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Name: Jiang HaiyingChinese Name: 江海滢Gender: FemaleAge: 55City: BaotouProvince: Inner MongoliaOccupation: TeacherDate of Death: July 10, 2021Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 1, 2014Most Recent Place of Detention: A local detention center

After Ms. Jiang Haiying became pregnant with her daughter at the age of 44, the Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, resident was determined to give the child the best she could offer. But a trip she made four years after her baby was born to visit her mother forever changed her family’s fate.

Ms. Jiang and her then-four-year-old daughter were waiting to board the train at the Baotou Train station on September 1, 2014, when the police stopped her and arrested her in front of the little girl.

After that, the little girl was too frightened to ever go to the train station again. She also trembled whenever she saw a police officer. The once outgoing girl became withdrawn and rarely spoke. Her father worked tirelessly to try to rescue her mother but to no avail.

The police kept Ms. Jiang incarcerated for two years and attempted to get her sentenced to prison for refusing to give up her faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese communist regime.

Even after the police finally released Ms. Jiang in 2016 when they failed to collect enough evidence to charge her, they still repeatedly harassed her at home.

In 2019, only three years after Ms. Jiang had returned to her family and when her daughter was nine, her husband suddenly fell into critical condition. Although he survived, he became incapacitated since and needed her to take care of him.

To support her family, Ms. Jiang picked up her previous profession as a teacher and began to offer tutoring classes to earn an income.

But the continued police harassment eventually wore her out. She developed lumps in her breast and was forced to hire a nanny to care for her daughter, while she moved in with her parents, both nearing 80. Her elderly mother had to take care of her, as well as her father, who had been struggling with the side effects of cerebral thrombosis.

Ms. Jiang passed away on July 10, 2021. She was only 55.

His brother is now caring for her husband and her mother is looking after her 13-year-old daughter.

Two Years of Unlawful Detention

Ms. Jiang was arrested at the Baotou City Train Station on September 1, 2014, by Chen Huijun, the head of the Qingshan District Domestic Security Office and director of the Qingshan District 610 Office.

Established on June 10, 1999, a month before the Chinese Communist Party formally launched the persecution of Falun Gong, the sole mission of the 610 Office was to eradicate Falun Gong from China.

The Qingshan District Procuratorate approved Ms. Jiang’s arrest in early October 2014. Despite the fact that the prosecutor returned her case several times to the police, citing insufficient evidence, Chen still refused to release her and continued his efforts to try to frame her.

Ms. Jiang’s husband went to various government agencies to seek her release while trying to keep up his full-time job. He often had no choice but to leave his four-year-old daughter at home alone and tell her to take good care of herself.

When the girl started kindergarten, she sometimes had to stay with her teacher when her father had to go on business trips out of town.

To care for the girl, Ms. Jiang’s mother and incapacitated father later traveled nearly 550 miles, from Hexigten Banner in Inner Mongolia to Baotou. The grandmother was so distraught by the family’s ordeal that she fell while mopping the floor one day and couldn’t walk for a long time.

Her fall further stressed her son-in-law, who at the time had to take care of his daughter and parents-in-law, while still working to rescue his wife and keeping up with his job. His hair turned gray in just a few days.

Meanwhile, Chen deceived Ms. Jiang into admitting the charges fabricated against her. He promised to release her after she finished going through the prosecution process.

The Qingshan District Court tried Ms. Jiang four times. The last session on July 21, 2016, only lasted ten minutes, at which time judge Sun Jinmin kept ordering Ms. Jiang to plead guilty, which she refused to do.

On December 1, 2016, after two years and three months of detention, Ms. Jiang was released when the judge failed to collect sufficient evidence to sentence her.

Husband’s Plight

While Ms. Jiang was incarcerated, her husband spent all of their savings and borrowed even more to bribe the police, hoping to get her released. He often lost hope and felt helpless.

The mental and physical exhaustion, as well as the non-stop harassment of the family even after Ms. Jiang returned home, took a huge toll on his health. On the evening of June 23, 2019, he suddenly fell ill and was rushed to the hospital.

After a few days of treatment, the hospital wanted to discharge him, even though he was still in a coma, because the family couldn’t afford to pay. Ms. Jiang sought help through a crowdfunding platform and the hospital finally allowed her husband to stay. The doctor said his condition was very dangerous. Even if they could keep him alive, he would be a vegetable for the rest of his life.

Before her husband woke up, several debt collectors came to find Ms. Jiang. Only then did she know how hard her husband had tried to rescue her. But he never told her how much he paid the police.

For the several months her husband was hospitalized, Ms. Jiang went every day to care for him. She usually cooked meals in the morning, adding the limited amount of meat she could afford to buy. She then ate the cheapest vegetables, such as potatoes, herself.

After her husband was discharged, she hired someone to help care for him. She installed a bar at home so he could practice walking. Meanwhile, she began to offer tutoring classes to make an income.

Continued Harassment

Shortly after Ms. Jiang’s husband returned home, the local police and residential committee staff members, sometimes ten or more at a time, came to harass her again, ordering her to renounce Falun Gong. The harassment lasted until August 2020.

When she refused to let the officers in, they pounded on the door and shouted at her. When they did break in, they stayed in her home for hours on end, ignoring how much the harassment distressed her incapacitated husband.

The harassment was so stressful that Ms. Jiang began to have hallucinations and thought the police were knocking on the door all the time. Meanwhile, she still worked with the caregiver to help her husband rehabilitate, even when a lump in her chest started to grow and cause excruciating pain on the left side of her body.

As her own condition continued to worsen, she eventually lost the strength to help care for her husband. To avoid further harassment, she left her husband and daughter with the caregiver and traveled thousands of miles by herself to a relative’s home, hoping to recover there. By the time she arrived at her relative’s apartment building, she was so exhausted that she almost didn’t have the strength to make it upstairs.

Only a few days after she left her own home, the authorities came again to harass her.

To prevent her relative from being implicated, she later went to her mother’s so her mother could care for her. After the authorities found out, they began to call her mother and harass her.

When her mother told the officers how bad off Ms. Jiang was, they asked for a hospital diagnosis and photos. Even after her family sent the required information, five officials from the Political and Legal Affairs Committee still went to her mother’s home to check on her.

By then, Ms. Jiang had already become bedridden and wasn’t able to move. Her breast was hard and extremely swollen.

After the Political and Legal Affairs Committee officials returned to Baotou, they drove away the caregiver that Ms. Jiang hired and moved her husband to a community shelter for the homeless.

Not long after, Ms. Jiang passed away, leaving behind her young daughter, incapacitated husband, and elderly parents.