Three Falun Gong Practitioners from Sichuan and Jilin Province Pass Away Due to Persecution

Mr. Liu Benhong, about 70 years old, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Miyi County, Sichuan Province. Suffering from severe persecution, he passed away on January 15th, 2006. Before he began practising Falun Dafa, he had several serious diseases. Not long after he began to practise Falun Dafa in 1998, all his diseases were cured, and later he led the Falun Gong Assistance Centre in Caochang Town. However, after the persecution began in 1999, he was seriously persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a "model" case.

He was detained in the brainwashing centre of Caochang Town. With encouragement from Liao Chengyu, the Party secretary of Caochang Town, the brainwashing centre brutally abused Falun Gong practitioners. Mr. Liu was held in servitude. They forced him to do heavy and tiring work such as digging, sweeping, cleaning the toilet, dumping or even operating drills. Moreover, they deprived him of sleep by forcing him to stand. Mr. Liu Benhong was detained in the Miyi County Detention Centre for as long as six months. During this period, he was handcuffed to iron bars in a hallway in the Political Protection Section for seven days and seven nights without being allowed to eat or drink. Afterwards he was so thirsty that he drank a half bottle of water that had been secretly poisoned by the police. Since then, his health deteriorated and he experienced gallbladder pain. After returning home, Mr. Liu Benhong still persisted in his belief and did his best to explain the true situation of Falun Gong. He passed away on January 15th, 2006.

Ms. Sun SuQing, 70, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiaohe City, Jilin Province. She originally suffered from several severe diseases. However, after she started to practise Falun Gong in 1996, all her diseases were cured. Nevertheless, she was severely damaged by the detention of her son and daughter-in-law after their appeal for Falun Dafa in Beijing. Her son was sentenced to a forced labour camp twice. Furthermore, she herself was abducted into the brainwashing centre twice between 1999 and 2003 and was detained for one month in May, 2002. In March, 2004, the heartbroken Sun SuQing passed away in grief because her son was sentenced to a forced labour camp and her daughter-in-law was detained.

Ms. Liu ZhenQin, 55, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Yanji City, Jilin Province. She started practising Falun Gong in 1995. Soon afterwards her several severe diseases disappeared. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to use all its power and means to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in July 1999, she had been trying to explain the true situation of Falun Gong. Thus, she was arrested and taken to the brainwashing centre, and was abused at the detention centre three times. With her body and mind severely damaged by the persecution, she passed away in September 2004.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/2/27/121695.html