Liu Tongling 10.12.2003

LIU Tongling, female, 53 years old, lived in Chengsan Village, Rang District, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

LIU Tongling died of torture on October 12, 2003 in Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Center. She was an employee of the Sanan Industrial Company, which is under the Venture Group of Daqing Petroleum Administration Bureau.

On April 19, 2000, LIU went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was illegally detained by Daqing City Liaison Office in Beijing.

On April 19, 2003, Shi Shijin, from Daqing City Liaison Office in Beijing, extorted 2,670 Yuan from LIU, and Daqing City "610 Office" extorted 1,000 Yuan from her. She was later detained in Daqing City Detention Center for a month where she was forced to “ride an airplane” for over 5 hours and then was forced to stand motionless for a prolonged time in shackles and handcuffs, the shackles badly injuring her ankles. Within several days, her legs had become swollen and infected, and she lost the ability to walk.

On September 24, 2001, the Rang District Qinjian Police Station of Daqing City arrested LIU for clarifying the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. The police extorted 175 Yuan from her. She was sent to Daqing City Detention Center and detained there for a month during which time she held a hunger strike in protest of her arrest. She was later transferred to Rang District Custody Center and illegally detained there for half a month. Policeman Feng Xinyu, among others, force-fed her and ordered criminals to beat her.

On the morning of September 6, 2002, six police from Chengxin Police Station of Rang District broke into her home, dragged her downstairs, and abducted her to the police station. That day, LIU was for the third time illegally sent to the Daqing City Detention Center for 58 days during which time she went on hunger strike again. Then, she was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor education. She was sent to Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Center but the center refused to admit her because of her poor health.

On September 9, 2003, LIU was arrested again and sent to a brainwashing class by the security guards of the Sanan Industrial Company and the police from Rang District Chengxin Police Station. She held a hunger strike in protest of the persecution.

On September 12, 2003, she was put in solitary confinement in the Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Center, and she immediately started a hunger strike. She soon showed symptoms of heart disease, vasculitis, etc. but was refused medical treatment and visitation from family members.

On October 12, 2003 she died of torture. Just two days before her death, in extremely poor health, she was still forced to sit (in a fixed position) on a metal chair for a long period of time. Upon examination, her family found her nose broken, bruises all over her body and face, with obvious electric shock burns near her heart.