Retired Engineer Dies after Long-term Harassment

Name: Zhou Yinhe
Gender: Male
Age: 67
Address: Xinzhou District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province
Occupation: Retired Engineer at Xinzhou District Telecommunication Office, Wuhan
Date of Death: May 19th, 2010
City: Wuhan
Province: Hubei
Persecution Suffered: Harassment, threats, home ransacked

Retired engineer Mr. Zhou Yinhe of Xinzhou District, Wuhan enjoyed good health after beginning to practise Falun Gong. However, he was frequently harassed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after the persecution started in 1999. Mr. Zhou passed away on May 19th, 2010.

Mr. Zhou had severe stomach disease and also frequently had a bloody nose. After practising Falun Gong, all these illnesses were gone and he enjoyed good health.

Since the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, Mr. Zhou's wife endured ongoing persecution tactics, including arrest, detainment, forced labour, deprivation of salary, and being monitored at home. Their home was frequently ransacked. For such a honest, introverted, and timid person, the frequent harassment brought a lot of mental pressure to Mr. Zhou. He spoke very little after the harassment began.

On December 31st, 2007, he had symptoms of a stroke and was taken to the Union Hospital at Wuhan. He stayed in the Intensive Care Unit for seven days, and was subsequently moved to a regular room. Twenty days later, he was released by the hospital. At home, he recovered quickly by studying the Falun Gong teachings and doing Falun Gong exercises. He was able to go upstairs and downstairs, go to the toilet with a walking stick, and maintain a clear mind.

At 9 a.m. on September 27th, 2009, his wife went out shopping. Mr. Zhou stayed at home with their housemaid. Cai Juan, the deputy director of the Zhucheng Judicial Office, Xinzhou District led several staff members of the residential neighbourhood committee to his home. Cai pretended to be his wife's student to trick the housemaid to open the door. Then they stormed in. Without a search warrant, they started ransacking the house. The housemaid couldn't stop them. They confiscated Falun Gong books and many personal belongings. They threatened to take pictures of Mr. Zhou, leaving him in great mental shock.

At 9 a.m. on September 30th, 2009, several policemen from Zhucheng Police Station drove to his home to threaten him again. A few days later, Mr. Zhou fell on the ground; he couldn't concentrate after being threatened. He remained bedridden since that episode.

Around the Chinese New Year of 2010, Cai Juan led a group of people to his home to harass him again. He became more and more mentally unstable. At 9 p.m. on May 19th, 2010, Mr. Zhou passed away.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/2/28/236889.html