Name: Xie Zhiying (谢志英)
Gender: Female
Age: 52
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Government employee of Aksu Tax Bureau
Date of Death: August 6, 2011
Date of Most Recent Arrest: 2001
Most Recent Place of Detention: Alar Mental Hospital
(新疆阿拉尔精神病院)
City: Aksu
Province: Xinjiang Region
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation,
forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, forced
injections/drug administration, beatings, solitary confinement,
detainment and abuse at mental hospital, denial of restroom use,
denied visitation
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Xie Zhiying died on August 6, 2011, after suffering more than ten years of persecution. She had been confined to her own home for the last seven years.
Ms. Xie was a government employee of the Aksu Tax Bureau in Xinjiang Region. An unknown disease paralyzed her before 1997. However, she regained the ability to walk one month after she began to practice Falun Gong.
When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999, the management of the tax bureau put her into the Alar Mental Hospital where she was forced to take unknown medicines and injections.
In 2001, she was subjected to three years of forced labor for appealing for the right to practice Falun Gong. In the labor camp, she suffered electric shocks, sleep deprivation, denial of restroom use, starvation, and brutal beatings.
She was put into the Alar Mental Hospital for the second time after she was released from the labor camp. When she left the hospital, she was no longer able to speak.
She was home but was not free. The Aksu Tax Bureau confined her to her own home. For the last seven years, she was a prisoner in her own home.
During that time, her husband was forced to separate from her, and he could not visit her because of the obstacles set by the local CPP Political and Judiciary Committee. Her son lost the right to live with her. Her mother, Ms. Yuan Jingyun, and brother, Mr. Xie Zhiming, were persecuted for practicing Falun Gong. With great effort, Mr. Xie verified that Ms. Xie was put under house arrest by her employer, the Aksu Tax Bureau, which followed the orders of the Aksu City 610 Office and the Aksu Prefecture 610 Office.
How could this happen? It is obviously illegal for the tax bureau to confine employees in their own homes.
Unfortunately such an illegal operation is a common practice in China. The CCP created the 610 Office all over China to carry out the mission of eliminating Falun Gong, and gave them power over local governments. The 610 Office employs a policy of “implication”, or, guilt by association, as one of many methods to persecute Falun Gong.
The CCP promoted the slogan, “safeguard your own gate; keep well your own people” in the early days of the persecution of Falun Gong. What it means is that all workplaces should stop any of their employees who are practitioners of Falun Gong from going to Beijing to appeal, and they should also make sure that none of their employees continues practicing Falun Gong. The social status, benefits, bonuses and more of the workplace employees and management are affected by how well they follow this policy.
This is why the Aksu Tax Bureau confined Ms. Xie in her residence.
Of course, the bureau could not do it without support from the 610 Office.
The power of the 610 Office to supersede an individual's rights was evidenced when they blocked Ms. Xie's family visits. After their repeated demands, Ms. Yuan and Mr. Xie were finally allowed to visit Ms. Xie on June 28, 2011, but only under the watchful eyes of more than a dozen people. The monitors were from the Aksu Prefecture 610 Office, Aksu City 610 Office, the Aksu Tax Bureau, the Domestic Security Division, and the neighborhood committee.
Yang Jing from the regional 610 Office denied Ms. Yuan's request to stay with her daughter. Later, in front of everyone, Yang instructed the management of the tax bureau that future family visits would require 610 Office approval and could only occur in the presence of multiple branches of the authorities.
A 610 Office agent claimed that it was necessary to lock Ms. Xie up in her home because she could run away if she was allowed to leave, and the authorities would then be unable to control her. She would make others aware of her situation, and they might “cause trouble for her.” How ridiculous! Confining her in her own home for seven years, were they really concerned about the safety of Ms. Xie? Or were they really concerned that she might disclose how she was being mistreated?
After Ms. Xie's sudden death this month, Ms. Yuan was told that she was not allowed to view her daughter's body. When Mr. Xie went to the Aksu Prefecture 610 Office for details, the gatekeeper stated, “The 610 Office has ordered that no one with the last name Xie is allowed to enter.”
The 610 Office's reason for existence is to eliminate Falun Gong. This is a reflection of the evil character of the CCP. In the course of carrying out their morbid mission, those who work within the 610 Office are forced to abandon their conscience and all that they know is right.
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