Yang Zhilan - 杨志兰
Chinese name:
杨志兰
Gender:
Female
Age:
75
City:
Hengyang
Province:
Hunan
Occupation:
Retired accountant
Date of Death:
October 2023
Date of Most Recent Arrest:
June 21, 2021
Most recent place of detention:
Case Description:
After the persecution of Falun Gong started, Ms. Yang Zhilan of Hengyang City, Hunan Province, suffered multiple arrests. She was sentenced to 2.5 years on September 2, 2005, for raising awareness about the persecution and endured relentless torture in the Hunan Province Women’s Prison. The guards forced her to stand or sit still for long periods of time, twisted and handcuffed her arms behind her back for hours, and force-fed her unknown nerve-damaging drugs.NNThe local officials from the Shigu District Political and Legal Affairs Committee, Xihu First Village Residential Committee, and Shigu District Police Department ransacked Ms. Yang’s place on June 21, 2021. They confiscated 16,000 yuan in cash and her bank books.NNAfter that the police frequently harassed her and followed her when she went out. They were staked near her home to monitor other practitioners who came to visit her. They even harassed her daughter and ordered her to sign a statement to promise that her mother would not go out to distribute Falun Gong fliers or tell people about the persecution.NNSix officers from Qingshan Police Station in the Shigu District tried to take Ms. Yang to a hospital for an exam on January 19, 2022. She refused to open the door for them. They then cut off her water and electricity and waited outside of her home, intending to arrest her when she came out. It is unclear to how long this lasted.NNBecause of the non-stop harassment, Ms. Yang was unable to live a normal life. On October 6, 2023, a resident in Ms. Yang’s apartment building smelled something unpleasant coming from her apartment and knocked on her door several times, but no one ever answered. Her daughter was called to come to check on her. She discovered that her mother had passed away several days before. One of her neighbors said that he/she did not see light or hear sound from her apartment after October 6, 2023 and speculated the she had died around that time. She was 75.
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