(Minghui.org)
Name: Shi LiangyuChinese Name: 施良玉Gender: FemaleAge: 80City: JingzhouProvince: HubeiOccupation: Retired latex factory workerDate of Death: August 6, 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 20, 2002Most Recent Place of Detention: Hubei Province Women’s Prison
Ms. Shi Liangyu was completely blind and incapacitated when she was released on June 14, 2010, after serving an eight-year term for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999. The Jingzhou City, Hubei Province resident never recovered since. The loss of vision caused her tremendous difficulty in her daily life. She fell several times, unable to move. After struggling with declining health for years, she passed away on August 6, 2024. She was 80 years old.
Ms. Shi, a retired employee of the Shashi District Latex Factory, was repeatedly arrested in the early years of persecution. She went to Beijing to appeal on February 28, 2000, and was arrested. At the Jingzhou City Liaison Office in Beijing, the police searched her and took away the cash on her person. She was later sent back to Jingzhou and detained for a month. The police extorted an unknown amount of money from her family before releasing her.
Ms. Shi was arrested again in late September 2000, by officer Liu Juhua of the Shashi District Police Department, and detained for two months.
Her next arrest was a year later in early September 2001, by officers from the Shashi District Police Department and Chaoyang Police Station. She was held in a guesthouse and handcuffed to a heating radiator for ten days. Despite the hot weather, she wasn’t allowed to take showers or change clothes. More than ten officers beat her and shocked her with electric batons. She was later transferred to the Jingzhou District Detention Center, and released on bail on December 27, 2001.
The Shashi District Court sentenced Ms. Shi to an eight-year prison term on September 20, 2002. She was taken to the Hubei Province Women’s Prison in early December 2002.
Because Ms. Shi refused to renounce Falun Gong, the guards and inmates repeatedly tortured her and deprived her of sleep. The inmates pulled handfuls of hair from her head and force-fed her twice.
Ms. Shi was forced to write a statement renouncing Falun Gong against her will in July 2007. She regretted it soon after and announced that the statememt was null and void. In retaliation, the guards deprived her of sleep for a month. Inmates in nearby cells heard her screaming from torture every night. One of her eyes was blinded and she became emaciated. When she was released on June 14, 2010, she was blind in both eyes and completely incapacitated.