Ms. Zhou Huimin was arrested in Chengdu in September 2007. On February 1, 2008, she was taken to the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Sichuan Province. Ms. Zhou Huimin has been on hunger strike to protest her arrest and the persecution of Falun Gong. She was taken to Qingyang District Hospital on February 5, and is now in a coma.

Ms. Zhou Huimin Tortured To Brink of Death

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhou Huimin from Sichuan Province was arrested in Chengdu on the evening of September 26, 2007. On February 1, 2008, Chenghua District Police Branch took her to the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Sichuan Province.

Ms. Zhou Huimin has been on hunger strike to protest her arrest and the persecution of Falun Gong. She was taken to Qingyang District Hospital on Wanhe Road, Chengdu City on February 5, and she is reportedly now in a coma. She cannot speak and her life is in danger. Local CCP authorities told her family to prepare for her death.

Ms. Zhou Huimin has been arrested six times. She was imprisoned at the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Sichuan Province on three of those occasions. During the 856 days of her illegal imprisonment, she was subjected to many kinds of torture. On September 7-19, 2002, she was tortured at Qingyang District Hospital. For 12 hours every day, she was hung on a bed frame by foot shackles and two handcuffs, one from her calf and one from her hand. Armed police and wardens from the detention center took shifts monitoring her.

The Qingyang District Hospital in Chengdu City, in cooperation with the 610 Office, the police department, and the detention center, have tortured many Falun Gong practitioners to death since 1999, when the persecution of Falun Gong began. The number of confirmed deaths here has reached eight. The claimed cause of the deaths is "organ failure due to hunger strike."