Two Over-60-year-old Female Falun Gong Practitioners, Ms. Luo Sufang and Ms. Shen Daoqiu from Sichuan Province, Died as a Result of Torture

Falun Gong practitioner Luo Sufang from Shuangliu County, Sichuan Province was arrested in October 2002 and died as a result of torture. The perpetrators were Liang Hongquan and other officers from the Chengguan Police Station.

Nurse Shen Daoqiu from the Sichuan Province Highway Hospital was tortured many times while she was illegally detained in the Pi County Detention Centre and died in the second half of 2003.

Ms. Luo Sufang, 60 years old, was a retired employee from the Sichuan Province Transportation Department. In 2002, she went to Beijing to appeal for the end of the persecution of Falun Dafa. Policemen from the Chengguan Town Police Station brought her back. She was in detention for a month. In October 2002, when she was distributing Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials, she was again arrested. Policemen tormented her. She was detained for seven days. She died four days after being sent back home.

Ms. Shen Daoqiu, 61 years old, was a nurse from the Sichuan Provincial Highway Hospital. Before she practised Falun Gong, she had many diseases, including pharyngitis [a throat disease involving the tonsils]. She had to stay in the hospital and rely on injections and medicine to survive. In 1997, she obtained Falun Dafa and recovered within one year. Since the persecution started in 1999, she went to the Sichuan Province government to peacefully appeal and uphold Dafa. In October 1999, she went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to appeal and the police arrested her. Persons from her work unit and the police station where her work unit was located escorted her to the Pi County Detention Centre. She was detained for over a month and suffered both mental and physical trauma. She was fined over 10,000 Yuan and her salary was also cut.

After Chen Daoqiu was released, she continued to do many things to clarify the facts and uphold Dafa. She was illegally detained in the Pi County Detention Centre's brainwashing class and suffered much mental and physical torture.

After she left the brainwashing class in 2000, as she was often threatened, monitored, coerced for a confession and tortured by persons from the 610 Office in Pi County and the police department, her health was seriously damaged. Her past illness recurred and she died in the second half of 2003 at the age of 61 years old.

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