Older Practitioners Ms. Jiang Xianyi and Mr. Wang Peiming Died under Persecution in Guangdong Province

Ms. Jiang Xianyi Died a Few Months after Being Released from Sanshui Forced Labour Camp

Ms. Jiang Xianyi, 58, lived in Shenzhen City. She began practising Falun Gong in 1998, and she became a healthier and better person. Her heart and lung problems disappeared. In order to inform people about the persecution of Falun Gong and dispel the state propaganda attacking the practice she often went to the remote countryside to distribute leaflets .

On May 23rd, 2006, she was arrested while distributing leaflets in Nanshan District, and detained in Tongle Village Detention Centre. She went on hunger strike to protest, was injured severely by force-feeding, which resulted in her having difficulty eating, and she could not stop coughing. She refused to accept the brainwashing, and was then sentenced to three years of forced labour at Sahnshui Women's Labour Camp.

In August 2008, Ms. Jiang Xianyi was emaciated, weighing only about 70 pounds, and coughing non-stop. The hospital refused to accept her for treatment. The guards were afraid of being infected with a disease, and feared being held responsible for her life, or paying for her medical costs, so they called her family to pick her up. She continued coughing and had difficulty eating. Less then six months after returning home, she was take to the hospital on December 31st, 2008, and died at 12 o'clock on January 2nd, 2009.

Mr. Wang Peiming Died Three Years ago in Chenghai City

Mr. Wang Peiming, was a practitioner in his 50s. He also volunteered at the Shantou City Assistance Centre. After July 20th, 1999, he and fellow practitioner Mr. Cai Hanshen were detained for two weeks in a secret place by the Waisha Town 610 Office¹, and were not allowed any visitors. He was severely threatened and insulted, forced to go through brainwashing, and write guarantee statements.

In June 2000, Chenghai City Police Department and 610 Office made a series of large scale arrests. They detained Mr. Wang for three days in the Police Compound building, then transferred him to the Baisha Detention Centre. His house and store were sealed, and his car was taken to be used by officers in Baisha Town Police Station. He was threatened badly, and the police extorted money from him. Officer Li Dongming of the Shantou City Police Department threatened to torture Mr. Wang to death many times if he refused to give up his faith.

The Shantou City Police Department, Chenghai City Police Department, and 610 officers violated legal procedures and detained Mr. Wang for two years in the Baisha Detention Centre. During those two years, Mr. Wang endured lots of torture.

After being released from the Baisha Detention centre, officers from Waisha Station and 610 Office forcibly took him into custody again, and detained him in a secret place for two months. There they used all the brutality they could to force him to give up his faith, and write a "transformation statement²" against his will. Theoretically he was free, but his spirit was destroyed-- a terrifying ending worse than the loss of personal freedom. He felt regret and guilt for a long time, and died on September 19th, 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. "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/1/8/192395.html