Older Practitioner Ms. Zheng Cuixia Dies after Being Detained Twice

Ms. Zheng Cuixia, 62, lived in Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province. She was formerly employed by the finance department of the Hantai District Local Produce Company. She began practising Falun Gong in May of 1999, and many of her illnesses disappeared. She was strict with herself in abiding by the principals of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, wanting to be a highly virtuous person and always thinking of others first.

At the beginning of March 2000, Ms. Zheng went to Beijing to speak out on behalf of the practice. While there she was arrested and detained in Hantai District Detention Centre, and her home was ransacked.

In Hantai District Detention Centre, Office Chairman Ma Ping'an and guard Men Quanxiu instructed prisoners to torture Ms. Zheng. They cursed at and beat her, did not allow her to sleep, and forced her to stand for a long time. Seeing that she still refused to be brainwashed, guards ordered prisoners in her cell to beat her brutally. They threw her to the floor, kicked her, and stomped on her until she passed out. It was only then that guard Men Quanxiu told them to stop.

Ms. Zheng's injuries were so severe that she could not breathe and her life was in danger. Guards had to take her to the 3201 (Military) Hospital, where doctors discovered that her clavicle and ribs were fractured. Still, the guards did not allow her to be treated at the hospital. Ms. Zheng could not stand or walk during those two months.

In order to avoid responsibility and make money at the same time, the detention centre sentenced Ms. Zheng to 18 months of forced labour first, and then urged her family to bail her out for medical treatment. She was released after they extorted 3,000 yuan¹ from her family.

Ms. Zheng never fully recovered from that brutal torture after she returned home. She remained very weak, but she still wanted to speak out for justice for Falun Gong. In December 2007, she was reported while handing out leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in the suburban Zhaozhuang Township. The arresting officers were Ma Ping'an, Li Youzhi, and Pei Guangming, and they detained her in the Hantai District Detention Centre. They forced her do heavy labour and subjected her to intense brainwashing. Then they sentenced her to another 18 months of forced labour with probation. Ms. Zheng's health deteriorated steadily, and she died on April 28th, 2009.

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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/2009/6/30/203676.html