What Happened to Ms. Liu Aiying Before Her Death?

Ms. Liu Aiying, 51, was a retired employee of the Xi'an City Department Store. She gave her neighbour's child a Falun Gong leaflet exposing the persecution, and was reported to the police by her neighbour. On June 25th, 2008, police officers from the Xiwang Police Station in Baqiao District arrested and interrogated her at the police station, and then took her home and ransacked it. At around 3:00 p.m., while her home was being ransacked, and under the custody of many officers, she fell from the fourth floor of her apartment at the Car Parts Factory family housing, and died at around 7:00 p.m. the same day. The police said she committed suicide by jumping from the building. They concealed all information, and notified her long separated husband Li, and coerced him with threats into accepting the story that she committed suicide. Her husband signed an agreement to cremate her body in far away Lintong City, instead of Xi'an City, which is close by.

Ms. Liu was being closely watched by many officers, so how could she jump from the building? The cause of her death was very suspicious. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using suicide to cover up its murderous crimes of Falun Gong practitioners for a long time. The Falun Gong principles clearly state that practitioners should not kill or commit suicide. For the past nine years, since the persecution started in July 1999, under Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] secret order to kill Falun Gong practitioners, the party officers have been murdering Falun Gong practitioners at will, and then telling the public it was suicide, and taking no responsibility for it. During the past nine years, many Falun Gong practitioners have been killed in the persecution, and the deaths have been systematically recorded as suicides. So did Ms. Liu die because she jumped off the building, or was she murdered?

Ms. Liu had cultivated Falun Gong for ten years. She knew very well that a practitioner should not commit suicide, and that it was against the principles she followed. During the past ten years, Ms. Liu was subjected to many inhuman tortures, but never had one thought of suicide. On July 20th, 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was arrested and cruelly beaten by officers in Beijing. She endured hardships that most people would not be able to endure. It is very unlikely that she committed suicide. After she was taken back to the Xi'an City, Zhongshanmen Police Station, the administrators sent her to a forced labour camp where she endured numerous brutal mistreatments until her sentence ended. Many times she carried bags of materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong to distribute to people, and she was arrested and brutally beaten. Why would she commit suicide now after being arrested for giving one child a flier?

In October 2007, Ms. Liu was arrested by officers from the High-Tech Developing Zone Police Department, and after being brutally beaten, she was taken to Chang'an Worker's Sanatorium, where she was tortured by being tied to a chair, and deprived of food and water for several days. During her forced labour term, her husband had an affair, causing the couple to separate, and Ms. Liu left home to live a life with no income. She was under intense pressure. So why, after remaining steadfast despite all of the adversity, would she choose a suicidal path while validating Falun Gong?

What really happened between 3:00 p.m. when Ms. Liu fell from the building to her death around 7:00 p.m? Why wasn't she taken to the hospital? Did they kill her to silence her? Why didn't Ms. Liu's husband and other family members insist on having an autopsy to find out exactly how she died, instead of signing an agreement to let police cremate her body in far away Lintong City so quickly? Were they rushed so they could destroy the evidence? It is not known what kind of deceit and threats the police subjected her family to, and why the information was concealed so soon.

We believe the police and people involved who still have a conscience will reveal more facts of Ms. Liu's death, and that those responsible will be exposed for their crimes.

Relevant people:

Xiwang Police Station in Baqiao District Department, Xi'an City: 86-29-83523160
Director Niu Tiegang (male), Deputy Director Zhu Luwen (male), CCP Director Wang Jianhua (male), officer Bai Huayong (male), Liu Gang (male)
Xiwang Community Administration: 86-29-83519684

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/7/21/182426.html