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Name: Hu KelingChinese Name: 胡克玲Gender: FemaleAge: 60City: LaixiProvince: ShandongOccupation: teacherDate of Death: November 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 13, 2006Most Recent Place of Detention: Dashan Detention Center
Ms. Hu Keling filed a complaint in 2015 against former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin for launching the persecution of Falun Gong that resulted in her arrests and abuse. The Laixi City, Shandong Province, resident was subjected to close surveillance by the police afterward and had to move from one place to another. The unstable life plus the mental pressure took a toll on her health, which started to decline in 2018. She never recovered and died in November 2024. She was 60.
Ms. Hu contracted tuberculosis when she was three years old and suffered from breathing difficulty all year round. She developed insomnia while a middle-schooler. More illnesses followed as she entered adulthood, including serious heart disease, abnormal curvature of the cervical spine, and heel pain. Nothing helped until she took up Falun Gong in October 1998. All her symptoms disappeared in just two weeks, and she could finally breathe well and sleep soundly at night.
After the persecution began in 1999, Ms. Hu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on February 14, 2000, and was arrested. Her husband, then a bureau-level government official, feared being implicated. He kicked and punched her after she returned home.
Ms. Hu made another trip to Beijing on September 27, 2000, and was arrested again. The Beijing police shocked her on the neck, cheeks, and the back of her hands with electric batons. She had permanent burn marks on her neck.
Ms. Hu was arrested on December 28, 2001, and her husband divorced her the next day. She was taken to the Laixi Detention Center and held there for an unknown amount of time. After she was released, she had no home to return to and lived in destitution for the next nine months.
While boarding a train to Jinan, the capital city of Shandong Province, on September 24, 2002, Ms. Hu was arrested at the train station and taken to the Chengguan Police Station. Three days later, the police tried to get her admitted to the Wangcun Labor Camp but failed. They then tried a brainwashing center and the guards there also refused to take her.
The police then worked with her employer, the Laixi City Experimental Middle School, and took her to the Laixi Second Hospital’s psychiatric department. She was tied up to a bed and given an injection right away. She became drowsy afterward and slept the whole night. Starting the next day, she was forced to take unknown drugs or receive injections every day. She was not released until January 29, 2003. Her school ordered her to cover all the medical expenses during the four-month hospital stay.
Ms. Hu once detailed her ordeal in the first related report below. She said that she entered the hospital healthy but left nearly psychotic from the drugs. By the time she was released, her limbs were stiff, her vision was blurred, and she felt numb and emotionless. Her face was pale and thin, her eyes lifeless, and her whole body trembled. She didn’t have any menstrual periods at the hospital. Even six months after her release, her feet were still so swollen that she couldn’t wear shoes. The knuckles on all her fingers were still enlarged and deformed.
Ms. Hu Keling’s deformed knuckles.
Ms. Hu talked to a student about Falun Gong in October 2005 and was reported by the student’s parents. She was then detained. Many other students and their parents sought her release and she was let out eight days later.
The police arrested her at work on January 21, 2006. The Dashan Detention Center refused to accept her after she was found to have dangerously high blood pressure. The police then released her.
Not long after the spring semester began in 2006, Ms. Hu’s school demoted her to work at the library per instructions from the Laixi City Education Bureau. The Laixi City 610 Office issued an order to suspend her pay and only give her a 380-yuan monthly stipend. The school accountant, however, even withheld the stipend.
More than ten officers arrested Ms. Hu at school again on July 13, 2006, and held her at the Dashan Detention Center. Eleven days later she was put under house arrest and taken back to her home, a school-issued apartment unit on school grounds. About eight people guarded her home day and night and their meal costs were all deducted from her pay, which had been reinstated at the time. The school even broke her windows and installed two metal bars to prevent her from escaping. She managed to scale a wall and escape on July 26, 2006.
The education bureau formally terminated Ms. Hu in early 2007. Before that, they denied her promotion on many occasions even though they acknowledged she was an outstanding teacher. She lived in destitution in her final years.
Related Reports:
Outstanding Schoolteachers Persecuted in China
Crimes of Wang Shouhua, Former 610 Office Director of Laixi City, in Persecuting Falun Gong
Prominent Teacher Persecuted in Mental Health Center (Photo)
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