Five Practitioners Who Passed Away As a Result of Persecution in Liaoning, Sichuan and Heilongjiang Provinces

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Junru, 58 years old, lived in Beipiao City, Liaoning Province. After he started practising Falun Gong in 1998 he was cured of severe hepatitis and became very energetic. He set off for in December 1999 to explain the truth of Falun Dafa with his own experience and was intercepted in Jinzhou City. Officers from the Qiaobei Police Department took him back to Beipiao City, detained him unconstitutionally, and took all his money. Local police officers Du Dezeng and Ma Haiyou savagely beat him. In 1999, six adults in Mr. Wang's family were arrested. Only two children, one five years old and the other less than a year old, were left at home. In March 2000, when Mr. Wang again went to Beijing about six police officers brutally beat him in Tiananmen Square. He bled profusely. Local police officers Du Dezeng and Bai Fengrui took him to a detention centre and extorted 6,000 yuan¹ from him. He was sentenced to two years of forced labour in April 2000. Mr. Wang was tortured and subjected to brainwashing, which resulted in a relapse of his old illness. During six years of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), including agents from the 610 Office², the police department, and the National Security Division, he was harassed and his home was ransacked countless times. His son and daughter-in-law are still being held in a forced labour camp and a prison. His wife was sentenced to forced labour and was released from the Masanjia Forced Labour Camp in Shenyang City on March 25th, 2005. Practitioner Mr. Wang Junru was mentally devastated and passed away on February 3rd, 2006.

Practitioner Ms. Lin Shuying, 70 years old, lived in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. She started practising Falun Gong in 1997 and helped her second daughter to study Dafa. On July 20th, 1999, Ms. Lin was living with her second daughter when the Party and Jiang Zemin's group started to publicly persecute Falun Gong. Her daughter was arrested and her home was ransacked. The perpetrators often harassed her at home. In 2001, her daughter was again arrested and sent to a brainwashing centre and her home was again ransacked. Ms. Lin was physically and mentally devastated. She passed away on January 22nd, 2006.

Practitioner Mr. Yang Xingkuan was born in 1963 and lived in Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province. He started practising Falun Dafa in August 1996. The CCP started persecuting Dafa on July 20th, 1999. Mr. Yang went to Beijing in December 1999 to appeal to the government. In January 2000 he was sent back to his hometown in Jiange County in Sichuan Province and held at the county detention centre. He was released in March 2000 and was fined 1,800 yuan. In June 2000, Mr. Yang was arrested, taken to a detention centre, and subsequently sentenced to two years of forced labour. He was sent to Xinhua Forced Labour Camp in Mianyang. In the evening of February 7th, 2004, officers suddenly broke into Mr. Yang Xingkuan's home. They went through everything and took Dafa books, materials exposing the persecution and 800 yuan in cash. They again arrested Mr. Yang. The police removed his clothes at the Xiasi Police Department as they planned to torture him, but Mr. Yang broke free and escaped. The police fired guns at him but he successfully escaped and lived in exile. A group of agents from the police department looked for Mr. Yang. They also waited at his home. Because they couldn't arrest him they arrested his wife, who is also a Dafa practitioner, for the third time and held her at the notorious Nanmusi Forced Labour Camp in Zizhong for 18 months. Mr. Yang went to Yan'an in Shaanxi Province and Yichang City in Hubei Province. He ended up working at a construction site. On May 4th, 2005, Mr. Yang Xingkuan and a dozen other people were injured in an industrial accident when a front loader and bulldozer slid down on them. He died on the way to the hospital.

Practitioner Mr. Chen Baifang, 64 years old, lived in Nanjiang County, Sichuan Province. He suffered from many illnesses before he started practising Dafa in 1997, all of which were cured through Dafa practice. In October 2000 he went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. He was arrested and the Nanjing Court sentenced him to three years in prison with three years probation. He was arrested soon after he went home and was later released. Due to constant harassment from the National Security agents and accusations from family members deceived by Party propaganda, he could not practise Dafa on a regular basis. He subsequently suffered a relapse of his old illness and passed away in July 2004.

Practitioner Mr. Jiao Xin worked for the Fangyuan Company in Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province. In the 15 years before he practised Falun Gong, he suffered from a neurological disorder that resulted in a severe tremor. He could not feed himself and depended on his family for care. He was cured after practising Falun Gong in July 1996. Falun Dafa gave him a new life. After the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, six and sometimes more than 10 Communist agitators, including Liu Songgang and Li Qinghua, Party secretaries from his place of work, arrived in three cars, harassed him at his home, and prohibited him from practising Falun Gong. They threatened to arrest him and cut off his salary if he continued to practise. He was in his late 60s and was devastated. He suffered a stroke and was hospitalised three times in six years. His family spent more than 70,000 yuan on medical, treatment which failed to revive him. He passed away on December 14th, 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.

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