Two Older Practitioners Die as a Result of Long-Term Persecution

Retired Teacher Ms. Luo Yingjie Dies after Long Term Persecution in Chengdu City

Ms. Luo Yingjie, 77, was a retired teacher employed by the Qingyang District Education Bureau, and lived in the teachers' complex located in Jiuliti Community, Jinniu District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. She began practising Falun Gong in 1997. She suffered from many diseases before, but they all miraculously healed after she started practising. Because she firmly held on to her faith, she had been detained many times during the persecution.

On September 29th, 2002, officers from Yingkoumen Police Station arrested Ms. Luo at her home and detained her in the Chengdu City Detention Centre for more than 30 days. On June 3rd, 2003, she was arrested again and detained in the Twenty-Fourth Cell, Eleventh Ward in the Chengdu City Detention Centre for ten months. She was secretly sentenced to four years in prison in April 2004; she was 72 years old. She served the term in the Yangmahe Women's Prison located in Jianyang City.

She was released in June 2007. The retirement office under the Qingyang District Education Bureau reduced her monthly retirement payment from more than 1000 yuan¹ to only 400 yuan. They forced her to write a Guarantee Statement to give up Falun Gong many times. Ms. Luo deeply understood that Falun Gong is good and firmly continued to practise. But the long term mental torture ruined her health. She died on January 9th, 2009.

Ms. Zhang Yuhua Dies under Persecution in Jilin Province

Ms. Zhang Yuhua, 58, lived in Liuhe County, Jilin Province. On May 4th, 2003, she went to the countryside to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, and she was arrested and taken to the Taipingchuan Township Police Station. The officers took her to the Liuhe County Detention Centre and had her sentenced to three years of forced labour after she was detained there for more than four months.

Ms. Zhang entered Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in August 2003. She had a stroke and developed cortical cerebellar atrophy due to being brutally mistreated. Her family picked her up, but the local police still required her to write a monthly report to the labour camp. She died on January 5th, 2009.

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/2009/1/15/193487.html