/* IN MEMORY: Zhao Jinhua 10.07.1999 */

Zhao Jinhua 10.07.1999

On Sept. 27, 1999, the Zhangxing County police took Ms. ZHAO, 42 years old, away while she was working in the fields on the farm. At 8 p.m. on October 1, while ZHAO Jinhua and other practitioners were doing the sitting meditation, the deputy of the police station, Sun Shixun charged in with a group of people. They started to pull the practitioners’ hair, hit and kicked them. They beat the practitioners with rubber batons and later dragged ZHAO Jinhua into the duty officer’s office, and shocked her three times with electric batons until she fainted.

On the morning of October 7, after Ms. Zhao was beaten, she was ordered to stand barefoot on the concrete floor. ZHAO’s face was pale. She lost consciousness and fell to the ground. The police took her to the local hospital where she was given an injection. They then took her back to the police station to be tortured again. After being tortured, ZHAO complained of congestion in the chest, numbness, and pain in the right side of the body. There was blood in her urine, both of her legs were in pain and there were black and purple bruises from her waist down. She died at 4 p.m. on October 7, 1999.

On the morning of October 8, forensic doctors from Zhaoyuan City dissected her body. In the afternoon, forensic medical experts from Yantai City performed another autopsy, detailing findings as follows: injuries and wounds on many parts of the body except the head. Deposited blood beneath the skin for a total area of 120 cm x 60 cm. Conclusion: death caused by beating with blunt objects. Jia Hongju who was directly involved in this murder was promoted to secretary of the city government’s finance department.

Associated Press (AP), Agence France-Presse (AFP), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and ABC News reported Ms. Zhao’s death.


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