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Ms. Gao Yuqin Dies as a Result of Persecution in Jilin City
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Gao Yuqin was 66 years old and lived in Jilin
City, Jilin Province. She was a pharmacist employed by the Jilin City
Hemorrhoids Hospital, and was regularly harassed by policemen, 610
Office agents, and the neighborhood administrators. She went to Beijing to
make an appeal on behalf of Falun Gong at Tiananmen Square and was arrested and
detained in the Jilin City Detention Center for more than one month. She was
sentenced to three years of forced labor at the beginning of November 2000 and
served in the Sixth Ward, Heizuizi Labor Camp in Changchun City. During her time doing forced labor, due to severe living conditions, she
became extremely thin and developed severe heart and brain problems. Her family
spent more than 10,000 yuan and did everything they could to bail
her out on medical parole at the end of December 2000, after she served four and
a half months. After returning home, policemen from Xiangyang Station, neighborhood
administrators, 610 office members, and State Security agents kept harassing her
at home. In June 2002, four people from the neighborhood administration stormed
into her home and took away her Falun Dafa exercise tape that was in the stereo.
Xiangyang Police Station Head Xia Yongbin (male) and 610 office members often
came to her door to harass her, causing both mental and physical damage, which
made her become very weak. She was often forced to leave home to avoid being
arrested. In January 2004, Ms. Gao went to distribute truth clarifying materials with
fellow practitioners. They were reported and arrested by policemen from Longtan
Station, and detained in a wire cage for three days. Her family spent several
thousand yuan to have her released. Due to living in such a severe environment for a long period of time, being
arrested and threatened repeatedly by police and 610 office members, and having
her home ransacked, her mental and physical health was severely damaged, causing
her kidney disease to reoccur. She died on March 19, 2006.
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