Brutally Tortured into Mental Instability, Ms. Tan Xiufen Jumped from a Building to Her Death
(Clearwisdom.net) Two months after Ms. Tan Xiufen was released from the
Tiandong County Detention Center, she jumped from the fifth floor of her
apartment building. She lived in Unit 3, Building 23 in the new district of the
Tiandong Petroleum Chemicals Corp., a branch of the Chinese Petroleum Corp. in
Guangxi Province. She died on the morning of March 27, 2006. The Chinese communist regime falsely claimed that Ms. Tan jumped from the
building because she went insane from practicing Falun Gong. Many people who did
not know the true situation became terrified after this horrific incident. They
were scared to talk about Falun Gong. Some of them verbally abused and refused
to listen the truth about the spiritual practice. It has been a great deterrent
when practitioners have tried to clear up the misconceptions and save sentient
beings in Tiandong County and the nearby areas for many years. Therefore, we
believed that it was necessary to conduct a thorough investigation to clarify
the facts of the incident. Below are the results of the preliminary
investigation. Ms. Tan Xiufen starts to practice Falun Gong Tan Xiufen was born on December 15, 1962, in Napo County, Guangxi Province.
She was a teacher employed by the company school affiliated with the Tiandong
Petroleum Chemicals Corp. in Guangxi Province. She was praised for her personal
integrity and won the "Model Employee" award in her company. She
started practicing Falun Gong in March 1999. As a result, she recovered
gradually from Hepatitis B and faucitis. She benefited physically and
psychologically. She often reiterated to her relatives, colleagues, and her
students that Falun Dafa was good. Illegally arrested and sent to prison On the morning of September 24, 2005, officials with the 610
Office and the police station of Tiandong County dispatched a squad of
police agents to illegally arrest Ms. Tan. They first found Bi
Xiurong, the middle school provost, and forced her to coax Ms. Tan to come out
of the classroom where she was teaching at the time. Peng Chengyu, female, from the Domestic Security Division of Tiandong County
Police Station; Lu Cailing, female, from the Department of Economical Crimes of
Tiandong County Police Station; Li Zaitang; Su Chengqing; Yang Bangshi; Li
Shujian; and Zhao Weiren immediately held her arms and forced her to get into
the police wagon as soon as she came out of the classroom. She was still holding
a piece of chalk. They drove her to her home and searched it without a search warrant. Having
strong righteous thoughts, Ms. Tan refused to open the door. It took almost an
hour for the police to open the door. They confiscated many Falun Gong books,
video and audio tapes, a computer, printer, and other items. The police did not
leave a list of the items they took. They did not leave any legal arrest
documents for Ms. Tan's family. That is a summary of Ms. Tan's arrest. Li Zaitang, the Director of Domestic Security Division of Tiandong County
Police Station, Su Chengqing, the Team Leader of Domestic Security Division, and
other police officers interrogated her. Initially, she kept silent to protest
her illegal detention. The police threatened her. They said they would arrest
her husband and her son. They had found a copy of Zhuan Falun
under her husband's pillow. The police did not believe that Ms. Tan could have
mastered a computer. They believed that her son had helped her with it. After
she had been detained for over three weeks, she began to tell how she had
benefited from the practice. She explained the facts about the persecution and
the worldwide spread of Falun Gong even as she was interrogated into a state of
extreme terror. She also admitted to distributing and posting Falun Gong truth
clarification materials. Deceived by the hypocritical police, she also
gave away the name of another practitioner who is still practicing. As a result,
the police illegally searched this practitioner's home and took a computer. In
order to get political credit, the police labeled the video and audio tapes of
Ms. Tan's speech as evidence. They also listed all the Falun Gong books taken
from Ms. Tan's home as evidence. In their reports submitted to their
supervisors, they claimed that they had obtained more than 1000 pieces of
evidence. Along with this so-called evidence, they included a piece of paper,
blank computer disks, and empty envelopes. In order to gain rewards from the 610
Office, they claimed that they had successfully solved a very important case and
publicized it. They reported to the Procuratorate Department of
Tiandong County for their approval on Ms. Tan's formal arrest. Tan Xiufen was held in the Tiandong County Detention Center. She suffered
many kinds of arduous mental torments, insults and criticism, and threats and
brainwashing. The guards took advantage of her love for her family. They
threatened her husband and her son to pressure her to give up her belief in
Falun Gong. Unable to endure these tortures, she wrote a "Guarantee
Statement" to give up her practice. Her behavior became psychotic as she often took her clothes off and mumbled
nonsense. After she lost control of her bowels and bladder, she couldn't take
care of herself. Her family begged for her release. However, the security
personnel from the police station refused to release her due to "political
concerns." They didn't approve her medical bail until Ms. Tan was extremely
weak and almost on the edge of death. Persecution-induced mental instability caused her to commit suicide Ms. Tan became skin and bones after she returned home. Her eyes appeared
lifeless. Her mind was not clear all the time. She couldn't take care of herself
or eat independently. She needed two people to take care of her. She often
mumbled to herself such as "I feel so ashamed to see people, my family
members and I all committed sins. I wasn't beaten up at the detention center, I
got injections..." She often seemed to be in a state of abject terror, On the morning of March 27, 2006, she jumped from a building. She was taken
immediately to the Emergency Room of Tiandong County People's Hospital. Even
during that critical time, Tiandong Police Station officials sent over Li
Zaitang and some plainclothes agents. After they arrived at the hospital, they
interrogated Ms. Tan's husband and his companions and wrote out the
interrogation reports. Her husband was so petrified that he couldn't help
sobbing. The crowd gathered nearby were startled and bewildered by what was
going on. They commented that, even when Ms. Tan was on the verge of death,
instead of trying to revive and save her, the police were still interrogating
her family! Others also commented that they knew Ms. Tan had been practicing Falun Gong
for seven years and that she had been healthy and rigorous in teaching her
students. However, after she was detained by the police for six months, she
became very weak, and soon after she was released, she jumped from a building.
What happened to her during her detention? She had become all skin and bones and
her mind wasn't clear. Why didn't the police just let her go? Her family should
sue the unlawful police. More and more people went to the hospital to visit Ms. Tan. Many of them were
indignant and condemned the police. The police were intimidated by the justified
criticism and finally left. Tan Xiufen passed away the following morning. They couldn't revive her in the
hospital. The news of her death was immediately made public and reported on the
Clearwisdom website. Many righteous people worldwide made phone calls to the 610
Office and the police station of Tiandong County. The calls were to clarify the
facts about Falun Gong and about Ms. Tan's case. The CCP agents were not
remorseful about the crimes they had committed in persecuting Tan Xiufen to
death. Instead, they investigated the people responsible for reporting the case
to the unbiased media outside mainland China. On May 28, 2007, several officers from the Tiandong County Police Station,
including Su Chengqing, Li Zaitang, Li Shujian, Yang Bangshi, Peng Chengyu, Lu
Cailing, and Zhao Wei, broke into the home of practitioner Mr. Huang Dongying.
They took a personal computer, an instrument, and software to copy videotapes. From the investigation we can conclude that Ms. Tan Xiufen became mentally
disordered due to the brutal persecution implemented by the police. Later, she
jumped from a building and died. Due to the Internet and media blockade and the
limitation of the free flow of information, there has been a lack of detailed
information on how Ms. Tan was illegally interrogated and detained. Below are
some details collected from different informed sources. 1. Ms. Tan had been forced to stay awake for several days and nights. She was
injected with toxic drugs, which caused her to become mentally disordered. She
violently hit her head against the wall in the detention center and later lost
the ability to take care of herself. Then the Tiandong County Police Station
sent Peng Chengyu and Lu Cailing to monitor her. Certain reliable sources said
that she had been on a hunger strike, while others said that the guard at the
detention center had deprived her of her meals. 2. The officers at Tiandong County Police Station were corrupt. In October
2007, more than a dozen from the Department of Drugs were arrested. According to
orders from the Supreme Department, "the law will be reinforced and
implemented at Tiandong Police Station." There were incidents in the
detention center where the police tortured prisoners to death during
interrogations. These prisoners were not Falun Gong practitioners. Their
families sued the police. We urge the World Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (WOIPFG)
to investigate the torture of Ms. Tan Xiufen in prison. Police Department at Tiandong County, Guangxi Province: Xu Chenggang, Tan Yonglu, Huang Jian, Su Jianzhong, Huang Longchan, Deng
Zanchao, Zhao Chaozheng, Xin Huaxiong: 86-776-5222506, 86-776-5222327,
86-776-5237360. National Security Team at Tiandong County: Su Chengqing, Li Zaitang, Peng
chengyun, Lu Cailing, Li Shujian Detention Center at Tiandong County: Huang Zhongxiao, Su Xiutao, Su Wei Related articles: September 02, 2008
Employer of Tan Xiufen's husband, Liang Peishan
Party and Public Relations Department at Tiandong Petroleum Chemicals Corp.,
Guangxi Province
Ms. Tan Xiufen Died from Jumping off a Building After Being Tortured to Mental
Instability
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