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Name: Liang HuaiyuanChinese Name: 梁怀远Gender: FemaleAge: 79City: BengbuProvince: AnhuiOccupation: engineerDate of Death: November 25, 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 2016Most Recent Place of Detention: Anhui Province Women’s Prison
A retired engineer in Bengbu City, Anhui Province, died on November 25, 2024, a few years after she became incapacitated while serving time for practicing Falun Gong and was released in critical condition.
Ms. Liang Huaiyuan’s prison sentence stemmed from her last arrest in February 2016. She was given either five or six years (exact term unknown). The Anhui Province Women’s Prison did not allow her family to visit her until July 2019. By then she had become incapacitated. Only then did the prison release her on parole. She never recovered and died several later. She was 79. See the related reports for details of her persecution. Below is a quick summary of her ordeals.
Ms. Liang was first arrested on July 20, 2003, and taken to a prison hospital the next day. Hospital director Chen instructed several inmates to tie her up in a spread-eagle position on July 30 and injected her with unknown drugs. In just a few minutes, blood gushed out of her lower body and she lost consciousness. An attending physician surnamed Mao was sympathetic and used his own money to invite an expert from a civilian hospital to examine Ms. Liang. While she did come to and survive, she was unable to open her eyes or talk for two weeks straight. Even a month later, she was still extremely weak and was in excruciating pain all over. She also had blood in her urine all the time. Her limbs were swollen and turned black. She had uncontrollable spasms. The soles of her feet festered and oozed pus.
Despite her condition, the prison hospital kept her restrained in a bed with her four limbs cuffed. She was released 48 days later, but not before her family was forced to pay 5,000 yuan to cover her medical expenses. She could only walk very slowly.
Even before she recovered, Ms. Liang was taken back into custody around December 2003 and given three years of forced labor. She was released ahead of time and escaped an arrest on May 12, 2006, when the police came to raid her home. She was seized during a police sweep on March 5, 2008, and given a year and a half of forced labor. Because she fainted at one point due to high intracranial pressure and was issued a critical condition notice, the local detention center and labor camp both declined to admit her. She was sent home but threatened with arrest again. She went into hiding, and the 610 Office instructed her employer to suspend her pension starting in 2010.
Ms. Liang filed a criminal complaint against former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin in 2015 for ordering the persecution of Falun Gong. The police arrested her in February 2016, and a local court sentenced her to either five or six years (exact term unknown).
Ms. Liang was admitted to the Anhui Province Women’s Prison and placed in a division for the elderly and infirm because of her high blood pressure. She once recounted to an inmate what happened to her at the local detention center prior to her prison transfer. She did the Falun Gong exercises in the detention center and was stripped to her underwear before being hung up. Male guards surrounded her and taunted her. The humiliation she felt was beyond words.
The prison did not allow Ms. Liang’s family to see her until July 2019, when she was in the prison hospital for nasal feeding. Her daughter cried to see her so incapacitated, unable to talk or move except for her eyes. She could no longer swallow, and she was catheterized.
Ms. Liang’s daughter suspected that she might have been injected with toxic drugs in prison, just like what happened following her previous arrest in 2003. The prison, however, only offered nasal feeding and no other medical care. They eventually released her on parole on an unknown date due to her lawyer’s repeated requests.
Ms. Liang never recovered and died on November 25, 2024.
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