Additional Details about Ms. Yang Mingfen's Persecution and Death in Maoming City, Guangdong Province

The Clearharmony website reported on December 1st, 2004, that Ms. Yang Mingfen from Maoming City, Guangdong Province, was persecuted to death. Below are more details about her persecution.

Ms. Yang Mingfen had enjoyed good health ever since she started practising Falun Gong in 1998. On July 20th, 1999, the Jiang Zemin political regime launched the bloody and inhuman persecution and campaign against Falun Gong. On March 18th, 2000, Yang Mingfen went to Beijing by bicycle to appeal for Falun Gong. On her way, she was intercepted, arrested and detained for about a month by the local police in Maoming City.

In 2001, Yang Mingfen was arrested for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Peng Jian, Yang Weijie, and policewoman Wu, from the Maoming City Police Maonan District Branch, took her to the Second Detention Centre and detained her there for three months. While there Yang Mingfen was forced to do manual labour for over 10 hours every day. Because she kept practising the Falun Gong exercises, detention centre head Zhang and policeman Mo put handcuffs and shackles on her. Yang Mingfen was transferred to the Sanshui Women's Forced Labour Camp for a one-year term. At the camp, against her will, she was forced to write the three statements¹ denouncing Falun Gong. She did this in a high pressure situation and based on false information from the authorities.

Around May 2002, the Maoming City 610 Office² arrested Yang Mingfen and sent her to the brainwashing centre after she publicly renounced her "three statements."

While she was in the brainwashing centre for over a year, Yang Mingfen was tortured inhumanly. "Collaborators": [former practitioners who have turned against Falun Gong under brainwashing and torture. They are then made to assist in brainwashing, torturing and "transforming" practitioners], used all kinds of malicious and degrading means to humiliate practitioners, denounce Falun Gong, and coerce practitioners to "transform." They also reported those practitioners who refused to be "transformed" to the brainwashing centre's security guards so that the guards would closely monitor and even beat those practitioners.

Yang Mingfen was stomped and beaten multiple times by the guards, among whom were Zheng Guowei, Long Zai, Hua Zi, Huang Zai and Dai Zai. They also poured boiling water on her face, and handcuffed her, then hung her from a window frame for varying lengths of time ranging from several hours to over twelve hours.

After suffering a long period of persecution and torture, Yang Mingfen's health deteriorated drastically and she became dangerously emaciated. Later, she had an extremely hard time swallowing food. The authorities released her in March 2004 after realising she was on the verge of death. After being released, Yang Mingfen's health continued to deteriorate and she began to have blood in her stools. She died six months later on the morning of October 26th, 2004.

Related article: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200411/23423.html

Note

1. "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the 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.

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/2007/8/10/160580.html