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Name: Liang ZhiqinChinese Name: 梁志芹Gender: FemaleAge: 70sCity: TangshanProvince: HebeiOccupation: Retiree from the Tangshan City Iron and Steel CompanyDate of Death: December 19, 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: Autumn 2000Most Recent Place of Detention: Kaiping Forced Labor Camp
For upholding her faith in Falun Gong, Ms. Liang Zhiqin was arrested in September 1999 and given two toxic shots at a police-owned psychiatric hospital even though she had no mental illness. She was subsequently given two years of forced labor and endured electric shocks and other forms of torture there. After she was finally released in September 2001, she spent the next two decades suffering from complications from the toxic shots and electric shocks. She eventually passed away on December 19, 2024. She was around 75.
Ms. Liang Zhiqin
Ms. Liang was a retiree from the union at Tangshan City Iron and Steel Company in Hebei Province. She had many illnesses before she started to practice Falun Gong. Within six months, all of her chronic illnesses disappeared, and she became energetic again.
When the persecution began in 1999, Ms. Liang went to Beijing’s Appeals Office several times to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. She also wrote letters to different ministries telling them about the great benefits of Falun Gong. She was arrested on September 21, 1999, when she went to Zhongnanhai, the central government compound, to deliver an appeal letter. She was sent to the Tangshan City First Detention Center on September 22, 1999. Because she refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong, she was admitted to the Tangshan City Ankang Hospital in fall 2000.
While held at the hospital, Ms. Liang was tied to a death bed and twice injected with an unknown toxic drug.
The first injection immediately knocked Ms. Liang unconscious. The drug gave her acute cardiac problems, and the intense chest pain woke her up in the middle of the night.
Ms. Liang recalled, “I woke up at midnight with sharp pain in my chest. I was disturbed by my own groans. Two criminal inmates pinned me down, and tied my hands and feet to the bed frame. Words cannot describe the pain I felt. My chest was very tight and was about to burst. I struggled desperately and felt that the sky was going to collapse. I was on the verge of death. I was in so much pain that even my eyes could not move. My tongue became stiff, and my mind was unclear.”
Within a month of the injection, Ms. Liang suffered three episodes of sudden loss of consciousness. Each time, her eyes and mouth were wide open, and she had urinary incontinence.
The injections also gave Ms. Liang discomfort in her back. Her hands and feet felt cold, and her circulation was abnormal. She was in a great deal of pain. These symptoms persisted for half a year. She could not fall asleep at night. Extra layers of clothing and blankets did not alleviate her pain at all. She endured such agony for a very long time.
Many other Falun Gong practitioners subjected to the same toxic injection also developed chronic problems including heart problems, anxiety, stiffness of the tongue, wobbling gait, poor balance, and nerve lesions. The poison also harmed practitioners’ brain activity and function. Some of them developed eye problems, memory loss, and serious psychological disorders. It is hard to describe the mental agony experienced by those injected with the drug.
In late 2000, Ms. Liang was given two years of forced labor and admitted to the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp. Guard Wang Jianzhong slandered Falun Gong and ordered her to kneel down for him. When she refused, another guard Wang Xueli and five others pinned her to the ground and shocked her with three electric batons.
Wang Xueli shocked Ms. Liang on the back of her head and neck. She had big blisters and bumps on her head as a result, and her reaction was much slower. For several days thereafter, female guards were sent in to observe the damage to her central nervous system.
Ms. Liang was released in September 2001. The toxic injections and electric shocks to her head and neck caused severe, long-lasting injuries that impeded her daily life. Her memory and mental capacity declined significantly and she could no longer handle her family business.
Other than her most severe persecution experience, Ms. Liang could not describe the other persecution she had suffered. Since 2003, she had pain radiating from several organs, including the heart, liver, spleen, stomach, and intestines. She felt sharp piercing pain in her back and kidney area. Sometimes she could not sit or lie down in a day. She had difficulty breathing. She was often disoriented and had blurred vision. She vomited often and sometimes could not even keep water down. Her weight dropped from 65 kg (143 lbs) to 30 kg (66 lbs). She often fainted and her family had to hire a domestic worker to care for her.
Ms. Liang lived in agony for the next two decades and passed away in pain on December 19, 2024.
The Ankang Hospitals
Ankang Hospitals across China are psychiatric hospitals mostly overseen by their local police departments. They are used to detain people who have caused harm to individuals or society but not held criminally liable due to their mental illnesses. In the persecution of Falun Gong, these hospitals have often been used to hold mentally healthy practitioners and subject them to involuntary administration of psychiatric drugs, which can result in long-lasting damage to the practitioners.
Most of the practitioners recounted later that the injections were painful, producing severe symptoms that persisted for a long time after the injection. Symptoms included heart discomfort, stiff tongue, severely altered gait, nervousness, abnormal thoughts, dull eyes, and memory loss.
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Ms. Liang Zhiqin Devastated by Toxic Injections and Electric Baton Shocks (Photos)
Ankang Psychiatric Hospitals Facilitate Torture of Falun Gong Practitioners
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