86-year-old Woman Dies Two Hours Following Arrest for Her Faith

(Minghui.org)

Name: Cui JinshiChinese Name: 崔金实Gender: FemaleAge: 86City: HarbinProvince: HeilongjiangOccupation: N/ADate of Death: April 13, 2022Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 13, 2022Most Recent Place of Detention: N/A

An 86-year-old Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, woman died two hours after she was arrested for studying Falun Gong’s teachings with six other practitioners.

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

On April 13, 2022, two days after the COVID-19 lockdown was lifted in Harbin, six Falun Gong practitioners went to Ms. Cui Jinshi’s home at around 1 p.m. to study Falun Gong’s teachings together.

When a practitioner left at 3 p.m. after they finished reading, seven police officers, some not in uniform, broke in when the practitioner opened the door. Without showing their IDs, they searched the practitioners’ bags, took their copies of {Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Gong, and paper currency bills with information about Falun Gong printed on them. Ms. Cui’s Falun Gong books, a photo of Falun Gong’s founder, and an unknown amount of cash were also confiscated.

Due to strict information censorship in China, many practitioners use creative ways to raise awareness about the persecution, including printing information on monetary bills.

Ms. Cui tried to stop the police from taking her belongings. In despair, she fell. She kept saying to the police, “Don’t take my books away! Don’t take Master’s photo!”

Two officers dragged Ms. Cui from her apartment on the second floor to the ground floor. Then they suddenly let her go and she fell on the ground.

At 5:45 p.m., Ms. Cui’s second son, Mr. Piao Hu, got a call from the police telling him his mother had been taken to the 242 Hospital emergency room. He rushed to the hospital. Five minutes later, the doctor came out and pronounced Ms. Cui dead. The son went into the operating room and saw Ms. Cui’s body. Her face was pale, her throat was cut open, and she was only wearing one shoe.

Mr. Piao said his mother had been healthy over the past 20 years thanks to her practice of Falun Gong. Despite her age, she lived on her own and walked fast. It’s unknown exactly what the police did to her that caused her death in just four hours.

The other six practitioners arrested at Ms. Cui’s home, Ms. Zheng Lijun, Ms. Shao Xiuling, Ms. Ge Lijun, Ms. Yang Yarong, Ms. Ge Xiaojing, and Ms. Liu Shuzhi, were taken to the Pingfang District Domestic Security Office and interrogated. They were released at around 11 p.m. and put under house arrest on charges of “having an illegal gathering during the pandemic.”

One of the seven officers who arrested the practitioners was Zhou Lifeng. He has been the head of the Domestic Security Office for over ten years. He has arrested, interrogated, and falsely charged many practitioners.

Perpetrator’s information:
Pingfang District Police Department: [phone]Zhou Lifeng (周立峰), head of Domestic Security Office: [phone], [phone], [phone]