Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Xiao Yali Brutally Force-Fed to Death in Shuangcheng City Detention Centre

Ms. Xiao Yali, a 37-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province, died on March 6, 2004 as a result of being force-fed by police at the No. 2 Detention Centre of Shuangcheng City.

Around 4 p.m. on February 28, 2004, Li Yaosheng from the local police station and Guo Fujun of the Zhoujia Township government led half a dozen policemen and stormed into Ms. Xiao Yali's home. They did not have a search warrant, yet they ransacked the entire house, taking away Falun Dafa books and Falun Dafa flyers. At 7 p.m., party secretary Gao Jinpeng from the township government, Bai (given name not known), Associate Chief of the local police station, with Hu Zongshen and Li Yaosheng of the local government, broke into Xiao Yali's home for the second time. They abducted her and took her to the local police station. The police subsequently sent her to the Shuangcheng City Detention Centre for imprisonment. On March 6, at 6:40 p.m., Ms. Xiao's family received a phone call from the police station asking them to bring money to the Emergency Centre to pay for the treatment of Yali's "illnesses" (Yali was a completely healthy person before the detention). Ten minutes later, the detention centre called again, telling the family that they could bring the money either immediately or the following day (since they had already killed her). That night, twenty of Ms. Xiao's family members and relatives went to visit her, but they were not allowed to see her. It was only on March 7 that the family finally saw her dead body. Her forehead had a circular scar, part of her lower back was swollen, her hands were bruised and her mouth swollen. It was a sad and terrible sight.

The police demanded that the body be cremated immediately, but the relatives vehemently protested. These relatives then went to a legal office in Harbin City for assistance, only to be told that lawyers were not allowed to represent Falun Gong practitioners. On March 13, Xiao Yali's body was cremated. Later, a guard from the detention centre revealed that the person responsible for force-feeding Ms. Xiao was a doctor named Wang Shiyuan from Shuangcheng City People's Hospital's No. 3 Outpatient Department.

Ms. Xiao Yali died after being in police custody for only ten days. She leaves behind her husband, her parents-in-law and two five-year-old twins. All of her family members are suffering unbearable grief, and many of her neighbours also wept for this kind woman and in empathy for her family.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/4/27/73233.html