Ms. Lin Jianhua Dies after Being Repeatedly Harassed

Name: Lin Jianhua
Gender: Female
Age: 46
Address: Caidian District, Wuhan, Hubei Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: May 23rd, 2010
Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 4th, 2003
Most Recent Place of Detention: Hewan Forced Labour Camp
City: Wuhan
Province: Hubei
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, brainwashing, drug administration, beatings, hung up, imprisonment, torture, home ransacked, interrogation, detention
Key Persecutors: Cai Shubin, head of Caidian District 610 Office; Song Chuhe, former head of Caidian District 610 Office; Mao Guokai, Zhan Mingquan, Yang Rongguo, and Lu Shan, officers of Caidian District Domestic Security Division

Ms. Lin Jianhua was a practitioner in the Caidian District in Wuhan. She had been repeatedly harassed for her belief by the local 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and was held twice at the Hewan Forced Labour Camp. She died at the age of 46 on May 23rd, 2010.

Ms. Lin took up the practice of Falun Gong in 1996. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started the persecution, she went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong on October 16th, 1999. Two days later, she was arrested at the State Bureau for Letters and Calls. She was then transferred back to her local police department and detained for one week.

In mid-November of 1999, agents from the Caidian District 610 Office picked her up and took her to a brainwashing camp operated inside the Caidian District CCP School. They pressured practitioners to write a Guarantee Statement to renounce practising Falun Gong. Ms. Lin refused to do it. They ordered her relatives to persuade her; she was not persuaded. They threatened her with her husband's job and her child's education. She knew they meant it. To protect her family, she wrote the statement.

On the morning of February 11th, 2000, Ms. Lin and several other practitioners were arrested for practising the Falun Gong exercises in a street garden in front of a cinema. She was detained for 15 days at the Dongxihu Women's Forced Labour Camp in Dong, Wuhan.

On February 28th, 2000, she was arrested again for "illegal gathering." She was reading Falun Gong books together with three other practitioners.

In early March, she was sentenced to one year of forced labour and imprisoned at the Hewan Forced Labour Camp in Wuhan.

After she was released in 2001, agents from the 610 Office repeatedly harassed her at home.

In July 2003, they again took her to the brainwashing camp in the Caidian CCP School. After one meal, Ms. Lin; Ms. Mao Cuilan, a practitioner who died on January 22nd, 2009; and the others all lost feeling in their lips, their stomachs bothered them, they had difficulty thinking clearly, and they trembled as if they were cold.

In November 2003, Ms. Lin was arrested for distributing Falun Gong printed materials and DVDs. Officers searched her home. They interrogated her first at the Caidian CCP School Brainwashing Camp, then at the Dongxihu No.1 Detention Centre, where she was brutally beaten and hung up for several days and nights. They subjected her to one year of forced labour at the Hewan Forced Labour Camp.

She was tortured in the camp. Guards forced her to stand seven days without moving while she was menstruating. Blood dripped down her legs to the ground. They did not allow her to wash. Her feet swelled. The guards ordered unknown drugs put into her drinking water. Her tongue felt numb after drinking.

Around October 2004, the administration of the camp informed her family to visit her and bring her food. The family noticed that she had a horrible red rash all over her neck. She was very weak and in low spirits.

She was released at the end of December 2004. Her friends said she was like a completely different person. In the following two years, her situation continued to deteriorate. She always felt thirsty and drank cold or ice-cold water. To 2007, she frequently had a fever. Her hair started falling out and she became emaciated. She lost her eyesight in February 2008 and was as thin as skeleton.

Her family took her to the Caidian District No. 13 Hospital. Agents from the Caidian 610 Office and officers from the district domestic security division did not allow the doctors in the hospital to examine her. The family then took her to a hospital in Wuhan. The agents and officers followed and tried to stop her from getting medical treatment but they failed.

Ms. Lin died at age 46 on May 23rd, 2010.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/11/4/231925.html