Guo Daoyou - 郭道友
Chinese name:
郭道友
Gender:
Male
Age:
60s
City:
Qinhuangdao
Province:
Hebei
Occupation:
Date of Death:
February 6, 2017
Date of Most Recent Arrest:
July 18, 2008
Most recent place of detention:
Jidong Prison
Case Description:
Ms. Wang Yonghua was diagnosed with leukemia in 1998 but made a full recovery after she took up Falun Gong later that year. Her heart disease and breast cancer were also cured. Her husband, Mr. Guo Daoyou, was so impressed that he also began practicing Falun Gong.NNThe couple held firm to their faith after the persecution began and were repeatedly targeted. Ms. Wang decided to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong but was intercepted at the Qinghuangdao City Bus Station. She was taken to a local police station and handcuffed to a basketball stand in the snow. The cold triggered a relapse of her heart disease. The police forced her husband to pay 3,000 yuan before releasing her.NNMore than two dozen agents broke into the couple’s home on July 18, 2008 and confiscated their valuables, including a desktop computer, printer, laptop computer, rice cooker, and their two children’s school supplies. The police took Mr. Guo, the sole breadwinner, to the Funing District Detention Center. Ms. Wang struggled to make ends meet and also went to various government agencies to seek her husband’s release.NNWhile returning from a community fair on March 19, 2009, Ms. Wang was stopped by officer Chen Yingli of the Funing District Police Department and ordered to go with him to answer some questions. Her then 14-year-old son, who was with her, returned home by himself. After taking Ms. Wang to the Funing District Detention Center, the police went to her daughter’s school and ordered her to sign her mother’s case documents. NNThe next morning, Chen returned with three more officers to ransack Ms. Wang’s home. They ordered her son to cooperate with them, but the boy refused. Chen called in four more officers. They pushed the boy into a corner and closely watched him while other officers searched the place. Upon finding that a room was locked, Chen ordered the boy to give him the key. But the boy was so terrified that he was unable to talk. Chen called in a locksmith to open the door. Ms. Wang’s Falun Gong books and her children’s laptops were confiscated from that room.NNWith both Mr. Guo and Ms. Wang in detention, the police often harassed their children at school and ordered them to sign statements to renounce Falun Gong on their parents’ behalf. They threatened the two children that they wouldn’t be allowed to graduate if they didn’t comply. As the couple’s daughter was about to take the college entrance exam and she was a top student in the school, the school leadership treated the police with several meals and urged them not to harass the siblings.NNDuring the summer vacation, the couple’s daughter went to the Funing District Domestic Security Division every day to demand her parents’ release, but to no avail. NNBoth Mr. Guo and Ms. Wang were later sentenced to 4 and 3.5 years, respectively, and taken to prison in September 2009. Ms. Wang was often hung up by her wrists at the Shijiazhuang Women’s Prison. NNWhile still detained at the Funing District Detention Center, Mr. Guo was often beaten by the inmates and had severe injuries to his legs. The guards at Jidong Prison continued to beat him after he was taken there. When he was released in August 2012, he was suffering from high blood pressure and sequelae from a stroke. He had unsteady steps and slurred speech. He shook uncontrollably when he saw police on the street. He said he was often beaten in prison, sleep deprived and not given enough to eat. He was unable to overcome his fear and his blood pressure remained very high. Succumbing to declining health, Mr. Guo passed away on February 6, 2017.N
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