Ms. Ma Guifen and Ms. Cui Dengzhi from Shandong Province and Ms. Zhu Yuting from Hebei Province Passed Away as a Result of Persecution

Ms. Ma Guifen, a 58-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner, was employed by the Jinan City Casting & Forging Institute in Shandong Province. She started practising Falun Dafa in 1996, and her husband and son soon joined her. After the persecution started in 1999, their home was ransacked, and the police extorted money from them many times, leaving them penniless. Her husband and son were both sentenced to three years of forced labour in 2001, while her employer forced her to attend a brainwashing class and write a "guarantee statement" (1) or he would not pay her salary. Ms. Ma Guifen refused to cooperate. She often did not have enough money to buy food. The long-term effect of this torture and harassment affected her deeply. She died of a stroke on February 18, 2004.

Ms. Cui Guizhi was a 57-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner who lived in Wendeng City, Shandong Province. She began the practice in 1998, and her long-term diabetes was cured. She was arrested many times, detained in brainwashing classes, and had two thousand yuan (2) extorted from her. She passed away soon after being sent home on September 15, 2002.

Ms. Zhu Yuting was a 58-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from a village in Wangdu County, Hebei Province. Before she began practising Falun Gong, she suffered high blood pressure, heart disease, chronic headaches, and lower back and leg pain. She started practising in 1997, and all her illnesses were gone within a half month. She cultivated diligently and became very healthy. After July 20, 1999, officials from the village and township went to her home repeatedly to harass her. Several fellow practitioners went to Beijing to appeal in 2000, resulting in the police detaining all of the practitioners in the township in one room, and not allowing them to go home. Ms. Zhu Yuting was brutally beaten by police that day. The police claimed that, although she did not go to Beijing, the others were directed by her to go, and that she was hiding information. Ms. Zhu Yuting passed away as a result of the persecution on December 13, 2000.

Note:

(1) "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

(2) "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/2/22/95947.html