Ms. Song Meiying's Sudden Death Suspected to Be the Result of Violent Beatings

Ms. Song Meiying is a 52-year-old retired employee. She originally lived in Fuyu County, Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, and later on moved to Guanlubu Village, Duanbolan Township, Jimo City, Shandong Province, to take care of her son who attended school there. Ms. Song suddenly died on August 26th, 2010. Bodily injuries on her remains indicated that she had likely been beaten to death.

Ms. Song left home around 8:00 a.m. on August 26th on an electric motorcycle to go shopping, as was her daily routine. She spoke with people about the persecution of Falun Gong as she was shopping. When her son returned home to have lunch at noon, he did not see his mother as usual. He called her mobile phone, but instead of hearing his mother's voice, he heard a male voice who claimed to be a policeman. He told Ms. Song's son that her mother had an accident and fell into a coma under an overpass leading to their village.

Ten minutes later Ms. Song's son and their relatives arrived at the scene by taxi, but the mother was no longer there; only her electric motorcycle lay on the ground. He called the police and was told that his mother had been taken to a hospital in an ambulance. When he and their relatives arrived at the hospital, they found Ms. Song unconscious, still breathing and her heart still beating. A doctor told them that Ms. Song suffered from brain stem haemorrhaging caused by high blood pressure. The doctor also told them that medical treatment was futile, and urged them to go through discharge procedures. The police there told Ms. Song's relatives to sign a document and repeatedly emphasised that there were no external injuries.

The sudden and unexpected blow left Ms. Song's son bewildered. He signed a statement, saying that his mother did not sustain external injuries. Ms. Song died at 9:30 p.m. that same day. The doctors did not perform any emergency treatment during the more than nine hours of Ms. Song's hospitalisation. They kept claiming that medical treatment would not have done any good.

Ms. Song's relatives requested to take a final look at her remains. They were shocked upon seeing that Ms. Song's face was completely deformed, the top of her head was swollen and there was purple blood congestion. The left side of her face was purple and black, and only a small section on the right side of her face was normal; all the rest was purple. Outside her right eye was a 2-cm-long subcutaneous haemorrhage. Her fingernails were filled with mud, showing that she might have dug her fingernails into the ground while enduring sharp pain before she lost consciousness.

Ms. Song's family suspected that Ms. Song was beaten unconscious. They suspect the culprits beat her with an electric baton wrapped inside a soft rubber. By doing so, no external injuries show right away, but she suffered from internal injuries.

Ms. Song's son knew that the police had deceived him. The cause of his mother's death was unclear. The emotional blow of his mother's death rendered him bedridden with grief and illness. Ms. Song's remains were hurriedly cremated.

There are many suspicious points about the incident:

(1) The police claimed that someone had reported to them that Ms. Song fell into coma, but why didn't they contact the family members immediately; her mobile phone was right in her handbag. Why wasn't the accident scene cordoned off? Did she fall into a coma under the overpass, or was the accident story a cover up?

(2) Ms. Song's family repeatedly requested the hospital to treat her. Why did the doctors repeatedly refuse to perform any examination or medical treatment, but only made a superficial diagnosis, and told the family that it was not worth any medical treatment?

(3) Why did the police in the hospital repeatedly emphasise that there was no external injury, and the doctors there also repeatedly insist there were no external injuries and urge Ms. Song's son to sign a statement to that effect?

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/10/17/231139.html