Local Police Hinder Elderly Ms. Wang Xiuyue's Release from Prison for Medical Reasons

Name: Wang Xiuyue
Gender: Female
Age: 71
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Retired head nurse at Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital
Date of Most Recent Arrest: 2003
Most Recent Place of Detention: Heilongjiang Women's Prison
City: Harbin
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, brainwashing, beatings, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, detention

Ms. Wang Xiuyue has lost the ability to take care herself after seven years in prison. She is qualified to be released for medical reasons, but the officers in her neighbourhood police station have hindered the process.

Ms. Wang was arrested at home for practising Falun Gong in 2003 by officers from her neighbourhood police station, the Gexin Police Station in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. She has been imprisoned in the Heilongjiang Women's Prison for the past seven years.

In July 2009, she developed symptoms of cerebral haemorrhage. She was constantly hunched over, could not walk, and lost the ability to take care of herself. An official medical evaluation stated she was suffering from "severe illness and at high-risk," but she was re-imprisoned in the Heilongjiang Women's Hospital because officers of the Gexin Police Station refused to sign her papers.

For appealing for the right to practise Falun Gong in 2000, Ms. Wang, in her 60s, was detained for more than a year at a detention centre in the Yaziquan area of Harbin City. In 2001, she was sentenced to two years of forced labour, which was served in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp.

When she was last arrested in 2003, officers in the Gexin Police Station covered her head with a blanket and coat. She almost suffocated, and her blood pressure was up to 260 mmHg.

Fang Gengbao, Bao Rui, directors of Heilongjiang Women's Prison: 86-451-86639099, 86-451-86636066
Chen Fei, deputy director of Heilongjiang Women's Prison: 86-451-86629677
Zhu Shuhua, political commissar of Heilongjiang Women's Prison: 86-451-86639077

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/12/17/214567.html