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Name: Jiang JingChinese Name: 江静Gender: FemaleAge: 56City: QingdaoProvince: ShandongOccupation: N/ADate of Death: June 18, 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 20, 2003Most Recent Place of Detention: Shandong Province Second Women’s Labor Camp
A 56-year-old woman in Chengyang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, died on June 18, 2024, after suffering years of persecution for her faith in Falun Gong.
Ms. Jiang Jing contracted polio when she was one year old, and her parents spent a fortune seeking a cure for her, but to no avail. After she grew up, she tried various Qigong practices, but her leg disability never got better. A friend then suggested she give Falun Gong a try. She did and was able to walk a lot better than before.
After the Chinese Communist Party launched a nationwide campaign against Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Jiang held firm to her faith and was repeatedly targeted. She was last arrested on July 20, 2003, and given an unknown forced labor term. She was abused to the point of falling in critical condition and released on parole on October 14 that year. The local authorities still harassed her from time to time, and she later went into hiding. After she returned home, she again faced frequent harassment for her faith, with the last episode taking place on October 14, 2022.
The relentless persecution eventually claimed the disabled woman’s life on June 18, 2024.
Tortured at Xinyuan Hotel (March – November 2000)
Ms. Jiang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in March 2000 and was arrested. She was taken back to Qingdao City and held at Xinyuan Hotel located in the Chengyang District. This hotel was a black jail used by the Chengyang District Government to persecute local Falun Gong practitioners.
The hotel basement where Ms. Jiang was held was dark and damp, with no bed. She went on hunger strikes three times for a total of 20 days and no one cared about her well-being. The police removed her jacket and forced her to squat on the cold cement floor. As soon as she sat down, they yelled at her. The meals offered to her were a steamed bun with a pickle. She was not allowed to brush her teeth or clean herself. She had to relieve herself in the basement.
Ms. Jiang’s family had to seek approval before being allowed to visit her. When they condemned the then secretary Wang Jian of Chengyang District Political and Legal Affairs Committee for violating Ms. Jiang’s human rights, he replied, “If she dies here, it’d be counted as suicide and we’ll just dig a hole to bury her without bearing any responsibility!”
Ms. Jiang managed to escape from the hotel in August 2000, only to be arrested at her grandmother’s home two months later. Her 81-year-old grandmother knelt down to plead with the police not to arrest her granddaughter, but four officers still carried Ms. Jiang to their cruiser. After holding her at a police station overnight, they took her to the same Xinyuan Hotel and kept her in the basement.
Secretary Xin Luoming of Chengyang District Political and Legal Affairs Committee, who took office in October 2000, sent Ms. Jiang to a psychiatric hospital in November that year because she refused to write statements to renounce her faith. He did not have her or her family’s consent. He deceived her loved ones that she was there to improve her mental health and would not be given injections or pills.
Injected with Banned Drug in Psychiatric Hospital (November – December 2000)
The psychiatric hospital president, along with director Ding and medical workers, followed the instructions of the Chengyang District Government to forcibly inject Ms. Jiang with a banned drug (which, according to insiders, was only used in animal trials and is lethal to rabbits at a high dose). They pressed her down and said, “How can we let you live an easy life if the government sent you in here?”
In just a few minutes after the injection, Ms. Jiang began to feel unwell. She became restless and paranoid; her heart was racing, her vision blurry, and her mouth dry. When she questioned what exactly the injection was, the medical workers claimed it was a tranquilizer to help her fall asleep.
In the following days, Ms. Jiang was unable to eat or drink, could not walk at all, and felt extremely weak, yet no one checked in on her. The hospital gave her a second injection of the same drug. One doctor threatened her during the injection, “If you still insist on practicing Falun Gong, we’ll give you electric shocks!”
Zhang Zhongkai, the director of the Chengyang District Comprehensive Management Office, went to the psychiatric hospital to urge Ms. Jiang to write a statement to renounce her faith. He promised to release her as soon as she complied.
Ms. Jiang did not waver in her faith and managed to escape from the hospital one month later (in December 2000). The hospital dispatched agents to her home to demand her return. The district government also harassed her family many times afterwards.
Tortured at Various Facilities (July - November 2001)
After another arrest in July 2001, Ms. Jiang was taken to the Qingdao City Detention Center (located in Pudong District in Jimo City). She went on a hunger strike for two weeks and was force-fed many times. Her heart and stomach were severely injured. She went into shock and had seizures multiple times. Her hair and clothes were also splattered with food, stomach fluid, and blood.
Police in Chengyang District picked Ms. Jiang up from the Qingdao City Detention Center and put her at the Chengyang Fourth Detention Center. They handcuffed her to a metal window frame and had four people (two government employees and two police officers) monitor her around the clock.
Ms. Jiang managed to escape, only to be arrested again in August 2001. In order to escape, she jumped out of a window on the fourth floor on August 26. She sustained severe injuries, including a fractured, dislocated, and inflamed pelvis. Despite her condition, the police dragged her inside and placed her on a bare bed. They also kept her handcuffed and shackled.
One person was sympathetic and asked if they should place a mattress on the bed. The aforementioned secretary Xin taunted her instead, “No mattress will actually make you feel cooler in the hot weather!” Director Zhang beat her savagely, causing her head to swell badly.
Ms. Jiang was not sent to the hospital until the night of September 14, 2001. A doctor questioned Xin about why they didn’t bring her there sooner. Xin said, “No worries. She’s not going to die.” A director surnamed Zhou added, “Even if she dies, we’ll bear no responsibility.”
Xin and Zhou bribed the doctor to forge Ms. Jiang’s medical records. They kept her handcuffed and shackled and force-fed her once every five days.
Ms. Jiang was later moved to the Qingdao City Detention Center. The guards there linked her handcuffs and shackles in a way such that she could not straighten her back and needed other detained Falun Gong practitioners’ help using the restroom. Those who helped her were reprimanded by the guards.
The guards forced seven inmates to hold Ms. Jiang’s limbs to force-feed her. They pried open her mouth, tearing her lips and breaking some of her teeth. Her hair and clothes were frequently stained with food and blood.
Ms. Jiang’s health deteriorated rapidly, and her life was in danger. Her body was covered in scabies. The detention center asked the Chengyang District Government to pick her up. Before that happened, she escaped from the detention center around November 2001.
Tortured to Critical Condition at Labor Camp (July - October 2003)
Ms. Jiang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on July 20, 2003, and was arrested on Tiananmen Square. The Chengyang District Government dispatched Liu Zhan to Beijing to pick her up. He took her to the Qingdao City’s Liaison Office in Beijing and began to torture her. He grabbed her hair and dragged her on the ground, all the while hitting her on the head repeatedly. A woman worker urged him to stop but to no avail.
Liu took Ms. Jiang back to the Zhengyang Road Police Station in Qingdao City. The next morning (July 23, 2003), she was driven to the Shandong Province Second Women’s Labor Camp (also known as the Wangcun Labor Camp) to serve an unknown term. The required physical exam indicated that she had problems with her heart, stomach, intestines, and kidneys. The labor camp declined to admit her, but soon relented after the Chengyang District government bribed them. She was taken to a hospital for force-feeding before being carried inside the labor camp with her hands cuffed behind her back and the feeding tube still in her nose.
The next day, Ms. Jiang was put in solitary confinement. The guard said she was the very first person in the labor camp to be held there.
Three female doctors, surnamed Ma, Xue, and Lin, took turns force-feeding Ms. Jiang three times a day. They were assisted by collaborators, who tied Ms. Jiang up using belts and sat on her to prevent her from moving.
Additionally, the guards also drove Ms. Jiang to an outside hospital every three days to receive force-feeding. A male guard was usually there. Wang Xuedong, in particular, yanked Ms. Jiang’s hair hard during the hospital force-feeding. She often felt suffocated.
The female doctors kept the feeding tube in while Ms. Jiang was held in solitary confinement. Thick gastric fluid mixed with phlegm and blood often flowed all over her body. The doctors hang a plastic bag stuffed with dirty tissues around her neck to collect the fluid.
Every time Ms. Jiang heard footsteps, she shouted, “Falun Dafa is good!” Team lead Wang Huiying later taped her mouth.
When not being force-fed, Ms. Jiang was forced to sit on either side of the bed every day with her arms straight, handcuffed, and stretched out. The handcuffs cut deeply into her flesh.
About one month later, the guards restrained her in a bed in a spread-eagle position for another month. Every time she shouted “Falun Dafa is good!” they stuffed her mouth with a towel. Her mouth often bled as a result.
On October 9, 2003, vice team head Sun Hua finally opened Ms. Jiang’s handcuffs to give her a break. Her arms could no longer bend due to the long-term handcuffing, but she still managed to pull out the feeding tube.
Despite Ms. Jiang’s condition, she was still taken to the hospital for regular force-feeding. After one such session, she felt like dying. Her heartbeat became irregular and she experienced chest tightness and shortness of breath. Her breathing then became rapid, and she began to drift out of consciousness. The medical workers gave her oxygen. Guard Zhang Guirong kept lifting her bed cover to make her suffer even more.
The labor camp released Ms. Jiang on parole on October 13, 2003, and seven people, including a medical worker, drove her back home after midnight that day. They wanted to go inside but were stopped by her family.
The authorities kept harassing Ms. Jiang and her family. She had no other way but to go into hiding.
Endless Harassment Before Untimely Death
Two officers, including Guo Jian, from the Zhengyang Road Police Station, went to Ms. Jiang’s parents’ home in late June 2017 and questioned if she had visited them.
At around 8 p.m. on July 1, 2019, a village security guard led four police officers to knock on Ms. Jiang’s door, claiming to be checking in on tenants. One officer was surnamed Cheng. The next afternoon, another officer harassed Ms. Jiang’s mother and asked where her daughter worked.
On November 16, 2020, a manager surnamed Gao from Shun’an Thermal Power Plant in Chengyang District arranged for a pressure testing worker surnamed Shao (around 60 years old) to check for “leaks” at Ms. Jiang’s home. Around dusk that day, Shao led a young man to her home again. Without her knowledge, they replaced the power switch with a smart switch that had internet connections.
On December 7, 2020, Ms. Jiang went to Shun’an Thermal Power Company to protest against the unauthorized switch installation. A worker there said Gao would visit her that afternoon to explain what happened. Gao never showed up.
The switch turned out to be connected to the police network. Ms. Jiang saw one or two cars following her every night when she got off work. When she visited relatives of friends, a man and a woman followed her and video-recorded her too.
On the evening of November 30, 2020, Ms. Jiang’s mother visited her. She put a bag of clothes on the ground temporarily and saw a black sedan following her. A security guard then sped out from behind the car and snatched her clothes. She yelled for him to give it back to her, and he did.
In the spring of 2019, an antenna-like device was installed in the stairwell of Ms. Jiang’s apartment building, and her mobile phone was automatically connected to the network without her doing anything. She talked to the property management multiple times, only to be told it was for dust prevention. She eventually removed the antenna herself.
On August 20, 2022, the neighborhood committee worker called Ms. Jiang posing as a representative of the Disabled Persons’ Federation. He asked about her employment and housing situation. A few more harassment episodes in the same year followed.
On September 21, the committee called her to ask if she had found a job. On the evening of October 14, her neighbor, who worked at the committee, called to say he’d visit her. He soon showed up and said they needed to do a census and collect information on her family members and her electric bike’s license plate number. She said she already did the census last year, and the neighbor said they needed to redo it because the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party was approaching.
Ms. Jiang refused to comply and urged her neighbor not to participate in the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.
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