The Facts of the Persecution of Falun Gong -- February 19, 2010

Issued by Clearwisdom Net

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  • Disabled Ms. Gao Qiying Dies in Custody
  • Ms. Gao Qiying dies in February, 2010 after receiving the involuntary injection of unknown drugs at Yangai Prison.


    Disabled Ms. Gao Qiying Dies in Custody

    Ms. Gao Qiying was only four feet tall, and she was born crippled. She had a large bump on her chest and also on her back, and had difficulty breathing when she walked. She and her younger brother Gao Guoyuan had been orphans since they were young. After practicing Falun Gong, she felt very energetic both physically and spiritually. She made a living by taking photos for tourists, and supported her two sons going to school.

    Ms. Gao Qiying

    The Olympic torch was scheduled to arrive in Zunyi City on June 14, 2008. The police wereclosely watching all Falun Gong practitioners in the city who were on a blacklist. On June 12, 2008, a few dozen officers stormed into Ms. Gao's home, took the computer and printer that she used to run her photography business, and detained her in Nanbai Town Detention Center, where she was tortured until she was in critical condition and hospitalized. The doctor had her tied up on a bed and was giving her intravenous injections.

    She was sentenced to prison from October to November 2008, and then transferred to the Yangai prison. Her family visited her at the end of January 2010 and she did not look ill, but Ms. Gao told them the prison administration forced her to take unknown drugs, which caused her to lose feeling in her feet. The prison administration asked her family to leave a contact phone number during their visit, which had never happened before.

    On February 11, 2010, Ms. Gao was taken to the Police Hospital in Guiyang City, and the prison administration called her family to visit her. On their way there, they heard she died at 12:55 p.m. on February 12, 2010.

    Ms. Gao's younger brother Mr. Gao Guoyuan also persecuted

    Ms. Gao's younger brother Mr. Gao Guoyuan, used to be a security guard, and had a high level of martial arts gong-fu training. In 2001, the police sentenced him to three years of forced labor, and detained him in Zhongba Forced Labor Camp. Guards Yang Renshou and Li Jiliang instructed drug addicts Guo Lin and Long Xutao to beat him so hard in May 2004, that his whole body festered, his mind became blurry, his reactions became slow, and he developed a mental disorder. Inmates forced him to eat feces and drink urine.

    Mr. Gao returned home in 2004, but his house was damaged by rain due to it being vacant for many years. He had to do labor in Guangdong Province to make a living. On August 30, 2007,  the 610 Office arrested him in Wanjiang District, Dongguan City and sentenced him to another 18 months of forced labor. He was taken to Sanshui Forced Labor Camp in Guangdong Province on November 16, 2007.