Ms. Gu Jianmin Dies after Thirteen Days in Custody in Shanghai

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Gu Jianmin, 53, lived in Pudong New District, Shanghai. She was sent to a forced labour camp for one year in June 2006 for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. On March 1st, 2008, she was again arrested by officers from the Yangjing Police Station in Pudong New District, and they tortured her until she died on March 13th, 2008.

On March 13th, 2008, an agent of the Pudong New District 610 Office¹ called Ms. Gu's husband, saying that she was not well, and that he should come and process a medical parole. They even asked which hospital he wished to take her to, then they deceived her husband into going to the Pudong New District Police Department, and the Neighbourhood Administration, to do the medical parole paper work. This process dragged on until 3 p.m. Some unknown person had him sign an arrest warrant during this time period. Upon arriving at the hospital, they first forced him to again sign an arrest warrant. When he found Ms. Gu in the Gastric lavage room, her eyes were protruding, pupils enlarged, and she was bleeding from the mouth, but no one was taking care of her. Her husband knelt down in front of the doctors and begged them to save his wife. The doctor conducted a rather quick attempt at a rescue, then he declared that she was dead. In such a short time of only thirteen days, a perfectly healthy person was tortured to death.

There were more than thirty "610 Office" agents present, and some of them were plain-clothes officers. The hospital's security guards were waiting in the hospital room, and took Ms. Gu's body to the morgue while some of the others surrounded her husband to restrain him. Ms. Gu's husband was very angry. He loudly declared that he will find out who the killers were. All of the agents quickly fled, and only some of the plain-clothes police officers were hiding in the crowd. Ms. Gu's husband could not find any of the agents. The doctor told him that Ms. Gu was dying when she arrived at the hospital. The hospital issued a dying certificate (which Chinese doctors issue to notify family about patients that are terminal), which should be signed by the immediate family, but was signed by an unknown person.

Pudong District 610 Office, and Pudong New District Detention Centre are responsible for Ms. Gu's death. The crime was witnessed by doctors, nurses, patients, and their families. They took the dying Ms. Gu to the hospital, then cheated her husband by tricking him to agree to a medical parole in an attempt to clear themselves of the responsibility for her death.

Shanghai City Police Department: 86-21-24023456; Address: 185 Fuzhou Street, zip 200002
Pudong New District Police Department: 86-21-50614567, ext.-220X45448, or 86-21-5899099, fax: 86-21-58995516
Yangjing Police Station: 86-21-58520229
Pudong District Detention Centre: 86-21-58953454: Address: 351 Huayi Street, Zhangjiang Town, Pudong New District, zip 201203
Renji Hospital in Pudong New District:86-21-58752345, fax: 86-21-58395057, Address: 1630 Dongfang Street, Pudong New District, Shanghai City, zip 200127

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/2008/3/16/174399.html