(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhao Huixiang was a Falun Gong practitioner from Fushun City, Liaoning Province. She suffered a mental collapse due to the tortures she experienced in detention. On March 10, 2003, Ms. Zhao jumped from the sixth floor a building and died at the age of 50. [Editor's note: The teachings of Falun Gong strictly forbid taking a life, including one's own. Ms. Zhao's mental deterioration and lack of judgement that led to her death are a tragic and direct result of the brutal state-sponsored persecution she suffered.]

Picture of Zhao Huixiang

Ms. Zhao started practicing Falun Gong in January 1997. Before that she suffered from high blood pressure. The illness completely went away after she practiced Falun Gong.

In November 2000, Ms. Zhao went to Beijing to validate Dafa and was arrested. In December 2000, she was sent to the Fushun Labor Education Center and was illegally sentenced to a two-year detention. During that time she went astray from Dafa. In June 2001 Ms. Zhao was released on bail for medical treatment. After she went home she quickly realized her mistake. In order to make up for the damage she caused to Dafa, she clarified the truth about Falun Gong to the Political and Legal Committee in the Wanghua District and at the local police station. She clarified the truth wherever she went.

Zhao Huixiang's husband, Yu Chunfu, is also a Falun Gong practitioner. In September 2002 he was arrested by Wang Rulan, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Secretary of the Legal Committee in the Wanghua District, and was sent to the Wulaotun Brainwashing Class in the Wanghua District. Wang Rulan asked Ms. Zhao to drop off some clothes for her husband. When she went to the brainwashing class to leave the clothes, Wang Rulan detained her for a month. Since Ms. Zhao did not give up her belief, she was sent to the Fushun Labor Education Center for illegal detention.

At the Fushun Labor Education Center Ms. Zhao was locked up in a small cell. She was not allowed to go to the restroom, so she had to relieve herself in the cell, which was monitored by a male staff member. We do not have detailed information about the tortures she endured. In December 2002 Ms. Zhao was released at the end of her two-year term. Due to the vicious tortures, her mental state had deteriorated. She would scream whenever someone knocked on the door. On March 1, 2003, her family sent her to the Fushun Mineral Bureau Mental Hospital. She stayed there for four days at a cost to her family of over 1,000 yuan, an unbelievable amount of money for a family of three with a monthly income of 600 yuan. She was taken home when her state improved a little, and she continued to take medicine. On March 31, 2003, when Zhao Huixiang was home alone, she jumped from the sixth floor. She died on the way to the hospital.

In 2000 officials with the Political and Legal Committee of the Wanghua District extorted Ms. Zhao Huixiang out of 3,000 yuan. They returned only 2,000 yuan and kept the rest. When Falun Gong practitioners said to those officials, "You are directly responsible for Zhao Huixiang's death," they were silent.