Mr. Chang Guiyou Died in Custody in 2005

Mr. Chang Guiyou's wife exposes below the mistreatment Mr. Chang suffered and his death while in custody.

My name is An Xiuzhi, and I was Chang Guiyou's wife. Both of us began to cultivate in Falun Gong in 1997. After that, we followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, stopped acting pettily, and began gladly helping others. At the same time, our health improved greatly. Falun Gong brought to us this good fortune and these benefits.

In July 1999, the Jiang regime [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] started the persecution of Falun Gong. Both Falun Gong and its practitioners suffered injustice. In 2000, Chang Guiyou went to the appeals office to explain the facts about Falun Gong and its numerous practitioners. As a result, he was detained in the Tongzhou District Detention Centre, and was subsequently dismissed by the paper mill. His permanent employment contract was forcibly terminated.

On January 2nd, 2001, Chang Guiyou was arrested by officers from the Tongzhou District 610 Office¹ and the State Security Division, and detained in a detention centre. Our home was searched and our property was confiscated. He was sentenced to eighteen months of forced labour. In the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp, he almost died due to the intense persecution. After being released, his health was extremely poor, and he was unable to work.

In March 2004, he was taken to a brainwashing centre. Our home was raided again by the police while no one was at home. I was also arrested.

In June 2004, Chang Guiyou was taken to the Tongzhou District Detention Centre. Then he was sentenced to three years of imprisonment. In late November 2004, he was taken to the Qianjing Prison in Tianjin City.

Three months later, in March 2005, while detained in Beijing City Women's Prison, I was notified that my husband was critically ill. Both his nose and mouth were bleeding, and his head was wrapped with gauze. I tried to step forward to see him better, but I was stopped by the guards. Later, I was notified that he died of a cerebral haemorrhage.

After being detained in the Qianjing Prison for three months, my husband died of brutal persecution at the age of 55.

In the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prisons and labour camps, news about the persecution of practitioners has been strictly blocked. Our family is still unclear about how Chang Guiyou died. Many practitioners are subjected to the CCP's brutal persecution. We call for kind people around the world to pay attention to the inhuman persecution of Falun Gong in China and stop the CCP atrocities.

Related report: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2007/3/18/83643.html

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://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/3/22/197596.html