Additional Facts Surrounding Practitioner Ms. Li Ying's Death Due to Torture by the Fushun Police Department No. 1 Division (Photo)
by a Falun Dafa practitioner in Liaoning Province, China
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Ying, a resident of
Xiuyan Street, Wanghua District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province, was tortured to
death by the No.1 Division of the Fushun Police Department in Liaoning Province.
But the police, procuratorate and court have together given false testimony, and
at present, the murderers are still at large. Li Ying was an honest, kind-hearted, and friendly person. Because she
practiced Falun Gong, she was once sentenced to two years of forced labor in
2001 for the "crime of disturbing social order." On March 31, 2003, Li Ying was forcefully carried away by 4 or 5 police
officers of the No.1 Division of the Fushun Police Department and the Fushun
Wanghua Police Station under the pretext of "verifying the materials."
In addition, without showing any warrants or legal paperwork, the police
ransacked Ms. Li's home at noon on the same day. After her family members enquired about her everywhere, they found out that
Li Ying had been detained at the No.1 Division of the police department. On
April 1, her family went to the No.1 Division to deliver some food for Li Ying.
From a distance, they saw that she was handcuffed and sitting on a chair. She
looked normal at that time. However, the family members were cursed at by the
police and forced to leave. The next day, on April 2, 2003, at noon, Li Ying's family members went to
deliver food to her again. This time they saw that Li Ying was handcuffed and
her hair was hanging loose. Li Ying told them, "Four police hit me. I did
not say anything. They forced me to press my fingerprints [to the statements
promising to stop practicing Falun Gong], but I do not acknowledge it."
Soon after that, the family members were again verbally abused by the police and
forced to leave. On the afternoon of April 2, at about 4 o'clock, Li Ying's family members
went to the No.1 Division of the police department again. The chief of police at
the No.1 Division met them and led Ms. Li's husband to the City Police
Department. He inquired if Li Ying had heart disease. Her husband replied that
Li Ying was healthy and had no physical problems at all. That same day, the gate of the No.1 Division of the Fushun Police Department
was tightly closed. The family members were not allowed to enter. Personnel from
the police department, the procuratorate, and the politics and law committee
came and went from the No.1 Division. Seeing that things were abnormal, Li
Ying's family members forcefully entered the building. They saw a person lying
on the ground in the hall, covered with a ragged bed sheet. They lifted the bed
sheet and saw that it was Li Ying. Her body was covered in wounds and she was
dead. Li Ying's family members questioned the leaders of the No.1 Division, Hao
Jianguang and Hao Shifu, for the cause of Li Ying's death. Hao said that she had
died of natural causes. The family members immediately rebuffed him, "She
was all right at noon, and within about 4 hours, she was dead. How could that be
a normal?" Afterwards, Li Ying's family members hired an attorney and
looked for someone to videotape the scene of Li Ying's death. The police
department, the procuratorate and the Politics and Law committee all tried to
stop them from doing so. Later the procuratorate officials guaranteed to the family members that the
procuratorate would videotape the scene, seal the video tape, and store it in a
safe place. They also promised that nobody would break the seal without the
family members' permission. Having no other choice, the family members
reluctantly agreed. Later, the No.1 Division of the Police Department made it known that they
intended to carry Li Ying's body away. Li Ying's family members would not let
them. They held hands together blocking the police from carrying her body away.
Both sides refused to budge. At the scene, that very evening, the police
department, the procuratorate and the Politics and Law Committee personnel held
an emergency meeting. Finally at 2 a.m. on April 3, they brought in a truck full
of riot police. Hao Jianguang roared, "Take action!" The riot police rushed in together. Three or four of them carried one family
member, and they forcefully took all of Ms. Li's family members away. After
that, they moved Li Ying's body. At 9:00 a.m. on April 3, Li Ying's family members went to the No.1 Division
again. The people in charge, Hao Jianguang and Hao Shifu, told them that the
autopsy result of Ms. Li's death proved that she had died of "natural
causes." The family members were not convinced. Hao Jianguang and Hao Shifu
said, "Minor scuffles [referring to the torture and persecution by the
police] would not have caused the death. If you are still not convinced, you
may apply for another autopsy. But you are responsible for the expenses." Reluctantly and with no way out, the family members paid 5,000 yuan for
another autopsy [500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban
worker in China]. After several days, one professor, along with two interns and three other
people, came from Shenyang City 202 Hospital. They performed the second autopsy
at Nanyang in Xinfu District, Fushun City. Li Ying's family members and their
attorney were present at the second autopsy. Meanwhile, the Fushun City
Procuratorate also set up a video camera to record the autopsy. The professor
from the 202 Hospital examined in detail the obvious dark, purple wounds on Ms.
Li's body, which numbered over a dozen. They also cut the skin open to inspect
the size of the blood stasis and recorded the details. Ms. Li's left shoulder
had a dark wound the size of a palm, which was about 4 centimeters (about 1 and
3/4 inches) in depth. After seeing that, the professor said aloud to himself,
"What heavy item hit the body? It has had such a big impact!" While
dissecting the chest and abdomen, the professor narrated while the interns made
the record. The family members heard him saying, "There is a hemorrhage
spot at the heart, and the base of the heart has a large amount of blood stasis;
the base of the kidney has a large amount of blood stasis; and so does the
liver." After the autopsy, the professor took Ms. Li's various body parts
away to perform cross-sectional analysis and he said that the results would be
out in about 5 to 6 days. After a week, Ms. Li's family was told the result of the autopsy, "Lung
thrombus, natural death." It was said that the autopsy report had the
signatures of the six people from Shenyang 202 Hospital. Ms. Li's family members asked the city procuratorate for the autopsy report.
The procuratorate ask the family members to talk to the No.1 Division for the
report. The head of the No.1 Division, Hao Shifu said, "Science must be
trusted; it was a natural death." But when Ms. Li's family members went to
the city procuratorate to ask for the autopsy video recording, they were denied
permission. At the end of 2003, Li Ying's mother went to the City People's Congress to
report what had happened. She knelt down in front of the People's Congress
building for half a day. Afterwards, someone from the City People's Congress
said that the No.1 Division should be responsible for this matter. They called
the No.1 Division. Afterwards someone from the No.1 Division came and took Ms.
Li's mother away. Hao Shifu offered an excuse by saying that he would look into
this matter after the Chinese New Year. After the Chinese New Year, Ms. Li's mother went to the No.1 Division again.
Hao Shifu indicated that he was willing to give the family 2,000 yuan for
compensation and he urged Ms. Li's mother to settle the case. Ms. Li's mother
cried and said that after the second autopsy, it was still the same result. Hao
Jianguang blatantly said, "What does the small amount of money you paid for
the autopsy count for? We took those who participated in the autopsy to 'take
baths' [in Fushun, this means a place for prostitution] and have a feast.
That cost us a lot of money." According to the account of eyewitnesses who were near the No.1 Division, on
the afternoon on April 2, 2003, at about 3:19 p.m., an emergency ambulance came
to the No.1 Division. Ms. Li's family members therefore went to the Funshun
Chinese Medical Hospital to check the ambulance record. It said that when the
emergency ambulance had arrived at the No.1 Division, Ms. Li had already passed
away. But it only took 20 minutes to get from the Chinese Medical Hospital to
the No.1 Division. At noon on the same day, Ms. Li had talked to her husband.
That means that Ms. Li died between 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. on April 2. Because
she practiced Falun Gong, Ms. Li was very healthy. For several years, she had
not been sick or taken any medicine. However, in the No.1 Division, she passed
away within several hours from "natural causes" -- how could this be
credible? The main person in charge of issuing licenses to attorneys in Liaoning
Province had a talk with the attorney that Ms. Li's family members had hired,
and asked him whether he was defending Falun Gong. The attorney replied that he
was only offering some legal help. This director said, "If you dare to
defend them (Ms. Li's family members), don't complain if I do not renew your
license for you." The one who was most tragically hit was Ms. Li's little daughter. In order
not to hurt the young child, Ms. Li's family members told the child that her
mother Li Ying had died of illnesses. The No.1 Division of the Fushun City Police Department: 86-413-2625446 Address of the Fushun City Police Department: 19 Central Avenue, Xinfu
District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province Phone numbers: 86-413-2626095, 86-413-2624451 Fushun City Wanghua District Politics and Law Committee, "610
Office" phone number [the "610 Office" is an agency
specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each
level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary
systems]: 86-413-6688867 The address of the Fushun City Wanghua District Police Department: 16 Wanghua
Street, Fushun City, Liaoning Province Phone number: 86-413-6688139 Address of the Fushun Municipal Government: East Section of Linjiang Road,
Shuncheng District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province Fushun Municipal Government Civilian Appeal Center (Mayor's direct line):
86-413-7500000 Address of the Fushun Municipal Intermediate People's Court: 61 Linjiang
Road, Shuncheng District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province; Fushun Municipal People's Procuratorate Complaint Center, phone number:
86-413-7682000 Address of the Fushun Municipal People's Procuratorate: 16 Central-section of
Xincheng Road, Shuncheng District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province Phone number: 86-413-7674240 Address of the Fushun Municipal Judicature Bureau: 20 Hunhe Road North,
Shuncheng District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province Phone number: 86-413-7677324 Address of the Fushun Municipal National Security Bureau: 21 Xincheng Road
Central-section, Shuncheng District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province Phone number: 86-413-767100 March 16, 2004
Li Ying
Phone number: 86-413-7500150
Phone number: 86-413-7711980
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