Belated News: 30-year-old Fashion Designer Dies from Torture One Day after Arrest for Her Faith

(Minghui.org)

Name: Ye LianpingChinese Name: 叶莲萍Gender: FemaleAge: 30City: MudanjiangProvince: HeilongjiangOccupation: Fashion designerDate of Death: November 29, 2002Date of Most Recent Arrest: November 28, 2002Most Recent Place of Detention: A detention center

One day after Ms. Ye Lianping was arrested on November 28, 2002, for practicing Falun Gong, the 30-year-old was tortured to death by two police officers, who suffocated her and force-fed her wasabi oil. Her daughter was only seven at the time.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Ms. Ye, a fashion designer in Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, went to Beijing several times to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong between 1999 and 2001 and was arrested each time. She was given an unknown term at the Harbin Women’s Drug Rehab Center in 2001. The police attempted to arrest her again after she was released. When she escaped and lived away from home, Li Fu, the head of Mudanjiang City Domestic Security Office, put her on the wanted list and threatened to beat her to death when they found her.

Ms. Ye and three other practitioners, including Ms. Dong Shuyan, Mr. Wang Yongqiang, and another practitioner whose name isn’t known, were seized by the police in Daqing on November 28, 2002. On the way back to Mudanjiang, the police handcuffed Ms. Ye and Ms. Dong and hung the cuffs from the ceiling of the jeep. The cuffs were so tight that they cut into their flesh. They were unable to stand or sit.

In the detention center, officer Qiao Ping of the Mudanjiang City Domestic Security Office beat Ms. Dong with a broom. Her head was covered with bruises. The police beat her and interrogated her every day. Officer Wang Weith with the Xi’an Police Station once beat her until she fainted and then raped her.

Officers Qiao Ping and Li Fu force-fed Ms. Ye two bottles of wasabi oil through the nose. They then covered her head with a plastic bag and tied it around her neck, almost suffocating her to death.

According to others tortured the same way, the wasabi oil causes a burning sensation in the stomach, the eyes feel like they are protruding, tears and mucus flow non-stop, and the person writhes in pain. It is a gruesome torture, especially when carried out repeatedly.

Torture reenactment: Head covered with a plastic bag

The police also dragged Ms. Ye by her hair and slapped her in the face. They then handcuffed her behind her back, with one hand pulled over her shoulder to meet the other hand pulled up behind her back. She died the next day.

Torture reenactment: Handcuffed behind the back

The police claimed that Ms. Ye jumped to her death. But according to her husband who saw her body, she was bleeding below her waist and there were needle marks on her chest and dirt on her temple. It didn’t look to him as if she’d fallen from a high place.

According to an insider, an officer who also tortured Ms. Ye later complained that his director, Han Jian, repeatedly promised him that he had their backs when it came to torturing the practitioners, no matter what he did. But when Ms. Ye indeed died, the officer was ordered to write self-criticism reports, which he thought was to shift the blame from his superiors to him.

Unable to bear the pressure of the persecution, Ms. Ye’s husband left their daughter with his mother-in-law and moved away. It’s not clear if he ever came back to care for the child.

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