Ms. He Zhengshu, age 52, from Lu County, Sichuan Province, started to practise Falun Gong in 2003. In March 2004 Ms. He was persecuted by the head of the local Qifeng township police station. In the evening he went to her house and demanded that she hand over her Falun Gong materials, and even threatened her with a police baton. He shouted that if she did not hand them over the next day, then he would beat her to death. Under immense mental pressure after being excessively threatened, she died suddenly on the second day.
Ms. Zhang Hong, 24 to 25 years old, was a Dafa practitioner from Heitai Town, Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province. In 2000, the local Heitai police station and the political defence branch of the Mishan City police department arrested and detained her at the Mishan jail for more than 2 months. In 2002, she was taken to the Heitai police station and then to the township Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee to be brainwashed there. She was fined 3000 yuan (1) and sent home. She was again persecuted around the 2003 Chinese New Year, and she passed away in her home.
Mr. Wang Guangchun and Ms. Gao Liangqin, husband and wife, were Falun Gong practitioners in Qianertaizi Village, near Xinmin City, Liaoning Province. Ever since July 20th 1999, the residential party committee harassed them on a regular basis. During the 2000 and 2001 period, Ms. Gao Liangqin was arrested and taken to the Shenyang Longshan Forced Labour Camp. Mr. Wang Guangchun passed away in March of 2004. Ms. Gao Liangqin died in April 2005.
Ms. Liu Airong was 66 years old, a Xinzhuang villager from Liuhe Town, Changyi City, Shandong Province. She started practising Falun Gong in 1997, and many of her illnesses were cured. From then on she firmly believed in Dafa without any doubts. After the persecution of Dafa began, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa in June 2000. She was arrested and tortured by being hung from a light pole. Then she was detained and fined. Since she still firmly practised Falun Gong, on many occasions she was arrested, detained by the township government and harassed by the police. Under the brutal persecution of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), her body and mind suffered enormously. As a result, her old sicknesses developed again, and she passed away on May 1st 2002.
Mr. Sun Laiyuan, age 65, was a farmer from Louzike Village, Jimo City, Shandong Province. In 2000 he went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. However, en route to Beijing, in Weifang, he was arrested and taken back to his village. At the township government building, he was detained for 15 days. He was then held for 30 days at the village office and endured forced brainwashing. Then he was held captive at the Tongji government transformation brainwashing clinic for a day. Night and day, people would knock on the doors and windows of his house, and he received ongoing harassment and threats. Under such long-term pressure, Mr Sun passed away on May 20th 2001.
Mr. Wang Yuhua, 64, was from Yongqing County, Hebei Province. In October 1999, he was detained for seven days by the Sanshengkou County police. After he was released, he was harassed many times by the local Sanshengkou police, putting him under immense mental pressure. He passed away on June 17th 2001.
Ms. Wang Guihua was 54 years old. She went to Beijing three times to appeal for Falun Dafa. Once at the train station she was arrested. The police from the train station police station arrested her many times and harassed her at her home numerous times as well. Local officials also frequently went to her home to harass her. Ms. Wang Guihua passed away on August 25th 2005.
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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.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/7/107908.html
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