Death Cases

  • Second Autopsy Reveals Only Three Internal Organs Left in Ms. Zhao Tingyun's Remains

    On May 16th, 2006, 54-year-old practitioner Ms. Zhao Tingyun's family were informed that the police was going to conduct the second autopsy on Zhao Tingyun. When Ms. Zhao's family rushed to the funeral home, they saw more than ten police cars and many police officers. They followed and monitored the family. When the legal medical examiner removed the stitches from the previous autopsy, only three internal organs were left -- the intestines, the bladder, and the womb. All the others had disappeared. The left side of the chest cavity looked normal but the right side had congealed blood and adhesions.
  • Mr. Na Zhenxian Tortured to Death in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Na Zhenxian was tortured to death in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City. During the past few months his family members tried several times to file a lawsuit. The Daowai District Court of Harbin City refused to take the case, and the Harbin City Middle Court purposefully delayed the case by rejecting it, using the excuse of "insufficient evidence" and "more investigation and evidence needed."
  • Four Falun Gong Practitioners Pass Away as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Zhu Zhi was a Falun Gong practitioner in Shandong Province. After the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, she went to Beijing three times to appeal. Each time she was arrested and detained. In October 2000, she was arrested at the rail station in Beijing. She was first taken to a detention centre, and then transferred to a labour camp. However, the labour camp refused to accept her due to her poor health. In 2001, she was sent to a brainwashing centre, where she was tortured for five months and became extremely weak. Within one month after her release, she passed away, in July 2001, at the age of 58.
  • Supplemental Information about Dafa Practitioner Liu Zhirong's Persecution Death

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Zhirong was a teacher in Gansu Province. On January 10th, 2006, Mr. Liu Zhirong was persecuted to death at the Tianshui City No. 3 Prison in Gansu Province. His body was cremated by police order on January 14th. When Liu Zhirong's family members went to view his corpse, the police told them the cause of his death was suicide. However, neither his quilt, nor his body had any visible blood on them. In regard to the reasons behind Liu Zhirong's death, there are conflicting explanations. One eye witness (a criminal) said, "He was beaten to death."
  • Chinese Communist Party Sentenced Cao Baoyu to Prison Just Before He Died of Persecution

    Two days before practitioner Mr. Cao Baoyu died, officials went to the hospital where he was staying and read him his "sentence." At that time Mr. Cao was so thin he was mere skin and bone. His neck was infected in many places, his blood pressure was way below normal, and he was near death. On April 27th, Mr. Cao passed away. To avoid being held responsible for the murder they had committed, the authorities released a statement saying that Mr. Cao's death was due to natural causes. They then cremated the body on May 1st. They refused to allow the family members to see the body. The family members were paid 30,000 yuan as a settlement compensation for his death.
  • How Can Rao Chaoyuan's Parents Deal With the Mental Blow of One Son's Death and the Other Son's Disability from the Persecution?

    Falun Dafa practitioner Rao Chaoyuan, 40 years old, is the older brother of practitioner Rao Zhuoyuan who died as a result of persecution. After being detained by the evildoers for over one year, he was sentenced to an eight-year prison term in January 2003. Now he is incarcerated at Sihui Prison in Guangdong Province, with one of his legs disabled from torture. With one son having died from gross abuse and another disabled, Rao Chaoyuan's parents are going through enormous misery and mental pressure.
  • Additional Information Regarding Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liu Zhirong's Death from Persecution

    Mr. Liu Zhirong was a teacher at the Tuanjie Elementary School. He was persecuted to death on January 10th, 2006 by the guards of the No. 3 Prison in Tianshui City, Gansu Province. The prison guards cremated Mr. Liu Zhirong's body without his family's permission on January 14th, 2006, in Tianshui Cremation Facility, and his ashes were sent back to the Qingyang Cremation Facility. His wife held a simple memorial service for him on May 8th, 2006.
  • Kang Fengtang, an Older Gentleman from Jiamusi, Dies Grief Stricken Due to His Two Daughters' Repeated Arrests

    Falun Dafa practitioners Kang Aimin and Kang Aiqin were once again arrested and detained. Their father Kang Fengtang witnessed his daughters being repeatedly persecuted during the seven-year persecution of Falun Dafa by the Chinese Communist Party. He passed away unjustly on April 9th, 2006.
  • A Good Person is Sent to a Mental Hospital and Persecuted to Death (Photo)

    Ms. Huang Xingjin was an elementary school teacher who practised Falun Dafa. Her husband sent her to the Wuwei Mental Hospital for fear of being persecuted along with her. In order to free herself from the torture and restriction on her personal freedom in the mental hospital, Ms. Huang agreed against her will to write the Guarantee Statement to give up practising after being released from the hospital. Once home her husband began locking her up at home and beating her because she refused to write the Guarantee Statement. Due top the pressure, in March 2000, she jumped from her four-story apartment and ended her life. [Editor's note: As a Dafa cultivator, committing suicide is wholly against the teachings and requirements of Dafa.]
  • How Zhang Xiangfu Suffered in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiangfu refused to give up his practice of Falun Gong, so he was arrested and tortured many times. Police and the 610 Office sent him to Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp in 2002. There the guards used over twenty different torture methods on him. They broke several ribs and chest bones, his skull was fractured and the backs of his hands were scorched. The guards invented a new torture to increase his suffering. They shot needles from a homemade gun at the practitioners. The needles go deep into the flesh, where they cause excruciating pain. Mr. Zhang died on October 15th, 2005, from brutal torture, at the age of 33.
  • Six Falun Dafa Practitioners from Yunnan Province, Hubei Province, Hebei Province and Other Locations Died Due to the Persecution

    Someone threatened 61-year-old Ms. He Weixian her in July 2001 for explaining the true situation of Falun Dafa. She decided later to leave home and go from place to place to avoid further persecution. On October 24th, 2002, Ms. He was sent to the Maojiashan Women's Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City, where they injected her with toxic substances that harm the central nervous system. She was in constant pain since then. On October 13th, 2004 Ms. He was released to go home, but the persecutors kept harassing her. She died on April 24th, 2006.
  • Ms. Yang Yuhua Dies from Abuse in Daqing Detention Centre

    Ms. Yang Yuhua started a hunger strike to protest the persecution after she was detained there. She shouted "Falun Dafa is good" every day. Police are very afraid of that. They used many methods to torture her, including torture chairs, force-feeding, cursing and beating. During the force-feeding, the prison doctor, Qi Hong hit her face and put the force-feeding tube through her nose several times to torture her. She endured great pain. The director of the detention centre threatened to use a metal feeding tube to force feed her. However, she died before that happened.
  • Li Tiejun Dies as a Result of Torture at Chaoyanggou Labour Camp

    A group of officials and police broke into a practitioner's home on May 31st, 2004. They arrested 11 practitioners including Li Tiejun and his wife. Li Tiejun was sentenced to one year of forced labour. His elderly mother, his ailing father who had had a stroke and a 16-year-old child were left at home. He was forced to do hard labour with designated people monitoring him all the time. Due to the torment, Li Tiejun was devastated both mentally and physically. He became extremely weak. The authorities were afraid of being held responsible should he die in the labour camp so they told his family to pick him up. After returning home, Li never recovered. He passed away on March 17th, 2006.
  • Three Practitioners from Hebei, Inner Mongolia and Shandong Provinces Pass Away as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Yu Guolu, 61, went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Dafa. In November 2003, he was sent to a brainwashing centre,during which time he developed high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes. While detained there, he was brutally tortured. He was once tied up for a week, and the staff pried open his mouth and force fed him with unknown drugs. As a result, his teeth were knocked out and his jaw broken. He wasn't allowed home until April 2004 until he was on the verge of death. In November 2005, local police again broke into his home to harass him, causing him to come close to mental collapse. On January 19th, 2006, he suddenly passed away.
  • Daughter-in-law Died as a Result of Persecution; 93-year-old Mother Died Calling Out Her Son's Name

    Falun Gong practitioner Kong Fanrong died from torture on May 11th, 2003. After that, her family continued to suffer persecution such as harassment and arrests by lawless personnel. Ms. Kong's husband Bian Hongxiang was arrested twice and tortured until he was close to death. He is living away from home to avoid further persecution and is unable to return. On April 2nd, 2006, police unlawfully followed and arrested Bian Hongxiang's daughter, Bian Linyun. Bian Hongxiang's mother Wang Liqin, who was 93 years old, passed away while calling her son's name.