Ms. Liang Bo Suffers Costal Cartilage Fracture from Beatings by Police

Name: Liang Bo
Gender: Female
Age: 41
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Teacher

Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 20th, 2010
Most recent Place of Detention: Haidian District Detention Centre in Beijing

City: Beijing
Province: N/A
Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, beatings, torture, force-feedings, fired from workplace, denied family visitation
Key Persecutors: Dong Yongping

Ms. Liang Bo, a teacher at the School of Literature, Journalism, and Communication of the Minzu University of China, was arrested on May 21st by the Haidian District Police Department in Beijing.

After her arrest, officer Dong Yongping viciously beat her, cursed at her, deprived her of sleep, forced her to put on the inmate uniform, and forcibly cut her hair. Dong, who weighs around 170 pounds, also sat on her and pushed his left leg on her chest, fracturing her costal cartilage and inducing internal bleeding.

Ms. Liang was subsequently transferred to the Haidian District Detention Centre, where she continued to be subjected to extensive beatings and other torture. Ms. Liang lost consciousness several times as a result of the abuse. She also could not walk for some time afterward due to damaged nerves in her legs.

The Haidian District Court scheduled a hearing in the No. 3 Tribunal at 9:30 a.m. on September 8th. You Tao, president of the tribunal in Haidian District Court, and Chen Lei, division head of the Haidian District Court, were involved.

Ms. Liang's family hired an attorney to defend her, but officials of the Haidian District Detention Centre tried to prevent the attorney from meeting with her prior to the trial, so that he would not see that her entire body was injured and covered with bruises from the severe beatings and torture. After numerous attempts, the attorney was finally able to meet with Ms. Liang on August 23rd.

Ms. Liang Has Suffered Over 11 Years of Persecution

Ms. Liang started practising Falun Gong in 1995, and started teaching at the Minzu University in 1998. After the Chinese communist regime implemented a nationwide campaign to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999, university officials removed her from the head teacher position and subsequently did not allow her to teach at all. She was also harassed by officials and security guards that were assigned to follow her around the clock.

Ms. Liang was arrested by the state security police in Hainan Province in 2003. Officials and university leaders would not tell her family where she was taken despite multiple requests. For over half a year, nobody knew where Liang Bo was or even if she was still alive.

When officials discovered that Ms. Liang was found to be four months pregnant during a medical exam in detention, the university officials, university hospital leaders, and officials from the neighbourhood administration took turns pressuring her to have an abortion. Ms. Liang and her family were able to keep officials at bay by repeatedly and firmly rejecting their demands.

Since August 2004, Minzu University has not paid Ms. Liang her salary and has terminated all of her benefits. The university's Service Administration Office also forcibly confiscated her apartment in the living quarters, claiming that she had been fired, even though she never received official documentation of dismissal.

On May 18th, 2009, Ms. Liang went to Minzu University to examine the documents, in which the officials claimed that she was officially dismissed. Within minutes of her arrival, three police officers from the Wanshousi Police Station took her to the Haidian Detention Centre. Ms. Liang went on a hunger strike for 14 days, but guards force-fed her twice a day, as a result of which she was rushed to the emergency room three times. She was released to her family only when she was near death.

Contact information for parties involved in the persecution:

Haidian District Police Department in Beijing: 86-10-82644513

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/9/4/229215.html