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The Death of Two Falun Gong Practitioners in Boli County, Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province (Clearwisdom.Net) Ms. Liu Xin, teacher of Dasizhan Town Middle School in Boli County, Qitaihe
City in Heilongjiang Province, and Mr. He Ping were persecuted to death by local
police in 2001 and 2002 respectively. Ms. Liu Xin, 40 years old, was a teacher at the Dasizhan Town Middle School.
On November 22, 1999, former Political Security Section chief Sun Chengyi
arrested Ms. Liu while she was clarifying truth to the county police department.
She asked them not to persecute good people who practice Truthfulness,
Compassion and Tolerance. She was sent to the county detention center and was
locked up for 45 days after being fined 4,000 yuan*. Because Ms. Liu never gave
up cultivation, she was arrested at her home by Tasizhan Town police on Feburary
21, 2000 and was sent to the county detention center. While she was in the
detention center, she was traumatized both physically and mentally. Her whole
body swelled up and she was very close to death. Under strong protest from her
family (it was said that her husband paid Sun Chengyi several thousand yuan),
she was released to go home. After returning home, she was continuously harassed
by her workplace and the local police station. She passed away on August 23,
2001. Mr. He Ping, 35 years old, was a Falun Dafa practitioner with Changxing
Forestry in Boli County, Qitaihe City in Heilongjiang Province. Because he
continued practicing Falun Gong, he was arrested by Changxing Forestry Police
Station and sent to the county detention center on November 12, 1999. While in
the detention center, the warden instructed other prisoners to beat He Ping, and
let the other prisoners choke Ping until he was near death. He was released
after more than 6 months of persecution in the detention center. Former
Political Security Section chief Sun Chengyi later sent him to Suihua Forced
Labor Camp for two years on July 24, 2000. Due to the severe torture he received
in the county detention center, Ping was diagnosed as being unfit and was sent
back to Boli County Detention Center. The persecution continued in the county
detention center and he was released one month later in an extremely weak
condition. On September 8, 2000, Ping went to Beijing to peacefully appeal for
Falun Gong, and was arrested and sent back to Boli County Detention Center. In
December 2000, under the instruction of former county police department chief
Lizhu Shi and former political security section chief Sun Chengyi, in order to
improve the so called "transformation rate" and get a reward, warden Shichun
Chen and other prisoners started to torture Ping like crazy. They forced Ping to
his knees on bricks with no clothes, and beat him with plastic pipes while
verbally insulting him loudly until Ping's whole body turned black and he passed
out. Such torture continued for 21 days, resulting in an otherwise perfectly
healthy young man becoming a skinny skeleton with just one shred of breath left.
For fear of the consequences, they released Ping in August 2002. Within 3 months
after returning home, Ping passed away. He is survived by a father over 80 years
old. * Yuan is Chinese currency, the monthly salary for an average Chinese
urban worker is about 500 yuan. Posting date: 2/26/2004 |