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Ms. Chen Guiqin from Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province Dies As a Result of Persecution in January, 2004
By a Falun Dafa Practitioner in China (Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Chen Guiqin from Yichun
City, Heilongjiang Province was subjected to persecution repeatedly, which
caused her old illnesses to recur. She died on January 6, 2004. Ms. Chen was formerly an elementary school teacher in Tangwang District,
Yichun City. She started practicing Falun Gong in 1996 and recovered from
several illnesses shortly after she learned the practice. She became well again. In July 1999 when the Jiang group started to persecute Falun Gong, she went
to the National Women's Council in Beijing to appeal for an end to the
persecution and she brought with her handwritten stories about how she benefited
from the practice. Unfortunately, a plainclothes police officer mixing with the
staff at the Women's Council abducted her to the Heilongjiang Province's
resident office in Beijing. She was then taken back to her hometown and detained
at a local police station for 15 days. She continued the practice after she was
released, in spite of the continued harassment by the local police and "610
Office". During the Spring Festival 2000, local police, without any legal
grounds, abducted her and detained her again. Towards the end of 2001, Ms. Chen Guiqin went to Beijing again and was
intercepted by the local police and taken back to her hometown. During her
detention, banners such as "Falun Dafa is good" were seen around the
town. One night, she was taken from the detention center to the local public
security bureau. A group of police officers led by Jiang Wei, the vice bureau
chief, tried to force Ms. Chen to admit that she wrote and posted the banners.
They even claimed that if she did not confess, she would be thrown off the
mountain and killed. She refused to admit to any wrongdoing and was tortured by
Wen Xiaohui and Huang Yan with methods such as "Holding the Kettle"
(1) and "Body Folding" (2) Later she was sent to a forced labor camp for two years at Harbin Detox
Center, where she was subjected to brainwashing. Suffering from huge
psychological pressure and emotional and physical abuses, her old illnesses came
back. She was extremely weak when she was released. The police continued to
harass her at home until her health deteriorated further and she died. October 21 Notes: (1) "Holding the Kettle": a torture method. (2) "Body-folding": a torture method. It refers to standing with
two legs straight and close, and bending the head down as far as it will go
toward the feet, in front of the knees. The fingers point to the ground, the
head is upside down, making the body form a 90-degree angle. The victim is
forced to keep this position for 17 to 18 hours a day except when eating,
sleeping and using the toilet.
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