Death Cases

  • Falun Gong Practitioner Liu Lanxiang Tortured to Death in 2001, Family Appeals for Justice (Photo)

    On April 30th, 2001, Liu Lanxiang was arrested when she and other Falun Gong practitioners were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. In order to obtain information from her about the source of the Dafa materials the police viciously tortured her. Still, she did give in to them or say anything. Frustrated and enraged, the police then hung her up and beat her until she died. Her family is calling on all kind-hearted people to help them seek justice and bring the perpetrators to trial.
  • Torture Deaths of 2,932 Falun Gong Practitioners in the Past Seven Years Confirmed

    The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Jiang's regime has resorted to the most wicked and barbaric methods in the history of mankind to abuse Falun Gong practitioners, both physically and mentally. They use over 40 different methods of torture including long-term sleep deprivation; electric shocks to the mouth, chest, armpits, breasts, and private parts with multiple high-voltage electric batons; basement detention; water dungeon; handcuffing behind the back; hanging up by hands cuffed behind the back; the Tiger Bench; Stretching Bed; sexual assault; whipping with leather belts and copper wire; beating with steel bars, spiked rods, and bamboo sticks; force-feeding with pepper water, concentrated salt water, and human faeces through industrial plastic tubes; and injection and forced ingestion of nerve-damaging drugs.
  • Practitioner Mr. Liu Shijun Died as a Result of Being Tortured in Heilongjiang Province

    In 1994, Mr. Liu Shijun suffered from cirrhosis of the liver. His liver cirrhosis gradually healed after 15 days of first practising Falun Dafa, and he became a healthy person again. In August 1999, he went to Beijing in order to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. Policemen arrested and tortured him. In the detention centre, policemen took Mr. Liu to a special disciplinary unit and forced him to do hard labour. After his release, local police often harassed him by phone or went to his home and threatened him. On March 3rd, 2005, Mr.. Liu suddenly began throwing up blood. He passed away three days later on March 6th.
  • Detailed Report on the Persecution and Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Bai Lixia in 2002

    Ms Bai Lixia was arrested in Beijing with eleven other practitioners in September 1999 when she was appealing for Dafa. They sent her to the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. Twenty-eight Dafa practitioners from Jixi were sent to labour camp(s) and were brutally tortured. They slept on the concrete floor. They found water each morning upon awakening under the plastic sheets they slept on. The Wanjia Forced Labour Camp forbade Dafa practitioners to meet each other and detained the practitioners individually, in order to "reform" them. Female guard Meng Xiangzhi forced Bai Lixia to do heavy slave labour when Bai Lixia was suffering from ulcerated scabies all over her body.
  • Six Dafa Practitioners from Heilongjiang and Hubei Province Die as a Result of the Persecution

    Mr. Hu Shaohui, 74 years old, was arrested when he spoke about the facts of Falun Dafa to a student in a park. One police officer shouted at him, "I will kick you till you die!" The policemen pushed him to the ground and forcefully took him to the local residential committee office. At that time, he was gasping for breath. They threatened Mr. Hu by threatening to fire his son from his job if he refused to go to a brainwashing session. Under all kinds of pressure, Mr. Hu developed symptoms of cerebral thrombus. After he was out of the hospital, because his family members continued to monitor and pressure him. Mr. Hu's condition worsened, and he died on July 8th, 2006.
  • Mr. Lei Ming, Who Participated in Cable TV Tapping in Changchun in 2002, Dies from Torture Inflicted Wounds

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Lei Ming was part of a group that tapped into Changchun City Cable TV to spread the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution in 2002. He was arrested and had been tortured to disability in the Changchun City Police Department and Jilin Prison. He was tortured with the tiger bench, electric baton shocks (on his face, mouth, neck, and anus), suffocation by plastic bags covering his head, hitting a metal bucket on his head, burning his neck with a red-hot screw driver, punching and kicking. He died on August 6th, 2006.
  • Ms. Wang Shibi, an Elementary School Teacher from Chongqi City, Passes Away After Suffering Five Years of Persecution in a Labour Camp

    On August 17th, 2000, Ms. Wang Shibi, 54, was arrested when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in Chongqi City. Later she was sentenced to five years of forced labour and detained in the labour camp of Yongchuan Women's Prison. There, she was tortured and persecuted. Later she showed symptoms of severe illness. On January 19th, 2005, she was released on parole for medical treatment. After Ms. Wang came back home, she was constantly harassed by the police. Under tremendous mental and physical pressure, Ms. Wang passed away in March 2006.
  • Dead from Police Torture and Abuse: Mr. Guo Juting of Sichuan Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Guo Juting was detained in Lingqunsi Detention Centre. He went on a hunger strike to resist the persecution, and then suffered force-feeding and poisonous injections. Regardless how he was persecuted, he did not cooperate with the authorities. He always held in his mind "Falun Dafa is good." The police turned furious and tortured him cruelly. Guo Juting was tortured and abused until he was near death. The police released him on December 3rd, 2004. He died on January 24th, 2005.
  • Mr. Fu Xuedan Passed Away in Grief after his Mother was Sentenced to Forced Labour

    On April 24th, 2002, when Mr. Fu Xuedan was only 17, police from the Security Bureau of Bin County in Heilongjiang Province broke into his home and arrested his mother for practising Falun Gong. She was sentenced to three years at Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. He never saw his mother again, which was devastating for him. Not long after his mother was arrested, he began to yearn for her affection and missed her tender care. He became so despondent that he ate only instant noodles every day. Mr. Fu was left at home alone, and his agony was indescribable. In August 2004, just as he was entering his junior year, he collapsed. He was diagnosed with a terminal case of throat cancer. On September 26th, 2005, he passed away. Fu Xuedan was only 21 when he died.
  • The Cruel Torture and Agonising Death of Hao Yingqiang (Photos)

    "When I was taken from the interrogation room, I saw that a large patch on the cement floor was stained with my blood. My blood had spilled onto the floor, splattered the wall, the desk and the chairs. My clothes were glued to my entire body because of the bleeding. I was injured and blood was everywhere..." -- Hao Yingqiang, a Falun Gong practitioner from Yanji City, Jilin Province. Mr. Hao was tortured to death and died in excruciating pain on June 8, 2006.
  • Ms. Li Wenzhen Dies After Suffering a Mental Collapse in a Brainwashing Centre

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Wenzhen lived in Guangdong Province. She suffered a mental collapse and her life was in danger because of being tortured in a brainwashing class. In this brainwashing centre, all sorts of torture means have been used on Falun Dafa practitioners. Practitioners were forced to do "military training" outside, and were beaten if they failed to follow each command. Almost all of the practitioners in the class have been tortured by being hung up by their handcuffs. Ms. Li died in June 2006, when she fell into water.
  • Elderly Ms. Shen Chengxin from Jilin Province Persecuted To Death

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Shen Chengxin was 66 years old. In 2000, police detained her in a brainwashing centre because she had participated in group study of the teachings of Falun Dafa. In 2003, whilst walking on the street police searched her handbag and discovered Falun Gong-related materials. She was sentenced to forced labour. Because the police constantly persecuted and harassed her, all of Ms. Shen's family's savings were exhausted, and her body and mind were devastated. She was forced to scrape out a living by cultivating some unused land in the mountains. On June 15th, 2005, Ms. Shen Chengxin suddenly lost consciousness and died.
  • Older Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liang Shufan Passed Away Due to the Persecution

    Ms. Liang Shufan, 59 years old, went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong, and was arrested. She was tortured twice in a brainwashing centre and had one thousand yuan extorted from her. In November 2000, Ms. Liang Shufan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa again. Policemen beat her in Beijing, broke her nose, knocked out two of her front teeth, and took her back to be detained for more than a month in the Jilin City Detention Centre. She was then sentenced to three years of forced labour, but she was released because of her high blood pressure (230 mm). Because of her long-term mistreatment under the persecution, Ms. Liang was under huge mental pressure. She was often harassed by police. In May 2005 she had a stroke. Ms. Liang Shufan died in November 2005, after police had harassed her twice during that time period.
  • The Persecution of a Family: Husband Tortured to Death, Wife Forced Into Homelessness and Imprisoned, Children Harassed (Photo)

    Ms. Liu Yumin's husband Mr. Wu Yanshui died on May 20th, 2001 as a result of persecution. Immediately after his death, authorities from the Laishui county government demolished her house to widen the street. With the house demolished, Ms. Liu Yumin and her two young children became homeless, having to go from one place to another. During these desperate times, police hunted for Ms. Liu and her two children everywhere. One night in 2002, the police climbed the wall, crossed the courtyard, pried a window open and broke into the temporary housing of Ms. Liu and the children. Ms. Liu Yumin didn't even have time to put on her shoes when the police broke in and arrested her. Her little girl wailed and screamed in protest, but the police grabbed her and shouted, "If you scream one more time, we will take you too!"
  • Supplemental Information Regarding the Persecution-Caused Death of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Li Yutong in Jilin Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Yutong died on November 6th, 2003, as a result of tortures he suffered at the Yinmahe Labour Camp. Li Yutong was arrested, sent to labour camp(s), and tortured many times for his belief in Dafa. It was learned that Li Yutong was force-fed a large quantity of a toxic fluid before his death. Therefore, he was murdered. The labour camp saw that he was dying and told the family to take him home. He was diagnosed with kidney failure and passed away. His daughter was still held at the labour camp at the time of his death, a few days' short of the expiration of her term. The labour camp officials nevertheless refused to let her see her father for the last time.