Ms. Liao Xinqun Dies at 54 as a Result of Persecution

Ms. Liao Xinqun, a practitioner from Urumqi City in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, was taken into custody by police in the Tianshan District while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in mid-February 2004. Afterwards, local residential police officers, members of the 610 Office¹, officials from the "Comprehensive Administration Office," and the residential community harassed her numerous times. In mid-November 2006, Ms. Liao Xinqun died from the recurrence of her heart disease.

Ms. Liao Xinqun, 54, was a retired worker from the Xinjiang No. 7 Textile Factory. She began practising Falun Dafa in 2000 and was turned in to the police the same year when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution with other practitioners. She was taken into custody at the Liudaowan Detention Centre, where she refused to give up practising Falun Gong. She did not cooperate with prison guards in the detention centre and did not give in when coerced to write Guarantee Statements², Repentance Statements³, or anything slandering the founder of Falun Gong. During the four-month detention, she was viciously beaten numerous times. She also had shackles on constantly.

Ms. Liao was sentenced to one year of forced labour and taken to the Ulapo Women's Forced Labour Camp in March 2001. Labour camp guards were especially cruel toward practitioners. They forced practitioners to work overtime and watch fabricated stories on videotape and television. Afterwards, practitioners were forced to report their thoughts. All practitioners who refused to slander Falun Dafa or Teacher in the meeting would be beaten right away. After the meeting, the guards would continue to torture them with electric batons.

On one occasion during this year of forced labour, Ms. Liao was shocked by electric batons all over her body so much that she rolled around on the ground. The inhuman torture caused the recurrence of her heart disease.

In mid-February 2004, Ms. Liao was again unlawfully taken into custody. After she was released, local residential police officers, members of the 610 Office, officials from the "Comprehensive Administration Office," and the local community took turns harassing her. She suffered from constant recurrence of her heart disease. In the end, her entire body swelled up, and she passed away in mid-November 2006.

Tianshan District Police Department in Urumqi City, Xinjiang: 86-991-2327110
Legal Section of Tianshan District: 86-991-2824097
610 Office: 86-991-2391701
Tianshan District Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-991-2624027, 86-991-2647049, 86-991-2654408

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. "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

3. Repentance Statement: In this statement the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/1/18/147096.html