Ms. Zhou Zhiying Dies in Custody in Jiangsu Province

Name: Zhou Zhiying
Gender: Female
Age: 49
Address: Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province
Occupation: Teacher
Date of Death: Late March 2010
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 30th, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Wuxi City Brainwashing Centre
City: Jiangyin
Province: Jiangsu
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation, forced labour, brainwashing, forced injections/drug administration, beatings, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, forced-feedings, physical restraint, abuse in mental hospital, home ransacked, interrogation, detention, denial of toilet use

Ms. Zhou Zhiying was a recipient of the "Excellent Teacher Award" in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. She was nonetheless arrested and sentenced to forced labour because she practised Falun Gong and followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She was arrested in 2002 for the second time, then sentenced to four years of imprisonment. She entered the Fifth Ward of Nanjing City Women's Prison in early 2003. In an attempt to force her to give up her faith, the prison administration imprisoned her in the Second Ward in early 2004, a time when a special group was established to attack Falun Gong practitioners.

The guards tried to force her to sign other prisoners' daily needs bills, but she refused. They then forbade her from buying any personal hygiene products. She had to tear cotton out of her comforter to use during her menstrual period. She was also tortured by being deprived of sleep. In the freezing winter, a guard stole her vest to make her suffer from the freezing cold, and in the summer, the guards forced her stay near the ironing table.

Because Ms. Zhou persisted in doing the Falun Gong exercises, the prison administration took her to be locked up in the Pukou Mental Hospital in Nanjing City. She was tortured by being tied to a bed and shocked with an electric needle on her head, even though she was never diagnosed with any mental condition by any doctors.

In August 2006, Ms. Zhou's four-year term ended. Upon exiting the prison, the Wuxi City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) picked her up directly, and took her to the Xinghua Brainwashing Centre. Their excuse was that her parents were both very old, so they could not watch her closely and prevent her from practising Falun Gong. In the brainwashing centre, she was tortured by being deprived of sleep for twelve days.

Ms. Zhou was arrested and imprisoned in the brainwashing centre again on September 30th, 2009. When she returned home on February 1st, 2010, her family found that she had suffered a massive mental collapse, and her body was covered with bruises and puncture marks from needles.

Ms. Zhou's parents live in Jiangyin City. They witnessed how their daughter, who was perfectly fine before being arrested, became mentally unstable after undergoing brainwashing. This was the doing of the 610 Office, as Ms. Zhou was placed under the responsibility of the Jiangyin City 610 Office. The Jiangyin City 610 Office took Ms. Zhou to the Jiangyin City Qingshan Mental Hospital, where she remained until she died. Her body was cremated on April 1st, 2010, in the Jianyin City Huashan Funeral House Crematorium.

Jiangyin City 610 Office chief: 86-13915208028 (Mobile), 86-13358150602 (Mobile), 86-13861638537 (Mobile)

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/4/2/220841.html