted thousands of yuan¹ from him as a guarantee. At 7 p.m. on January 15th, 2004, police officer Zhang Zhiming phoned the Du Guilan family and said, "Ms. Du Guilan jumped from a building and died." When her family arrived, with great shock, they found only police. The police didn't allow the family to approach the death site. At 8 p.m., the police were required to take Ms. Du's's body to the morgue for an autopsy. Only then did they allow her family members to see her body. Her hair had been cut off and her head was opened. She was naked, and her abdomen was sewn up.

Ms. Du's family asked why she was being dissected. The police, including Zhang Zhipeng, Lu Jianfeng, and others replied that it was a legal procedure. They didn't allow her family to put clothes on her. When they tried extorting 100 yuan from them for a clothing fee, the family refused, and the police cursed them. On the morning of the second day, the police didn't allow her family to take a closer look at the body before Du Guilan's cremation, and they did not allow the family to cry, either. The cremation fee was covered by the Du Guilan's family's earlier guarantee deposit.

Ms. Yu Xiulan's third daughter, Ms. Du Guihua, was arrested by the national police on October, 2002. She was taken to a meeting room in the third building of the first detention centre for interrogation. The police tied her from behind with ropes. They untied the ropes for a while and then continued to re-tie them for a while and so forth. They repeated this torture four or five times in one afternoon. In the evening, they put her in handcuffs and locked her to a heating pipe. Later they sentenced her to three years in a forced labour camp in Jiamusi. Ms. Du Guihua was tortured with multiple methods. The physician diagnosed a cervical tumour, an ovarian tumour, and fibromyoma. In response to her family's persistent requests and with help from other departments, Mrs. Du Guihua was finally released on April 6th, 2005.

On February 27th, 2006, in the evening, seven policemen from the Jiefang Road Police Station of the Gongnong Police Branch of Hegang City Police Department arrested Ms. Du Guihua and her guest, practitioner Yin Haizhu (who came from Jiamusi), at Ms. Du's home. The police searched her house and confiscated 5,000 yuan that was saved for her child's schooling. They sent the two practitioners to the Second Detention Centre. The case was then transferred to the Gongnong Police Branch National Security Team. During her detention, Ms. Du Guihua developed serious medical symptoms. In order to shirk potential responsibility, the police carried her home after several days. However, four policemen were instructed to stay at her house in an attempt to arrest other Dafa practitioners who might come to visit her. Ms. Du Guihua kept clarifying the truth to the police. Local practitioners exposed what was happening to the public. As a result, the police left the Du Guihua house after one week. On April 28th, 2006, during her recovery, Ms. Du Guihua was harassed again by the policemen.

Ms. Yu Xuilan's fifth daughter, Ms. Du Guijie, 40, was an employee of Hegang City First People's Hospital. She was also arrested and sentenced to 10 years in Harbin Women's Prison. She is still in the No. Three ward of the Women's Prison in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. When her family requested that she be released, the prison authorities refused. Moreover, the prison police extorted nearly a thousand yuan from her family.

Ms. Yu Xiulan became more fearful with each passing day day. A happy family was broken apart. Her mind was at the breaking point, and her physical health deteriorated rapidly. She died in August 2006.

Hegang City Police Department: 86-468-3438386

Head of the Police Station Wang Bin: 86-13339586660 (Mobile)

Note

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

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