Five Practitioners from Hubei and Jilin Provinces Who Died During the Persecution of Falun Dafa

Mr. Liu Wang was 62 years old. He was an employee in the Cotton Corporation of Huanggang City, Hubei Province. He started practising Falun Dafa in 1997. Afterwards, his partial paralysis from a stroke quickly lessened. Fifteen days later, he was able to walk by himself. Other complicated symptoms all vanished. Jiang Zemin’s regime started the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999. On June 18th 2000, Mr. Liu went to Beijing to appeal and expose the truth of the persecution and tell people the facts of Falun Dafa.

He was unlawfully detained for over 40 days in the First Detention Centre of Huanggang City. Under police instructions, the inmate appointed as the prison cell "head" beat Mr. Liu everyday and brutally tortured him. After he was released from the detention centre, the staff from the Huanggang District 610 Office¹ harassed him every holiday. Under the long-term persecution, Mr. Liu Wang passed away on January 9th 2006.

Ms. Lai Xiuxiang was 48 years old. She was an employee in the Explosives Factory of Songyuan City, Jilin Province. She began to practise Falun Dafa in 1997. Before beginning the practice, she had severe illnesses including cirrhosis of the liver. She regained good health after learning the practice. After July 20th 1999, she went to Beijing twice to expose the truth of the persecution of Falun Dafa. On the second trip there, she was arrested and "unlawfully sentenced²" to one year in prison by the local police. During her term in prison, she was subjected to inhuman tortures, which lead to the recurrence of her previous illnesses. The police released her when she was in a life-threatening state as they feared they would be held responsible for her death. Ms. Lai Xiuxiang died on December 1st 2001. Further information is to be investigated.

Mr. Zhang Dejun, 34, was employee in the Petroleum Refinery of Songyuan City, Jilin Province. In the summer of 1998, he was hospitalised due to lung cancer. In the hospital, he started to practise Falun Gong. After merely two months of practice, the symptoms of lung cancer disappeared. After July 20th 1999, because he had witnessed many fellow practitioners being arrested by the police, the pressure in his chest suddenly increased. Unable to bear the terror of being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party, he dared not practise and study the teachings of Falun Dafa. His previous illnesses recurred. He passed away in February 2000.

Ms. Yan Juan, in her 30s, was a practitioner from Nongan County, Jilin Province. She started to practise Falun Dafa in 1997. Before she took up the practice, no one in her neighbourhood dared to take advantage of her because everyone knew how aggressive she was. After practising Falun Gong her temper became good. After the persecution of Falun Dafa began, she was intimidated many times by the police. She was greatly traumatised. In 2001, she went to Beijing with other practitioners to appeal for Falun Dafa. Later, she was again intimidated many times, which caused her to collapse mentally. One night in 2004, she went out and did not return home. Her husband found that she had hanged herself from a tree several hundred yards away from the village. Her family members considered her suicide was due to her insanity. Detailed information is yet to be investigated.

Ms. Wang Shulan, 71, started to practise Falun Gong in 1998. Before that, she was unhealthy for a long time. After she started practising, all her illnesses vanished. After the persecution of Falun Gong by Jiang's regime began, her daughter was persecuted and unlawfully detained in a forced labour camp for insisting on practising Falun Gong. Ms. Wang's body and mind were greatly traumatised. She stopped practising Falun Gong and died in 2003.

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. ”Unlawfully sentenced” Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would like the world to believe, practising Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China. Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practise at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practising the exercises or distributing flyers. For a more complete discussion of the illegality of the persecution of Falun Gong, please refer to the article "The Ban on Falun Gong—A Dictator's Whim, Not the Rule of Law".

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/2/1/119896.html