Two Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

Ms. Li Fengmei Dies as a Result of Persecution in Tianjin

Ms. Li Fengmei, 60, lived in the Tanggu District in Tianjin City. She began cultivating Falun Gong in 1996, and her severe stomach disease was cured soon after. She benefited from the practice both mentally and physically. After the persecution started in 1999, she firmly believed that Falun Gong had been wronged. She went to Beijing to tell the government how she had benefited from practising Falun Gong, but local police arrested her and took her back to her home town. They detained her for 15 days in the Tanggu District Detention Centre.

Ms. Li Fengmei

At the beginning of 2001, local police arrested her and took her to be brainwashed for one month in a brainwashing centre located in the Tanggu District Drug Rehabilitation Centre.

In April 2005, police arrested her again while she was talking to people about Falun Gong and sentenced her to 18 months of forced labour. She was imprisoned in the Banqiao Forced Labour Camp, where she suffered from severe abdominal oedema. She was released for medical treatment after a few months.

In 2007, police arrested her again and detained her in the Tanggu District Detention Centre. Ms. Li Fengmei passed away on August 30th, 2009.

Mr. Zhu Zhijun Dies in Wuhan City, Hubei Province

Mr. Zhu Zhijun, 73, lived in the Hanyang District in Wuhan City. At the end of 1999, after the persecution began, the Erqiao Community Administration and 610 Office¹ agents arrested Mr. Zhu and locked him up for four years in Qinduankou Prison. He was mentally and physically harmed while in prison. Even after he returned home, local agents kept monitoring and harassing him. He passed away on May 1st, 2009.

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/2009/9/29/209230.html