Seven Practitioners in Jilin, Liaoning and Hebei Provinces Who Died as a Result of Persecution

Ms. Hou Fengyun, 61 years old, was a Dafa practitioner in Changchun City, Jilin Province. At the end of 2001, she went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa and was sent to a forced labour camp for one year. Her family managed to get her out of the camp, but in the process, the authorities extorted ten thousand yuan¹ from her. Due to the prolonged and relentless harassment and mental torment, she died on August 26th 2004.

Mr. Li Shuyou, 63 years old, was a Dafa practitioner in Changchun, Jilin Province. He was the Chairman of the Union of The Transport Department's Highway Planning Institute in Jilin Province before he retired. In 2001, when he went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. He was arrested, sent back to Changchun and detained in the Daguang Detention Centre for half a month. His home was ransacked. After he was released, the police constantly went to his house to harass him. They also arrested his wife, so he had to leave home and wander about. In the middle of March in 2002, when he went to a practitioner's house and just knocked on the door, the police, who were waiting in ambush there, arrested him. They tortured him for four days and nights and then sentenced him to a forced labour camp for one year. In August of 2004, he and his wife went to Beijing and stayed in his relative's home. They were followed because they posted out some leaflets exposing the persecution. His wife was arrested, but Mr. Li escaped. The Beijing police followed him to Changchun in order to arrest him, and the local police also wanted to arrest him. Mr. Li was forced to leave home. He was severely traumatised by the constant persecution and died in August of 2005.

Mr. Ye Shengwen, 78 years old, was living in Shenyang in Liaoning Province. He benefited tremendously physically and mentally after he started to practise Falun Dafa in 1995. After the Jiang Zemin regime began persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th 1999, the Seven Road Police Station of the Tiexi Distinct community constantly harassed and threatened him. He was taken to the brainwashing centre and was severely traumatised both physically and mentally. He died as a result on December 9th 2003.

Ms. Hao Manxiu, 42 years old, was a resident of Xincheng town of Xinji City in Hebei Province. Since July 20th 1999, she had gone to Beijing twice to appeal for Dafa. Whenever she was detained, she was able to escape using righteous thoughts. The 610 Office² in Xinji arrested her twice, and, in March 2001, put her in the City Communist Party School. In April 2004, they sent her to the City Law Centre, both of which are brainwashing centres. She was beaten so often there that her arms became ulcerated. When she went on a hunger strike to protest the torture, she was forced-fed and almost lost her life. Because of the severe torture, she became seriously ill, and couldn't take care of herself. Even when she was on life support in the hospital, the police still constantly harassed her. She died on July 6th 2005.

Mr. Ji Genyi, more than 70 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner in Yuhuang Village in Yanshan, Hebei Province. Since he started practising Falun Dafa in 1996, he has benefited greatly. After Jiang's regime started the persecution he was arrested and sent to a brainwashing centre for torture. Later, because he wrote the words, "Falun Dafa is Good" at home, he was arrested and detained at the Yanshan Detention Centre where he was also tortured. While there, he suffered a stroke. In 2004, after his release, he died.

Ms. Ma Yuzhi, a Falun Gong practitioner from Yuhuanzhen Village of Qingyun Town in Yanshan, Hebei Province, suffered from serious coronary insufficiency and angina pectoris. The hospital could not do anything for her and pronounced her incurable. In the winter of 1995, she started to practise Falun Dafa. As a result, she recovered and got a new life. In March 2001, after the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners started, the town government arrested Ms. Ma. The Yanshan 610 Office arrested her again in August 2001, and sent her to the brainwashing centre for half a month. She was threatened again in March 2002. The persecution took its toll. She had a relapse and died in June of 2005.

Ms. Yu, 70 years old, a Falun Gong practitioner in Yuhuang village of Yanshan, Hebei Province, started to practise Falun Dafa in 1996. Before practising Dafa, she suffered from severe pains in her legs, and couldn't walk very far. After she started practising Falun Dafa, her health improved, and the pain in her legs also disappeared. After the persecution started, police from the Qingyun town Police Station arrested, detained and tortured her. She died in 2003.

Note

1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

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