Death Cases
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Five Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Jilin, Hubei and Heilongjiang Provinces
2006-05-20Ms. Qiu Yunzhi was 52 years old. After she began practising Falun Dafa, her physical and mental health greatly improved and her diseases healed miraculously. In a visit to the Appeals Office in Beijing in March 2003, Ms. Qiu was arrested by the police halfway through her trip. She was sent to her hometown and held the Dehui City Detention Centre for 16 days. She was also extorted out of 2,700 yuan. Thereafter, she suffered constant harassment, threats, and house break-ins by 610 Office agents. Under great pressure, she suffered a mental breakdown and was mentally disordered for the past five years. Finally, on March 21st, 2003, she died. -
Mental Torture and Murder in the CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong - Part 3 (Photos)
2006-05-19When Falun Gong was slandered, 30-year-old Mr Wu Chunlong went to Beijing to appeal. For this he was brutally tortured. Mr. Wu was forced to sit on a "tiger bench" for seven days, and later he was injected with an unknown drug. He fainted on and off a few days later, became incontinent. A week later he lost all feeling from his lower back to his knees. He was nothing but skin and bones. Wu was released, yet on August 20th, 2005, he passed away. -
Several Practitioners Die Due to Harassment, Intimidation and Persecution by the Xishan Coal and Electricity Group
2006-05-18Mr. Liu Mingzhong was an employee of Xishan Coal and Electricity Group. In late 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. After he was returned to his home area, he was detained at the Taiyuan Xindian Forced Labour Camp. While in detention, he was stripped of his clothes and had cold water poured all over his body. He was forced to lie on the ground, and the police splashed water on him using a broom used to sweep the bathroom. Mr. Liu was tortured to the point of dying. Only then was he released on medical parole. He passed away in August 2005, at the age of 68. -
Further Information Regarding How Older Dafa Practitioner Ms Li Fengqin Was Persecuted to Death
2006-05-18Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Fengqin, 54 years old, was a very compassionate and benevolent person. On October 11th, 2005, Li Fengqin and eleven other practitioners were arrested and the police tortured her with brutal kicks. After being thrown into a car, at the detention centre, Li Fengqin constantly cried out in pain. Guards force-fed her. Li Fengqin said, "I am going to die if you force-feed me anymore. I vomited everything that you poured into me the last time." She became emaciated and passed away. -
Mental Torture and Murder in the CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong - Part 2
2006-05-18Following is the account from graduate student Zhao Ming at Trinity College in Dublin: "...They ordered me not to sleep for two days and coerced me to 'reform.' After I refused, they tied my arms, upper body, legs, and feet to the bed plank. Then they put a rope across my mouth and tied down my head this way ...They shocked me all over my body with at least six electric batons, each one capable of releasing tens of thousands of volts of electricity. It was tremendously painful. My ears were filled with the cracking of electric baton touching the flesh, and the air was filled with the scorched smell of flesh; each air particle was filled with violence and evil..." -
Older Ms. Hou Junfang Dies under Persecution
2006-05-17In December 2000, Falun Dafa practitioner Mrs. Hou Junfang, 59, went to Beijing to appeal. She was arrested and taken to the police station and forced to tell her name and address. She was brutally beaten because she refused identify herself. Policemen feared she might die, so they dropped her off on the roadside. During the past several years, due to close monitoring and harassment by policemen and 610 Office agents, her health continually worsened. She died on January 4th, 2006. -
Mental Torture and Murder in the CCP's Persecution of Falun Gong
2006-05-17Practitioner Luo Qingshu, in her 80s, was handcuffed and hung up for a long time at the Gongjiawan Legal Training School in Lanzhou City. She was coerced to write "guarantee statements." Her legs swelled and appeared translucent; she could not even remove her trousers and could not bend her legs. Deep and long cracks appeared on her thighs and calves; her hands looked like balls from the swelling and she could not bend her fingers. Once, she was hung up for 12 days nonstop. She was not allowed to sleep. Guard Qi slapped her face and screamed, "If you don't listen to the Communist Party and don't reform, I'll hang you up hundreds of times, skin you and pull out your tendons." -
Police Confiscate the Funeral Canopy from the Home of the Deceased Mr. Wang Jianguo (Photos)
2006-05-16On April 30th, 2006, the head of the Changyi Sub-bureau of the Jilin City Police Department, along with 40 to 50 officers arrived in 13 vehicles at Mr. Wang Jianguo's home. The large contingent of police completely blocked the road in front of Mr. Wang's house and rushed into his courtyard. In just a few minutes they had ripped out a funeral canopy and plundered everything around it, leaving only Mr. Wang's portrait. They said that the funeral awning was "a bad influence." Mr. Wang's grandmother held his portrait and stood in front of the Jilin City Police Department and cried. She said, "My grandson died unjustly. Just because he practised Falun Gong and did good deeds, he was killed in the jail in only 40 days." -
Two Elderly People Died as a Result of Persecution in Jiangxi Province
2006-05-16Ms. Zhong Weizhen was 63-years-old. Since July 20th, 1999, she had been harassed and persecuted continuously by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In January 2001, she was taken to the Jiujiang Forced Labour Camp, brutally persecuted and subjected to forced brainwashing. In March 2001 she was released, but her family kept a tight watch over her and did not allow her to contact other practitioners. She died on August 17th, 2002. -
Mr. Wang Jingguo Tortured to Death, Jilin City National Security Bureau and 610 Office Threaten Family Members
2006-05-15Mr. Wang Jiangguo and his wife, Ms. Zhao Qiumei, from Jilin City were arrested on March 2nd 2006, by Nanjing Police Substation officers in the Chuanying District led by Tan Xinqiang. Ms. Zhao Qiumei was later sentenced to one year of forced labour. Mr. Wang Jiangguo was tortured to death on April 10th at the Jilin City Detention Centre after he was savagely force-fed and tortured in an attempt to extort a confession from him. He was 30 years old when he was tortured to death. On April 13th, a memorial service was planned in his home, where people could come to express their condolences. -
Four Practitioners from Heilongjiang and Gansu Provinces Passed Away Due to Persecution
2006-05-15Mr Jin Chunqing was 58 years old. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was heavily fined and was detained for eight months in Shuangcheng City Detention Centre. After he had been detained in solitary confinement, he was sent to the Wanjia Health Centre. The jail hospital doctor claimed that his heart was lacking blood and gave him unknown injections. Mr. Jin became weaker. The police often harassed him at home, and he was under tremendous mental pressure. His body showed abnormal symptoms and he seemed not to be very clear minded. He passed away on April 8th, 2006. -
Retired CCP Huainan City Committee Secretary Mr. Liu Degao Died under Persecution
2006-05-14In the spring of 2000, 84-year-old Mr. Liu Degao was deceived into going to a brainwashing centre, where he was cursed during the day and forced to sleep on the icy-cold cement floor for one week at night. He was released after they had extorted 6,000 yuan from him. The town officials kept threatening him at his home upon his return. Under long-term threats and suppression, his wife, a non-practitioner, burnt all his Falun Dafa books, causing him to become painfully sick. He died on August 16th, 2004. -
Appeal to Investigate the Death of Practitioner Mr. Liu Dejun from Liaoning Province
2006-05-13On May 25th, 2003, Mr. Liu Dejun was arrested by police for practising Falun Gong. He was taken away from the Panjin Detention Centre in a car from the national security team. It was confirmed that Mr. Liu Dejun was still alive on July 11th. Mr. Liu was able to walk that day, but his family was informed of his death the following morning. The police officers' contradictory statements on where Mr. Liu had died made his death even more suspicious. The deputy director of the Liaohe Oil Field Police Station and a national security officer from the Panjin Police Station proposed an autopsy and pressured his family to cremate the body. -
Five Falun Dafa Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Hebei, Heilongjiang and Liaoning Provinces
2006-05-13Mr. Wang Jingzhi was 78 years old. He suffered from many kinds of illnesses, which all disappeared after he learned Falun Gong. After the persecution started on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Wang's home was ransacked many times by the authorities, and his Falun Dafa books were stolen. In 2004, Mr. Wang was sent to a brainwashing centre, where he suffered from mental tortures and was fined. The unrelenting harassment and threats were a great shock to his system, and he died on July 10th, 2005. -
How Practitioner Ms Wang Xiuyun Was Persecuted to Death
2006-05-12Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Xiuyun from Jilin Province was unjustly arrested by police officers from the Huadian City Public Security Bureau on June 3rd, 2002. The police officers intimidated, interrogated and tortured her severely. When she was dying, they sent her to the Changchun (Heizuizi) Women's Prison. Seven days later, Ms. Wang Xiuyun passed away. Afterwards, Yu Jinji, the director of the Political Security Section in the Huadian City Public Security Bureau, claimed publicly, "We deal with Falun Gong too lightly. It was proper to persecute Ms. Wang Xiuyun to death. Her family members can not do anything."