Four Falun Dafa Practitioners from Beijing and Hebei Province Die from Persecution

Ms. Wang Haiying, 42, lived in Miyun County, Beijing. She started practicing Falun Dafa in December 1997, and went to appeal many times after July 20, 1999, when the persecution began. She was harassed and closely monitored, and was not allowed to leave home. Under tremendous mental and physical pressure, she died in January 2004.

Ms. Zheng Zongying, 44, lived in Miyun County, Bejing City. She was gravely ill before she learned Falun Dafa, but became healthy after starting the practice in 1998. She knew from the bottom of her heart that Falun Dafa gave her a second life. After Jiang Zemin's faction began persecuting Falun Gong, she went to Beijing to appeal in 2001. She was arrested by police in Tiananmen Square, and was sent to the Pinggu County Detention Centre. There she was severely beaten, and incurred injuries all over her body. Ms. Zheng's health deteriorated after she was released, and she died in late 2001.

Mr. Liu Yu, 70, lived in Pingquan County, Hebei Province. He recovered from many ailments after he started practising Falun Dafa in 1996, and he volunteered to lead a practice group in his home. He was arrested in 2001, and held at the Pingquan County Detention Centre for 100 days. Mr. Liu endured extensive torture for persevering with the practice. His illnesses returned in November 2003, and he died.

Ms. Gong Baohua, 44, lived in distributing leaflets exposing the persecution, she was arrested by police and held at the Chengde County Detention Centre for over two months. She was ordered to write the three statements (1), and was released after paying a fine of seven thousand yuan (2). Upon returning home, the Chengde County Police Station Political and Security Office ordered her three times to report to the office. Ms Gong was frightened, and did not go. She was under tremendous pressure. Her husband forbade her from practising, which caused her great pain. She suffered from gallbladder cancer in June 2004, and the operation cost more than two thousand yuan. Her old ailments returned after the operation, and she died on the morning of April 14, 2005.

Note:

(1) "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.

(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.ca/mh/articles/2005/4/16/99751.html