Name: Yang Shunyin (杨舜英)
Gender: Female
Age: 54
Address: Residential area of the Xiangtan City Police Department
Occupation: Worker at Xiangtan Textile Factory
Date of Death: December 5, 2012
Date of Most Recent Arrest: March 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Changsha Women's Prison (长沙女子监狱)
City: Xiangtan
Province: Hunan
Persecution Suffered: Forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, forced injections/drug administration, imprisonment, home ransacked, detention

(Minghui.org) Because she persisted in practicing Falun Gong, Ms. Yang Shunying was persecuted repeatedly by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On December 5, 2012, she died at the age of 54. Prior to the 18th Communist Party Congress, officials from the Xiangtan City Gongrenxincun Community came to visit the extremely emaciated Ms. Yang, who denounced these local party officials, telling them: “I am a feeble woman. You have persecuted me for my beliefs. Not only have you put me in jail time after time, you have also injected me with toxins and have made my body like this. This is all your responsibility.”

Ms. Yang Shunying, who lived in the dormitory area of the Xiangtan City Police Department, worked for the Xiangtan Textile Factory. Upon practicing Falun Gong in 1997, she became healthy both physically and mentally. After the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in 1999, she went to Beijing in 2000 to petition on behalf of the practice, hoping that the authorities would stop the persecution. She was detained by the authorities, and she went on hunger strikes twice to protest the persecution.

Demonstration of the Cruel Torture: Injection of Unknown Drugs

Ms. Yang went to Beijing again in 2001 to petition and was arrested. The police shouted at those who refused to give their identification and threatened that they would be disemboweled. She was brought back to her hometown and then sent to the notorious Baimalong Drug Rehabilitation Center for one and a half years. She went on hunger strikes to protest and was injected with lethal drugs. When she questioned the doctor what kind of drug she was being injected with, the doctor said, with trembling hands, “It is a tonic.” The injection soon made her body fester and extremely itchy.

That same year of 2001, the leadership of the Xiangtan City Police Department repeatedly commanded her husband to divorce her, but the family and her husband declined. Her mother-in-law said to her son: “Where are you to find such a good daughter-in-law?” Her husband would rather be demoted and subjected to criticism, than divorce his wife.

On February 29, 2008, after a month of tracking, phone monitoring, and staking out, special agents from the Xiangtan City Domestic Security Division along with local police, arrested Falun Gong practitioners Yang Shunying, Xie Wangming Lu Xiqiong, Zhang Yaqin, and others. The police took away several computers, printers, copiers, cash, Dafa books, and truth-clarifying materials. Ms. Yang was detained in the Xiangtan Detention Center on March 1.

Several practitioners were illegally sentenced, and Ms. Yang was sentenced to three and a half years in prison. She was sent to the Changsha Women's Prison in March 2009. When her family and her children went to visit her, the guards told them that their mother refused to be “reformed” and that they were not allowed to visit her.

In order to make practitioners give up their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, the prison set up a brainwashing unit in the upstairs of the prison mess hall. The prison uses various means to torture them:

1. Long Term Standing: This punishment forces practitioners to stand for a long time, sometimes more than one month. Their feet swell and cause terrible pain and numbness. If they became unconscious and fall to the ground, the guard will drag them upright and continue the torment.

2. Squatting: Practitioners are forced to squat for a long time, which causes swelling to a considerable extent. If they are unable to squat, guards order criminal prisoners to force them to squat by pressing on their shoulders. This often causes numbness in the legs and seriously injures their muscles, blood vessels, and knee joints. The injuries cannot be detected from their outside appearance.

3. Prolonged sleep deprivation: Victims are not allowed to go to bed to sleep for consecutive weeks. It causes the victims to have loss of normal thinking, loss of memory, hallucinations, and confusion.

4. Disallowing family visits: This creates an environment of isolation and helplessness. Prison guards also make death threats. They not only force practitioners to stand, but also deprive them of sleep.

Other torture methods include: Putting practitioners in shackles and handcuffs, solitary confinement, etc. The atmosphere is extremely fearful. Even if practitioners are brainwashed to write a guarantee statement or three statements to give up their practice, prison guards do not relax their vigilance and continue to order inmates to watch them.

Ms. Wen Huiying, a practitioner from Taoyuan County, was persecuted and on the verge of death. She was sent home on February 12, 2010. She died two days later.

Ms. Yang Shunying was released two months “in advance” in July 2011. When she arrived home, she was extremely weak and without an appetite. She repeatedly told people to expose the wicked torture by the prison and the injection of harmful drugs.

The main villains arresting Ms. Yang Shunying are police officer Xu Fumin, a former director of the 610 Office, Zhao Yuefeng, and Yu Hu.