Further Investigation into the Death of Ms. Li Shuhua, Who Was Blinded and Murdered in Police Custody
(Clearwisdom.net) Background After Clearwisdom.net reported that Falun Gong practitioner Li Shuhua of
Yushu City, Jilin Province had been tortured to death, an Epoch Times reporter
picked up the story and conducted an investigation into this matter. In addition
to quoting the information from Clearwisdom.net, the Epoch Times reporter also
called officials in China to seek verification of the events surrounding Ms.
Li's death. The following is the report from Epoch Times. A Public Security Officer Reveals the Facts Behind Li Shuhua's Death The Epoch Times reported on April 25 that Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li
Shuhua, a Jilin Province, Yushu City resident, was forcibly taken away by the
local police on September 24, 2003, and died thirteen days later. There were
many needle marks on her body, one side of her face was full of bruises and one
side of her skull was caved in. The coroner found that her abdominal cavity was
full of blood. A local public security officer recently disclosed the cause of
Li Shuhua's death. The public security officer said that because she had lost
her eyesight from being tortured by the police, the police officer responsible
killed her in order to eliminate her as a witness and to avoid responsibility.
The reporter requested corroboration by calling the Yushu City National Security
Department and the Political and Judiciary Committee, who are directly
responsible for the matter. However, they refused to be interviewed and claimed
that they knew nothing about the case. Then they hung up the phone or switched
off their cell phones. Dead Just Thirteen Days After Being Arrested Ms. Li Shuhua, 32, was a seamstress. Her husband Mr. Yang Zhanjiu and her
mother Ms. Cui Zhanyun have been detained in a detention center since 2002 for
practicing Falun Gong. Ms. Li's elderly father and two young children were left
at home alone and had nothing to depend on for their living expenses. On September 24, 2003, policeman Jiang Wei and another two police officers
from the Peiying Street Police Station in Yushu City came to Li Shuhua's home.
They asked her to go to the police station to write a statement. They forcibly
took her away, and said they would let her go home after a few minutes. However,
her family waited for two days and she still did not return. On the morning of
September 26, a policeman showed her family an arrest warrant for Li Shuhua
without giving any reason for the detention or the length of the term. On
October 8, her father went to the Public Security Bureau and asked them to
release her. Li Shuhua had been tortured to death the day before, on October 7,
but the police still wanted to hide the truth. They didn't notify the family
about her death on October 9. Murder Follows a Brutal Interrogation The public security officer related that after Li Shuhua was arrested, the
police demanded information regarding the sources of Falun Gong materials and
who her contacts were. Li Shuhua said nothing, and the police started to torture
her. They covered her head with plastic bags and stuck big needles into her
fingertips, arms, back and chest. Li Shuhua screamed loudly because of the pain.
The public security officer said that the police officer still could not get
any answers from Li Shuhua, so he angrily struck her eyes with his fists,
causing her to become blind in one eye. Li Shuhua instantly lost consciousness
from the pain. The policeman who committed the crime was afraid of taking
responsibility, so he asked his superiors for instructions, and then killed Li
Shuhua to eliminate her as a potential witness against him. This public security
officer said that if she had not been blinded, the police wouldn't have beaten
her to death. The Relevant Departments Refuse to be Interviewed The Epoch Times reporter made many calls to the Yushu City National Security
Department (86-431-3630-348) to ask for verification of this incident. When the
reporter inquired about Li Shuhua's situation, the person who answered the phone
hung up. One man who answered the phone said to the reporter in a threatening
tone, "We refine people here, do you want to come?" When the reporter asked him
how Li Shuhua died, the man quickly hung up. The reporter then called the office of Yushu City Political and Judiciary
Committee member Zhang Shulin (86-431-3648-734). Nobody answered, so the
reporter called him on his cell phone (86-13578846655). The conversation went as
follows: Zhang: "Who is calling?" Reporter: "I'm a reporter from the Epoch Times, and I want to find out some
information about Li Shuhua's case." Zhang: "Mind your own business. Don't meddle in this matter." Then he
switched off his phone. The reporter then called the office of Sun Zhongxing (86-431-3635-235), the
Political and Judiciary Secretary of Yushu City. Nobody answered, so he called
Sun's cell phone (86-13504396350). When Sun found out that the reporter wanted
to ask about Li Shuhua's case, he turned off his phone. The Falun Dafa Information Center reported that they called the Yushu City
National Security Department (86-431-3630-348) to verify the cause of Li
Shuhua's death. The policeman who answered the call was very nervous and
stammered, "You, you, you..." Then he said, "I can't answer your question on the
phone," and hung up. Autopsy Shows Blood in the Abdominal Cavity The police took Li Shuhua's body to the hospital and soaked it in chemicals,
tidied up her appearance, changed her clothes and put makeup on her. However,
her family members still could see the marks made by the needles. There were
bruises on one side of her face and there was broken skin in two places on her
face. Also, one side of her skull was caved in, and her nails were blue. After
performing an autopsy, the coroner found a great deal of blood in her abdominal
cavity. The blood hadn't congealed and was still seeping out. The towels they
had placed under Ms. Li's body were not enough to soak up the blood, and the
sanitary napkins covering her lower body were all soaked. When the family members questioned the medical examiner, who had been brought
in by the police, he said, "The doctors tried to rescue her with injections, and
that caused the puncture marks on her body. The blood in her stomach was
menstrual blood." How can menstrual blood be in the abdominal cavity? Li Shuhua's family
doubted the reason given as the cause of her death, so they wanted to take some
pictures of her body. The Public Security Bureau not only refused to allow the
family to take pictures, but they also had the police guard her body until it
could be cremated. Five Deaths in Yushu City; Another Practitioner Blinded in Both Eyes There are at least 120 confirmed deaths of Falun Dafa practitioners from
torture in Jilin Province; five of them are from Yushu City. Besides Li Shuhua,
the other four people are Huang Baochen (male, 65 years old), Yue Kai (male, 29
years old), Han Yuzhu (male, 47 years old) and Wang Xianyou (male, 56 years
old). Yue Kai and Huang Baochen were tortured to death in Chaoyanggou Forced
Labor Camp on February 18 and November 27, 2002, respectively. Han Yuzhu died
from brutal force-feeding at the Changchun City Weizigou Drug Rehabilitation
Center on February 9, 2001. Wang Xianyou was force-fed with salt water and died
abruptly at Jilin Province Fenjin Forced Labor Camp on January 5, 2001. According to Clearwisdom.net, the Yushu City Public Security Bureau and the
"610 Office" (1) abducted another practitioner named Li Lin from Yushu City and
have detained her at Yushu Detention Center for one and a half years. Li Lin
suffered many tortures there, and was later sentenced and sent to Jilin No. 2
Prison. Li Lin has lost the use of both of her eyes. (1) 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.
One hundred and twenty Falun Gong practitioners have been
tortured to death in jails, forced labor camps and local police stations in
Jilin Province.
Chinese version available at
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