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Name: Huang YufengChinese Name: 黄玉凤Gender: FemaleAge: 66City: WuhanProvince: HubeiOccupation: cashierDate of Death: Around September 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: October 8, 2017Most Recent Place of Detention: Hubei Province Women’s Prison
Ms. Huang Yufeng was not allowed to fetch water to drink herself while she served a two-year prison term for practicing Falun Gong. She had to drink the water that was given to her by the guard. She always had a bitter taste in her mouth afterwards and suspected that the water may have been spiked with unknown drugs.
Weeks before her scheduled release on October 7, 2019, for seven day Ms. Huang was given IV injections of suspicious drugs, which resulted in severe symptoms in her brain, heart, and kidneys. Her head also felt heavy, her arms felt sore, and her entire body felt weak. The injections stopped after three days because she strongly protested.
The Wuhan City, Hubei Province, resident never recovered from the damage from the involuntary drug administration and other forms of abuse she suffered in custody. She was 66 years old when she died around September 2024.
Ms. Huang, who had a leg disability due to childhood polio, was a cashier at the Sanshu Street Labor Service Company in Qiaokou District, before she retired. After she was released from the Hubei Province Women’s Prison in October 2019, she was ordered to return 19 months of pension benefits because she was told she was “ineligible for retirement benefits during imprisonment.” The 19 months covered October 2017 to April 2019, during which time her pension payments were still issued (her pension was stopped in May 2019).
Ms. Huang didn’t have any money and the social security bureau told her that they would continue suspending her pension for another 19 months. It was unclear whether they reinstated her pension in May 2021 as promised.
Held in Solitary Confinement for Nearly 3 Months
Ms. Huang was arrested on October 8, 2017, after a high school student reported her for giving him a firewall software to access uncensored news. She stood trial on August 24, 2018 and was later sentenced to two years in prison. See the related reports for details of her arrest and sentencing.
Ms. Huang was admitted to the Hubei Province Women’s Prison (located in Wuhan) on September 12, 2018. Two weeks later, she was assigned to Division 4. She was not allowed to fetch water to drink. She was only allowed to drink the water that was given to her and she always had a bitter taste in her mouth afterwards.
Two inmates were assigned to monitor Ms. Huang around the clock. They appeared nice the first week but after that they started ordering her to transcribe prison rules and smear Falun Gong. She refused to comply and they yelled at her. She felt tremendous pressure and shouted “Falun Dafa is good!” They threatened to beat her until she bled.
One afternoon Ms. Huang went to the restroom and ran into a guard. He ordered her to recite “report words” (words inmates must say when they see the prison management). She refused and he put her in solitary confinement and threatened her with sleep deprivation.
During the nearly three months of solitary confinement, Ms. Huang was subjected to various forms of abuse.
It was very cold in the solitary confinement cell. Ms. Huang was only given a very thin jacket to wear. She shivered, her teeth chattered and her face was pale. The two inmates monitoring her called in a nurse. Her systolic blood pressure was measured at 198 mmHg (when a normal range is 120 or lower). The nurse rushed her to the in-house clinic, where her systolic blood pressure lowered to 180 mmHg. The prison doctor asked her to take medications. She refused and he called her names because of her leg disability.
A few days later the inmates ordered Ms. Huang to write statements to renounce and denounce Falun Gong. She refused and they yelled at her, which caused her blood pressure to rise again. They forced her to sit in a chair facing the wall and didn’t allow her to turn her head, look around, or talk to anyone. She had to sit until 11 p.m. By then, the bucket of hot water given to her for bathing was cold.
Forced to Stand for 16 Hours Each Day for 15 Days Straight
The two inmates later ordered Ms. Huang to transcribe books smearing Falun Gong. She refused and they forced her to stand from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. for 15 days straight. She staggered while walking after such long-term standing. When she reported the abuse to a guard, the guard didn’t do anything. She was still ordered to copy the book and forced to stand all day long.
During those 15 days, Ms. Huang felt her heart pounding and head throbbing every day. She later described the feeling to her family as “I felt like a small boat adrift at sea, not knowing when I would reach the shore.”
One day another inmate (not the two monitors) whispered to Ms. Huang when they were both in the restroom, “Don’t oppose the government.” Eager to stop the standing torture, she wrote the statements to renounce Falun Gong. A guard however ordered her to write more. She firmly refused and nullified her statements.
The guard then made her continue the standing torture. Occasionally he made her sit for 30 minutes to watch the news which sang the praises of the Chinese Communist Party. At night he ordered her to mop the lobby floor, a task extremely difficult for her as she struggled to bend her back after a long day of standing.
The floor mopping lasted ten days of the 15-day standing torture. During the standing episodes, the two inmates, who each had two layers of warm jackets, opened the window to freeze Ms. Huang, who was only given a thin jacket that had been worn by others for many years.
The two inmates didn’t even allow Ms. Huang to tuck her hands into her sleeves to keep warm. Her hands turned red from the cold. When she tried to walk around to generate heat, they stopped her. They also made a microphone out of a cardboard to read into her ears books that slander Falun Gong.
After standing for hours, Ms. Huang’s feet ached, the tendons in her arms felt torn, and her heart trembled.
During the 15 days of standing torture, three guards had “talks” with Ms. Huang and ordered her to turn in the statements she once wrote to renounce Falun Gong but nullified. She refused to comply and they instructed the inmate on night duty to wake her up once every hour. Her blood pressure kept going up. Four days later she submitted a new statement, unable to copy any more.
The guards said the statement was not good enough and Ms. Huang wrote another one. She was eventually let out of the solitary confinement cell about three months later.
Three-day IV Injections of Suspicious Drugs
Ms. Huang was given a physical exam in September 2019, weeks before her scheduled release date on October 7. A guard claimed that her X-ray results showed a spot in her lung. He took her to the prison doctor, who quarantined her for fear of infection.
Ms. Huang was next taken to an outside hospital for further examination. The doctors said she did not have any lung problems. She was taken back to the prison hospital and held in a regular ward. The prison nurses gave her a skin test and said she had no allergic reaction to “cephalosporin antibiotics.” She didn’t have any infections but the nurses proceeded to give her three bottles of IV injections of the “antibiotics.”
In less than 30 minutes after the injections, Ms. Huang felt like the suspicious drugs were hurting her brain as if they were trying to damage the nerves in her brain. She started crying and asked to see the head guard. One guard came and said the drugs were “prescribed by the outside hospital.” She believed her and no longer complained.
Ms. Huang was given three additional bottles of injections the next day. It was the same amount on the third day. As soon as it was done, Ms. Huang felt like she was dying. She had no strength to speak or walk. She was so weak that she couldn’t even lift her head.
The prison doctor said the IV injections were “scheduled” for seven days. Ms. Huang firmly refused to continue the “treatment.” The guards made her write a waiver to relieve them of responsibility. Other inmates in the prison hospital commented that she was totally fine when brought back from the outside hospital but turned into a different person after the “treatment.”
Ms. Huang was then put back in Division 4. She still felt weak as if her heart could not beat. Her head felt heavy and she struggled to fall asleep. Her kidneys also had issues and she had no strength to climb the stairs.
The symptoms persisted after Ms. Huang was released on October 7, 2017. She died around September 2024.
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