Ms. Cao Aihua Tortured to Death in Xinjiang Women's Forced Labour Camp

Ms. Cao Aihua, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Aksu City, Xinjiang Province, was arrested in August 2006 when she wrote messages to promote quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on paper money. In the middle of November, Ms. Cao was sent to the Urumqi Women's Forced Labour Camp. This was the third time Ms. Cao had been put into a forced labour camp. She died within a week as a result of torture.

Ms. Cao 's relatives are suing the forced labour camp. The case has reached the Xinjiang Supreme People's Procuratorate. The procuratorate and the labour camp have been trying to shift responsibility onto others.

Ms. Cao had one breast removed in the past because she had breast cancer. When she started to practise Falun Gong in the summer of 1998, she had just finished chemotherapy treatments. She had lost almost all her hair and she weighed less than 40kg. After only one week of practising Falun Gong, she felt that the practice had cleansed her body. From then on, she chose to practise Falun Gong.

After the persecution began in July 1999, she went to Beijing twice in order to appeal. Her mother knelt before the police officers and begged them not to put her daughter into the forced labour camp. She told them how her daughter had regained her health from practising Falun Gong. Ms. Cao was arrested and sentenced twice to forced labour. The first time she was held at the Xinjiang Wulapo Forced Labour Camp from February 2001 to February 2003. The second time, they sentenced her in September 2003 to the Xinjiang Urumqi Women's Forced Labour Camp.

Her husband travelled more than 1000 km every month to visit her. Although her husband is not a practitioner, he knows that Falun Gong gave his wife a second life!

In the summer of 2006, Ms. Cao wrote messages about withdrawing from the CCP on paper money. Police officers arrested and tortured her in August 2006. The head of the police station mentioned that they would release her as soon as she revealed the source of the materials exposing the persecution. Ms. Cao refused to give any information.

In October 2006, Ms. Cao was sentenced to forced labour for the third time. She was sent to Xinjiang Urumqi Women's Forced Labour Camp in November. In between, she was sent back and forth between police stations in Aksu and Alar. Only several days after she was sent to the Xinjiang Urumqi Women's Forced Labour Camp, she was tortured to death.

Ms. Cao's husband and son (about 20 years old) could not believe that she had died so suddenly. Her father is currently very ill and in critical condition. Because of her family adamant demands, Ms. Cao's body was not cremated. Please support Ms. Cao Aihua's family!

In May 2003, practitioner Zhou Jun died at Xinjiang Urumqi Women's Forced Labour Camp as a result of torture. On December 31st, 2005, many truth clarification phrases and flyers showed up in the streets of Aksu city. 610 Office¹ personnel and police, including CCP secretary Wang Lequan, were yelling and demanding to "solve the case" in one week. Because of this, the police arrested many practitioners and even detained some of their family members for 24-hour interrogations.

Asku Police Station: 86-997-2195891

Aksu Public Security, Zhou Shengwen: 86-997-2141500

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.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/11/29/143516.html