Ms. Li Junxia Dies Following Severe Persecution

Ms. Li Junxia was 42 years old, and lived in the Wuhan City Apparatus Factory Family Housing in Donghu District, Wuhan City. She used to work as an accountant at the Dijiao Branch of the Wuhan City Industry and Commercial Bank. She had been chronically ill until 1994, when she was introduced to Falun Gong and recovered soon after. Her bad temper disappeared and all of her co-workers saw the improvements in her health and character after practising Falun Gong.

On July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution of Falun Gong. The First Division personnel from the Wuhan City Police Department detained Ms. Li Junxia at the police department sanatorium for refusing to renounce Falun Gong. She was released on January 17th, 2000, but the police department authorities still threatened her afterwards saying, "If you don't give up Falun Gong, others who are associated with you will be implicated. None of your co-workers in the branch will get their annual bonuses." They also forced her to quit her job. For the sake of her co-workers, Ms. Li Junxia resigned.

In November 2000, Ms. Li Junxia was arrested and sentenced to a forced labour camp for 18 months. She was detained in the Eighth Division of the Hewan Forced Labour Camp in Wuhan City. She was released before the sentence expired. On September 11th, 2001, Li Junxia while visiting a practitioner who had just returned home from prison, and she was detained again for 18 months of forced labour. She was locked in solitary confinement for over a year.

On July 15th, 2003, Li Junxia went to her home town in Henan Province to visit and distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, and was arrested by local police. She was detained in the First Detention Centre in Wuhan City. A month later she was transferred to the Chenjiaji Brainwashing Centre in Jiang'an District. After she compromised this time, guards from the brainwashing centre continued to attempt to force her to participate in the brainwashing by working to "reform¹" other detained practitioners. Li Junxia refused to follow the authorities' demands and was forced to sell her house and flee to avoid further persecution.

While working at a Tea House in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, in December of 2006, Li Junxia bought a train ticket to Beijing with money that had statements explaining the facts about Falun Gong written on it. Agents from the 610 Office² in the Jiang'an District arrested her again and sent her to the Chenjiaji Brainwashing Centre. Li Yingjie, the head of the Brainwashing Centre along with Gong Lianghan, one of the collaborators³, participated in torturing Ms. Li.

The methods of persecution they used to persecute practitioners included sleep deprivation, forcing them to stand for extended periods of time, and violently pressuring practitioners to give up their beliefs. They forced everyone to read materials that were slanderous toward Falun Gong, write reports, and betray other practitioners. If they thought a practitioner had not changed enough, they would accuse this practitioner of faking "reform." So, even if practitioners had agreed to give up Falun Gong, they would still keep persecuting them. They used all these torture methods on Ms. Li Junxia. They tortured her, cursed her, and tried to force her to curse Falun Gong.

Ms. Li Junxia was handcuffed onto a bed with her four limbs stretched out for over a dozen days The cuffs and shackles cut deeply into her flesh, exposing her bones. When she could no longer move and was very thirsty the guards forced her to drink urine. She eventually suffered a mental collapse. After she became mentally traumatized she often stripped her clothes off and rolled on the floor. Li Yingjie and Gong Lianghan continued to torture Li Junxia even after she suffered a mental collapse.

On July 5th, 2008, Ms. Li Junxia was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in the Armed Police Hospital on Yanzhi Street in the Wuchang District, and was reported by the Hospital security guard. Officers from the Liangdao Street Police Station arrested her and detained her for 15 days in the Erzigou (Dong-xi Hu District) First Detention Centre. On July 20th, 2008, her cousin rushed from Fujian Province to take her home. Several plain clothed officers who were waiting there dragged her into a police vehicle and took her by force to Yangyuan Brainwashing Centre, where she suffered a mental collapse again. Ms. Li's mother was grieved so much by the situation that she was hospitalized and was issued a dying notice twice by the doctors. Ms. Li was released after the Olympics ended, on August 26th, 2008. Her mental state was not stable and she would often speak nonsense.

On the early morning of November 7th, 2008, people found Ms. Li Junxia lying on the cement ground under her home window on the fourth floor. She was still breathing with no obvious wounds on the surface. People called for an ambulance, and she died at the hospital. Her body was cremated on November 9th, 2008.

Ms. Li Junxia lost her permanent job during the persecution, was forced to flee her home to avoid being arrested, was arrested multiple times and detained, and was twice sentenced to forced labour for two and a half years. Her only surviving family member is her 71-year-old mother who suffers from a severe illness. Ms. Li Junxia is one of 53 practitioners who have died as a result of the persecution in Wuhan City over the past nine years.

Earlier report: http://www.clearharmony.net/articles/200704/39016.html

Note

1. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

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.

3. "Collaborators": former practitioners who have turned against Falun Gong under brainwashing and torture. They are then made to assist in brainwashing and torturing practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/11/26/190502.html