His Physical Body Severely Damaged and Intense Psychological Stress Leads to Death of Shulan City Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Chen Dexi

36-year-old Shulan City Falun Dafa practitioner, Mr. Chen Dexi, had been sent to forced labour camps on two separate occasions as a result of going to Beijing to appeal. He was severely tortured in Huanxiling Forced Labour Camp in Jilin City, but was still forced to work even though he suffered injuries covering the entire body. After his release, he was never able to recover from either the mental or the physical abuse that he had endured in the forced labour camps, and he ultimately passed away in October 2003.

The Jiang regime began persecuting Falun Dafa in July 1999. Chen Dexi had benefited from Falun Dafa, so he went to Beijing to appeal in August 1999. He was subsequently detained fifteen days in Shulan City Detention Centre in September 1999. He was arrested again while he was harvesting his field, and again detained in Shulan City Detention Centre, this time for about forty days, until the police could extort 1000 yuan (1) from him.

On February 15, 2000, Mr. Chen Dexi went to Beijing to appeal again, and was arrested and detained in Jilin Province's Laozin Office in Beijing. He was escorted back home by local police, detained in Shulan City Detention Centre, and sentenced to one year in Huanxiling Labour Camp in Jilin City, where he endured many types of torture, leaving his entire body swollen. The Labour Camp administration refused to give him medical treatment, and let him rest only seven days, after which he was forced to resume his normal labour. He was not released until after his term had been extended an additional eight months. This long period of forced labour is what ruined his health.

Chen Dexi was picked up by agents of the Shulan City "610 Office" (2) on October 5, 2001. They locked him in Shulan City Mental Hospital to attend a brainwashing class. To protest the uncalled for persecution Mr. Chen went on a hunger strike for eleven days . His family was extorted out of another 1000 yuan before taking him home.

He was severely mistreated during these illegal detentions. He was deprived of the right to medical treatment, and was prohibited from doing the Falun Dafa exercises. His physical body was severely damaged, as well as intense psychological stress, neither of which he could recover from upon returning home, finally leading to his death on October 25, 2003.

(1) yuan: The Chinese currency; the average monthly salary of an urban worker is 500 yuan.

(2)"610 Office": 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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/3/10/69591.html