Practitioners from Liaoning and Hunan Provinces Die after Enduring Torture

1. Ms. Wei Shuwen from Yi County, Liaoning Province, Died after Being Tortured

Ms. Wei Shuwen was a resident of Guandimiao Village, Chengguan Township, Yi County, Liaoning Province. She died on May 15th, 2010, at the age of 64 after being tortured. She was taken to a forced labour camp twice and tortured.

Ms. Wei used to have stomach ache, nausea, inflamed urethra, vertigo and heart disease. She supported three children and could not afford medical treatment. After she began to practise Falun Gong in July 1998, she became healthy.

On September 22nd, 2001, Ms. Wei and her youngest son went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. They were arrested by Tiananmen Square police and taken to separate forced labour camps.

In the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp, Ms. Wei was deprived of sleep and forbidden to use a toilet. She was beaten, forced to stand in a certain position for a long time, and made to perform labour. Her blood pressure rose and she went into a coma. She was at a hospital for over a month and her family was not informed. On March 1st, 2003, Ms. Wei was taken home, as was her son.

Four days later, on March 5th, four officers from the Yizhou Town Police Station in Yi County broke into her home and arrested her and her husband. The police demanded that they sign a statement renouncing Falun Gong, but they refused. After their daughter-in-law signed for them, they were released.

On July 12th, 2003, the police broke into her house again and both husband and wife were taken to a county detention centre. One month later they were transferred to the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City, where they were imprisoned for a year and a half.

Ms. Wei was tortured, beaten, forced to stand for a long time, deprived of sleep and forbidden to use the toilet. She was forced to produce products for which the material emitted poisonous fumes. Six months later, Ms. Wei fell into a coma again. The camp did not want to accept responsibility and took her home.

The police from the Yi County Public Safety Bureau continued to break into her house, and threatened and harassed her. Her physical and mental health deteriorated. She died on May 15th, 2010.

2. Middle School Teacher Ms. Liang Jianqin from Fengyang, Hunan Province Dies after Injection with Unknown Drugs

Ms. Liang Jianqin, a teacher at the Xiaoshui Middle School in Fengyang City, Hunan Province, was arrested five times, detained four times, put in a forced labour camp for a year and a half, and taken to a brainwashing centre once because she practised Falun Gong and wanted to be a good person. She was injected with unknown drugs at the Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Changsha City. She lost her eyesight and became paralytic. Her liver and kidneys were damaged. She died on February 16th, 2010, at the age of 46.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/6/5/224901.html