Mr. Zheng Chaoshu, 57, was a retired middle school teacher in Suining City, Sichuan Province. His many ailments were all cured after he began practising Falun Dafa in 1996.
He shared his understandings with fellow practitioners in January 2000 and was later reported to the authorities. Officers from the township station detained him for eight days in Zhong District Detention Centre. He was released after authorities extorted 2,000 yuan1 from him.
In August 2000, he was detained overnight in the township police station and had an additional 500 yuan extorted from him. The Zhong District Education Department threatened him in 2001 that if he still practised Falun Dafa, they would stop paying his pension. His children were afraid that he would lose his pension, so they wrote the three statements2 for him behind his back. Mr. Zheng Chaoshu was very regretful after learning of this, and soon after had a stroke. He died on December 6th, 2001.
Ms. Liu Renshu, 50, lived in Suining City, Sichuan Province. Her many illnesses disappeared after she began practising Falun Dafa in 1996. She began to tell the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda and pass out flyers once the persecution began.
In July 2000, police from Chuanshan Station ransacked her home, detained her for more than fifty days because they found a copy of the book Zhuan Falun3, and extorted three thousand yuan from her. Later, police and lawless officials continually harassed her at home, threatened her, and caused huge mental and physical pressure. She died on January 2nd, 2003.
Ms. Song Huaiying, 34, was a practitioner from Dahuang Village, Linzhou City, Henan Province. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa when the persecution started in 1999. She escaped after being arrested. After returning home she was constantly harassed and threatened by local officials. As a result she died on June 29th, 2004.
Note
1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
2. "Three Statements": Practitioners are coerced under brainwashing and torture to write "Repentance Statement," "Guarantee Statement" or 'Dissociation Statement" as proof that they have given up their belief. In the statement, the practitioner is forced to admit remorse for practising Falun Gong, promise to give up Falun Gong, and never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
3. Zhuan Falun: This book comprises the principal teachings of Falun Dafa.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/9/26/111247.html
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