(Minghui.org) Editor’s note: This is part of a series of death cases newly translated by the English site of Minghui.org. These cases have long been published on the Chinese site of Minghui.org but have not been translated until now.
Name: Li LingChinese Name: 李凌Gender: MaleAge: 64City: DaqingProvince: HeilongjiangOccupation: Employee of the Petroleum Administration General Machinery FactoryDate of Death: 4/24/2016Date of Most Recent Arrest: 3/26/2004Most Recent Place of Detention: Daqing City Detention Center
Mr. Li Ling of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, served two labor camp terms and a prison term after the Chinese Communist Party initiated the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999. Succumbing to the persecution, he died on April 24, 2016.
In January 2000, the 610 Office in Mr. Li’s workplace, the Daqing General Machinery Factory, extorted 10,000 yuan from him in an attempt to prevent him from going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
Mr. Li was arrested on June 18, 2000, for doing the Falun Gong exercises with other practitioners in front of the Daqing Petroleum Administration Bureau. He was detained for 15 days and fined 2,000 yuan.
Mr. Li went to Beijing to appeal in late November 2000 and was escorted back to Daqing. He was held at the Ranghulu Detention Center and later given one year of forced labor. He was held in the Daqing Forced Labor Camp from January 21, 2001 to July 5, 2001. He had 2,000 yuan extorted from him by the 610 Office and was also forced to pay 2,000 yuan to cover the travel expenses for those who went to Beijing to take him back.
Mr. Li went to Beijing to appeal again in October 2001. He returned home safely.
His next arrest was in March 2002 by Ranghulu Police Station officers. During his 4.5 months in detention, he held two hunger strikes, one for four days and the other for nine days, to protest. After that, he was given three years at the Daqing Forced Labor Camp. One of his feet was injured due to torture.
Mr. Li and his wife Ms. Gao Shuqin were followed when they were distributing Falun Gong materials on March 26, 2004. Mr. Li was arrested, but Ms. Gao escaped. She refused to open the door when the police came to ransack their home around 11 that night. The police then locked her door from the outside so that she couldn’t leave. To try to escape, she climbed out of her window on the sixth floor, only to fall to her death.
When Mr. Li asked the police about his wife, they lied, saying that she’d been hospitalized for a heart condition, and they “promised” to take good care of her. Mr. Li was not informed of his wife’s funeral either.
Mr. Li was later sentenced to one year and he finished serving the time in the Daqing City Detention Center.
The police raided Mr. Li’s home again on April 10, 2014. At his 91-year-old mother’s insistence, they left without arresting him.
For filing a criminal complaint in 2015 against Jiang Zemin, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party who ordered the persecution of Falun Gong, Mr. Li was frequently harassed by the police. He and his mother had to move, but the police managed to find them and the harassment continued.
Succumbing to the persecution, Mr. Li’s health quickly declined. He was first severely swollen and later became emaciated. He passed away on April 24, 2016. He was survived by his 94-year-old mother.
Mr. Li’s mother also practiced Falun Gong and was persecuted for her faith.
She went to Beijing to appeal on November 25, 2001, and was arrested. She held a hunger strike at the Huairou County Detention Center in Beijing and was released.
She was arrested again on September 6, 2002, when she was 80 years old. She again held a hunger strike and was released.
Chen Yaosong, an officer with the Ranghulu Police Station, frequently harassed her afterwards. He once threatened her, “Don’t think we won’t arrest you because of your age.”
The elderly woman was left in a dire situation after son and daughter-in-law were both persecuted to death.
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