Death Cases

• Mr. Huang Fujun Tortured to Death, His Family Seeks Justice to No Avail

  2008-02-19
  On July 24th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Huang Fujun was arrested by police and beaten until both of his feet were crushed and broken. On November 2nd, the police notified his family to visit him in hospital, when he was dying. He was unconscious, as thin as a skeleton, his face deformed from force-feeding tubes, which were still inserted in his nose. His buttocks were covered with terrible festering sores. Even in such a critical condition, guards still cuffed and shackled his wrists and ankles. Mr. Huang was taken home on November 4th. A 44-year-old man who was in good health, was tortured to such a degree within only three months. On November 6th, he died with his mouth and eyes open.
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• Falun Gong Practitioners in Huoshan County, Anhui Province Live under Severe Persecution; Some Have Lost Their Lives

  2008-02-06
  Mei Jianzhu was a retired teacher who was arrested as a result of informing people about the true nature of Falun Gong and distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. Four years ago she died as a result of persecution at the Liu'an City Detention Centre. A young teacher, Zhang Xianqiong, was persecuted three years ago. As a result, he developed a critical illness and died in his home.
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• Ms. Li Li Recovered from Brain Tumour, Then Was Persecuted to Death by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2002

  2008-02-05
  35-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Li Li was from Lishu County, Jilin Province. In January 2001, Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of the good name of Falun Gong. She was arrested in August. She was then detained in the Fangshan Detention Centre in Beijing. According to detention centre employees, she was later detained in a room at a restaurant, where six "staff members" tried to force her to give up her belief in Falun Gong. She was brutally beaten. After six months of brutal torture, Ms. Li died on February 1st, 2002.
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• Three Falun Gong Practitioners from Dalian City Pass Away as a Result of Persecution

  2008-02-04
  Ms. Liang Weiping started practising Falun Gong in 1998 and had regained her health through the practice. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, police officers arrested her. They searched her and took her to the police station to persecute her. She was so frightened that she passed out and was taken to a hospital. After being unable to get any information from her, the police officers ransacked her home. In the following years of the CCP authorities' persecution and torture, Ms. Liang had been harmed both mentally and physically. She died on September 7th, 2002 at 65 years of age.
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• Ms. Zhang Shujun Dies as Result of Torture in Jiangxi Province

  2008-02-02
  Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Shujun, 47, went to Beijing to appeal to the government several times. Because she tried to inform people about the true nature of Falun Gong, she was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison. Ms. Zhang was arrested again in March 2006 and charged with producing leaflets exposing the persecution. The Qingyunpu District Court in Nanchang City sentenced her to ten years in prison. She endured numerous brutal tortures while she was incarcerated, and her friends and family were not allowed to visit her. On January 4th, 2008, Ms. Zhang was paralysed and in critical condition. Guards called her family and instructed them to pick her up from the prison hospital. She was thus "bailed out for medical treatment" on the verge of death. Only 16 days later, Ms. Zhang died in her home at around 3 a.m. on January 20th, 2008.
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• Additional Information Regarding the Persecution Death of Outstanding Teacher Ms. Hou Youfang from Gansu Province

  2008-02-02
  Ms. Hou Youfang was a physics teacher. She was persecuted to death in Gansu Province No. 1 Labour Camp, on November 29th, 2002; she was only 48 years old. She had been arrested for speaking out for justice for Falun Gong and sentenced to two years of forced labour. An official announced: "No matter what you do, make sure you keep her in the labour camp." A guard at the labour camp, instigated other inmates into beating and verbally abusing Hou Youfang. The labour camp guards used all types of torture on her. Ms. Hou Youfang died on November 29th, 2002, as a result of torture and relentless persecution. Fellow practitioners were witnesses that Ms. Hou Youfang had been beaten so severely that her arms and ribs and pelvis were fractured.
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• Older Practitioner Ms. Ni Shuzhi Dies after Long Imprisonment

  2008-02-01
  Ms. Ni Shuzhi, 60, began cultivating Falun Gong in 1998. In May 2002, Ms. Ni was arrested from her home and sentenced to five years in prison. She was detained in the hospital ward because of a physical condition, but she was still tortured in all sorts of ways. At the end of 2006, she had a nosebleed and asked for some cotton balls from the prison nurse. The cotton ball she was given had a very strong odour. Soon afterward, she could not talk and developed a terrible cough and diarrhoea. After she was released in May 2007, the doctors diagnosed her with cirrhosis, ascites due to cirrhosis, heart failure, pharyngitis, and inadequate blood flow to the brain and the heart. She died on January 19th, 2008.
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• Persecution-Related Deaths of 150 Falun Gong Practitioners Verified in 2007

  2008-02-01
  The deaths of 150 Falun Gong practitioners as a result of persecution were verified through non-governmental channels in 2007, and 123 of those deaths took place in 2007. Among them, women practitioners and practitioners over the age of 50 each accounted for 53.3 per cent of the cases. During the eight-and-a-half years of persecution between July 20th, 1999, and December 31st, by the Chinese Communist regime, a total of 3,121 Falun Gong practitioners' deaths have been verified.
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• 71-Year-Old Ms. Yu Zhiying Dies after 28 Days in Detention in Chongqing City

  2008-02-01
  Ms. Yu Zhiying was a 71 Falun Dafa practitioner. At around 9:00 p.m. on October 12th, 2007, domestic security agent Liang Shibing (male), policewoman Deng Hongying, and more than eight Internet police rushed into Ms. Yu Zhiying's home. They ransacked her place, taking Falun Dafa books, a computer, a printer, a copy machine, and other items. They then arrested Ms. Yu, and took her to the Jiangbei District Detention Centre for a one-year forced labour term. After less than a month in detention, Ms. Yu's entire body appeared swollen, and she was very weak, with diarrhoea and vomiting. Fearing they would be held responsible if she died, the detention centre administration hurriedly took her home on November 9th, 2008.
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• Acheng City Police Department Refuses to Compensate Family for Wrongful Death of Mr. Huang Fujun

  2008-01-31
  Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Huang Fujun was arrested by police on July 24th, 2007. During the subsequent detention at Acheng First Detention Centre, he was violently force-fed while on a protest hunger strike. Later, Mr. Huang became unconscious as a result of the continued forced-feedings. In early November 2007, the detention centre rushed him to the hospital for resuscitation. During the hospitalisation, the guards still handcuffed and shackled him to the hospital bed. On November 3rd, 2007, Mr. Huang was dying and he was still unconscious. Seeing that he was about to die, the guards let his family take him back home. Three days following his release, Mr. Huang Fujun passed away at home.
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• Ms. Sun Jinghua Dies from Persecution in Changchun City, Jilin Province

  2008-01-30
  Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Sun Jinghua, who was in her forties, lived in Changchun City, Jilin Province. For the past eight years of persecution, she was forced to live a homeless life to avoid being arrested or had to move often to avoid persecution. As a result of torture in detention, and her difficult life due to the ongoing persecution, Ms. Sun became emaciated, with localised swelling and bleeding. She died on January 5th, 2008.
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• Mother and Daughters Repeatedly Imprisoned During the Past Eight Years

  2008-01-30
  A family of four in Chaling County, Hunan Province has experienced brutal persecution since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its persecution of Falun Gong in July of 1999. The husband has passed away and the wife and two surviving daughters have been repeatedly imprisoned over the past eight years. A happy family was devastated just because they wanted to live according to the standards of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance".
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• Ms. Li Wenxia Dies Due to Persecution in Tianjin City

  2008-01-29
  Ms. Li Wenxia, 47, did the Falun Gong exercises with fellow practitioners at home, but they were arrested and detained in Tanggu District Detention Centre for nine months. During this nine months of detention, Ms. Li was subjected to numerous tortures. She was forced into slave labour every day, and made to eat very dirty non-nutritious food that caused many of the inmates to have diarrhoea. Because she was a Falun Dafa practitioner, she was not allowed to sleep on a bed, but instead made to sleep on the wet cement floor. Cold water was constantly poured on her, and she slept in about an inch of water. She was also constantly cursed and beaten for not renouncing Falun Dafa. Ms. Li became severely injured mentally, and physically weak, unable to take care of herself. She died in December 2006.
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• 62-Year-Old Associate Professor Ms. Fu Huajing of Hebei Province Dies as a Result of Persecution

  2008-01-25
  Sixty-two-year-old Ms. Fu Huajing was an associate professor at the Chemistry College of Hebei Normal University. She began practising Falun Dafa in 1996. During the eight years of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong, she informed people about the persecution of Falun Gong and under huge pressure dispelled the state propaganda attacking the practice. The intense pressure and brutal persecution destroyed her health. She passed away at 4:00 a.m. on January 4th, 2008.
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• Mr. Bai Heguo Tortured to Death in Nanguanling Prison in Liaoning Province

  2008-01-24
  On the afternoon of January 5th, 2008, 45-year-old Mr. Bai Heguo died in the Nanguanling Prison located in Dalian City, Liaoning Province. He had been sentenced to a 11-year prison term in 2002. His family reports that his body was covered with bruises, and there was a bump on his head. He had clearly endured horrendous torture. Authorities hurriedly cremated the body, taking with it all evidence of torture.
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