Ms. Guo Chuanshu had been detained six times: twice sentenced to forced labor camps, twice sentenced to prison, and became paralyzed as a result of torture. She died in prison on August 9, 2009.

The Inhuman Abuse Ms. Liu Dan Endured Over the Past Four Years

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Dan is a graduate from Jiamusi University. In October 2005, at the age of 29, she was taken into custody by police in Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province and was tortured around the clock for five days. Later she was sent to the Women's Forced Labor Camp of Heilongjiang Province, where she was tortured to near death. In January 2006, Ms. Liu was sentenced to four years in prison and was sent to the Heilongjiang Women's Prison. She is still in prison and suffering daily abuse and torture.

1. Brutally tortured for five days straight

On October 24, 2005, four police officers from the Domestic Security Team in Jixi City and Jikuan District Police Precinct, including Jiao Yang (female), Zhang Wei and Wang Weijun, broke into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Liu Sulan. Liu Dan had just returned to her hometown and was visiting Liu Sulan at the time of the break-in. She was taken away and tortured for five days and four nights at Jikuan District Police Precinct. Her life was in danger when she was later detained at the 2nd Detention Center and she was taken to the hospital twice for emergency treatment.

On the night that Liu Dan was arrested, the police tied both of her hands behind her back, tied her feet together, and suspended her from a metal gate. See Illustration 1. This position is excruciatingly painful. Later, guard Wang Weijun tried to force Liu Dan to give her fingerprints but she refused. Wang ordered Liu Dan to crawl under a chair and Ms. Liu refused again. Wang kicked Ms. Liu and knocked her to the floor, which caused her head to hit the floor hard. Then he tied her legs together and forced her head down to her legs. He put a chair on the top of her back and sat on the chair all morning. See Illustration 2.

Illustration 1

Illustration 2

On the afternoon of October 25, Guard Zhang Wei placed a photo of the founder of Falun Gong under Liu Dan's feet. She managed to hide the photo behind her back under her jacket. With the excuse of searching for the photo, Zhang Wei tore two buttons off Liu Dan's jacket. At night, guard Jiao Yang took the opportunity to humiliate Ms. Liu again. With many male guards looking on, she raised Liu Dan's clothes all the way above her chest. She viciously pinched the skin around Ms. Liu's stomach and demanded where the photo was. Guard Wang Weijun then kicked Liu Dan to the floor. He spread her legs apart, pressed Ms. Liu's face to the floor and viciously beat her. See Illustration 3.

Illustration 3

On the afternoon of October 26, guard Liu Jiaxue, who had studied Chinese martial arts, pinched Liu Dan on the acupressure points on her elbows, which made her heart beat so fast that she almost fainted. This torture is hard to bear even for a few seconds.

A colleague of Liu Jiaxue, approximately 20 years of age, beat Liu Dan with his leather belt on her palms and the back of her hands. After she was beaten down to the floor, he pulled her hair to force her up. He forced her head against the wall with her back bent at a 45-degree angle. See Illustration 4. By this time, Liu Dan was exhausted and very weak. She fell to the floor several times. He yanked her hair to force her up and beat her with his leather belt all over her body. She had bruises all over her body, her face and her hands. A lot of her hair had been pulled out.

Illustration 4

On the night of October 26, after two days of torture, Liu Dan was extremely weak but she was still not allowed to sleep. Her hands were cuffed behind her back to the heating pipe until 4:00 a.m. Guard Liu Wei came and fiercely hit her temples many times. He also kicked her body and her face.

2. Life in danger twice at the detention center

On October 28, 2005, Liu Dan was sent to the 2nd Detention Center of Jixi City. She had an extreme headache, was nauseated, had pains in her stomach, and her life was in danger. Two days later, she was sent to the emergency room in a hospital. A CT scan was conducted on her brain and an ultrasound was done on her stomach. Several days later, she was sent back to the detention center.

On November 11, Liu Dan was unable to eat anything and was in critical condition again. She was once again sent to hospital for emergency treatment.

3. Sentenced to forced labor

On November 24, 2005, while Liu Dan was still in the hospital, she was sentenced to three years of forced labor and was sent to the Women's Forced Labor Camp of Heilongjiang Province. Her physical condition did not qualify her to stay at the labor camp and she was rejected. The police from Jiquan District sent Liu Dan to the labor camp hospital for treatment first.

Guard Liang Xuemei was in charge of brainwashing Liu Dan at the labor camp. After Ms. Liu started a hunger strike to protest, she was brutally force-fed two or three times a day. Every day, four or five guards and two inmates dragged her off to conduct the force-feeding. Her front teeth had been pried out during the forced feedings, leaving several gaps and several of her other teeth were loose. She had cuts on her lips, her tongue and the inside of her mouth.

Liu Dan had stomach bleeding and a damaged esophagus as a result of the forced-feedings. Even in such a condition, she was still force-fed with a nasal tube. Once, a nurse named Liu Ying tried to insert a nasal tube to force-feed her. Ms. Liu vomited the food and gastric juices. The next day, another nurse Zhou tried to use the nasal tube again. Liu Dan refused to cooperate. The nasal tube went in through her nose and came out of her mouth five or six times. It was almost inserted into her windpipe. The tube was covered with blood, which dripped onto her clothes. However, they still refused to stop. Another nurse, Wang, tried to insert the tube into the other nostril that was not yet injured, which only resulted in drawing out a half syringe of blood from her stomach.

4. Sentenced for four years in prison

Because of Liu Dan's poor physical condition, she was sent back home from the labor camp. However, on January 12, 2006, while she was still very weak and unable to walk, the Jixi City police broke into her home, wrapped her with a blanket and carried her downstairs, and took her to Jikuan District Court. On January 13, Ms. Liu was sentenced to four years in prison. Because of her poor health, she was not immediately sent to prison, but was monitored 24 hours a day at home.

5. Suffering inhuman torture in Heilongjiang Women's Prison

In March 2006, Liu Dan was sent to the Women's Prison of Heilongjiang Province.

For 20 days, from November 29 to December 9, 2006, Liu Dan suffered inhuman torture. At that time, she was very weak and was held in Room 302 of the prison hospital. Inmates Zhao Li, Zhang Fangqing, Zhou Fengli and Xiu Shufen were involved in torturing Ms. Liu. Zhao Li and Zhou Fengli dragged her from the bed and forced her to sit up straight on the floor in one position without moving for a long time. Liu Dan refused to do so and called out loudly, "Falun Dafa is good!" Zhao Li and Zhou Fengli sealed her mouth with tape. They tied Liu Dan's hands behind her back in the "carrying a sword on the back" position, with one hand pulled from the top over her shoulder and the other one from the bottom. She was unable to handle this torture in her weakened physical condition and suffered a heart attack. She lost consciousness and became incontinent.

On the morning of December 2, Zhang Fangqing mentioned to Zhao Li that the prison director and the deputy director were in Room 303, which was just across the hallway. Liu Dan cried out loudly, hoping to get help. Zhang Fangqing, Zhao Li and Zhou Fengli were afraid that their crimes would be exposed, so they sealed Liu Dan's mouth and became more vicious in torturing her. They tied her hands behind her back and then hung her from the edge of the bunk bed, in a position in which she was unable to stand or squat. Zhang Fangqing pulled some hair from Liu Dan's head and twisted them into a string. She inserted it into Liu Dan's nose and her ears to torment her. Since then, every day, they would torture her - by dragging her from the bed, kick and beat her, step on her bare feet, twisting her hands and hanging her up. Once, Liu Dan vomited while being hung up. Zhao Li picked up the vomit with paper and smeared it on Liu Dan's face, neck and ears. Zhao Li even smeared the vomit on her socks and then stuffed them into her mouth.

Ms. Liu Dan has staged several hunger strikes to protest the unlawful imprisonment and torture over these past three years. She is very weak and often has chest pain and difficulty breathing.

Ms. Guo Chuanshu Died at the Chongqing Women's Prison 

Name: Guo Chuanshu (郭传书)
Gender: Female
Age: 62
Address: Chongqing, Jiangjin District, Baisha Township
Occupation: Retired worker of Baisha Tug & Barge Company
Date of Death: August 9^th, 2009

Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 24^th, 2008
Most recent place of detention: Chongqing Women's Prison (重庆女子监狱)
City: Chongqing
Abuse suffered: imprisonment, forced labor, sleep deprivation, beatings, slapping in the face, handcuffing and shackling, denial of personal hygiene and sanitary living conditions

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Guo Chuanshu, a retired worker from Chongqing City, was sent to the Chongqing Women's Prison at the end of November 2008. She died in prison on August 9, 2009. The sixty-two-year-old Ms. Guo had been detained six times: twice sentenced to forced labor camps, twice sentenced to prison. While she was detained at the Chongqing Women's Prison for the first time, Ms. Guo became paralyzed as a result of torture.

The prison claimed that Guo Chuanshu's physical condition was normal when she got up on August 9. At 12:15 p.m., she took some medicine. At 13:35 she started to vomit. At 13:42 she was sent to the prison hospital. At 14:30 doctors from the Ninth Hospital came to the prison hospital to perform emergency treatment. At 14:55 Ms. Guo died. Only 80 minutes elapsed from the time she first vomited until she died.

At 15:36 the prison notified Ms. Guo's family of her death. Her family members rushed to the prison but couldn't arrive until past 6:00 p.m.. They had a brief chance to see Ms. Guo's body before she was transferred to Baishiyi Funeral Home in Chongqing. Three guards from the prison, Officer Luo, Section Chief Zhang and Director Wong, met with the family members.

The prison contacted Ms. Guo's daughter who worked in Tibet and learned that her daughter was not able to come until August 13. The prison then notified Ms .Guo's family that her body had to be cremated on August 13.

On August 13, over ten family members went to the cremation ceremony. But the prison only allowed five of them to enter. The family refused their demand, and the prison had to extend the cremation date. On August 16, Guo Chuanshu's family members went to negotiate with the prison again. Ms. Guo's body was cremated on that day. The prison claimed that Guo Chuanshu suffered from cerebral infarction in 2006 and that she suffered from cerebral palsy and high blood pressure when she was sent to the Women's prison in November 2008.

Ms. Guo's family members have the following questions:

1. On August 9 when Ms. Guo's family members saw her body, they noticed that the skin on the right of her neck was an abnormal, greenish color. The color of the skin on her back was greenish as well. Why was it like that? The prison explained that it was postmortem lividity.

2. Why did the prison not notify them when Ms Guo was vomiting from 13:35 to 14:55? The prison admitted that was a mistake.

3. The prison claimed that Ms. Guo suffered from serious illnesses. Why didn't the prison refuse to take her if her health wasn't up to par? The prison said that they had to take her due to orders from above.

4. The family asked the prison from which illnesses Ms. Guo died. The prison said that it was a sudden death. When Ms Guo's family members asked the prison if they forced her to do heavy labor or tortured her physically and mentally with extreme means, the prison denied it stoutly. Ms. Guo's daughter had gone to the prison to see her mother on April 29, 2009. She saw that her mother was relatively well at the time. How come she died so suddenly?

Guo Chuanshu lived in Baisha Town, Jiangjin District, Chongqing City. She was a retired worker from Baisha Tug & Barge company. She practiced Falun Gong. In 1999 she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. She was detained and was sentenced to a forced labor camp in the summer of 2000. Ms. Guo was released on bail for medical treatment in September 2001. She was arrested again in March 2002 and was detained for fifteen days. In May 2002 Jiangjin Court sentenced Guo Chuanshu to three years in prison. During her detention at Jiangjin District Detention Center, the guards tortured this older woman by forcing her to stay in a half-squatting position for long periods of time, and handcuffing her arms behind her back. Director of the prison Feng Haoliang made her wear heavy shackles. In the hot summer, sometimes more than ten days would pass before she was allowed to shower. She was deprived of sleep. The guards often struck her in the face.

Ms. Guo was detained at the Chongqing Women's Prison and became paralyzed as a result of torture. In the summer of 2004 she was released on bail for medical treatment.

Guo Chuanshu was sent to the forced labor camp again in 2006. On New Year's Eve of 2007 she was able to go home on bail. On May 10, 2007, when Ms. Guo was telling people the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution at the police station in Baisha Town, the police arrested her and detained her.

On May 24, 2008, Ms. Guo went to Degan Town in Jiangjin District to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. The Domestic Security Team in Jiangjin District arrested her and detained her at Langshan Detention Center. Later she was sentenced to four years in prison. On November 14, 2008, Ms. Guo was transferred to the 6th Ward of the Chongqing Women's Prison. She died as a direct result of persecution around 1:00 p.m. on August 9, 2009.