Man Unable to Recognise his Wife after she is Beaten to Death for Practising Falun Dafa

Hao Runjuan was watching a video with a fellow practitioner at home in the afternoon on the day she was arrested. Police came and knocked on her door for more than 20 minutes, but Hao Runjuan didn't answer. The police pretended to leave and the fellow practitioner left. Hao Runjuan asked her husband to pick up their son and they planned to move out for a period of time. When her husband returned with their son, Hao Runjuan was gone.

According to information from supportive police officers, Hao Runjuan was illegally arrested on February 25, 2002 and taken to the police station. Three days later she was sent to Baiyun District Detention Centre. During her detention period she firmly refused to cooperate and told both the prisoners and the guards the truth about the persecution. She called on other Dafa practitioners to join her in a hunger strike to protest their illegal detention. She was later transferred and detained in a solitary cell. Hao Runjuan began a hunger strike on the day her detention began, and one week later the police force-fed her, but Hao Runjuan never cooperated.

Because the weather turned cold during the time of detention, Hao Runjuan's family tried to send her clothes, but the police prohibited this, knowing that she was wearing only thin clothes. They also prohibited visits by family members. The police did not pay any attention even when Hao Runjuan showed symptoms of pneumonia, and did not notify her family about her illness. The police also would not allow hospital treatment causing Hao Runjuan's health to decline. On March 18, 2002, right after the police force-fed her, Hao Runjuan said weakly, "I'm going to die," before she passed away.

The police notified Hao Runjuan's husband to deal with the funeral arrangements. Upon seeing his wife's body, because her features had changed from the severe torture and beatings, he could not recognize her. He did not believe that this was his wife and took his 20-month-old son for a maternity test [or DNA test to relate the son and his mother]. When the result showed that the body was indeed that of his wife, he burst into tears in front of everyone. Twenty-two days earlier she was still a healthy person, and now she was dead from torture and her facial features were completely unrecognisable.

After the tragedy took place, the criminal police became fearful. The prosecutor and police department authorities directly got involved in this case, and they forced Hao Runjuan's husband, her father and sister to send her body to a hospital for a hasty cremation.

A lively, healthy person was tortured to death in barely 22 days after being kidnapped by police. The people who murdered Dafa practitioner Hao Runjuan will receive due punishment according to the law.