Belated News: Three Falun Dafa Practitioners from Chongqing Die During the Persecution

Local police in Chongqing City tortured Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Nie Jiheng, Ms. Yang Xiaoping and Ms. Zeng Chaobi, all three of whom have since died as a result of the persecution.

Mr. Nie Jiheng, in his sixties, was a senior engineer at the Chongqing Chemical Plant who began practising Falun Dafa in 1995. Because he firmly held to his belief, even after the persecution began on July 20, 1999, police arrested him on May 24, 2003 in Chongqing. He was detained at the Banan Detention Centre and died in Huaxi Hospital soon afterwards. The police fabricated a lie, saying that he had committed suicide by jumping from the building. Before dying, Mr. Nie wrote a note to his wife on a scrap of paper, "I hope the truth will be exposed on the Internet that my death was a direct result of the persecution." A fellow practitioner who was over eighty years old carried the note from the detention centre, but unfortunately, the note has since been lost.

Sixty-five-year-old Ms. Yang Xiaoping lived in Chongqing. She began practising Falun Dafa in May 1994, and had visited each of the Chongqing counties, districts, mountain areas and surrounding countryside to spread Falun Dafa and distribute truth-clarification materials. After July 20, 1999, police often harassed her at her home, tried to force her to abandon Falun Dafa and forbade her from doing the exercises. Ms. Yang was severely tortured, both mentally and physically, all because she firmly held to her belief. Ms. Yang Xiaoping died on October 10, 1999.

Forty-year-old Ms. Zeng Chaobi lived in the dormitory of Chongqing No.4 Construction Company, in Chongqing. She began practising Falun Dafa in 1998, and continued to practise after the persecution began on July 20, 1999. Despite the persecution, Ms. Zeng remained steadfast and actively clarified the truth to people. In November 2000, the police ransacked her house and confiscated some Falun Dafa truth-clarification materials, some of which she had created herself, and then detained her. The police continued to harass her, even after she had been released from the detention centre. Ms. Zeng Chaobi died in early 2001.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/11/12/88958.html