Falun Gong Practitioner Jiao Lili from Langzhou City, Gansu Province Persecuted

Name: Jiao Lili
Gender: Female
Age: 39
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 24th, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Kongtong Detention Centre in Pingliang City
City: Pingliang
Province: Gansu
Persecution Suffered: Detention, torture, beatings, interrogation, electric shock, forced labour.

While Ms. Jiao Lili was visiting a relative during the Chinese New Year holiday on February 24th, 2010, officers from the Police Department of Lanzhou City stormed into the house. They handcuffed her relative's hands behind her back and interrogated her. They ransacked her home and frightened her child. Ms. Jiao Lili was hiding in another room. The police found her and arrested her. They took her to the police department and tortured her.

At around 11 p.m. that night, Jiao Lili was taken to a clinic for a physical examination, but she refused to co-operate. Three policewomen pulled her into a toilet, and proceeded to punch and kick her. They then sent her to the First Detention Centre of Lanzhou City.

Two days later, four policemen from the National Security Group of Kongtong District Police Station, including Ma Yi and Ge Huiming, took Jiao Lili to Pingliang City. They took away her personal music player and papers, and took turns to interrogate her.

On February 28th, Jiao Lili was sent to the Kongtong Detention Centre of Pingliang City. Once there, the guards slapped her about the head, bound her with handcuffs and shackles, and kept her on a tiger bench¹ for 4 hours.

During the 36 days of detention, guards subjected her to constant verbal abuse, and she started a hunger strike in protest.

Ms. Jiao was later sentenced to one and a half years in a forced labour camp. When she was examined before being transferred to Yuzhong Forced Labour Camp, she was found to have suffered from high blood pressure and myocardial ischemia. She was rejected by the detention centre, and her family was told to collect her.

In 2000, Jiao Lili was sent to a forced labour camp.

In 2003, she was sentenced to 5 years in the Lanzhou City Women's Prison. In the prison, she was forced to perform hard labour and struck by electric batons until she passed out.

Note

1. "Tiger Bench": Prisoners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall with their knees tied together. With their hands tied behind their backs or sometimes placed on their knees, they are forced to sit straight up and look straight ahead without movement for long periods of time.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/4/23/222051.html