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Name: Guo XiaoxiaChinese Name: 郭晓霞Gender: FemaleAge: 61City: SongyuanProvince: JilinOccupation: N/ADate of Death: April 9, 2026Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 14, 2020Most Recent Place of Detention: a hospital
A 61-year-old woman in Songyuan City, Jilin Province died on April 9, 2026, while living displaced, to avoid being arrested for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice with the core principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
Ms. Guo Xiaoxia credited Falun Gong, which she began practicing in 1998, for turning her into a calmer, kinder, and more considerate person. In October 1999, three months after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a nationwide campaign against Falun Gong in July 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal for her right to freedom of belief. She was arrested, escorted back to Songyuan, and held at a local detention center for one month.
The local police pounded on Ms. Guo’s door in the middle of one night in December 2000. She escaped from her neighbor’s yard and lived in displacement. She was arrested along with another Falun Gong practitioner, Mr. Wang Qingfu, on April 17, 2006, by officers from the Songyuan City Police Department. Political secretary Zhao instructed several officers to beat them savagely at the police department. One officer slapped Ms. Guo hard in the face and burned her face with an open flame.
The two practitioners were taken to the Songyuan City Detention Center at around 11 p.m. Ms. Guo went on a hunger strike in protest, and was restrained on a death bed torture device (see image below) and force-fed.
Torture illustration: Death bed
Ms. Guo exhibited a severe heart condition eight days later but was nonetheless transferred to the Heizuizi Labor Camp in Changchun (the capital city of Jilin Province) to serve a two-year term. She faced even more abuse there. The guards forced her to sit on a small stool for long hours every day, and ordered her to renounce Falun Gong.
Agents from the Ningjiang District Domestic Security Office arrested Ms. Guo again on December 14, 2020. Her systolic blood pressure registered at over 200 mmHg (when a normal range is 120 or lower) at the time, and the local detention center declined to admit her.
Ms. Guo was then taken to a hospital and held in an isolation room, where three officers watched her around the clock. They kept her handcuffed at night and only removed the cuffs during the day when she was given IV injections. She managed to escape from the hospital one day when the police were not paying attention.
The police put Ms. Guo on the wanted list, and she was forced into displacement once again. Another practitioner helped notify her daughter of her escape. Even though that practitioner borrowed a stranger’s phone to make the call, he was soon arrested, as the police had tapped Ms. Guo’s daughter’s phone. He was interrogated and detained for several days.
Ms. Guo moved from place to place during the next few years, but she was unable to land a job or take public transportation. She developed a fever and a lasting cough in January 2026, and the condition kept worsening. Her family took her to a hospital hundreds of miles away from Songyuan City, for fear of her being tracked down by the local police. She died on April 9, 2026.
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