Requests for Family Visits With Ms. Zhang Lianying Are Ignored (Photo)

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Lianying from Beijing suffered a severe cerebral hemorrhage after being beaten at the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp. She was taken to Beijing Renhe Hospital for emergency surgery. On March 30th, 2007, two days before being removed from the critical list, she was secretly taken to Tiantanghe Hospital, the Beijing Forced Labour Camp hospital. Ms. Zhang Lianying's family repeatedly requested to visit her and also asked for her release, but staff from the forced labour camp ignored their requests.

Ms. Zhang Lianying, after the surgery at Beijing Renhe Hospital

Ms. Zhang Lianying's family was very worried for more than two weeks, after Ms. Zhang was moved from Beijing Renhe Hospital to an undisclosed location. They called the Section Chief Shi of the Education Section of the forced labour camp numerous times and asked for visiting rights. Shi first claimed that only she could be a go-between between Ms. Zhang and family members. She pretended that their visit request needed to be approved by upper level management. Not being able to see her, Ms. Zhang Lianying's family was even more worried. They still restrained themselves and kept calling to request to visit her with a good attitude. However, Shi became ruder and ruder. Finally, Ms. Zhang Lianying's family told her solemnly, "We are asking not only to visit her, but also to take her out and go after the criminals who hurt her." Shi replied, "That's not my responsibility." Then she slammed down the phone.

On April 17th, Mr. Niu Jinping, Ms. Zhang Lianying's husband, Qingqing, their three-year-old daughter and other relatives went to the forced labour camp. Section Chief Shi and a male guard from the Administrative Section talked to them. They tried to evade them. Ms. Zhang Lianying's family asked about the cause of the cerebral hemorrhage and the person responsible for the persecution. Shi answered that they did not know and the Procuratorate had investigated the case several times and had talked to Ms. Zhang Lianying. Her family member said that the doctor from the Renhe Hospital concluded that her injury was likely caused by a beating. The male guard said, "Her knocking her head against the wall could also cause the injury." Her family members asked, "Do you have monitors in each room?" "Not every room." "Then why did you put her into the room without the monitor?" They could not answer.

Ms. Zhang Lianying's family said that they asked for a medical discharge for her. Shi said, "It's not up to us. The approval has to come from higher levels, along with the OK from the 610 Office¹ and your local police station." The male guard said in the past, people in similar situations had never been released until the end of their terms at the forced labour camp.

According to Dr. Xue at the Beijing Renhe Hospital, who had performed the surgery on Ms. Zhang Lianying, the cerebral hemorrhage was most likely caused by being hit on the head. She not only had a severe cerebral hemorrhage, but also had a lot of blood around her head. She was in critical condition and there was a good chance of another cerebral hemorrhage after the surgery. The chances of recurrence were heightened, especially since she was taken from Renhe Hospital and sent to Tiantanghe Hospital before she was completely out of danger.

The family kept insisting, so Shi reluctantly took them to visit Ms. Zhang Lianying at the Tiantanghe Hospital. Guards were stationed at several locked doors leading to her room. Ms. Zhang's hair had grown out again, after being shaved for the surgery. Shi and other guards repeatedly said that she recovered well and she no longer needed injections or medicine. They claimed that she was just relaxing and recovering.

The short visit left Ms. Zhang Lianying's family even more worried. Staff at the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp refused to release her. They claimed that Ms. Zhang Lianying was completely recovered, just the opposite from what the Renhe Hospital doctor said. Wasn't the staff at the forced labour camp getting ready to torture her again? At the beginning of this year, Ms. Zhang Lianying was beaten and injured by eight inmates at the Tenth Division of the Dispatching Office of the forced labour camp. She was taken to Tiantanghe Hospital for treatment for fifty days. On February 27th, 2007, she was taken back to the forced labour camp. But what awaited her was even more brutal torture. This time her neck was tightened by a rope and her head was repeatedly hit until she suffered cerebral hemorrhage. Now hearing the forced labour camp's claim that she had "completely recovered," how could her family not be worried?

At the end of the visit, Shi told Ms. Zhang Lianying's family members that they had received so many phone calls and mail enquiries about Ms. Zhang Lianying's that it stopped them from doing their regular work.

No one had told her to do this. Dafa is measuring every one's heart. We hope that the pure voice of the small child could help the evildoers find some benevolent thoughts deeply buried in their hearts, so that they could do something good to make up for their wrongdoings. We hope it is not too late for them!

We wish to express our sincere gratitude to practitioners and kind people, both in China and overseas, who have worked tireless to rescue Ms. Zhang Lianying, as well as to save the people whose minds were poisoned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

We appeal for the unconditional release of Ms. Zhang Lianying and the end of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners immediately!

Contact information for those committing crimes against practitioners

Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp: 12 Weiyong Road, Tiantanghe, Huangcun Town, Daxing District, Beijing

Section Chief of the Management Section Shi, 86-10-60279755 ext. 5819
Training Unit: 86-10-60278899 ext. 5810
Head of the Xiangheyuan local 610 Office, Chaoyang District, Yang Yiguo: 86-10-64671059
Police from the Xiangheyuan Police Station, Chaoyang District, in charge of persecuting Falun Gong: Deputy Director Wang Qing and Policeman Zhang Weimin: 86-10-64660050 (office), 86-13501066384 (mobile)
Head of the Liufangnanli Street Committee, Chaoyang District, Zhao Yuwang: 86-10-64645203

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/2007/4/21/153195.html