Ms. Zhao Xiaozhen Dies as a Result of Constant Harassment by the Police

Name: Zhao Xiaozhen
Gender: Female
Age: Around 70
Address: Xiciting Village, Xin'an Town, Zhending County, Hebei Province
Occupation: Retired from Zhending County Food Company
Date of Death: December 2nd, 2009
Province: Hebei

Ms. Zhao Xiaozhen died on December 2nd, 2009, after suffering ten years of constant harassment.

On April 29th, 2001, Ms. Zhao's brother, Mr. Zhao Fengnian, 48, went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. He was brutally beaten and then disappeared from his workplace on May 5th, 2001. The family was informed of his death after he was buried (see http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/5/25/10349.html). Ms. Zhao missed her brother terribly.

Before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Liu Chengjun and other police officers from Xin'an Town and members of the Xiciting Village Security Committee threatened practitioners to not leave their homes and seized their Falun Gong books and their identification cards. Ms. Zhao's recorder was taken, too. Ms. Zhao was old and weak. She fell sick and was admitted to the hospital after she was threatened. On August 7th, just one day before the Olympics, Liu Chengjun ordered people to watch Ms. Zhao while she was in the hospital, and ordered them to report to her if Ms. Zhao was released. Ms. Zhao died in the hospital on December 2nd, 2009.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/2/9/217811.html