/* IN MEMORY: Yang Guizhen 09.17.2003 */

Yang Guizhen 09.17.2003

YANG Guizhen, female, 40 years old, was a villager from Taojialin Village in the township of Guanzhen, Zhucheng City, Shandong province.

She was arrested last September for distributing Falun Gong flyers and incarcerated in the Zhucheng City Detention Center. The guards brought her in for an interrogation on September 14, and because she refused to sign a false statement, several guards instigated some inmates to give her a terrible beating. After the beating, she was handcuffed to a chair for four days and four nights.

During that time, she was not given any food or water, and she was not even allowed to go to the bathroom. When she was finally allowed to go to the bathroom on September 17, she was no longer able to walk on her own. She fell unconscious to the ground, and stopped breathing.

A guard resuscitated her by pinching her Renzhong point (a major acupuncture point). As soon as she regained consciousness, the guards handcuffed her back to the chair again. A short while later, this gentle and kind farming woman passed away.

After the tragedy took place, an information blockade was immediately imposed. Trying to prevent the news of her death from leaking out, the police surrounded her village, kept a close watch over her relatives, and arrested practitioners who had known her or was trying to find out what had happened to her.

AFP and the Central News Agency reported the news.


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