Ms Gong Hui dies within a month of her release from Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp after 15 months of torture.
Medical Doctor Ms. Gong Hui Dies as Direct Result of Forced Labor
Name: Gong Hui
Gender: Female
Age: 57
Address: Nankai District, Tianjin City
Occupation: Medical Doctor
Date of Death: December 4, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: August 13, 2008
Most Recent Place of Detention: Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin City
City: Tianjin
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep
deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, beatings, solitary
confinement, torture, physical restraint, home ransacked,
interrogation, detention, denial of restroom use
Ms. Gong was a doctor, but she was very sick before she started to practice Falun Gong. Only three months after Ms. Gong started practicing Falun Gong, all of her illnesses disappeared. She looked exuberant and at least a decade younger.
Ms. Gong was unlawfully arrested on August 13, 2008, during the Beijing Olympics, by the local police and the Domestic Security Team. She was detained in Nankai District Detention Center for 35 days then taken to the Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp in Dagang District on September 17, 2008, where she was held in complete isolation for an extended period of time. She was deprived of all basic rights and kept isolated from the outside world. The guards instigated inmates to viciously beat and curse her and other practitioners who refused to give up their belief. Ms. Gong was held in a small cell, ordered to stand for extended hours, deprived of sleep, and given insufficient meals.
On November 9, 2008, the guards and inmates started a torture session at 9:00 a.m., and it continued until 11:00 p.m., at which point Ms. Gong was on the verge of death. Torture of similar severity is commonplace, resulting in death or mental collapse of numerous practitioners.
Within three months of being held in the forced labor camp, she became emaciated and suffered from numerous illnesses. She even had a hard time speaking. On November 25, her family vehemently condemned the labor camp guards for their brutality. They clearly pointed out to the guards that the so-called "complete isolation" approach of torture is against the law. Guard Zhang, who was in charge of the 2nd Squadron and directly responsible for the torture, left in a hurry after a brief argument.
Ms. Gong was tortured in the Banqiao Women's Forced Labor Camp for one year and three months, suffered from a mental collapse, and became severely sick. Only 22 days after she was released home, she died, on December 4, 2009.