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Ms. Deng Jianmei Still Tortured at Harbin Women's Prison Despite Being in Critical Condition
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Deng Jianmei is currently detained at the Harbin
Women's Prison (also known as Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison). At around
10:00 a.m. on January 9, 2006, Ms. Deng's family was able to visit her. As Ms.
Deng sat on a stool talking to her family, the guards kept close watch. Ms. Deng
was so weak that she fainted just a few minutes after the meeting began. Her
family requested that the prison release her on bail for medical treatment. The
relevant prison personnel as well as those of the prison administration bureau
shifted their responsibilities onto each other and disregarded the tenants of
basic humanity. Ms. Deng Jianmei is a Dafa practitioner from Daqing City, Heilongjiang
Province. After the persecution of Falun Dafa began in July 1999, she was
repeatedly illegally arrested and fired from her job because of her
belief. Her husband divorced her and she was forced to become homeless to avoid
further persecution. On the night of October 31, 2002, over 20 police vehicles
trapped Ms. Deng Jianmei and some other Falun Gong practitioners in the Donghu
residential area. After beating the practitioners, the police took them to the
Daqing City Detention Center and tortured them. On January 27, 2003, Ms. Deng Jianmei was illegally sentenced to seven years
of imprisonment by the Ranghulu District Court. In the Harbin Women's Prison,
she was forced sit on a cement floor for six months. The perpetrators assaulted
her breasts and kicked her private areas. She was detained in a small cell and
beaten with clubs and batons. The perpetrators pinched her eyelids with tweezers
and sprayed detergent in her eyes so that it soaked into the open wounds that
they themselves had inflicted. Between 2004 and 2005, because she went on a
hunger strike to protest, the guards ordered the prisoners to beat her. Two of
her front teeth were knocked out when she was force-fed. On March 21, 2005, Zhao Yingling and Zhao Huihua, the head and deputy head of
the prison hospital, led more than ten guards and more than twenty inmates to
pin down Ms. Deng Jianmei and other Dafa practitioners and to draw large amounts
of blood from them. Because of the wanton persecution and long-term
psychological torture conducted by the Harbin Women's Prison, 40-year-old Deng
Jianmei had a heart attack. After that her body trembled constantly. Regarding the family's appeals and request, the Harbin Women's Prison and the
related departments did not consider them seriously, nor find a solution, but
shifted the responsibility back and forth between each other. Herein, we appeal
to kind-hearted people all over the world, and to international human rights
organizations to show concern about this matter. Ms. Deng Jianmei should be
released unconditionally. Harbin Women's Prison (Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison):
86-451-86639059, 86-451-86639069 January 15, 2006
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