Ms. Chen Yanying Tortured to Death by the Gaoyang Labour Re-education Camp

Ms. Chen Yanying was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Ningjin County. After suffering brutal torture in the Gaoyang Labour Re-education Camp in Hebei Province for one year, her health was in critical condition. To avoid responsibility for her death, the labour camp sent her home. Ms. Chen Yanying passed away 4 hours after arriving home. Ms. Chen had been wrongfully imprisoned several times before she was sent to the labour camp.

Ms. Chen Yanying, 35, was from Sizhilan Village, Ningjin County. She obtained Falun Dafa in 1997 and was very healthy. On July 20, 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, but was illegally arrested and detained. On October 1, 1999, she went to Beijing to validate Falun Dafa, but was unlawfully imprisoned in the Ningjin County Detention Centre for over 6 months. After going on a hunger strike for 8 days, she was released. On October 1, 2000, she was abducted while handing out Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials. She was detained at the Ningjin County Detention Centre for over 2 months. After 9 days of being on a hunger strike to protest the illegal imprisonment, she was set free.

Fearing that she would go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong again, the 610 Office abducted her from her home during the Chinese Lunar New Year of 2001 and illegally held her in the Ningjin County Detention Centre for a month. Then they transferred her to the Gaoyang Labour Re-education Camp in Hebei Province.

In the labour camp, Ms. Chen suffered various cruel torture, but she firmly believed in Falun Dafa and was not moved at all by any persecution. Enduring all kinds of torture, she persisted in protesting the persecution through hunger striking. After her prolonged ordeal, Ms. Chen was not able to stand or to walk without assistance. After suffering more than one year of persecution, her health became extremely fragile. The police officers at the labour camp were afraid of bearing any responsibility for her condition and wanted to shift responsibility, so they hastily notified her family to take her home. Four hours after arriving at home, she passed away.