Zhang Li 08.27.2002
On March 19, 2002, the police abducted ZHANG Li and sent her to Anshan City Detention Center. During the period of her illegal detention, ZHANG Li suffered all kinds of torture until she was on the verge of death. On August 27, 2002, attempts to revive ZHANG Li failed and she died in the city hospital.
ZHANG Li was forced to leave home after July 20, 1999. On March 19, 2002, the Lishan District Police Department of Anshan City illegally abducted her, along with five other practitioners of Falun Gong who were living in the same place. During the period of her illegal detention, she was tortured with every method imaginable and passed out several times. Her face was lacerated from being beaten. Later, she was illegally sentenced to life in prison. During her imprisonment, the police interrogated and tortured her cruelly on many different occasions.
She held a hunger strike, and the police sent ZHANG Li to the city hospital for force-feeding. They also handcuffed and shackled her after throwing her into the lobby. She was dying and many people went to look at her out of curiosity. Somebody said, "She is dying but is still in handcuffs, so she must have received the death penalty". The police said, "She is a Falun Gong practitioner".
ZHANG Li was questioned many times during the period of her illegal detention in the First Detention Center. Every time when she came back from questioning, her body was covered in blood and her skin was full of lacerations from being cut with a knife.
On August 27, 2002, while the police were questioning ZHANG Li, she was beaten to the verge of death, and she was sent to the city hospital. A police officer ordered a doctor, "Don't treat her!" In response, the doctor asked the policeman to sign a document because the police officer asked him to forsake a life, thus breaking his professional oath. The police left ZHANG Li in the hospital and had someone watch her. ZHANG Li died on the same day. Her body was cremated and was buried in Anshan City Qianqiu Cemetery.
After her death, the police tried to withhold all information on the case and threatened ZHANG Li’s family not to contact outsiders. They confiscated pictures that the family had taken to document the physical abuse from her home. They also hastily cremated ZHANG Li’s body without permission from the family. The police covered her body with white clothing in order to hide the evidence of their crimes.
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