Five Falun Dafa Practitioners Young and Old Died Due to Persecution

Mr. Liu Liangmin, 60, was from Yutian County, Hebei Province. He was a deputy director of the town before he started practising Falun Dafa. Because they persisted in their practice of Falun Dafa, on July 20, 1999, he and his wife were detained for more than six months in a detention centre. During his detention, police officers shocked him simultaneously with four electric batons. He was locked in a metal cage for fifteen days, which was too small to allow one to stand upright. He was not allowed to sleep, and sometimes he was not even allowed to eat. Under this brutal torture, Liu Liangmin finally died in 2002.

Ms. Chen Shurong, 66, was a resident of Genhe City, Inner Mongolia. She started Falun Dafa cultivation in 1998 and her multiple illnesses disappeared and she became very healthy. In April 2001, police arrested her when she went to a Falun Dafa conference in another town. She was detained and was forced to pay a fine of 500 yuan (1). In November 2001, someone reported her to the police while she was distributing leaflets to expose the persecution. She was arrested, but her family members rescued her. In 2004, she was arrested again when she was studying Falun Dafa with other practitioners. She was detained for five days. Due to the constant harassment and persecution, she suffered immensely, both physically and mentally, and passed away.

Mr. Li Quzhu, 51, was a resident of Jiaxian County, Shandong Province. In July 2000, he was reported to police while he was making posters exposing the persecution. Three police officers followed him, abducted him, and savagely beat him. Later, he was detained in the Yutai Detention Centre and was brutally beaten again. The guards at the Yutai Detention Centre grabbed Li's hair, and kneeled and stomped on his chest. They slapped him and viciously beat him. His internal organs were injured from the beating, and he was released due to his physical condition. Later, his wife, who is also a Falun Dafa practitioner, was sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp. During those three years, Li's life was so miserable that each day felt like a year. His house was ransacked many times. Under constant threats and harassment, he died on October 2, 2003.

Ms. Gu Xiuhua, 40, was a resident of Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. She went to Beijing to appeal on April 25, 1999, and again in 2000. She was arrested and detained for two months in a brainwashing centre, where she suffered a great deal, both physically and mentally. In 2001, she went to the provincial government to appeal. As a result, she was arrested and her house was ransacked. She was fined 6000 yuan before being released, and she was then forced to become homeless to avoid the constant harassment from police. Her physical condition deteriorated gradually, and she died on November 27, 2004.

Mr. Zhang Lei, 23, was an employee of a computer company in Datong City, Shanxi Province. He started Falun Dafa cultivation in 1996. The police found him making leaflets to expose the persecution in November 2000, and he was forced to become homeless for a long time to avoid being persecuted. On November 9, 2001, he was arrested and detained by police officers in Datong City. For several days, he was forced to sleep on the cold concrete floor after police officers stripped him naked. In the detention centre, he had to share a cell with criminal offenders, and the police ordered the inmates to insult and beat him. The inmates poked his body with sharpened toothbrush handles. Zhang Lei was tortured for 10 months, and both his body and mind were seriously traumatised. In August 2002, he was released, but he suffered from many ailments. He died in February 2004.

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(1) "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/2005/3/16/97416.html