Sun Chuilian - 孙垂莲
Chinese name:
孙垂莲
Gender:
Female
Age:
28
City:
Ningan City
Province:
Heilongjiang
Occupation:
Date of Death:
2003
Date of Most Recent Arrest:
Most recent place of detention:
Heilongjiang Women's Labor Camp
Case Description:
Ms. Sun Chuilian was twenty-eight years old, from Ningan City, Heilongjiang Province. She was sentenced to a labor camp in May or June of 2002. While in the labor camp, she suffered long-term torture. She was subjected to various forms of physical torture such as electric shocks and being tied to an iron chair. She was forced to squat from 5:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m., during which time she was only given two meals. The torture lasted for seven months. Afterwards, Ms. Sun carried on a two-month-long hunger strike to protest the abuse. During the hunger strike, she was subjected to the iron chair torture and she was severely injured as a result. Soon after she was released, Sun Chuilian passed away around the end of 2003 or early 2004.
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