Kong Fanrong 05.11.2003
On January 28, 2000, her husband was illegally sent to a labor camp for practicing Falun Gong. On July 8, 2001, KONG attended a Falun Gong Conference. The local government put her on their wanted list with a reward of 100,000 yuan. She had to leave home to avoid arrest and could no longer care for her eighty-nine-year-old mother.
On January 4, 2003, LIU Qiang, head of the Anqing Road Police Station at the Jingcheng District Police Branch in Changchun, along with other police officers including SHI Yongliang and HUANG Huicheng, broke into KONG’s rental home in Huayao, Changchun, and arrested her. In the police station, they interrogated her while shocking her with electric batons, beating her, and confining her on the "Tiger Bench", which is a small iron bench approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall. Victims’ knees are tied down tightly onto this bench, and their hands are tied back or on the knees.
When the police attempted to take a photo of her, she refused to open her eyes to cooperate. One policeman pressed his fingers into her eyes and said, "If you don't open your eyes, I'm going to dig your eyeballs out". Then they took her off the "Tiger Bench" and beat her until she passed out. Later, they sent her to Changchun’s Daguang Detention Center. Soon she was transferred to the Shuangyang Detention Center. Several days later, she was sent to the Shulan City Detention Center where she suffered torture that would result in her death within three months. The head of the detention center, ZHAO Qunchang, was directly responsible for her death.
On May 9, 2003, representatives from the Shulan City Court went to the hospital where KONG had been sent, planning to unlawfully sentence her right there. Despite that fact that she was too weak to talk and was in critical condition at that time, they ordered the doctor to issue a document stating, "The patient is conscious but not able to talk. Will resume court proceedings after treatment." When KONG’s family demanded her release, the court told them that she would not be released even if she were dead.
On May 11, 2003, KONG died in the hospital. Her body was black and blue. The Shulan government tightly blocked information and did not allow the family to take any pictures. They tried to forcibly cremate the woman’s body and even attempted to abduct her husband.
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