Zhou Yong, 34, fell to his death from a sixth-floor window in the southwestern city of Chengdu on September 29, the Falun Dafa Information Center said.
A statement from the group said police reported Zhou had jumped from the window.[Police disguise deaths of Falun Gong practitioners with excuses such as "jumped from window,car,train" or "suicide"-editor]
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An official in the security office of the Chengdu City Factory of Air Compression Machinery, where Zhou worked as a technical supervisor, confirmed Zhou had died but refused to comment further.
Police in Chendu, the capital of Sichuan province, also declined to comment.
The U.S.-based Falun Gong centre says almost 300 followers have died in custody since the group was outlawed in 1999.
Reports of such deaths have proved difficult to verify, but independent human rights groups have put the toll at more than 150.
Before it was outlawed, independent estimates put the number of followers of the group … in the tens of millions.
After the ban was imposed Falun Gong adherents staged regular protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, ..
Source: http://www.europeaninternet.com/china/news.php3?id=701266§ion=default
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