Ms. Zhang Fengqing, 52 years old, was an employee of the Kaiping Chemical Plant in Tangshan City, Hebei Province. Before she started practising Falun Gong, she suffered from leukemia. She spent hundreds of thousands of yuan (1) on medical treatments, but nothing helped. She was dying. In 1996, Ms. Zhang began to practise Falun Gong, which gave her a new life. She was cured of leukemia.
In May 2001, when she went out to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, the police arrested her. She was held in the detention centre and suffered persecution. Not being able to practise Falun Gong in the detention centre, she got sick and the police had to release her. After she returned home, Ms. Zhang resumed practising Falun Gong, and her health recovered.
In 2002 when an official at the 610 Office (2) asked her if she would continue to practise Falun Gong, she said she would not give up such a good qigong practice. She was then taken to a brainwashing centre and persecuted. The policemen tried to force her husband to divorce her, but he refused. She was finally released because she was steadfast in her belief.
Although she was released, Ms. Zhang was constantly harassed by the police from the local police station, and she couldn't practise on a regular basis or lead a normal life. As a result, her old disease recurred. On April 1, 2005, she passed away.
Note:
(1) "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
(2) "The 610 office" is 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://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/4/12/99437.html
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