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Falun Gong Practitioner Kang Ruizhu Dies at Pingshan Police Station in Hebei Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Before the opening of the 16th Chinese Communist
Party Congress, the Pingshan Police Station in Hebei Province illegally arrested
five Falun Gong practitioners who, at the time, had left their homes and were
living in the streets to avoid the persecution. During their detention, one of
the practitioners, Kang Ruizhu, a 52-year-old woman, died after an 11-day hunger
strike.
Kang Ruizhu was formerly employed at the Pingshan Fertilizer Factory. She went
to Beijing to appeal on April 25 and July 20, 1999 and was later charged a fine
by the Pingshan Police Station and detained in a cell on the 3rd
floor of the Police Station. During the 2000 Spring Festival, she went to
Beijing to appeal and was illegally detained once again. Later on, her workplace
expelled her. In May 2000, because she was reported to the local police station
for distributing truth-clarifying materials, she was illegally arrested and
sentenced to a labor camp. But upon her arrival at the Shijiazhuang Labor Camp,
the labor camp refused to detain her. She was then released.
In August 2000, local police officers captured her and forced her into the
Pingshan Brainwashing Session. There, she was handcuffed to a tree for an entire
week. Using her righteous thoughts, she was finally able to escape from the
session. Later, because of the police's continued unwarranted detention and
harassment, she was forced to leave home and became homeless in order to avoid
any further persecution.
On October 25, 2002, she was captured while traveling and detained in the
office building of the Huishe Township Government. In order to resist the unjust
and illegal detention, Kang started a hunger strike. The local police station
claimed, "Even if we beat you to death, it will be reported as a suicide. No
matter how you die, we will claim that you committed suicide. These are the
direct orders from the high-level government."
On October 27, from the police station came the news that Kang had died. Her
body was cremated on the same day and the crematorium kept her ashes. Zhao
Xinchao, secretary of the Pingshan County Government, and Wang Gentin, director
of the local "610 Office," ordered that no one from her family would be allowed
to do anything about it. At the same time, they ordered to stop the salary of
her family members.
At present, the three practitioners who are currently detained are: Zhang
Yingtong, Cui Hongzhi, and Cui Changjiang. They are all still on hunger strikes. We call for the attention of all kind-hearted people.
Below are the phone numbers of people responsible for the case.
The secretary of the Pingshan County
Government, Hebei Province: Zhao Xinchao, 86-311-2900666 (o); 86-311-7726068
(h).
The secretary of the Political-Legal
Committee of Pingshan County, Hebei Province: Shi Junhai, 86-311-2941747 (o);
86-311-2911190 (h).
The deputy director of the Pingshan
Police Station and the director of the Pingshan "610" office: Wang Gentin,
86-311-2911266 (o); 86-311-2913519 (h)
The head of the security section of
the Pingshan Police Station: Feng Qingfang, 86-311-2911804 (o); 86-311-2911170
(h)
The Huishe Police Station in Pingshan
County, Hebei Province: 86-311-2801173
The Huishe Township Government in
Pingshan County, Hebei Province: 86-311-2801685.
Posting date: 11/11/2002
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