Six Falun Dafa Practitioners from Jilin, Liaoning and Sichuan Provinces Died as a Result of the Persecution

Mr. Jia Hongxin, sixty-six years old, was an officer of the Jilin Province Ganan County Art and Physical Education Department. He started practising Falun Dafa in 1996. Before he learned Falun Dafa, Mr. Jia had suffered a stroke and a brain hemorrhage. He had internal bleeding of the cerebellum for two weeks due to a serious motorcycle accident, which left him mentally disoriented and without the full use of the right side of his body, but he quickly recovered after practising Falun Dafa. He was even able to take part-time jobs after he retired. After the Chinese government started to persecute Falun Dafa on July 20th 1999, however, the police frequently went to Jia Hongxin's home and harassed him. They also repeatedly made illegal searches of his home several times a day, taking anything they wanted. In May 2000, Jia Hongxin went to the police department to apply for a retirement I.D. card. Instead, he was detained for fifteen days after the police falsely accused him of having written the cover page of an anonymous letter in support of Falun Dafa. One July evening that year, Zhao Yanhai from the Administration and Security Section of the police department and four other police officers surrounded Mr. Jia's home and accused him of sending letters. Incidents of this nature began to occur regularly, but Jia Hongxin wouldn't cooperate with the police harassment, and he was forced to move out of his home to avoid persecution. In 2003, when Mr. Jian returned to sell his home, seven policemen, including Yang Xiufeng, were dispatched to search his home again. After being repeatedly threatened and hounded, Jia Hongxin suffered a relapse of his former illness, and he passed away on May 23rd 2004.

Ms. Lin Yongqin was seventy-three years old, and she was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jilin Province, Lishu County. After her daughter Dai Chunhua was tortured to death on March 9th 2002 at the Siping City Jail in Jilin Province, local policemen often went to Ms. Lin's home to harass her, which caused her illnesses to return. Ms. Lin Yongqin passed away in December 2004.

Ms. Cui Shufan was sixty-nine years old, and she was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Jilin Province, Lishu County. She started practising Falun Dafa in October 1997, and she benefited both physically and emotionally. Many of her illness disappeared. After July 20th 1999, Ms. Cui was frequently harassed and mentally tortured by policemen from the local police department, and she was unable to study Dafa and practise the exercises regularly. Because of this, her old illnesses returned, and Ms. Cui passed away on April 22nd 2004.

Mr. Yan Haihe was fifty-four years old, and he was an employee at Jilin Province, Lishu County Teacher's College. He and his wife learned about Falun Dafa together in 1996. His wife was illegally detained in a forced labour camp twice since 2001, for a total of four years, because she refused to give up Falun Dafa. Mr. Yan took care of their thirteen-year-old child, who is still in school, by himself. He was frequently harassed at his home by policemen and his employer, and he died on May 7th 2004.

Mr. Ding Yongtao was an eighty-four-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Liaoning Province, Dalian City. Before he started practising Falun Dafa, he suffered from chronic atrophy of the cerebellum, hypertension, brain aneurysm, heart ischemia, mal-absorption in the stomach and intestines, and constipation. He relied on medication to keep him alive and was cared by family members. Mr. Ding started practising Falun Dafa in 1998. After seven days, his digestive system became normal, he no longer needed his cane, and when he went to the hospital for a physical examination, every test indicated that his physical functions were within normal parameters. After July 20th 1999, Mr. Ding lost the environment to continue practising Falun Dafa and his physical condition became worse and worse. He passed away on November 15th 2004.

Ms. Xiao Jizhen was eighty-one years old. She lived in Xichang City, Sichuan Province. In March 2001, her eldest daughter went out to expose the persecution, and she was arrested and sent to jail. Knowing what had happened to her daughter put tremendous mental pressure on Xiao Xuizhen. In addition, national security officers went to her home and harassed her, and sent her daughter to Zizhongnanmusi Forced Labour Camp, where she was tortured until she suffered a mental collapse. Personnel from the forced labour camp notified her family to take her back home when she was in critical condition. Xiao Jizhen was in extreme grief when she saw her daughter's condition. She tripped and fell at home on April 10th 2004, and passed way on April 14th 2004.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/9/1/109565.html