Ms. Wang Xuemei, 46, Dies in Custody

Name: Wang Xuemei
Gender: Female
Age: 46
Address: Dayangshu Town, Oroqen Autonomous Prefecture, Inner-Mongolia Autonomous Region
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: May 21st, 2010
Date of Most Recent Arrest: November 6th, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Oroqen Prefecture Detention Centre, Alihe Town
City: Oroqen Prefecture
Province: Inner-Mongolia Autonomous Region
Persecution Suffered: Imprisonment, torture, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

Ms. Wang Xuemei died in police custody on May 21st, 2010. Little has been reported about her story, aside from the following:

Officers from Dayangshu Town Police Department arrested Ms. Wang Xuemei on November 6th, 2009. More than 30 practitioners have been arrested here since November 2009. Police officers forced their way into practitioners' homes, asking, "Do you still practise?" If the answer was "Yes," they would be immediately arrested and detained in the Oroqen Prefecture Detention Centre, Alihe Town, as Dayangshu Town has no detention centre. Practitioners were violently beaten, and only given two steamed buns and two bowls of broth with a few dirty vegetable leaves in it per day. Many practitioners developed health problems.

Two court trials were held on March 9th and 10th, 2010, where 18 practitioners were sentenced to prison terms varying between 1 and 7 years. Ms. Wang appeared very ill, and requested medical parole. Her family only saw her briefly in court, and were denied any visitation rights or contact with her prior to the trial. The next time Ms. Wang's family saw her was when they went to see her body in the detention centre after she died on May 21st, 2010. Before Ms. Wang's arrest she was very healthy, weighing 160 pounds. Her weight had dropped to 110 pounds before she died.

Wang Liangsen, director of Oroqen Prefecture Detention Centre: 86-13848075599 (Mobile)
Zheng Wenlong, CCP director of Oroqen Prefecture Detention Centre: 86-13847046488 (Mobile)
Guo Guanghui: deputy director of Oroqen Prefecture Detention Centre: 86-13847088193 (Mobile)
Ao Dingzhu: deputy director of Oroqen Prefecture Detention Centre: 86-13789601158 (Mobile)
Yu Shichun, director of Oroqen Prefecture Police Department: 86-13947013077 (Mobile)
Hou Qingjie, deputy director of Oroqen Prefecture Police Department: 86-13804707007 (Mobile)
Li Benxue: police officer at Dayangshu Town Branch of Oroqen Prefecture Police Department: 86-13847072678 (Mobile)

Dayangshu Town Branch of Oroqen Prefecture Police Department: 86-470-5712307
Dayangshu Town Forest Police Department: 86-4705720439

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/6/2/224740.html