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Lingyuan City Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Li Chunrong Died in 2000 as a Result of the Unjust Persecution
2004-05-18Police abducted Li Chunrong, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province, and took her to a Detention Centre in July 2000. There she was subjected to brainwashing and other psychological torture. After she returned home, she could not sleep for three days and nights, and developed a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. She lost consciousness for five days and died as a result of the unjust persecution on August 9. -
More Information about Dafa Practitioner Pan Jianjun's Death as a Result of Persecution
2004-05-1833 year old college graduate Mr. Pan Jianjun was abducted by police when he was clarifying the truth about the persecution at a friend's house and sentenced to 3 years of forced labour. His forced labour term was extended to four years when he was betrayed by a "collaborator". Jianjun was seen in a detention centre at Huaihua in August 2003. At that time, he was as thin as a skeleton. He could not stand straight and had suffered severe injuries. On February 5, 2004, the prison sent a notice to his family members saying, "Pan Jianjun has died." -
Additional Facts About the Torture Death of Elderly Dafa Practitioner Li Xifang from Liaoning Province
2004-05-18Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Xifang was fifty eight years old. On September 18, 2001 Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa, and was tortured to death there. The policemen claimed that she had jumped to her death from a building. If this were true, then why did they refuse an autopsy to be done and forbid the family members to look at her body closely. Her 7-year-old grandson looked at her body from the outside the reposing room, and said that Ms. Li's head was swollen badly and had a hole in it. -
Torture Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Xiuyuan from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province at the Longshan Forced Labour Camp
2004-05-17Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Wang Xiuyuan, 52, was from Shenhe District, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. She was tortured to the brink of death during detention at the Longshan Forced Labour Camp. She passed away on April 27, 2004, a week after her release. -
A Sixty-Year-Old Grandmother Is Persecuted and Has No One to Help Her
2004-05-17In Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, there is a 60-year-old grandmother who has had money extorted from her, who has been illegally imprisoned, persecuted, and harassed just because her family practises Falun Gong. Her son was sent to a forced labour camp, and she was left to look after her two young grandsons. With no one to help her, she went to various governmental departments every day to ask for help, but she was met with only verbal abuse and sarcasm. -
A Non-Practitioner Dies as a Result of the Persecution
2004-05-17Mr. Liu Zhongyang was a retired employee of the Xishui County Bus Company in Hubei Province. He was 60 years old and lived in Liupulaojia, Yanmao Town, Xishui County, Hubei Province. On April 17, 2004, he received a Falun Dafa truth clarifying VCD, and was reported while watching it at home. Though he was not a Falun Dafa practitioner, the Xima Town police stormed his home, threatened him and attempted to arrest him. His family and neighbours strongly resisted the police action. -
Hebei Province Mayor, Feng Guoguang, Died from Forced Feedings in Labour Camp in 2002
2004-05-16Former mayor in Hebei Province, was forty-three year old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Feng Guoguang. He was barbarically force-fed in January 2002 while unlawfully detained at Baoding City Forced Labour Camp for refusing to renounce his practice of Falun Dafa. Feng Guoguang started to continuously vomit blood. He was sent to the hospital and treated for ten days. By then he was in a critical condition. The police saw that his condition was critical. In order to escape responsibility for his death, they allowed his family members to take him home. Subsequently, Feng Guoguang passed away as a result of the torture he received in the labour camp -
Hongye Group Cooperates with Labour Camp in Shandong Province to Exploit the Slave Labour of Falun Gong Practitioners
2004-05-16Shandong Province's Changle Forced Labour Camp made several efforts to get a contract with the Hongye Group. The Hongye Group is a Chinese-American joint venture that produces hand-woven rugs and exports them to the U.S. The labour camp authorities force Dafa practitioners to weave rugs in a heavily polluted environment. The practitioners have to work more than twelve hours a day, and they barely have time to take a bath or wash their clothes. The intense work and terrible food dramatically damages practitioners' health, and they have become weak and emaciated. On top of that, they often suffer brutal torture from the police. -
Officer from Fuzhou Military District Reveals Jiang Zemin's Secret Instructions for Executing Falun Gong Practitioners in the Military
2004-05-16In January 2000, one of my relatives, an officer from the Fuzhou Military District in Fujian Province, came home for a visit. Two days after arriving, he received a telegram from the military unit ordering him back to the Fuzhou Military District at once. First, he thought it was a military emergency. After returning, however, he attended a meeting in which Jiang Zemin's secret instructions on persecuting Falun Gong practitioners in the military were conveyed: "Military personnel are strictly forbidden from practising Falun Gong, and anyone caught disobeying this order can be executed by firearms. It is not required that the execution be reported to higher levels." -
Illegal Agencies Established to Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners in the Shengli Oilfield, Shandong Province (Photos)
2004-05-16The "610 Office" directed Shengli Oilfield to hold three brainwashing classes. Since 2000, these classes have been used to persecute Falun Gong practitioners on a large scale. Dafa practitioners are abducted and held for long periods of time at these classes, and forced to watch and listen to Dafa-defaming materials. They are forced to write the "Three Statements" to renounce their belief in Dafa, their salary is reduced or withheld from them, they are beaten, some are sent to mental hospitals, some are force-fed, sent to additional brainwashing classes in Wangcun, sent to forced labour camps, and the authorities assert pressure on their families. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Shuchun Beaten to Death in Shandong Province Labour Camp in 2001
2004-05-15Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Liu Shuchun was beaten to death because he refused to give up his belief in "Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance" After Liu Shuchun was beaten to death, in order to keep news of their crime from being leaked, the police wrapped up his head and entire body with a cloth and carried his corpse out of the labour camp the next day. However, staff members of the People's Hospital accidentally disclosed information to the news station that the dead body from the labour camp had obviously been beaten to death. The labour camp then requested that the hospital announce his cause of death to be from disease. A few days later, the labour camp told Liu Shuchun's family members that he died from diseases. -
Death of Elderly Henan Province Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Jingrong as a Result of Gross Abuse
2004-05-15Ms. Wang Jingrong was 60 years old. On December 30, 2001, police detained her because they found Falun Dafa materials at her home. In early February 2002, the police forced the family members to pay a "deposit" of 3,000 Yuan, and forced them to sign a "guarantee statement." (to declare that she would stop practising Falun Gong) During her detention she suffered a recurrence of her old illness, brought on by maltreatment from the police. She died soon after she was released. -
Additional Facts Regarding Practitioner Xu Weiwen's Death by Brutal Torture
2004-05-15When Ms. Xu Weiwen's completed her term in Banqiao Women's Labour Camp, instead of being released she was sent for further violent brainwashing. Under the direct order from the team chief officer, Jiao Mohua, cellmates were instructed to torture her. They often bragged about how they tortured her and enjoyed undertaking those inhuman acts. After being on a hunger strike and suffering forced-feeding, she decided to eat as her health was very poor. The cellmates told Xu, "How come whenever you refused to eat, you wouldn't eat, and whenever you wanted to eat, you can eat? This time even though you want to eat, we'll not let you eat!" In fact, Xu Weiwen died from forced starvation. -
A Beijing Dafa Practitioner's Three Years of Abuse, Mistreatment, and Persecution in the Qianjin Prison
2004-05-15"In August 2003, at the end of my term, I was released from prison. That ended the difficult and nightmarish experiences I suffered in Qianjin Prison. That was the end of three years of my life of hell in this world. Carrying the entrusted legacy, wishes and expectations from many practitioners, I left the place that I'll never forget, and left my painful experience there. -
Inner Mongolia Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhao Yanxia Force-Fed to Death in Chifeng City
2004-05-14In April 2004, Qiu Xuedong (head of the detention centre) ordered practitioner Ms Zhao Yanxia to be viciously force-fed, as she had gone on a hunger strike to protest her unjust detention. In the end, it was found that she had died. Her body was hastily transported to the hospital. The head of the Chifeng City "610 Office," Yang Chunyue, told other people in person, "If the practitioners were persecuted to death or near-death, they will be sent to a prison, a forced labour camp or a hospital. Once there, the death will be announced and we will have no responsibility. If they die at the detention centre, we will have to bear the responsibility."