Wang Xiuxia 06.15.2003
Around 10:00 a.m. on May 29, 2003, more than 20 officers from the Dongzhou Criminal Police Team, Xintun Police Station and Wanxin Police Station broke into a Falun Gong materials production site in Xintun. They arrested Falun Gong practitioners WANG Xiuxia, ZHANG Shouhui, KANG Xiaosheng without due cause.
When these practitioners firmly refused to give their names and addresses, the police beat them so hard they fell to the ground several times. The perpetrators brutally tortured the practitioners until 2:00 a.m. the next day.
WANG Xiuxia began a hunger strike as soon as she entered the detention center. She was shackled, handcuffed and force-fed by the guards several times. The most severe case of this was when she was handcuffed to a chair while in solitary confinement for a twenty-four hour period. Her hands and feet were bound tightly, and she was almost totally unable to move. All the female Falun Gong practitioners who were detained illegally at the detention center began a hunger strike together to resist the persecution of Xiuxia.
The police began the typical measures to stop Falun Gong practitioners who protested their cruelty, forcing other prisoners to torture Falun Gong practitioner Ms. QU Cailing even though she had a heart disease and hypertension. Ms. QU can no longer move her arms and has lost quite a few teeth.
On the evening of June 15, WANG’s health was in a critical condition and she looked pale and short of breath. But the police took no notice and failed to summon emergency treatment in a timely manner. In the end, WANG Xiuxia passed away while still in the detention center. On the evening of June 15, Fushun City Police Department authorities notified WANG Xiuxia’s family of her death.
When her family rushed to the police department, they saw that WANG Xiuxia’s body was in a freezer and was misshapen. The police refused to let the family take a close look at the body and didn't answer their inquiries about the cause of her death. On the morning of June 17, before her family could take a look at the body, the police hastily sealed it in a coffin.
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