Guangdong Provincial Women's Prison Refuses to Provide Medical Attention for Practitioner Physician Suffering from a Stroke

Falun Dafa practitioner and physician Ms. Fan Zhijun from Huizhou, Guangdong Province, was persecuted while suffering from a stroke at the Guangdong Provincial Women's Prison. Sources say that the prison sent a notice to the family in January 2007 stating that her high blood pressure was at "the third level" and that she was suffering from a stroke.

The day before yesterday, one of Ms. Fan's family members visited her at the prison. Ms. Fan is only 54 years old but she had to walk with a cane. She also had difficulty moving herself and did not have clear consciousness. Upon seeing this, the family member pressed strongly for the prison to release her immediately. However, the guard said that Ms. Fan did not meet the criteria of sickness needed for release. The family member questioned, "Her condition is so horrible already, what is the criteria to release someone?" The guard answered that there were many prisoners in similar conditions and they did not have the authority to release any of them.

Ms. Fan Zhijun, from Hunan Province, was a chief physician at the Gynaecologic Department of the Guangmeishan Railway Hospital in Guangdong Province. She has been arrested and sent to forced labour camps several times by the Huizhou Railway Police Station and the State Security Group of Huizhou City. Ms.Fan was a devout practitioner of Falun Gong. She also distributed the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party ¹, promoting withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organisations, and clarified the truth of Falun Gong.

On May 23rd, 2005, Fan Zhijun was arrested by the State Security Group police and detained at the Boluo Detention Centre of Huizhou. She went on a hunger strike to appeal the persecution against her but was force fed by the guards and tortured. Her old diseases then recurred. She was sent to the Central Hospital of Huizhou City twice and diagnosed with third stage heart disease and high blood pressure (220/160).

The Huizhou 610 Office² sentenced Fan Zhijun to eight years of imprisonment. The deputy director of the detention centre, Wang, and others tortured her severely and cuffed her hands and feet when transporting her to the Guangdong Provincial Women's Prison on September 30th, 2006. On the way to the prison, Ms. Fan lost consciousness, but Wang left her at the prison and quickly left. Although the prison realised that her life was in danger, they did not release her, either.

Xu Zhiping, the former head of the No. 1 Department of Huizhou Railway Police Station, played a major role in arresting several Dafa practitioners. In May 2005, Xu Zhiping manipulated the State Security Group of Huizhou City and the 610 Office to arrest Fan Zhijun's family members and interrogate them with torture. Ms. Fan's son was detained for one month during which he was tortured and threatened.

Guangdong Provincial Women's Prison
Address: P.O. Box 52, Guangcongsi Road, Baiyun District, Guangzhou City, postal code: 510545
Information line of the Prison: 86-20-87423069 (women's section)
Reporting line of the Prison: 86-20-83831187, 86-20-83837934

Boluo County No. 1 Detention Centre, Guangdong Province
Director Li Jiangfan: 86-752-6622814(Office), 86-13502209123(Mobile)
Deputy Director Wang

Xu Zhiping, former head of the No. 1 Department of Huizhou Railway Police Station, now at the Security Group: 86-752-5822538(Office), 86-752-5822328(Home)

Note

1. Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party: Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is a series of essays published in late 2004 that reveal the true nature of the Communist Party. The Nine Commentaries have led millions of people to renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "A book that has shocked all Chinese around the world. A book that is disintegrating the Communist Party." http://ninecommentaries.com

2. "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/2007/1/22/147349.html