Suspicious Death of Mr. Ran Long

Mr. Ran Long, 46, lived in Ranzhai Village, Yucheng City, Shandong Province. He began practising Falun Gong in 1998, and benefited from practising Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance. He went to Beijing to appeal on August 29th, 2002, and was arrested in Tiananmen Square, where he was escorted by local police to the Yucheng City Detention Centre and detained for 15 days. He was sentenced to two years of forced labour for practising Falun Gong, but since his blood pressure was very high, the forced labour camp would not admit him. After being detained three more months, the police tried again to get him admitted to the forced labour camp, but the camp again refused to accept him due to his high blood pressure. The third time, 610 Office¹ personnel brought two cases of Yuwangting Liquor to the camp authorities and paid for their dinner. The Shandong Province Second Forced Labour Camp subsequently did not even check his blood pressure, and accepted him immediately.

The camp forced Mr. Ran to go through brainwashing for more than twenty days, which made his blood pressure really shoot up. The administrators were afraid he might die, so they released him.

On March 5th, 2003, Mr. Ran was doing odd jobs out of town during the time of the two congressional meetings, considered sensitive dates by the authorities. All Falun Gong practitioners who had been bailed out on medical parole or released due to their physical condition were ordered to return to the forced labour camps. The town police and 610 Office personnel forced Mr. Ran to go back to the labour camp. The police threatened his family, who are poor, that they would take their family's bull away if they did not pay 5000 yuan¹. His family had to borrow 100 yuan to save their livestock from being taken away, and the police did not issue a receipt.

Mr. Ran had to leave home to avoid being arrested. He was hired as a chef by a hotel in Yangxin County. The Yucheng City 610 Office chair, Wang Gongmin, went to check on him in December 2006, and wore plain clothes. On February 23rd, 2009, the hotel called his wife, saying he had failed to come in to work and was last seen off work on the afternoon of February 21st. On February 26th, they received a call from the Yangxin County police that they had found a body by the roadside. The body was identified as Mr. Ran. The caller said that Mr. Ran had died of natural causes from a stroke. His family saw a large hole in his head, and his nose, eyes, and ears were oozing blood. There were also five finger marks on his neck. The family was too afraid to look for the killer and had his body cremated on February 27th, 2009.

Medically speaking, a stroke victim would not have bled like Mr. Ran appeared to have. Mr. Ran's death is very suspicious.

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.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/3/16/197250.html