Older Ms. Yang Zhengbi Dies as a Result of Long-Term Persecution

Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Yang Zhengbi, 54, lived in Dongxing District, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province. She started practising and experiencing Falun Dafa in August, 1996.

On July 20th, 1999, when Jiang Zemin's [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] and his regime began persecuting Falun Gong, Ms. Yang went to Chengdu City, the provincial capital, to appeal for the reputation of Falun Dafa. She also went to Beijing to appeal in September 2000 with her fellow practitioners. She was arrested by agents of the Domestic Security Division of the Dongxing District Police Department, detained in the Dongxing District Detention Centre, and sentenced to one year of forced labour. The camp rejected her due to her high blood pressure, and her term was changed to probation with ten thousand yuan¹ of "guarantee" money extorted from her family.

In July 2001, Domestic Security Division Leader Huang Junzhong (male) led a group of officers and arrested Ms. Yang again. They detained her in the district detention centre. They ransacked her home, took her Falun Dafa books, and transferred her to the Neijiang City Detention Centre. They issued an arrest warrant after detaining her for one month and sentenced her to four years in prison. She was taken to the Yangmahe Prison located in Jianyang City and later transferred to the Longquayi Prison in western Sichuan Province. At the same time, her husband Mr. Qiu Yonglin (also a practitioner) was sentenced to three years in prison for appealing in Beijing and taken to Deyang Prison.

In 2005, Mr. Qiu Yonglin was arrested again by police from the Xilin Station in Dongxing District while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. They detained him in the Dongxing District Detention Centre, brutally beat him, and then sentenced him to another year of forced labour in the Mianyang City Labour Camp. The guards in the Mianyang City Labour Camp did not allow his wife to see him.

On July 17th, 2007, Ms. Yang was arrested by Yangliu Town police while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. She was detained in Dongxing District Detention Centre, and the Neijiang City Labour Camp Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee sentenced her to 15 months of forced labour. She was taken to the Zizhong Labour Camp, but the camp had to reject her due to her high blood pressure.

When she returned home, the local police and neighbourhood security came to her house five times to harass her between September and October 2007. They told Ms. Yang to get permission anytime she left the neighbourhood.

For the past years under persecution, Ms. Yang was tortured in the prison, labour camp, and put in detention centre many times. She could not even find peace in her home. This persecution severely hurt her mentally, physically, and financially. She died on November 6th, 2007.

Authorities involved with mistreating Ms. Yang:

Domestic Security Division of Dongxing District Police Department, Leader Huang Zhongjun (male)
Xilin Police Station in Dongxing District
Zhong District Police Department in Neijiang City, Deputy Director Zhou Fanglu (male, died of liver cancer)
Domestic Security Division, Leader Guo Zirong (male) of Zhong District Police Department
Former Domestic Security Division Leader Jiang Jian (male, under house arrest due to corruption)) of Zhong District Police Department

Note

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.ca/mh/articles/2007/11/28/167332.html