Mr. Li Wanyun and His Wife Suffer Severe Persecution before His Death from Persecution

Name: Li Wanyun (his wife Ms. Sun Wanmei)
Gender:Male
Age: 44
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Correctional officer
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 2002
Most recent place of detention: Chaoyanggou Labour Camp
City: Changchun
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Forced Labour, Torture, Extortion

After the Chinese regime began its persecution of Falun Gong in 1999 Mr. Li Wanyu and his wife, Ms. Sun Wanmei were sent to forced labour camps twice. Mr. Li was severely mistreated in the Chaoyanggou Labour Camp of Changchun City and ended up in a critical condition. The labour camp released him temporarily for medical treatment, although the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials continued to harass him and tried to extort money from him. He died on August 3rd, 2006.

Mr. Li Wanyun was emaciated

The following describes the experiences of Mr. Li and his wife Ms. Sun.

Mr. Li was born on September 8th, 1962 and worked as a correctional officer in the Xingye Prison, Changchun City. After the CCP started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999 Mr. Li and his wife went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and were arrested and detained for 15 days. Following their detention the local police department, local police station and officials of his residence area went to his home continuously to harass him. They tried to prevent him from going anywhere. Mr. Li and his wife remained steadfast in their belief in Falun Gong. Because of this they were fired from their jobs at the same time. The entire family lost their financial income.

In 2000, based on some fabricated accusations, the authorities sent the couple to a labour camp. In the labour camp they were subjected to all kinds of torture. The skin all over Mr. Li's body festered to the point that he could not put on any clothes. He was not released until November 2000.

After that the CCP officials kept monitoring and harassing them constantly. To escape this they had to sell their house and move back to their birth place in Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province. The authorities called the police in Gongzhuling City so as to continue monitoring them.

In February 2002, the couple was arrested by the Lingxi Police Station of Gongzhuling City and their home was ransacked. Police took away a bank deposit note worth 12,000 yuan¹ and 3,000 yuan cash from their home.

The couple were sentenced to forced labour for three years again, where they suffered all kinds of inhumane torture. In the Chaoyanggou Labour Camp of Changchun City Mr. Li was cruelly persecuted and became emaciated as he suffered from bone marrow disease. He also became paralysed. He was in critical condition when he was released for medical treatment in June 2003. CCP officials only released him after extorting 3,000 yuan from his family members.

After Mr. Li was released he gradually recovered through reading Falun Gong books and doing Falun Gong exercises. He went to the local police station to claim his money that was taken by police, but was intimidated by them and didn't receive it. Later the police had to acknowledge that they did take the bank deposit note worth 12,000 yuan. Mr. Li reminded them of what they had done, but they still denied they had taken the 3,000 yuan cash from Mr. Li's home. After that Mr. Li went to them for the money many times. Eventually they returned to him 6,000 yuan in total, but never returned the remaining 9,000 yuan.

During this period, CCP police monitored and shadowed Mr. Li's every move. Mr. Li suffered greatly and died on August 3rd, 2006.

Mr. Li started to practise Falun Gong in October 1997 in Changchun City. At his job he had a good reputation for his work and his personality. His wife, Ms. Sun Wanmei, was in terrible health and suffered from severe headaches before she took up the practice of Falun Gong in 1997. Through practising Falun Gong the headaches disappeared and her overall health had dramatically improved.

Note

1. "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/2009/8/22/206958.html