Four More Dafa Practitioners Die from Torture -Shocking Death Toll Reaches 636

News from northeastern China reports that 4 more Dafa practitioners have died due to torture. They are Ms Yin Ling, Wang Wenxue from Heilongjiang Province, Ms Han Chunyuan and Ms Zhang Zhenqiu from Jilin Province. According to incomplete statistics, the verified death toll of Dafa practitioners has reached 636. However, according to internal statistics from the Chinese police department, by the end of October 2002, approximately 1,600 practitioners had been tortured to death in labour camps.

Nine-Year-Old Loses His Mother as Female Dafa Practitioner Yin Ling Tortured to Death

On August 28 2001, less than 20 minutes after Yin Ling and her son came back from a holiday, seven to eight policemen broke into their home and forcibly took Yin away without any reason. Her 9-year-old son cried, "Mum, where are they taking you? I'm scared." Mother and son were thus separated; her son has had no one to care for him since.

As a matter of fact, even before Yin Ling's return from her holiday, the police had broken in and rummaged through her home 4 times. They also went to her parents' home and took the elderly couple away as hostages. Her parents were still not released, even after Yin Ling's arrest.

Yin Ling was sent to the Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp where she was subjected to brutal torture. On October 28 2002, Yin Ling went on a hunger strike to protest her illegal detention at the labour camp. She developed generalised swelling, her lower abdomen was distended, and she lost consciousness twice. But the vicious guards did not stop their torture; they kept her shackled to a bed 24 hours a day. She was extremely weak, unable to urinate, and required catheterisation. Not until she was on the verge of death did the labour camp officials notify her family to take her home on November 13 2002. She died on December 11 2002.

(Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/3/17/33424.html)

Father and Two Daughters Arrested and Beaten-- The Younger Daughter Was Tortured to Death and the Elder Daughter Committed to Mental Hospital

Because they practise Falun Dafa, Han Chunyuan, her father Han Deshan and her elder sister Han Chunyan have encountered numerous forms of persecutions, including detention, forced labour, and even imprisonment.

While distributing Dafa materials in Siping City, Han Chunyuan was arrested and then sentenced to four years in prison for refusing to give up her belief in Dafa. She was incarcerated at the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. There, she was shocked with electric batons by a policeman named Jiang for an entire afternoon until she passed out. When she regained consciousness, the policeman shocked her again. In July 2002, she was tortured to death.

Her sister, Han Chunyan was imprisoned in Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp, and endured cruel tortures for a long time for not giving up her belief. Later, Chunyan was forcibly committed to a mental hospital and injected with psychotropic drugs. She received severe inhuman treatment.

(Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/3/16/33384.html)

Retired Worker Wang Wenxue Tortured to Death

Mr. Wang Wenxue, a 63-year-old Falun Gong practitioner and retired worker from Harbin Airplane Manufacturing Company, lived in the Pingfang District of Harbin City in Heilongjiang Province.

Because he persisted in his practice of Dafa, he was illegally arrested on June 1 2000, and detained at the Pingfang District Detention Centre for 15 days. It was June and the temperature was over 90^oF. The police stripped off his clothes, forced him to lie on the sizzling cement floor and incited the jailed criminals to beat him. Mr. Wang died 29 days after he was released.

(Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/3/17/33423.html)

Zhang Zhenqiu Tortured to Death Five Days After Her Arrest

Dafa practitioner Ms Zhang Zhenqiu was a 43 year old worker who lived on the second floor of unit one of the Tire Manufactory Residential Building in Changchun City, Jilin Province.

On February 20 2003, Ms. Zhang was reported to the police for telling people the truth about Falun Dafa and was thus arrested. The police brutally tortured her in the Kuancheng District Police Department. It was not until she was near death that they stopped the torture and sent her to the Armed Police Hospital for emergency treatment. However, she died despite the rescue efforts. On February 25 2003, the police cremated her body without allowing her family to identify her.

(Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/3/19/33501.html)

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