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Name: Huang MinChinese Name: 黄敏Gender: MaleAge: 77City: JiamusiProvince: HeilongjiangOccupation: Former college lecturerDate of Death: December 24, 2022Date of Most Recent Arrest: January 23, 2003Most Recent Place of Detention: Shandong Province Prison
Mr. Huang Min
Before he died on December 24, 2022, Mr. Huang Min thought he was still in prison and serving a 20-year term for exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong. The Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, resident was released on parole in critical condition in 2017, but faced endless harassment from the authorities in his final years. He was often dazed and his health deteriorated. He died five years later.
Mr. Huang, born in May 1944, took up Falun Gong in May 1995 and soon recovered from his numerous diseases. He was able to teach again as an instructor at the Electronic Engineering Department of Jiamusi University after an eight-year leave. He was repeatedly arrested after the persecution began in July 1999. He was given one year of forced labor in June 2000, when he went to Beijing for the third time to appeal for Falun Gong.
Mr. Huang was fired from his job and later lived away from home to avoid being arrested. While in Shandong Province, he worked with three other practitioners and intercepted TV signals to broadcast programs exposing the persecution. He was arrested on January 23, 2003 and sentenced to 20 years on August 15, 2003. He was admitted to the Shandong Province Prison on September 1, 2003. Due to abuse, he was issued critical condition notices three times in four months in 2017 and was eventually released on parole on August 21, 2017.
See the related reports for details of Mr. Huang’s benefits from practicing Falun Gong, his repeated incarcerations, and abuse in custody. The rest of this article details what transpired before and after he was paroled.
Three Critical Condition Notices in Four Months
The first critical condition notice was issued on March 26, 2017, when Mr. Huang had a stroke and fell into a coma. His family traveled about 1,000 miles from Heilongjiang Province to the Shandong Province Prison, but their parole request was denied.
The second critical notice was issued on May 26, 2017, after Mr. Huang suddenly lost consciousness and had seizures. His family again traveled a long distance to see him but their parole request was again denied. Prison guard Zheng Jie repeatedly told the family that they would not release Mr. Huang as long as he still had one breath left.
A third critical condition notice was issued on July 27, 2017. By that time Mr. Huang had been hospitalized for days but the prison refused to release him. He told his daughter that he worried that he might die in the hospital as he was only given a small cup of congee (rice porridge) to eat at every meal and no one gave him water when he was thirsty. Those assigned to watch him whipped his face with damp towels.
In the next few days, Mr. Huang’s daughter traveled between Heilongjiang and Shandong three times to process his parole application (as the prison required authorities in Heilongjiang Province to approve certain things).
On August 18, 2017, Mr. Huang’s wife arrived in Jinan, where the prison is located, but was not allowed to see him. At 1 p.m. that day, an ambulance took Mr. Huang to the police hospital (also known as Ankang Hospital). His daughter flew in at noon three days later. She immediately called her mother to meet her at the hospital. Her brother also rushed to Shandong.
Released on Parole and Medical Attention at Two Civil Hospitals in Shandong
To avoid having Mr. Huang die while he was in their custody, a section chief surnamed Li requested the warden release him. The prison finally granted his parole application on August 21, 2017.
Li suggested that the family take Mr. Huang to a civil hospital in Shandong Province first. They agreed and an ambulance took Mr. Huang to the Qilu Hospital. There were no beds available at the intensive care unit (ICU) and Mr. Huang was placed on a simple small bed in the corridor outside the ICU. The doctors gave him high-pressure oxygen, and used a pump to give him low blood pressure drugs. His body was so swollen that the prison guard couldn’t remove his prison uniform but had to use scissors to cut it open. He was also wearing a catheter.
Mr. Huang’s family condemned the prison warden for not releasing him earlier and delaying his care, especially when he had organ failure. A guard surnamed Zhang chimed in and said he was the lead of the team Mr. Huang was held in, and they videotaped him. The family ignored him.
In the corridor, the bed was too small to turn Mr. Huang over. There was no attending physician. His family decided to transfer him to the Qianfoshan Hospital.
Upon admission to the Qianfoshan Hospital, a liver and gallbladder expert surnamed Teng instructed the doctors and nurses to get a surgical kit. He then cut the superficial clavicular vein and made an infusion tube to give Mr. Huang medication, protein, and plasma.
Mr. Huang was given a comprehensive examination that day, August 21, 2017. He was admitted to the ICU the next day and had a thoracentesis with 500 ml of fluid and a large amount of pus was extracted.
Dr. Teng gathered Mr. Huang’s family on August 23, 2017 and said that he was previously asked to examine Mr. Huang at the police hospital. He warned the doctors there that Mr. Huang was in critical condition and even surgery might not help. Dr. Teng asked the family to be mentally prepared.
Dr. Teng performed a three-hour surgery on Mr. Huang in the afternoon of August 24, 2017. He told the family afterwards that Mr. Huang did not have any malignant tumors and he was hopeful about his recovery.
Dr. Teng showed three piles of things removed from Mr. Huang’s body, including the foreskin from his liver after an abscess ruptured, a stone that also contained pus, and three large stones each 1.5 cm in diameter taken from his bile duct.
After staying in the ICU for ten days, Mr. Huang’s condition stabilized and he was discharged.
Unfortunately, Mr. Huang soon developed a fungal infection in his lungs. His condition quickly worsened. Due to the repeated abuse in prison, he was weak and often dazed. Dr. Teng managed to control the infection, but Mr. Huang fell into a coma again. At one point his head kept shaking and didn’t stop.
After spending over 360,000 yuan of their own money, Mr. Huang’s family decided to take him back to their hometown in Heilongjiang Province.
Dr. Teng helped arrange an ambulance which cost the family 12,000 yuan, with a doctor surnamed Cao who graduated from Shandong University and two drivers. Mr. Huang had eight drainage tubes in him during the entire trip.
Continued Hospitalization in Heilongjiang
The group departed Jinan at 1 p.m. on September 4, 2017 and arrived in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang 20 hours later. They went straight to a local hospital.
After a period of treatment, Mr. Huang’s pneumonia symptoms improved, and he was admitted to the gastroenterology department to treat his liver disease. He was then transferred to the general surgery department, and the eight drainage tubes were removed. He was next transferred to a rehabilitation hospital and discharged from there on November 26, 2017. By then the family had exhausted their savings.
Harassment Before Passing
Before Mr. Huang’s condition improved, the Jiamusi police and judicial officials came knocking on the door. They said they were shocked that the Shandong Province Prison released him when he did not sign a statement to renounce Falun Gong. They accused him of being a ticking bomb for them as they needed to keep an eye on him because he practices Falun Gong. They harassed him and photographed him.
No friend or relative dared to visit Mr. Huang. His health kept worsening and he died on December 24, 2022. He was in a dazed state before he died, and thought he was still in prison.
Related Reports:
Mr. Huang Min, an Instructor at Jiamusi University, Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
20th Anniversary of the Self-Immolation Hoax: Heroes Expose the Truth via TV Interception
Shandong Province Prison Authorities Inject Detained Practitioners with Unknown Drugs
Torture of Practitioners in Jinan Prison Leaves Some Unable to Care for ThemselvesImprisoned Man Suffering from Stroke Denied Medical Parole
Shandong Province Jail Interferes with Family's Visits to Their 72-Year-Old Father
Former College Professor Serving 20-Year Illegal Prison Term and Being Tortured
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