(Minghui.org) A 61-year-old disabled woman in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested on October 25, 2025, for filing complaints against those who tortured her for her faith, Falun Gong, during an earlier detention weeks ago.
Ms. Li Chunhua’s ordeal stemmed from her arrest on August 21, 2025, for writing information about Falun Gong in public places. Officers Li Hongyu, Qu Yongpeng, and Yang Zhongyu interrogated her in the basement of the Wulong Police Station, restraining her in a metal chair for over 30 hours. Years ago when she was persecuted, she sustained a fractured lumbar vertebra, and the prolonged sitting aggravated the injury to her lower back. She fainted during the interrogation. The head of the Longsha Domestic Security Office poured water over her ears and into her clothes and blew air into her face.
Ms. Li was carried to the Qiqihar City Detention Center on the evening of August 22. Officer Li said to the doctor in charge of examining all the incoming inmates, “She is very healthy. There is no need to exam her.”
Yang, the head of the Qiqihar Detention Center, also said to the doctor, “We’re good buddies—there’s no need to do the physical exam.” She was put in cell 211 and had a hard time falling asleep due to the pain.
On August 29, 2025, the police ordered two inmates, who were also made to wear handcuffs, to drag Ms. Li up and down the stairs for additional interrogation. Because their wrists hurt from the handcuffs, they yanked Ms. Li up and down, straining the muscles on her left shoulder and chest. The pain in her left ribs was so intense she couldn’t remain standing, so they put her in a wheelchair. She thought they were going to interrogate her, but they took her to a room to be photographed. She refused to let them take photos of her, so they took her back to the cell.
When the detention center doctor examined Ms. Li, he stabbed her legs and soles with an awl and saw she had no feeling in them. The doctor said to the police, “She is disabled.”
For the next two weeks, Ms. Li was bedridden. The pain kept her awake at night. She felt dizzy and had ringing in her ears and bloodshot eyes. Her organs were failing, and her abdomen was sunken. She couldn’t keep food down and threw up everything she ate. Her vomit was dark green. She felt her chest was burning and was very thirsty. She craved ice water. Unable to walk on her own, she had to be carried to the restroom when nature called.
Ms. Li demanded to file a complaint against the police. Guard Song Wei stood in front of her cell and said, “Don’t you want to write the complaint? Why don’t you get out of bed and write it yourself?”
Ms. Li struggled to the edge of the bed and rolled down to the floor. She then asked Song to move her to a wheelchair to write the complaint, but Song refused. The inmates carried Ms. Li back to her bed.
On September 8, 2025, the police took Ms. Li to the Qiqihar City 39 Hospital. She had an MRI of her lower back and an EKG of her heart. The police then released her on bail after extorting 20,000 yuan from her family. She was carried home by a family member.
In mid-September, Ms. Li filed criminal complaints with the Qiqihar City Procuratorate against the police and detention center guards for torturing her. In retaliation, the police arrested her again on October 25, 2025. They refused to tell her family where she was being detained and threatened to put her in jail without a trial.
Ms. Li, born on May 3, 1964, used to work for the Jianhua District Cultural Bureau. She was an award-winning photographer, author, and art teacher. After the Chinese Communist Party ordered the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, she was repeatedly targeted for upholding her faith. Her husband divorced her and she was given a one-year labor camp term in 1999. Her term was extended by ten months and she wasn’t released until August 2001. While in custody, she was beaten, deprived of sleep, held in solitary confinement, and hung up by the wrists. She also had to do forced labor, such as producing pesticide, without any protective equipment.
When the police attempted to arrest Ms. Li again on October 22, 2001, she fell from the fourth-floor building while trying to escape. She suffered fractures to her spine and ribs. Due to continued harassment, she was forced to live away from home in December 2001, only to be arrested again on May 24, 2003. The police beat her and shocked her with electric batons for hours. Fearing that she might die in custody, they abandoned her in a field.
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