Imprisoned for More than Seven of the Last Ten Years, Ms. Zheng Baohua Dies at Age 32

Name: Zheng Baohua
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Address: North China Oil Field in Renqiu City, Hebei Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: April 18th, 2011
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 6th, 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: Hebei Province No. 1 Forced Labour Camp, formally Tangshan Kaiping Forced Labour Camp
City: Renqiu
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation, forced labour, brainwashing, beatings, hung up, imprisonment, solitary confinement, torture, sexual assault, force-feedings, physical restraint, detention, denial of toilet use.

Ms. Zheng Baohua was a Falun Gong practitioner from the North China Oil Field in Renqiu City, Hebei Province. In 2000, she was a junior at the North China Education College. From 2000 to 2009, she was imprisoned four times and the length of her imprisonment totalled more than seven years. Ms. Zheng was released from the Tangshan Kaiping Forced Labour Camp in November 2009, because she had late-stage tuberculosis. She died on April 18th, at the age of 32.

Ms. Zheng was imprisoned at the Shijiazhuang Forced Labour Camp from March to November of 2000. Guards, and inmates who were acting under the guards' orders, repeatedly abused her and other practitioners. They slapped her face with a plastic shoe, tied her up with rope, beat her with rubber sticks or belts, shocked her using electric batons; kicked, pinched her breasts, and deprived her of sleep. When she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, she was handcuffed for seven days and subjected to brutal force-feeding.

Ms. Zheng was imprisoned at the Tangshan Kaiping Forced Labour Camp from May 2001 to November 2003, and at the No. 2 Prison of Shijiazhuang City from June 2004 to June 2007.

On July 6th, 2008, Ms. Zheng was arrested for telling others about Falun Gong. She was first held at the Zhunhua Brainwashing Centre, where she was brutally beaten. About two weeks later, she was transferred to the Tangshan Kaiping Women's Forced Labour Camp, also known as Hebei Province No. 1 Forced Labour Camp, where she was abused. The guards beat her, poured cold water over her, shocked her using electric batons, deprived her of sleep and toilet use, and subjected her to brutal forced-feeding when she went on hunger strike to protest the torture. As a result of the constant abuse and in a weakened state, Zheng Baohua contracted tuberculosis in May 2009. The disease developed into late-stage tuberculosis by November 2009. She was released because she was in critical condition.

Earlier reports:

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/1/26/5007.html

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2005/1/28/56974.html

http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2010/2/13/114607.html

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/4/21/39352.html