Name: Huo Shuxiang
Gender: Female
Age: 48
Address: Dongning County, Heilongjiang Province
Occupation: Fee collector
Date of Death: November 23rd, 2008
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 27th, 2007
Most Recent place of Detention: Dongning Detention Centre
City: Dongning County
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Beatings, detention, extortion, living under surveillance
Huo Shuxiang worked in the Dongning Sanitation Centre. She became healthy both mentally and physically after she began practising Falun Gong in 1998. She was a good and conscientious worker. She passed away on November 23rd, 2008 from injuries sustained from a terrible beating by three policemen.
On June 27th, 2007 Ms. Huo was arrested by Lin Xiaowei, captain of Dongning County National Security Team, while distributing informational materials about Falun Gong. Lin Xiaowei called the 610 office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) and two policemen arrived on the scene. The three of them cuffed and beat Ms. Huo severely. They hit her chest fiercely. They forcefully lifted her up by the throat with their hands. She fell limply to the ground. She couldn't stop coughing, and for a long time she couldn't get up.
Fifteen days after being locked up, Ms. Huo still had a hard lump on her chest, and her chest was very red below it. Her heels were still black and blue. She constantly coughed, felt pressure in her chest and had difficulty breathing.
Her bosses at the Dongning County Sanitation Centre stopped her job of collecting fees after she was released from jail. She was forced to sweep the streets and people were appointed to watch her. The centre leaders constantly had conversations with her, trying to get her to write a guarantee statement to give up Falun Gong. She had almost no freedom. Her physical condition continued to deteriorate to the point that it was even difficult to walk. She went to the doctor, who diagnosed her with fluid in the chest and heart disease.
Afterwards, she went to doctors in Harbin and Mudanjiang for treatment. She spent tens of thousands of yuan1 to pay for treatment. Most of it was borrowed from friends and relatives. Because she didn't have the money she needed to go for treatment in Mudanjiang, she went to her workplace to borrow some, but her request was rejected. Ms. Huo Shuxiang died from complications on November 23rd, 2008.
Related article:
http://clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2008/12/10/102895.html
Note
1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/2/27/36904.html
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