Two Practitioners Die Under Persecution In Liaoning and Hubei Provinces

Mr. Yang Yushan Dies in Liaoning Province

Mr. Yang Yushan, 76, lived in the Retired Army Officer Home on the Zhuanshan Army Base in Dalian City. In nine years of persecution, Mr. Yang and his wife (also a practitioner) went to Beijing to appeal and explain that Falun Gong is a good practice. They were threatened and detained in the Dalian City Drug Rehabilitation Centre, the Yaojia Detention Centre, and the Dalian City Labour Camp. Their home was ransacked many times. Mr. Yang died on September 5th, 2008 as a result of both mental and physical injuries.

Mr. Li Changmao Dies in Hubei Province

Mr. Li Changmao, less than 60 years old, lived in Qiting Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province. He began practising Falun Gong in 1995, and both his mind and his body benefited. He was brutally mistreated multiple times. On February 24th, 2002, officers from the Songbu Police Station and the Macheng City 610 Office¹ arrested him from his home and sent him to the Shizishan Forced Labour Camp with a one-year term. He was cruelly beaten many times while forced to do slave labour.

At 9 p.m. on June 19th, 2008, police from the Macheng City Department, the Domestic Security Division, and the Qiting Station combined forces to ransack his home and arrest him. He suffered the recurrence of an old sickness while being arrested, and he was rushed to the hospital. The Macheng City Domestic Security Division detained him for 15 days in the Second Detention Centre after he had recovered just a little bit. On the morning of February 8th, 2009, he went out to deliver Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution, and he was found dead by the 106 State Road, about 500 yards away from his home. The direct cause of his death is unknown.

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/2/14/195441.html