Jiang Pai

Chinese Name: 姜湃
Gender: Female
Age: 30
City: Daqing City
Province: Heilongjiang
Occupation:
Date of Death: 2007-06-28
Date of Most Recent Arrest: 2007-04-26
Most recent place of detention: Daqing Detention Center
Case Description:

Ms. Jiang Pai died at the age of 30 within two months of detention. She died with 5-kilogram shackles still on her ankles.

Ms. Jiang Pai, 30, single, was a staff member of the Daqing City Main Petroleum Industry. She died on June 28, 2007 at the age of 30 as a result of torture during detention by the agents from Daqing City Police Department, the National Security Department and Procuratorate.

Ms. Jiang Pai was forced to leave her job at age 23 in October 2000 because she refused to quit practicing Falun Gong. The police persecuted her without letting up. They have illegally arrested her several times, in August 2003, in August 2006 and in April 2007, and harassed her family many times. She refused to be a spy and to utilize her special computer expertise to work for the Secret Service Bureau. At Daqing Detention Center. She again went on a protest hunger strike and was force-fed. Ms. Jiang vomited, coughed blood and fainted during the brutal force-feeding. She lost a lot of weight and was too weak to walk. She was sent to the hospital and received emergency treatment for more than 10 days.

Her elderly parents went to visit her at night and saw her handcuffed and shackled to her bed. Her legs were covered with bruises and swollen. She was in a coma and was given oxygen. Jiang Pai passed away at about 1:00 a.m. on June 28, 2007. According to incomplete statistics, Ms. Jiang Pai was at least the 60th Falun Gong practitioner to die from persecution in Daqing City.