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Elder Sister Tortured to Death and Younger Sister Facing Sentence
(Clearwisdom.net) On March 13, 2008, Ms. Gu Jianmin died as a result of
the persecution. Her younger sister, Ms. Gu Jihong was arrested in July 2008 and
is facing a sentence. The sisters practiced Falun Gong and have suffered
persecution during the past nine years. Ms. Gu Jianmin began to practice Falun Gong in 1998. She followed the
principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and tried to be a better
person. She was kind and generous and took care of her mother-in-law, who was
bedridden from a serious illness. People who knew her thought she was the type
of person to give but demand nothing in return. She told people about Falun Gong
and the persecution, hoping to help others. In June 2006, she was arrested and
sentenced to one year of forced labor. Within a few months of being released
from detention, she was arrested again and later died as a result of the
persecution. When she was on the verge of death, the police called her husband and asked
him to do paperwork for her medical parole. They told him that Ms. Gu didn't
feel well and had been sent to see a doctor. When her husband arrived at the
hospital, Ms. Gu was already in a coma. Her eyes looked strange and there was a
blood stain at the corner of her mouth. There was no medical personnel by her
side. Her husband hurried to call for the doctor, but the doctor told him that
it was too late for her. Her husband knelt down to beg the doctor to save her
life. The doctor went through the process to try and revive her, but was
unsuccessful and declared her death. Her husband watched her until her last
breath. Ms. Gu's family tried to hire a lawyer to appeal her case, but all attempts
have been blocked. One lawyer was about to accept the case but was threatened by
the officials from the Shanghai 610 Office and the Shanghai Judicial
Bureau. They told the lawyer that there is a new "rule" that lawyers
have to obtain permission from the local judicial bureau before accepting any
Falun Gong cases. If the judicial bureau does not approve, the lawyers cannot
accept the case. The officials from the Shanghai 610 Office threatened her family and did not
allow them to appeal or expose the case. At the same time, they compensated her
family with money, and forced her family to immediately sign the agreement to
cremate her body in order to destroy evidence of their crime. On July 26, 2008, officials from the Putuo District 610 Office arrested Ms.
Gu Jihong, the younger sister of Ms. Gu Jianmin, at her home. This is the third
time that she has been arrested. In June 2000, she was sentenced to three years
in prison. In June 2005, she was sentenced to one year of forced labor but was
not released on time. At the labor camp, she was detained in a 30-square-foot
room with no windows, for solitary confinement. It was reported that the 610 Office officials plotted to sentence her again. September 8, 2008 Posting date: 9/21/2008 |