62 Female Falun Gong Practitioners Passed Away Due to Torture in Liaoning Province Women’s Prisons

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Jan. 1, 2024 | By a Minghui correspondent in Liaoning Province, China

(Minghui.org) Female Falun Gong practitioners in Liaoning Province who refuse to renounce their faith are tortured in Liaoning Province Women’s Prison, also known as Dabei Women’s Prison, located in Shenyang City. Falun Gong teaches the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. It has been persecuted in China by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) since July 1999.

To force the practitioners to renounce their faith, the prison authorities used different ways to torture the practitioners to grind down their will. The torture methods, to name a few, include: pouring boiling or freezing water on them, injecting or force feeding them with unknown drugs and substances, shocking them with electric batons, inserting spicy pepper into their vaginas, hanging them up by their handcuffs, as well as forcing them to do long hours of intensive labor, starving them, forcing them to stand for long periods, tying them up in unnatural positions, and depriving them of sleep.

Most of the times the practitioners were not allowed to used the toilet, to wash up, or purchase daily necessities. They were often denied family visits as well.

By the end of 2023, we have confirmed the information on 62 practitioners, including 19 who were tortured while they were still in prison custody. Two practitioners died on the same day after they were admitted to the prison. Others passed away from the torture after they were released, including some passing away within days following their release. The prison guards often released the practitioners on medical parole once they realized that the practitioners were dying to avoid responsibility.

Because of the information blockade in China, some of the details on their suffering are missing and the actual number of the practitioners who died in the persecution is likely to be higher.

The 62 deceased practitioners are: Ms. Sun Hongyan, Ms. Liu Liyun, Ms. Sun Yuhua, Ms. Zou Qingyu, Ms. Li Hongzeng, Ms. Yu Fenghua, Ms. Li Guangzhen, Ms. Li Ling, Ms. Yu Li, Ms. Ni Shuqin, Ms. Shi Shengying, Ms. Wang Xiuxia, Ms. Liu Lihua, Ms. Jiang Xiuhua, Ms. Cong Peilian, Ms. Zhang Guizhi, Ms. Wang Shuxia, Ms. Wang Hongmei, Ms. Shi Yingchun, Ms. Zhang Fengzhen, Ms. Ding Zhenfang, Ms. Wang Chunxiang, Ms. Wang Jie, Ms. Wu Shuyan, Ms. Yang Chunling, Ms. Liu Luxiang, Ms. Wang Min, Ms. Xu Chunxia, Ms. Sun Jingmei, Ms. Geng Ren’e, Ms. Wang Yanqiu, Ms. Wu Yefeng, Ms. Leng Dongmei, Ms. Sun Min, Ms. Li Yanqiu, Ms. Liu Jinyu, Ms. Lan Lihua, Ms. Li Guirong, Ms. Li Guojun, Ms. Zhong Shujuan, Ms. Chen Yongchun, Ms. Zhu Yulan, Ms. Wang Sumei, Ms. Guo Hongyan, Ms. Hu Yanbo, Ms. Wu Naiying, Ms. Wu Xiufang, Ms. Ye Zhongqiu, Ms. Liu Yukun, Ms. Yong Fang, Ms. Zhang Yulan, Ms. Wang Guilan, Ms. Du Jingqin, Ms. Zhou Gaiqing, Ms. Liu Xinying, Ms. Guo Qing, Ms. Wang Xibin, Ms. Wang Xiangju, Ms. Wang Huimin, Ms. Li Fengmei, Ms. Jiang Yanling, and Ms. Yang Shuwen.

Once the practitioners entered the prison, the prison authorities arrange two inmates to monitor each practitioner around the clock. The guards train the inmates in torture methods designed to transform practitioners, and inmates are rewarded with reduced sentences if they succeed in getting practitioners to renounce their faith. Some practitioners’ terms were extended because they refuse to renounce Falun Gong.

Below is a quick overview of some death cases.

Ms. Li Ling was drugged, force fed, beaten, and eventually suffocated by a pillow inside the prison by the inmates instigated by the guards.

Ms. Wang Shuxia was beaten non-stop by six inmates instigated by the guards. She died the same day she was admitted to the prison.

Ms. Shi Yingchun was beaten by eight inmates for three hours and died the same day, shortly after she was admitted to a hospital.

Ms. Xu Chunxia died of intestinal obstruction five days after she was admitted to the prison. During the surgery the doctors saw that her intestines had smashed and that there was a foreign object inside. At the time she was still handcuffed and her feet shackled.

Ms. Sun Min was force fed with salt and unknown drugs after she went on a hunger strike. She developed severe cardiovascular problems and became severely underweight.

The doctors in a prison hospital injected Ms. Sun Hongyan with unknown drugs, and caused her to become paralyzed and her skin to be covered in ulcers. She died in excruciating pain.

The guards hung Ms. Yu Li up and beat her into a coma. To see if she was still alive, they poured boiling water on her, burning her chest and back.

The guards cut Ms. Liu Lihua’s esophagus open to force feed her. When she was on the verge of death, they released her to her family, and monitored her family until she died and her body was cremated.

Ms. Yang Chunling died after she was viciously beaten and drugged. Her right arm was fractured, and breasts were festered with lumps. She became mentally incoherent.

Several inmates took turns bashing Ms. Sun Jingmei with wooden stools until she collapsed on the floor. They broke her back and crippled her legs. She permanently lost part of her eyesight.

Deaths in Prison

A total of 19 practitioners were tortured to death while they were still in prison. One of them died in the year of 2002, three in 2003, one each in 2004 and 2005, three in 2008, two in 2011, two in 2014, one each in 2015, 2018 and 2019, two in 2020, and one in 2021.

Two died within the same day they were admitted to the prison, one in five days, one in 14 days, five within a year, and eight between one to five years. The timing of two practitioners’ deaths are unclear.

The practitioners were between 37 and 78 years old when they passed away. Two of them were in their 30s, three in their 40s, five in their 50s, four in their 60s and one in her 70s. Four practitioners’ ages were not known.

The following are a few cases of deaths in custody.

1) Ms. Li Ling Killed by Suffocation

Ms. Li Ling, a practitioner in Jinzhou City was drugged, force fed, beaten, and eventually suffocated by a pillow inside the prison by the inmates instigated by the guards. She died in 2004 at the age of 51.

Ms. Li was arrested at home around 8 p.m. on May 28, 2002. She was taken to the Jinzhou City First Detention Center, and sentenced to four years in Liaoning Province Women’s Prison.

Ms. Li Ling

Around 2 a.m. November 2004, a witness saw an inmate push Ms. Li Ling face down on a bed. She covered her head with a thick comforter, and pressed a pillow tightly on top of that. Ms. Li suffocated to death.

The prison arranged an inmate to inmate Ms. Li’s body out around 3:00 a.m. They told her family that she died from a heart attack.

Ms. Li served as director at the Guta District Labor Department in Jinzhou City. She was arrested and sentenced twice in 1999 and 2002 after the persecution began.

Ms. Li went with other practitioners to Tiananmen Square on October 26, 1999 and was arrested by the Beijing Police Department and sentenced to one and a half years in prison. Ms. Li later was transferred to the Liaoning Province Women’s Prison in April 2000.

During Ms. Li’s detention, the guards took turns talking to Ms. Li and trying to brainwash her with theories that distorted the meaning of the Falun Gong teachings. Ms. Li was confused and wrote a statement to give up practicing Falun Gong. Ms. Li later declared that all her statements were void.

The guards then treated Ms. Li more cruelly. They force-fed her with drugs to damage her central nervous system. She had an intense headache and lost consciousness. She hit her head on the heating radiator which bled from a gash on her head.

The guards held her in a solitary confinement and did not provide her with bedding. They stripped her naked and forced her to sit on the damp floor. Six inmates were assigned to take turns watching her. Ms. Li refused to write statements to renounce Falun Gong, and went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The guards pried open her mouth to force feed her. Her mouth bled and her teeth became loose.

Ms. Li was released on April 26, 2001. At the time she was a mere skeleton and covered with scabies.

2) Ms. Wang Shuxia Beaten to Death Same Day She Was Admitted to Prison

Ms. Wang Shuxia, of Diaobingshan City, was beaten non-stop by six inmates instigated by the guards. She died the same day she was admitted to the prison.

Ms. Wang Shuxia

Ms. Wang was arrested in November 2007 by the officers from Hongfang Police Station and the city police department. She was sentenced to three years on January 15, 2008 by the Diaobingshan City Court, and transferred to Liaoning Province Women’s Prison on June 3.

At the prison two guards handcuffed her on the back and attached the handcuffs to a bed frame. They instigated six inmates to beat her non-stop. She died before midnight on June 3. At 4 a.m. next morning her body was carried out. A prison guard called her family and said she had died from a stroke.

Her family saw her body on June 5, 2008. She was covered in wounds; there were cuts around her mouth, and bruises were all over her neck and chest.

The prison administration paid the family 190,000 yuan and all the funeral costs. Afterward two inmates who beat her received reduced sentences, and one of the guards who instigated the beating received a promotion.

3) 60-year-old Woman Beated to Death by Eight Inmates

Ms. Shi Yingchun, of Huludao City, was beaten by eight inmates for three hours and fell unconscious. She died the same day, shortly after she was taken to a hospital.

Ms. Shi was arrested on August 2, 2008 and transferred to the Huludao City Detention Center the next day. She was sentenced to seven years after a secret trial.

Ms. Shi Yingchun

Ms. Shi was taken to Liaoning Province Women’s Prison on October 22, 2008. Because she refused to renounce her faith, two guards in the 8th ward instigated a inmate to beat her into submission. The inmate and seven others beat Ms. Shi from 11 p.m. on March 17, 2010 to 2 a.m. the next day. By then Ms. Shi was unconscious and the inmates dragged her outside and poured water on her. Thirty minutes later they rushed her to the prison hospital, and then 739 Hospital in Shenyang City. She was pronounced dead shortly. She was 60.

4) Woman Dies After Five Days in Prison, Internal Organs Smashed

Ms. Xu Chunxia, of Shenyang City, suffered an intestinal obstruction three days after she was admitted to the prison. During the surgery the doctors saw that her intestines had smashed and that there was a foreign object inside. At the time she was still handcuffed and her feet shackled. She died on December 2, 2014, five days after she was transferred to Liaoning Women's Prison. She was 58.

Ms. Xu was arrested for distributing calendars bearing information about Falun Gong on December 8, 2013. She was detained at Shenyang City Detention Center. A judge at Hunnan District Court sentenced her to four years in prison six months later on May 16, 2014, and transferred her to Liaoning Women's Prison on November 26.

In just one day Ms. Xu was taken to 739 Hospital in critical condition. Two days later on November 29 the prison authorities told Ms. Xu’s family that she suffered an intestinal obstruction and had to have an operation. Her family signed the surgery paperwork.

After opening her abdomen the doctors saw that her intestines had smashed and stuck together, and that there was a hard lump inside. They felt that there was nothing to be done for her, and simply closed her back up. At the time she was still handcuffed and her feet shackled. She died on December 2, 2014.

5) Ms. Sun Min Dies Within Five Months After Transferred to Prison

Ms. Sun Min was force fed with salt and unknown drugs after she went on a hunger strike. She developed severe cardiovascular problems and became severely underweight. She passed away five months after she was admitted to Liaoning Province Women’s Prison.

The officers from Lishan District Police Department arrested Ms. Sun in Anshan City on June 28, 2016. They confiscated 60,000 yuan from her home and put her in Anshan City Women’s Detention Center. She was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined 5,000 yuan by the Lishan District Court on June 28, 2017.

Ms. Sun Min

At the detention center she was shackled and handcuffed to a metal ring on the ground and had to stay in a bent-over position all day, which was extremely painful. She went on a hunger strike to protest, and a guard mixed unknown drug, salt, urine and feces into a corn porridge and force fed her with the mixture. The guard instigate other inmates to beat her. Her weight dropped to around 80 lbs (35 kg).

She began to have chest pain on October 5, 2017 and her heart rate fell to 43 beats per minute. She was rushed to Anshan City Central Hospital, where she was diagnosed with low heart rate and low blood potassium.

She was transferred to Liaoning Province Women’s Prison on October 10 to continue the tortures. By the end of October two head guards from the 12th ward went to her home and talked to her father. They claimed that she was in a critical condition and had coronary heart disease, low heart rate, hypertension and pneumonia. They finally allowed her father to visit her.

Three months later Ms. Sun’s father and sister visited her on February 7, 2018 at Liaoning Province Women’s Prison. A person carried her out to the visit, as she could no longer walk. She seemed emaciated and could barely speak. There was pus coming out of her right ear, and she could not hear. Her eyesight also deteriorated.

A person from the prison called her father at 10:20 a.m. on March 8, 2018, and told him that she collapsed after breakfast and was being resuscitated in a hospital. When her family arrived at the General Hospital of Shenyang Prison Bureau 30 minutes later, she had passed away. She was 50 years old.

6) 78-year-old Retired Principal Dies from Vicious Beating

A 78-year-old woman died in Liaoning Province Women’s Prison in mid-January 2020, only weeks before the end of her five-year term for refusing to give up her faith in Falun Gong.

Ms. Li Guirong, a retired elementary school principal in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, was arrested on February 7, 2015, after being reported for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong.

She appeared in the Hunnan District Court on June 24, 2015, and was sentenced to five years.

The guards, in the attempt to forced her to renounce her faith, instigated other inmates to punch and kick her. They stomped on her hands with hard-soled shoes. As a result of the vicious beating, she was covered in bruises. The inmates grabbed her hair and dragged her around, unplugging large bundles of her hair.

The guards forced her to squat on the cement floor with bare feet around the clock for days. During which time she was not allowed to eat, sleep or go to the toilet. The position induced excruciating pain and she nearly paralyzed. She could only crawl on the ground after the torture. She passed away on January 13, 2020, at the age of 78.

Ms. Li’s latest arrest came only 15 months after she finished serving the seven-year prison term. The sentence took place after she was arrested for talking to people about Falun Gong on October 17, 2006. She was sentenced by the Heping District Court on May 14, 2007.

7) Ms. Li Yanqiu Dies After 14 Days in Prison

Ms. Li Yanqiu

Ms. Li Yanqiu, a retired worker from Lingxi Hotel in Jinzhou City, was arrested on December 14, 2018, for distributing calendars with information of Falun Gong. The police confiscated her computer, Falun Gong books, and other personal belongings. She was held in Jinzhou City Women’s Detention Center.

Her trial was held on the morning of January 21, 2019, in the detention center with a judge from Taihe District Court. At the time Ms. Li was very weak and couldn’t talk clearly because of the tortures she suffered in the detention center. She was sentenced to five years.

She was transferred to the Liaoning Province Women’s Prison on February 19, 2019. On March 4, 14 days later, she died as a result of torture at the age of 52.

Deaths After Release

A total of 43 practitioners passed away as a result of tortures or persecution in the prison after they were released on bail or their terms ended. Nine of the 43 practitioners died between the year of 2001 and 2009, 17 between 2010 and 2019, and 16 between 2020 and 2023. The timing of one practitioner’s death isn’t clear.

Six of the practitioners died within 10 days after their release, eight within a year, 16 between one and three years, and nine between three and sixteen years.

The practitioners were between 20 and 80 years old when they passed away; one of them was 28 years old, seven were in their 40s, twelve 50s, seventeen 60s, four 70s and the oldest being 80. One practitioner’s age was not known.

The following are brief summaries of a few selected cases of the practitioners who died after they were released. Most of them suffered severe physical trauma due to the tortures they sustained in the prison. Some continued to face frequent harassment from the authorities and financial persecution following their release, which eventually claimed their lives.

1) Paralyzed and Covered in Ulcers at Release, Dies 10 Days Later

The authorities in a prison hospital injected Ms. Sun Hongyan with unknown drugs. It caused her to become paralyzed and her skin covered in ulcers. She died in excruciating pain 10 days after her release.

Ms. Sun, of Liaozhong County, Shenyang City, was arrested in July 2000. She was held in Longshan Detention Center before being transferred to Dabei Prison Hospital in February 2001. In the hospital she was injected with unknown drugs in a solitary confinement in the basement.

Ms. Sun Hongyan

Her family visited her in the hospital a few times. At the time she could no longer sit up, and needed to be carried out to the visiting room by another person. She suffered incontinence. In two weeks she was paralyzed from waist down.

In only a month after she was admitted the prison authorities told Ms. Sun’s family to pick her up in March 2001. At the time she was barely alive and covered in ulcers. She died within two weeks after she got home.

2) Doused with Boiling Water and Beaten While Being Hung Up

Ms. Yu Li, a retiree from Bureau of Harbor Affairs in Dalian City, was arrested in 2001. She experienced gruesome torture in Liaoning Province Women’s Prison and passed away in September 2005.

Ms. Yu Li

In October 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. After she returned to Dalian, someone reported her to the Dalian Police Department, and she later found information online that the police were looking for her.

In May 2001, Ms. Yu went to see her sick mother in Dalian City, where the police arrested and took her to the Dalian Detention Center. Several months later, she was sentenced and admitted to the Liaoning Province Women’s Prison.

To force her to renounce Falun Gong, the guards beat her with steel rods covered with rubber, a torture that does not leave obvious wounds but can result in serious internal injuries.

The guards hung her by her handcuffs and brutally beat her into a coma with a steel rod. To see if she was still alive, they took her down and poured boiling water on her, seriously burning her chest and back.

She was released on medical parole in October 2003, as the guards saw the she was dying and did not want to shoulder the responsibility. After she got home, she spit up blood several times. At the end of September 2005, she spit up large amounts of blood and died three days later.

3) Goes Home Disoriented, Emaciated with Swollen Abdomen and Legs

After nearly four years of brutal torture at the Liaoning Province Women’s Prison, Ms. Wang Xiuxia in Shenyang City passed away on January 24, 2006 at age 41.

Ms. Wang Xiuxia

She was arrested on February 6, 2002 and her home ransacked. After being sentenced to four years in prison, she was transferred to Liaoning Province Women’s Prison. While detained, she was beaten, forced to sleep on cement floors, soaked with cold water, and forced to work overtime performing slave labor.

The prison released her to her family in October 2005, when she was emaciated, swollen in abdomen and legs, unable to walk and sit, all her front teeth fell off, and her chest covered in needle puncture holes. At Shenyang City No. 10 Hospital she was diagnosed with tuberculosis in both lungs, pleurisy, heart failure, and anemia. She died soon afterward.

4) Esophagus Cut Open, Dies Ten Days After Release

Ms. Liu Lihua in Zhuanghe City was arrested on July 27, 2001 and sentenced to seven years. She was transferred to Liaoning Province Women’s Prison. The guards cut her esophagus open to force feed her. When she was at the verge of death, the guards released her to her family, followed her home, and monitored her family until she died and her body was cremated.

Ms. Liu Lihua

Inside Liaoning Province Women’s Prison Ms. Liu had to do labor intensive work everyday. She often had to work until 1 a.m. to 4 a.m. the next day, or even overnight. She went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Guard Wang Jian put her in a solitary confinement and force fed her.

Her health quickly deteriorated, and the prison authorities informed her family on January 17, 2006 to pay for her medical parole. They did not allow her family to take her back to her home in Zhuanghe City. When her family saw her at the prison, her esophagus had already been cut open. Three guards followed and monitored her when she was being transferred to her son’s home in Dalian City.

Ten days later she passed away on January 27, 2006 at the age of 61. The guards did not leave until after she was cremated.

5) Beaten and Drugged Until Arm Fractured and Mentally Ill

A woman died when she was only 40 years old after she was viciously beaten and drugged. Her right arm was fractured, and breasts were festered with lumps. She was severely malnourished and mentally incoherent when she was released from the prison.

Ms. Yang Chunling in Dalian City and other Falun Gong practitioners tapped into the cable TV network of Liaoyang City on September 5, 2005, and played a 90-minute video that clarified the truth of the persecution. She was subsequently arrested in April 2006 and sentenced to seven years. The police fractured her arm during the arrest.

Ms. Yang Chunling and her husband Mr. Yang Benliang when they got married

In Liaoning Province Women’s Prison, a captain guard instigated the inmates to beat Ms. Yang. Four inmates beat her until she passed out. They beat and kicked her chest and pinched her breasts. She was so beat up that her legs could not move and her right arm fractured again. The bone protrusion due to the misalignment of the fractured ends was still visible when she was released.

She suffered from malnutrition, severe anemia (her platelet number dropped to a dangerous level), zinc deficiency and potassium deficiency. She ended up on a wheelchair and needed help to walk. Her breasts were infected with pus and blood oozing out because of the beating and pinching by the inmates. Before she finished her term, she was found to have three lumps in her right breast.

After she went home, she suffered mental disorder and often seem terrified. She would not eat or sleep for a week, and often ran outside in the middle of the night, claiming that someone tried to poison her, or harvest her organs.

Her health declined and she passed away on April 2, 2014 and she was only 40 years old.

Her husband, Mr. Yang Benliang, who was also a practitioner and arrested the same time she did, was sentenced to 11 years. Her mother-in-law, Ms. Cao Yuzhen, was arrested when she went to see Ms. Yang and her husband. She was held in Liaoyang Detention Center and sentenced to 9 years in prison.

6) Back and Legs Broken and Loses Eyesight During Torture

Ms. Sun Jingmei in Dalian City was arrested three times after the persecution started and imprisoned for seven years. Her health deteriorated after the unspeakable torture she suffered during the incarceration. She died on April 16, 2017 at the age of 61.

Ms. Sun Jingmei from Dalian City, Liaoning Province

Officers from Dalian City National Securities arrested Ms. Sun and her husband, Mr. Zhu Benfu, who was also a practitioner, on January 19, 2006. They were both sentenced to seven years in prison. At Liaoning Province Woman’s Prison, Ms. Sun was stripped naked and beaten. She was later placed in solitary confinement for 42 days.

At one point she was wasn’t allowed to sleep for 14 days. She was often beaten unconscious because she fell asleep during the torture. The guards forced her to stand or squat for long periods, and kicked her when she squat. Her legs became severely swollen. The guards instigated inmates to beat her; they broke her leg, and she couldn't walk for three months. One winter day, the inmates stripped and poured cold water on her. She went into shock as a result.

The warden led several inmates to take turns beating Ms. Sun in the summer of 2006. The inmates bashed her with wooden stools until she collapsed on the floor. They continued to beat her, claiming that she was faking. As a result, Ms. Sun’s back was broken, her legs were crippled, and she permanently lost part of her eyesight. In addition to the torture, Ms. Sun had to perform slave labor from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

She was released in January 2013. The permanent physical damage she sustained in prison and the constant mental pressure had taken a toll on Ms. Sun. She had problems eating and keeping food down. Her physical condition worsened each day until she eventually passed away.

7) Suffered Dozens of Tortures in Ten Years

By the time Ms. Wang Sumei was released on July 21, 2018 from serving a ten-year term for practicing Falun Gong, her hair had turned gray, four of her teeth had fallen out and seven had become loose, and her eyesight had become blurry.

Despite her condition, the police kept coming back to harass her and ordered her to write statements to renounce Falun Gong. After struggling with poor health for almost three years, the Shenyang City resident passed away on March 12, 2021, one day after her son took her back home. She was 59.

The tortures she suffered inside Liaoning Province Women’s Prison include: starvation, standing for long periods, beatings, being tied up in unnatural positions for long periods, sleep deprivation, freezing, force feeding, solitary confinement, being handcuffed and shackled at the same time, waterboarding, being stomped on the back, intensive labor for over 12 hours, not allowed to used a toilet, wash up, and purchase necessity, and no family visits. Her weight once dropped to 35-40kg (70-80 lbs).

8) Loses Unborn Child and Parents, English Teacher Dies in Agony

A former English teacher passed away on December 11, 2019, after suffering years of persecution for her faith in Falun Gong. She was 53 years old.

Ms. Li Fengmei

Ms. Li Fengmei taught English at a high school in Xiongyue Town, Yingkou City. She refused to renounce her faith and was thus fired from work. Following one arrest in July 2002, when she was two months pregnant, she was sent to a hospital for an abortion despite her strong resistance. She managed to escape from the hospital before the operation, only to have her unborn baby die in her womb due to the harsh living conditions during her displacement.

After her arrest in August 2003, she was detained in Bayuquan Detention Center and tortured to near-death. A doctor twice added nerve-damaging drugs to her food, resulting in her loss of memory and hair. She had difficulty breathing, could not walk, and became incontinent. She also lost various sensory functions, and did not know whether she was cold or warm, hungry or full.

Seeing that she had not lost all her memory, the doctor injected her with an unknown drug the night before she was scheduled to transfer to Liaoning Province Women’s Prison to serve a four-year term.

The prison authorities refused to take Ms. Li because of her poor health conditions. The guards at the detention center colluded with the prison authorities and put her in the prison in September 2004.

After Ms. Li returned home from prison in August 2007, her employer refused to hire her back and did not pay her any money. Ms. Li had to rely on help from relatives and make some money from tutoring.

After living years in tremendous agony from the persecution, Ms. Li passed away in late 2019.

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