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Name: Guo JinglanChinese Name: 郭景兰Gender: FemaleAge: 73City: HefeiProvince: AnhuiOccupation: UnknownDate of Death: August 23, 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 28, 2002Most Recent Place of Detention: A local detention center
A 73-year-old resident of Hefei City, Anhui Province, died on August 23, 2024, after suffering years of persecution for her faith in Falun Gong.
Ms. Guo Jinglan credited Falun Gong for improving her mind and body, but she was targeted after the communist regime started persecuting the peaceful practice in July 1999. Not only was she arrested several times, but her pension was also suspended in August 2004. She lived the last 20 years of her life without a reliable source of income.
In a criminal complaint filed against former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin on June 18, 2015, Ms. Guo detailed how the persecution Jiang initiated resulted in her arrests and torture.
Ms. Guo was arrested in Bozhou City (also in Anhui Province) on March 2, 2001, and given three years of forced labor. During the required physical exam, her blood pressure was 230/130 mmHg (a normal range is 120/80 or lower) and a heart rate of 140 (normal is 60-100 beats per minute). The labor camp refused to admit her and she was taken back to the Bozhou City Detention Center. She had a heart episode and lost consciousness. Only then was she released.
At around 3:00 p.m. on June 28, 2002, several officers surrounded Ms. Guo and her niece just as they were leaving home. The police took them to a hotel in Hefei City and put them in two different rooms.
Ms. Guo learned later that the police had booked rooms next to the one she was held in and did not allow anyone, not even housekeepers, to get close. More than a dozen officers took turns interrogating her for 11 days straight. They kept her cuffed to a heating pipe and did not let her sleep during the marathon interrogation. She lost feeling in her hands.
The interrogating officers included agents from the provincial public security bureau and the Bozhou City Police Department. Because she held firm to her faith, they punched and kicked her. They also hit her with books and other objects. Once an officer surnamed Shi beat her so savagely that she was unable to lift her arms for a few days. They hung her up and beat her, all the while threatening to toss her out of the window or arrest her whole family.
When Ms. Guo refused to sign statements to renounce her faith, several officers grabbed her right hand and pressed her fingerprints on them. After 6 p.m. on July 7, 2002, she was transferred to the Taihe County Detention Center, about 150 miles away from Hefei.
The police didn’t notify Ms. Guo’s family of her arrest and detention. The detention center said they were not allowed to call her family about her situation.
Ms. Guo lost about a third of her body weight during her detention. Her hair turned gray and fell out. It is unclear when she was released. She learned later that her niece, who’d been arrest with her, was detained for 28 days.
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