Two Elderly Practitioners from Henan Province and Hebei Province Passed Away Due to Repeated Persecution

Practitioner Mr. Yan Yong'an, 70 years old and a retired cadre from the Tobacco Department of Pingdingshan City in Henan Province, lived in Xinnan Village. Because Mr. Yan steadfastly practised Falun Dafa, after the persecution of Falun Dafa started on July 20th, 1999, he frequently suffered from threats, harassment and illegal home searches perpetrated by the police from the Weidong District 610 Office¹ and by the the Gaohuang Township Police Station.

In March 2001, someone reported his wife, also a practitioner, to the authorities while she was telling people the facts of Falun Dafa. She was later arrested and taken to the Ye County Detention Centre where she was tortured. Their home was ransacked, and the police extorted 3000 yuan² from them. In October 2001, his wife was again reported to the police for telling people the facts. The couple was once more forced to pay extortion to the police. In August 2002, seven practitioners were having group practice in Mr. Yan's house. When they were reported to the police, the police ransacked their home and fined them. In April 2003, when Mr. Yan Yong'an was exposing the persecution in the city, he was reported to the police and had to pay them 2000 yuan. In the past six years, Mr. Yan, who is elderly, had been repeatedly harassed, threatened, fined, and had his home ransacked by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials from the district, township and village and also by police officers that went to his house. The psychological torture he suffered cannot be put into words. He gradually developed illness symptoms. Sadly, Mr. Yan passed away on December 10th, 2005.

Practitioner Ms. Jia Xiuying, 85 years old, lived in Zhangjiakou City in Hebei Province. Ms. Jia learned Falun Dafa in 1995. After becoming a practitioner, she totally recovered from many illnesses, including emphysema. After the persecution of Falun Dafa started on July 20th, 1999, the CCP officials put her practitioner-son through the so-called "double gauge." Her daughter-in-law was arrested four times. The police tapped their phone and repeatedly went to her home to harass them. When her daughter-in-law was arrested in 2001, Ms. Jia Xiuying became paralysed. Her older son's wife was also held in the County Detention Centre because she went to Beijing to appeal. Because both of her daughter-in-laws were arrested, the elderly Ms. Jia was both anxious and angry and she became paralysed in the lower half of her body. Because Ms. Jia steadfastly practised Falun Dafa, she recovered from this condition within several months.

In 2002, during the time of the CCP's 16th National People's Congress, the police arrested her daughter-in-law again at home. Ms. Jia Xiuying was again threatened. Several months later, she had the symptoms of a stroke. Ms. Jia was in pain for two years and eight months before she passed away on December 18th, 2005.

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

2. "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://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/12/27/117376.html