Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Yu Yongjuan, 59, from Changchun City Dies as a Result of Persecution

Name: Yu Yongjuan
Gender: Female
Age: 59
Address: Heguang Community on Weixing Road at Chaoyang District in Changchun City
Date of Death: April 10th, 2011
Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 2007
City: Changchun
Province: Jilin
Persecution Suffered: Arrest, forced labour, harassment, home ransacking

Ms. Yu Yongjuan, a practitioner from Changchun City, Jilin Province, was arrested, detained at forced labour camps, and harassed several times. Due to the physical and mental abuse, she died on April 10th.

Ms. Yu was born in June 1952 and lived in the Heguang Community on Weixing Road in the Chaoyang District in Changchun City, Jilin Province. Because of uraemia, she was bedridden for more than 40 days in 1997. She looked everywhere for a cure, but nothing helped. Ms. Yu began to practise Falun Gong and regained her health.

After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Yu went to Beijing several times to appeal, and she was arrested three times. Changchun City Police Department officials arrested her again in November 2003, ransacked her home, and sentenced her to a one-year term of forced labour.

In November 2004, labour camp officials demanded that Ms. Yu write a statement to give up her belief in Falun Gong before she would be released, but she refused. The guards then told her to sign a written statement that they had prepared, and, again, she refused. Several guards then grabbed and restrained her in order to get her fingerprints. Ms. Yu kept her hands tightly balled into fists. The guards pulled and stretched her arms so hard that she was covered with bruises. Nevertheless, with strong belief in Falun Gong, she was released without giving any fingerprints or signing any documents.

After Ms. Yu’s release, local police went to her home many times to harass her and ransack her home. The telephone line in her home was also bugged.

When Ms. Yu was taking care of her one-year-old granddaughter right before the New Year in 2008, more than 10 agents from the city police and 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) barged into her home. The agents ransacked her home and took her away. She was released seven days later.

Ms. Yu’s home was ransacked again in October 2010.

Jiang Zhiguo (Weixing Road Police Station deputy head) and more than 10 police officers, including Da Cui, harassed Ms. Yu again and ransacked her home during the National Congress and the Political Consultative Conference in 2011.

After the long-term physical and mental abuse, Ms. Yu died on April 10th, with the symptoms of an acute cerebral haemorrhage.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/5/4/240091.html