Four Falun Dafa Practitioners in Hunan, Hebei, and Shandong Provinces Died Due to Persecution

Ms. Li Shuqiu, 48, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Yongzhou City, Hunan Province. In June 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa, but the police sent her back home and kept her in a detention centre for fifteen days. Police arrested her again on several subsequent occasions. In November 2000, the authorities held her in a detention centre for over a month for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. In 2001, she was sentenced to eighteen months of forced labour. She developed symptoms of breast cancer while in the labour camp. Her family members brought her home and forced her to submit to an operation. Ms. Li died in April 2002.

Ms. An Guiying, 69, was a Falun Dafa practitioner in the Baoding area of Hebei Province. After starting to practise Falun Dafa in 1996, many of her illnesses disappeared without medical treatment. Once the suppression of Falun Gong began in 1999, she appealed for the right to practise Falun Gong and told people the facts of Falun Dafa . In May 2001, the local police and officials from her residential committee forcibly removed her from her home and took her to a brainwashing centre. She went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. Officials from the facility dragged her to the courtyard and left her exposed to the sun, which caused her blood pressure to rise. The authorities coerced her husband, in his seventies, into writing a statement guaranteeing that she would stop practising Falun Gong. They also forced him to pay them 2,500 yuan¹. Ms. An was forced to live with constant harassment. In 2005, she began experiencing bodily discomfort, and she died on May 30th as a result of the persecution.

Mr. Zhu Zhisheng, 66, was a Falun Gong practitioner in Raoyang County, Hebei Province. In 2000, county police officers searched his home and extorted 6,000 yuan from him. Mr. Zhu died on the first day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar in 2000 following 22 days of continuous persecution.

Mr. Liu Chunqing, 66, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Xiaozheng Village in Huimin County, Shandong Province. In 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong and to tell the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda. The authorities detained him for a month and subjected him to various methods of torture, knocking his teeth out in the process. They extorted 2,000 yuan from him before releasing him on bail. The police arrested Mr. Liu on many subsequent occasions and ransacked his home. He was forced to endure constant humiliation and eventually died as a result of the persecution on July 12th, 2003.

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1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/9/29/111425.html