Ms. Li Bo and Mr. Li Daiquan Died as a Result of the Persecution

Ms. Li Bo from Huludao City, Liaoning Province, died on May 9th, 2009, at the age of 39 as a result of repeated harassment and persecution.

Ms. Li lived in Wujintang Village, Huangtukan Township, Huludao City, Liaoning Province. After she got married in 1990, she suffered from tuberculosis and hyperthyroid. She spent a lot of money for treatments, which caused tremendous financial hardship to the family. One day in the later half of 1997, a practitioner invited her to learn Falun Gong. She began to practise the exercises and her health improved with each passing day. The improvement of her health prompted her to ask her parents to learn Falun Gong. He parents' home became a practice site and the number of practitioners grew from 4 to over 20.

On July 20th, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party began to persecute Falun Gong, a dozen or so practitioners in the village were arrested and fined 500 yuan¹ each. Ms. Li Bo went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in 2000 and was intercepted in Jinzhou City. She was arrested and taken to Nanpiao and was incarcerated in a detention centre and forced labour camp for five and a half months. She was then ordered to be sent to the notorious Masanjia Forced Labour Camp, which refused to take her in because she failed to pass the medical examination. Therefore, she was taken back to Nanpiao. When her family learned about this, they bailed her out for medical treatment but had 2,000 yuan extorted from them.

After that, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials went to her home to harass her on the so-called sensitive days. The local police chief changed very often, and each time they send police officers to practitioners' homes to harass them. Before and after the 2008 Beijing Olympics the police went to Ms. Li's home twice. Also during the CCP's two conferences in 2009: the National People's Congress and the national CCP conference.

On April 20th, 2009, the head of the local police department and the director of the village security section ransacked Ms. Li's home and grabbed 8 Falun Gong materials exposing the persecution.. The following day police officer Xu and the village security officials went to Ms. Li's home a second time. They did not leave until they found out that Ms. Li had been hospitalized.

The repeated harassments put Ms. Li Bo and her family under a lot of pressure. Ms. Li went to the hospital on April 12th and returned home on April 27th. She passed away on May 9th.

Mr. Li Daiquan, 56 years old, from the Nanpiao District went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, and March 13th, 2000. In the evening on June 24th, 2001, he was arrested by the Shaguotun Township Police Station for writing "Falun Gong is good" and locked up in a detention centre. As a result, he was physically and mentally abused. After being released from the detention centre, he wandered around to avoid being arrested again. He was sent home in November 2003 after suffering a stroke. He passed away on March 20th, 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/2009/6/20/203080.html