Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Shi Meiying from Zhejiang Province Dies as a Result of the Persecution

Name: Shi Meiying
Gender: Female
Age: 48
Address: Tangxian Town, Yongkang City, Zhejiang Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: June 17th, 2011
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 27th, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Shimen Farm Brainwashing Centre
City: Jinhua
Province: Zhejiang
Persecution Suffered: Brainwashing, imprisonment, detention

Ms. Shi Meiying was frequently harassed, detained and suffered various forms of torture. She was also sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. Ms. Shi passed away as a result of the persecution at the age of 48.

In 2001, Ms. Shi mailed out several informational letters about Falun Gong. As a result, she was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment by a Dongyang Court judge. She was then taken to Zhejiang Province Women's Prison and tortured. Her husband was given an eight-year jail term. At that time, their son and daughter, who were in elementary school, were left at home without their parents' care.

After she was released from prison, Ms. Shi was frequently harassed by personnel from the Yongkang City 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong).

Ms. Shi and her husband were arrested again on August 27th, 2010. Staff from the 610 Office in Jinhua and Yongkang City, Chinese Communist Party personnel at Tangxian town, and the Xiangzhu police officers ransacked their home before taking them to the Shimen Farm Brainwashing Centre. There, they were persecuted for over a month.

In the beginning of 2011, the Yongkang City 610 Office staff threatened that they would take Ms. Shi and her husband to Jinhua City and force them to practise a different kind of qigong. At that time, Ms. Shi's whole body was swollen because her health was deteriorating from the effects of being persecuted for over ten years. She passed away on June 17th, 2011.

On May 25th, 2011, the Yongkang City 610 Office held a forced brainwashing session. Initially, they stated that practitioners could voluntarily attend a string of sessions for 10 or more days. After several practitioners refused to attend, personnel from the neighbourhood committee then threatened that if practitioners wouldn't attend, they would be taken to Ginghua for “training” that would take much longer.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/6/22/242821.html