Mr. Fan Youjun, 56, lived in Jiangchang Town, Tianmen City, Hubei Province. He used to suffer from Hepatitis-B, but after cultivating Falun Gong, his symptoms disappeared. He made his living by running a breakfast booth, and people loved his sincerity. After the persecution began in 1999, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officers harassed and detained him multiple times. He was last arrested on the afternoon of October 23rd, 2007. Several Domestic Security agents broke into his home and found a Falun Gong book and some Falun Gong materials, and they detained him immediately. His wife spent nearly ten thousand yuan1 and tried very hard to get him released, but she only got threatened.
Mr. Fan was arrested as a healthy man, but he was mentally and physically tortured in the detention centre. After only several months of mistreatment in detention, he became very weak. He appeared to suffer liver cirrhosis symptoms, and his whole body became swollen. A medical check-up found that he had late-stage liver cancer. The 610 Office2 refused to release him or let him be treated; instead, they planned to have him sentenced to prison.
Later, his condition worsened, and his life was in danger. A just official in the detention centre signed guarantee letter (stating he would be held responsible if Mr. Fan participated in any Falun Gong activities) to allow Mr. Fan be bailed out on medical parole on July 16th, 2008. Mr. Fan was checked in to Tianmen City First People's Hospital. On July 29th, 2008, only 13 days after he was bailed out, Mr. Fan died.
The same evening Mr. Fan died, officers from the Jiangchang Town Police Station immediately took his body to Tianmen City Funeral Home. They feared Mr. Fan's family would sue them, so they promised to pay the funeral costs and give the family ten thousand yuan. Mr. Fan's family members are innocent farmers. The most they can do is mourn.
Tianmen City 610 Office chairs: Zheng Xianjie (male), and Ni Qigao (male).
Note
1. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
2. "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.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/8/8/183650.html
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