Ms. Zhao Jiafang Died after Labour Camp Personnel Injected Her with Unknown Drugs

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhao Jiafang, 64 years old, lived in Songzao Coal Mine in Qijiang County, Chongqing City. She began practising Falun Dafa in October 1996. At the end of 1999, Ms. Zhao went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Dafa and was arrested. Songzao Coal Mine Police Department Party Secretary Yang Mingyu (male) went to Beijing to pick her up and detained her for 30 days in the Qijiang County Detention Centre. Officers Yang Mingyu and Yu Zhengming ordered Ms. Zhao's family to pay 3,000 yuan¹ to cover Yang Mingyu's trip to Beijing, otherwise they would deduct the amount from her husband's low salary.

In August 2001, led by officer He Xinqiang, several local police officers and security guards arrested Ms. Zhao Jiafang at her home. They detained her in the county detention centre and violently interrogated her. They had her sentenced to eight and half years in prison for the so-called crime of "obstructing the law" and took her to the Yongchuan District Forced Labour Camp. In the past several years of brutal treatment, Ms. Zhao was constantly forced to work overtime doing slave labour. Her eyesight was blurry and she could not finish her work. She passed out three times in the camp. She was finally taken to the labour camp clinic, but after she was injected with some unknown drugs, she appeared to have difficulty breathing. To avoid being held responsible for her death, the labour camp authorities released her for medical treatment on October 1st, 2007 and she was picked up by her family. Her family immediately took her to the Coal Mine Employee Hospital, but she did not recover. She died at 3:40 a.m. on December 21st, 2007.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/12/28/169187.html