The Persecution and Death of Mr. Li Guoshun, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Fujian Province

Li Guoshun, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Baisha Town, Longyan City, Fujian province, was arrested on August 23rd 2004 while he was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. Li Guoshun protested the persecution by starting a hunger strike. He was persecuted to death on October 14th. The local officials and police intentionally delayed his treatment and tried very hard to shift the responsibility and cover up their criminal acts.

1. The labour camp refused to allow him to go home for treatment. When Li Guoshun first started the hunger strike, his mother requested twice to take him home for treatment but was refused.

2. The prison hospital did not adopt any treatment. According to the labour camp's regulations, inmates at the labour camp should be sent to the local hospital because they are able to give better treatment than the prison hospital. But the labour camp intentionally sent Li Guoshun to the prison hospital, which has very poor medical treatments. The hospital did not perform any treatment on him and let his situation continue to develop. Their purpose was to let him die. After he was sent to the prison hospital, his mother called the hospital several times and no one knew Li Guoshun's situation. When he was sent to the No. 2 Hospital, Li Guoshun suffered from blood vessel cirrhosis (i.e., the hardening of blood vessels). The doctor immediately said that it would not be like that if the prison hospital had adopted some treatment earlier. It shows that Li Guoshun did not get any treatment at all. The police dared not to provide his family his illness case history in the prison hospital and the No. 2 Hospital. It is obvious that they are worried that people will find out later what really happened. They are afraid to let others know what they did and they purposely tried to cover it up.

3. On the afternoon of October 3rd 2004, Li Guoshun was sent to the Longyan No. 2 Hospital from Minxi Prison Hospital. The No. 2 Hospital immediately wrote a notice of him being critically ill. However, he didn't get any effective treatment. From October 3rd to 6th, Li Guoshun's treatment was delayed for over two days. On October 4th, the patient paid four different treatment fees, totally over 1000 yuan¹. The overall expenses added up to be over 3,000 yuan. All the expenses were charged to the patient, and the labour camp refused to take on any of the medical expenses. After the No. 2 Hospital sent out the notice, Li's mother went to the labour camp and asked for help from the leaders there, and they had no choice but to try to save him, much too late.

After Li Guoshun died as a result of persecution, Jian Zhanyue, the team leader of the special case group, claimed that Li Guoshun's death served him right. Li Qingming, the assistant director of the police station, threatened Li Guoshun's family and relatives several times. The local authorities cremated Li Guoshun's body without a signature of agreement from any of his relatives.

Note

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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/9/8/109988.html