Wang Xiujuan 01.21.2001
According to eyewitness accounts, WANG Xiujuan and seven fellow Falun Gong practitioners had been illegally detained since September 26, 2000 by the township under the pretense of a "transformation class," and they were not released until February 13, 2001, almost five months later. Each practitioner was kept in a separate room that was locked day and night, and they were not allowed family visits, even for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
The staff led by the Secretary of the Township’s Committee of politics and Law, Zhao Shijun often beat practitioners with twisted wire whips. (This causes severe damage to a person’s skin and can take the skin right off.) Besides beating the practitioners, the thugs barred family members from sending in food to the practitioners.
They attempted to break practitioners’ belief using violence, starvation and exposure to the cold. However, despite the brutality, none of the practitioners fought back or talked back, nor did they yield to their persecutors. In the afternoon of January 21, 2001, Zhao Shijun and staff member Gao Yongrui badly beat WANG who had not had any food for 4 or 5 days. At about 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon, WANG was beaten to death.
To avoid responsibility they cremated WANG without notifying her family members. AAP reported the case on April 13, 2001.
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