Older Couple Died in 2006 Under Stress of Persecution

Name: Sun Yuxiang and her husband Qu Changxing
Gender: Female, male
Age: Both born in 1941
Address: Jiancheng Paper Factory Family Housing Building 31, 3rd Door-5th Floor, Right apartment, Jilin City, Jilin Province
Occupation: Mr. Qu was a crane driver in Jiangcheng Paper Factory
Date of Death: February 19th, 2006 (Ms. Sun), late December 2005 (Mr. Qu)
Date of Most Recent Arrest: Autumn 2000
Most recent place of detention: Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City
City: Jilin
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Sleep deprivation, forced labour, brainwashing, torture, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

An older couple in Jilin Province, Ms. Sun Yuxiang and her husband Mr. Qu Changxing, were persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) because they practised Falun Gong. They each passed away under difficult circumstances brought about by the persecution. Before practising Falun Gong, Mr. Qu previously had a bad temper, and even abused his wife. However, after he started practising Falun Gong in 1995, he disciplined himself according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. He thought of others first, and treated his wife with kindness. Soon, his wife, Sun Yuxiang, also began practising Falun Gong. The couple lived together in happiness.

After the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, the couple continued cultivating firmly. In the autumn of 2000, Ms. Sun Yuxiang went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. She was arrested on Tiananmen Square and taken to the Jilin City Detention Centre. Officers from the Xinghua Street Police Station extorted 1,000 yuan¹ from her and sent her to Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp to serve a two-year term. They tortured her with sleep deprivation for 72 hours. Under this torture, they forced Ms. Sun to write a guarantee statement promising to give up cultivation. She was released on parole in November 2000.

Ms. Sun felt deep regret from writing the guarantee statement, and wrote a solemn declaration, announcing that the statement was null and void. Soon after, officers from the Xinghua Police Station and community administrators took turns monitoring her while she was at home. They even ordered her neighbours across the hall to closely monitor the couple. In the winter of 2002, the couple moved to a low-income residential area in Longtan District, to avoid the constant harassment.

The house was in terrible condition, hot in the summer, cold in the winter. The elderly couple had to live under such hardship, and at the same time trying to avoid the local neighbourhood administration's investigation. While living in the substandard housing, Mr. Qu Changxing had a heart attack and died in late December 2005. Ms. Sun didn't know what to do. Her neighbour called the emergency services. The autopsy showed that Mr. Qu's death was caused by disease. The police took his body directly to the crematory. When they asked Ms. Sun how to process the ashes, she requested one more day to get the necessary money from her bank. The police didn't wait and tossed his ashes, and the family could not find his ashes later.

The police took Ms. Sun back to her old house in the Paper Factory residential area. Ms. Sun could not bear the sudden death of her husband and the incident of losing her husband's ashes. Around January 19th, 2006, she suddenly became very sick, and was her neighbours rushed her to the Paper Factory hospital. She died on February 19th, 2006, without any family around her.

Related report: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2003/5/16/35692.html

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://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2009/9/22/208816.html