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Ms. Zheng Yuling is cremated against her family's wishes and her family is not allowed to hold a funeral.
Name: Zheng Yuling
Gender: Female
Age: 57
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Employee of Chibi City Trade Bureau
Date of Death: September 28, 2009
Date of Most
Recent Arrest: August 6, 2009
Most Recent Place of
Detention: Hubei Province Women's Forced Labor Camp
City: Chibi
Province:
Hubei
Persecution Suffered: Forced Labor, Brainwashing,
Beatings, Torture, Detention
By a correspondent from Hubei Province
Ms. Zheng Yuling was arrested on the night of August 6, 2009 while she was posting a banner at the dormitory of Chibi City Police Department. She was sentenced to one year of forced labor and taken to the Women's Forced Labor Camp of Hubei Province on August 25, 2009, which is located in Hongshan District, Wuhan City. She died just one month later on September 28, 2009. The authorities deprived her family's right to hold a funeral for her, and forced them to cancel the funeral arrangements.
Ms. Zheng Yuling
Ms. Zheng's husband rushed to the labor camp on September 29, 2009. Her body had been placed in a glass coffin for viewing, and she was dressed and her face made up, but he could still tell that her nose was deformed and there were many needle holes on her hand. The camp administrator told him that Ms. Zheng began a hunger strike on September 9, 2009 and died at noon on September 28, 2009. He condemned the guards, saying, "She was on a hunger strike for 19 days before she died. Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
The guards had no answer.
Ms. Zheng's body was cremated on September 30, 2009 at a crematory in Wuhan City. Her ashes were taken to the city crematory by agents from the province 610 Office and the forced labor camp on October 11, 2009. Ms. Zheng's family was not allowed to hold a funeral for her, or allowed to bury her ashes in her hometown in the countryside.