(Minghui.org) Editor’s note: This is part of a series of death cases newly translated by the English site of Minghui.org. These cases have long been published on the Chinese site of Minghui.org but have not been translated until now.
Name: Li GuixinChinese Name: 李桂新Gender: FemaleAge: 75City: JiamusiProvince: HeilongjiangOccupation: Kindergarten workerDate of Death: August 7, 2018Date of Most Recent Arrest: November 4, 2010Most Recent Place of Detention: Jiamusi City Lockup
A 75-year-old woman in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, died on August 7, 2018, after suffering years of persecution for her faith in Falun Gong. Her husband was also targeted for sharing the same faith and died on October 19, 2011.
Ms. Li Guixin and her husband took up Falun Gong in early 1999, and both soon regained health. After the persecution began in July that year, Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested. Three days later, she was taken back to Jiamusi and detained for four and a half months. In order to pressure her into renouncing her faith, the police tried, unsuccessfully, to use her two daughters to shake her will. She did not budge and was fined a total of 4,200 yuan before being released.
The police confiscated Ms. Li and her husband’s IDs in order to prevent them from going to Beijing. Three officers broke into her home on October 23, 2000 and arrested her again. During her two-month detention, her husband, who was suffering from poor health at the time, struggled to care for himself (their daughters had married and left home). His mother ended up paying 3,000 yuan to officer Chen Wanyou in exchange for her daughter-in-law’s release.
In January 2001, the paper mill where Ms. Li worked at its affiliated kindergarten, set up a brainwashing center targeting its employees who were Falun Gong practitioners. After she was released, her employer and the local police and community workers still harassed her at home and threatened to arrest her again.
Ms. Li and her husband were thus forced to live away from home. Her supervisor at work arranged a driver to take her two daughters to all their relatives’ homes to try to find her and her husband. The couple’s pension was stopped for the next three years. The police kept harassing the couple’s daughters, their families, and their supervisors at work. Ms. Li’s older daughter’s supervisor finally had enough and warned the police to not bother his employee at work again. The police then stopped.
The two daughters later managed to get their parents’ pension reinstated. Ms. Li was arrested again on November 4, 2010 and held at the Jiamusi City Lockup for nine days. She was also fined 1,000 yuan before being released. She and her husband went into hiding again. The total amount of time they spent in displacement was more than ten years, during which time they had to sell their house to make ends meet. Ms. Li’s husband had a relapse of his old illnesses and died on October 29, 2011. Ms. Li passed away on August 7, 2018.