(Minghui.org)

Name: Lyu JianjieChinese Name: 吕建杰Gender: FemaleAge: 53City: TonghuaProvince: JilinOccupation: Traditional Chinese Medicine factory employeeDate of Death: October 31, 2017Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 11, 2011Most Recent Place of Detention: Tonghua City Brainwashing Center

It’s recently confirmed by Minghui.org that a Liuhe County, Tonghua City, Jilin Province resident passed away on October 31, 2017, due to mental distress induced by the persecution of Falun Gong. She was 53.

Because Ms. Lyu Jianjie was a volunteer coordinator at a local Falun Gong practice site, she was listed as a key persecution target and faced constant harassment, after the Chinese Communist Party gave orders to eradicate Falun Gong from China in 1999.

On October 25, 1999, Ms. Lyu went with two local practitioners, Ms. Hao Zhifang and Mr. Pang Kun, to the National Appeals Office in Beijing, trying to refute the smear campaign put out by the communist regime against Falun Gong. They were arrested, taken back to Liuhe County and detained for three months. Ms. Lyu was also fired by the Liuhe County Traditional Chinese Medicine factory that she worked at.

Ms. Lyu went to Beijing again in January 2001 to appeal for Falun Gong and was arrested a second time. After two months at the Liuhe County Detention Center, she was given two years at the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai City, which was designated to incarcerate the overflow of Falun Gong practitioners from forced labor camps in the province’s capital city of Changchun.

Upon arrival at the labor camp, Ms. Lyu was ordered to write statements to renounce Falun Gong, or she wouldn’t be allowed to sleep. As she refused to comply, she was forced to stand in the hallway for over 20 days.

Ms. Lyu and 34 other practitioners were transferred to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun on November 7, 2001. They were subjected to intensive brainwashing, with only three hours of sleep every day between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. When they stayed firm in their faith, the guards shocked them with electric batons and sometimes forcibly held their hands to sign the prepared renouncing statements against their will. Ms. Lyu resisted it and was handcuffed to a metal bed. She was released in January 2003.

Ms. Lyu was arrested again on the evening of April 13, 2009 and taken to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp on May 8 that year to serve another two-year term. Due to her high blood pressure, she was denied admission. The police allowed her to serve time at home after forcing her family to pay an unknown amount of bail.

During the two years when Ms. Lyu served time at home, the authorities constantly harassed her and threatened to arrest her at any time. When agents of Liuhe County 610 Office came on September 10, 2010, they revealed that they were planning to take her to a 12-day brainwashing session. To avoid the persecution, Ms. Lyu was forced to live away from home.

Ms. Lyu was arrested another time between 2010 and 2011. She held a hunger strike at the detention center and was emaciated when she was released a month later.

Ms. Lyu was arrested again on May 12, 2011 and held in a brainwashing center. Following her next arrest on July 6, 2011 at a shopping mall, the police took her to the Liuhe County Detention Center and threatened to give her another two-year labor camp term. She was taken to a five-day brainwashing session five days later on July 11.

Since that point on, Ms. Lyu didn’t dare to stay home around anniversaries related to Falun Gong or when the police threatened to arrest her again. The mental distress took a toll on her health. On October 30, 2017, shortly after she returned home from a period of hiding, she experienced headaches and quickly lost the ability to move. Her child rushed her to the hospital and she passed away the next day.