Death Cases

• Ms. Zhang Xiuling from Laishui County, Hebei Province, Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2009-05-04
  Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Xiuling was severely persecuted. She had a relapse of her previous diseases and passed away on March 31st, 2009. Within these past ten years, the 610 Office in Laishui County, the local police department, as well as the village and township governments, have been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners by beating them, damaging and ransacking their homes, threatening and intimidating them and luring them with false promises. Under such conditions, Zhang Xiuling's family members, from the eldest to the youngest, are afraid to stay at home and live a normal life.
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• Li Qinghuan, 50, of Benxi City, Liaoning Province Dies as a Result of Gross Abuse under the Persecution

  2009-05-02
  Mr. Li Qinghuan was a Falun Gong practitioner from Benxi City, Liaoning Province. After the onset of the persecution in 1999, he was harassed on numerous occasions. Police arrested him on September 18th, 2004 and sent him to the Weiningxing Forced Labour Camp in Benxi, where he was subjected to the "stretch torture" for seven days in a row. His health deteriorated afterwards and never got better. Following his release in 2006, he was under constant surveillance. He died on April 5th, 2009 at the age of 50.
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• Ms. Yan Xuebi, 52, from Suining City, Sichuan Province, Dies As a Result of Persecution

  2009-05-01
  In March 2007, Ms. Yan Xuebi, 52, was arrested by police while she was explaining the facts about Falun Gong to the public. Later on, she was detained in the notorious Nanmusi Women's Forced Labour Camp for 15 months. She was forced to do hard labour for a long time and also forced to take unknown drugs. Due to extended torture, her health deteriorated badly. On May 19th, 2008, Ms. Yan's family took her home. At that time, she was already very weak. She was still harassed and threatened by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel, causing her health to get even worse. On March 9th, 2009, she passed away as a result of persecution.
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• Ms. Wei Yalan Died As a Result of Abuse in Yang'ai Prison

  2009-04-29
  Ms. Wei Yalan was sentenced to a five-years prison term for her belief in Falun Gong and the wish to live by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Her physical condition had deteriorated dramatically and she was in poor health when released after years in Yang'ai Prison. Ms. Wei was forced to work on gemstones and make cotton tapes. The working conditions were inhuman. She was forced to work more than 12 hours daily. The workshops had no windows and were full of production dust. On September 14th, 2007, Ms. Wei passed away, shortly after her release. She was only 50 years old.
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• Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Zhu Quandi from Beijing Died as a Result of Persecution

  2009-04-27
  Ms. Zhu Quandi, 65, had practised Falun Gong since 1993. Her late stages cirrhosis was healed through the practice. On February 19th, 2008, police searched Ms. Zhu's home, confiscated Falun Gong materials, and sentenced her to forced labour. In the women's forced labour camp, she suffered liver cancer as a result of persecution and being forbidden to practise the Falun Gong exercises. On April 1st, 2009, she passed away in hospital.
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• Two Falun Gong Practitioners from Jilin Province Pass Away After Persecution

  2009-04-25
  Ms. Liu Xiaoman learned Falun Gong in 1998. After the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal twice, and was detained in the Third Detention Centre of Changchun City and Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp. In the labour camp she refused to write statements renouncing Falun Gong and refused to join in the forced labour. She was shocked many times by electric batons on the breast area. In 2004, her dying father wanted to see her for the last time, but the labour camp would not allow it unless she wrote statements renouncing Falun Gong. She refused. One day in 2007, she was dragged from her home to the local police station. Under the long-term persecution, her health progressively got worse. She was very thin, and her lower abdomen was distended. Her urine was red. On April 28th, 2009, she passed away.
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• Elderly Falun Gong Practitioners Persecuted in Dagang District, Tianjin City

  2009-04-23
  In 2008, before the Olympic Games began, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) agents intensified the persecution of practitioners, claiming that it was in the best interest of the Olympics. The 610 Office in Dagang District arrested more than a dozen practitioners without a warrant, including Ms. Dou Guirong. They were released after several days. The detention shocked Ms. Dou mentally and physically. She developed health problems, which worsened quickly. She passed away on March 2nd, 2009. The death of Ms. Dou presents a great hardship to her family, especially to her elderly mother. Her mother exposed the persecution to people and was arrested on March 20th, 2009.
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• Thirty-Nine-Year-Old Farmer Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2009-04-20
  On November 28th, 2004, Mr. Quan Xueyin was arrested again by the county 610 Office and National Security Division and his home was ransacked by police. He was sentenced to three years in prison. During the interrogation, he was badly beaten and his body was covered with wounds. Near the end of his prison term, a guard extracted blood from him and injected him with an unknown drug. As a result, he had much difficulty breathing and his lungs finally became rotten. On March 8th, 2009, Mr. Quan passed away at the age of 39.
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• Ms. Liu Guangfeng Dies as a Result of Persecution in the Guangshui City Detention Centre

  2009-04-17
  Ms. Liu Guangfeng, 52, was sentenced to two years of forced labour in 2004 and brutally tortured. Ms. Liu's abdomen, private areas and thighs were black and blue all over due to the physical abuse. In spite of that, she was still forced to work in the workshop for more than ten hours each day. On February 8th, 2009, Ms. Liu was taken to the Guangshui City First Detention Centre and detained there. On April 2nd, 2009, the authorities of the detention centre suddenly notified her family to pick her up. Her family members found that she could not speak, walk, or eat, and the skin from her neck to her feet and her fingers was all black and blue. She was critically ill when she arrived at home. On April 4th, 2009, she passed away.
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• Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Gu Suoxiang from Jiangsu Province Dies as a Result of Torture

  2009-04-14
  Mr. Gu Suoxiang, 48, was arrested several times and persecuted by police. On November 28th, 2007, Mr. Gu was at work when he was seized and taken to a brainwashing centre, where he was hung up for 19 days straight, without sleep. Guards even stepped forcefully on his stomach, severely injuring his liver, intestines and other internal organs. On August 2nd, 2008, the police arrested him again using the pretext of safeguarding the Beijing Summer Olympics. By the time he was released, he was bruised and injured all over. The police didn't bother to give him a lift home, so he walked home in his severely weakened condition. Later on he developed diarrhoea and had blood in his stool. He died on March 22nd, 2009 as a result of traumatic injuries to his internal organs.
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• Jiang Xiqing Tortured to Death and His Family Harassed

  2009-04-13
  Mr. Jiang Xiqing, a 66-year-old practitioner from Chongqing, was tortured to death at the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp, and his family is being continually harassed. State Security police in the Jiangjin District are monitoring his family constantly. The police have said that they would not allow any Falun Gong practitioners to contact his family. They attempted to conceal evidence of their crimes and continue to persecute this family. Mr. Jiang's wife Luo Zehui has been sentenced to eight years in prison and is resisting persecution in the detention centre. Her life is currently in danger.
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• The Torture Death of Mr. Lu Guanglin from Qingyuan County, Fushun City

  2009-04-13
  In 2008, the Panjin City Prison authorities tortured Mr. Lu Guanglin until he suffered a mental collapse and could no long take care of himself. The prison authorities did not want to be held responsible for Mr. Lu's condition and so tried to release him. But when the Qingyuan County Politics and Law Enforcement Committee, 610 Office, and the local police department refused to sign the release order, the prison authorities were unable to release him. Mr. Lu continued to be tortured in the prison, and died in February 2009.
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• Remembering Older Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Qu Jie

  2009-04-12
  After the onset of the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, Ms. Qu Jie, who was close to 60 at the time, was persecuted numerous times. She was first held in the Hegang City Second Detention Centre, where she treated everyone with kindness, including those who abused her. While in detention, her blood pressure shot up to 220-280. The police had to taken her to a hospital, where they continued to pressure her to abandon her belief. She firmly refused. In 2002, she was sentenced to five years in prison. Due to the mistreatment and abuse, Qu Jie suffered a massive brain aneurysm in the summer of 2004 and passed away.
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• Mr. Liu Qinghua from Siping City, Jilin Province, Tortured to Death

  2009-04-11
  Mr. Liu Qinghua was a cancer patient before he practised Falun Gong. The practice saved his life, and he continued to practise Falun Gong despite the persecution. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) arrested him because he distributed materials that published the facts about Falun Gong and the brutal persecution. He was sentenced to three years in prison and subjected to torture and brainwashing at Panjin Prison. His health deteriorated while in prison due to the abuse he was subjected to. On December 31st, 2008, Panjin Prison released Mr. Liu on medical parole. He died on February 23rd, 2009, at the age of 47.
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• Mr. Xu Jun, 54, Dies as a Result of Torture and Abuse at Yinmahe Forced Labour Camp

  2009-04-10
  On June 11th, 2008, Mr. Xu Jun, 54, was arrested and beaten by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police. On June 25th, he was sentenced to a labour camp and he was mercilessly tortured and forced to work long hours at the Yinmahe Labour Camp in Jiutai City, Jilin Province. On February 17th, 2009, after eight months of maltreatment, Mr. Xu Jun died. Mr. Xu Jun had been sentenced to prison twice. The first time he was held in custody in the Tiebei Prison, Changchun City. In 2000 when his prison term matured, the police from Tumen City took him directly from the prison to the Tumen Detention Centre. Mr. Xu Jun's wife was sentenced to ten years in prison due to her faith in Falun Gong. Currently, she is in custody in the Changchun Women's Prison.
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