Five Falun Gong Practitioners from Shandong, Liaoning and Hubei Provinces Were Persecuted to Death

Mr. Sun Fuxi, 68 years old, was a retired worker from Yantan City, Shandong Province. He started practising Falun Gong in December, 1995. In November 2001, he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. In September 2002, officials from the neighbourhood committee forced him to write three "guarantee letters¹," which placed him under great mental distress. His wife is also a practitioner and had appealed in Beijing three times. She was detained and subjected to brainwashing. During the following years, his home was ransacked many times and he was constantly harassed and monitored. Mr. Sun lived under constant fear and pressure, and died on August 2nd, 2005.

Mr. Chen Jixiang, 46 years old, was a practitioner from Xinbin County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Shortly after the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. After that the police detained, harassed and fined him many times. In 2003, he was detained and brought to the brainwashing centre in Luotaishan Village, Fushun City, where he suffered great mental and physical torture. Mr. Chen died on August 20th, 2005.

Mr. Chen Sanqiang, 39 years old, was a practitioner from Xishui County of Hubei Province. After July 20th, 1999, he continued performing the five exercises outdoors. He was detained three times and severely tortured each time. Once he was beaten until he lost consciousness and then drenched in cold water to be revived. The continual torture caused him to suffer a physical and mental breakdown, and his liver was damaged. After he returned home, he continued living under ongoing fear. Later he showed signs of liver ascites and died in May 2005.

Ms. Xie Simao, in her 60s, was a practitioner from Zhiwa Town in the Xishui County, Hubei Province. Following July 20th, 1999, she suffered great mental pressure due to the severe persecution. She died in the beginning of 2002.

Ms. Liang Qunxiang was born on September 9th, 1950, and was a resident of Zaoshi Town, Tianmen City, Hubei Province. She used to suffer from cancer. In 1996, she started practising Falun Dafa and her mental and physical condition improved dramatically. After the persecution started in 1999, her younger son was refused enrolment by the military because she practised Falun Gong. Because of that she gave up the practise. She suffered a relapse of the cancer and spent a lot of money on treatment even though there was no sign of recovery. She decided to start practising again and publicly declared her words and actions void on the Minghui (Chinese version of Clearwisdom) website. However she was not able to overcome her illness and died on October 19th, 2005. One of her family members said, "It was Falun Dafa that had extended Ms. Liang's life." They had never seen a cancer patient who could survive for nearly 10 years.

Note

1. "Guarantee Statement": A statement to declare that one is remorseful for practising Falun Gong and guarantees not to practise Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again associate with any Falun Dafa practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/10/14/112393.html