Death Cases

  • Thirty-Four-Year-Old Ms. Sun Guifeng Tortured to Death at the Wancun Brainwashing Centre in Shandong Province

    The brainwashing centre exerts intense pressure on Falun Gong practitioners' minds, deceives and entices practitioners' affections, twists thoughts, and brainwashes them. Officials there take turns physically torturing practitioners. They use soft and hard tactics when trying to transform practitioners, that is to force them to renounce Falun Dafa. When practitioners hold hunger strikes to protest the persecution, the centre force feeds them. Ms. Sun Guifeng experienced continuous inhuman torture until she was both physically and psychologically injured. By the time her family took her home she was already in critical condition and passed away in April 2005.
  • Inner Mongolia Police Torture Practitioner Mr. Yan Li to Death - His Family is Now Being Monitored (Photo)

    The family of Dafa practitioner Mr. Yan Li was notified on December 5th, 2005, that Yan Li died under the persecution from the police in Inner Mongolia. The local police offered 5,000 yuan in exchange for the family's silence. Yan Li's wife was at first overwhelmed and confused, and then said, "Yan Li wasn't supposed to die. I won't take it, even if they give me 500,000 yuan, not to mention 5,000 yuan." She is trying to get a lawyer to obtain justice.
  • Heilongjiang Province Railway Police Cause the Death of a Young Teacher

    Mr. Ma Zhigang, was 30 years old and a teacher. He picked up a Falun Gong flyer exposing the persecution on a train to Beijing. The railway police observed him reading it and suspected that he was a Falun Gong practitioner. The police detained the passenger even after their investigation failed to verify him as a Falun Gong practitioner. The police then put the passenger on a train going in the opposite direction. The two railway police officers decided to interrogate the passenger a second time, putting the passenger under great mental strain. In this condition, he fell off the train and died after failed medical intervention.
  • More Information on Mr. Han Zhenju's Death from Persecution in Kaiping Forced Labour Camp

    On the morning of April 29th, 2004, Dafa practitioner Mr. Tang Zhenju was persecuted to death in Kaiping Labour Camp. When Mr. Han's family received the notice and went to Kaiping Hospital, Mr. Han had already passed away long before they arrived. In order to shirk their responsibility, the labour camp police lied to the family and said that Mr. Han Zhenju suffered a sudden heart attack and passed away. However, when Mr. Han's family secretly checked Mr. Han Zhenju's body (the labour camp didn't allow them to inspect the corpse), they found Mr. Han's back was purple and his body was emaciated, the result of long-term physical and mental torture.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Ms Li Ping of Dalian City Passed Away After Long-term Persecution

    48-year-old Ms Li Ping was arrested and imprisoned many times for her persistence in practising Falun Gong. She was jailed in Dalian Forced Labour Camp twice and suffered brutal torture. After she was persecuted to paralysis, guards covered her with three blankets in the summer time and put insects on her body to bite her. Under the Chinese Communist Party's long-term persecution against Falun Gong, Li Ping passed away on November 27th, 2005.
  • Update on the Death of Mrs. Hu Zhengxi in the Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province

    Ms Hu Zhengxi, a retired practitioner, died as a result of persecution by the Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp on May 5th, 2005. After receiving notice of her death from the forced labour camp on May 7th, her family members were told that Hu Zhengxi went on a hunger strike for more than ten days and died, the cause of her death was unclear, and in the mean time the forced labour camp hurriedly cremated her body.
  • Five More Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Wang Shengtang was arrested was twice arrested, once in September 1999 and again in July 2001. The arrest in 2001 happened in the middle of the night. At that time over ten policemen forcibly searched his home. They scaled the wall and broke into his house. They turned his home upside down and then took him away without a warrant. Mr. Wang was subjected to constant harassment, threats, intimidation, and brainwashing. He suffered tremendously under this persecution and was under constant fear and stress. He suffered a stroke as a result and passed away on October 12th, 2005, at the age of 70.
  • How Mr. Hao Wenmin Was Persecuted to Death by the Handan Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Hao Wenmin, 43, was from Hebei Province. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, he was harassed and tortured by the vicious local police, the 610 Office and the Handan Forced Labour Camp. After he was released in April 2004, he couldn't work. He had to depend on his wife to care for him. Police harassed and threatened him at home. Unable to endure the cruel persecution, he passed away on October 15th, 2005.
  • Seven Falun Dafa Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Hebei, Heilongjiang, and Shandong Provinces

    Ms. Song Min, 34, worked in the Hubei Institute of Hydroelectricity. She started practising in 1998. During the persecution, the political office in the Institute frequently threatened her to renounce Falun Gong. In December 2001, Institute officials and 610 officers arrested Ms. Song from work and took her to the Yangyuan Brainwashing Centre. Torture emaciated Ms. Song. Following her release in August 2002, Ms. Song was relegated to a lower position at the Institute. The persecution severely injured Ms. Song physically and psychologically. She passed away on November 7th, 2005.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yan Li from Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province Tortured to Death in Police Custody

    On November 22nd, 2005, Falun Dafa practitioners Mr. Yan Li and Mr. Wang Xiaodong were arrested by State Security Agents from the Chifeng City Police Department. Mr. Yan Li went on hunger strike to protest the persecution after being arrested. On December 5th, 2005, Mr. Yan Li's family received a phone call indicating that Mr. Yan Li was arrested, and that the family would receive the notice in the mail within several days. On December 7th, 2005, Mr. Yan Li's family arrived Chifeng City, but found out that Mr. Yan Li had already died.
  • Yu Zhenghong's Family Exposes How She Was Persecuted to Death

    "My wife, Yu Zhenghong, died as a result of the persecution on November 17th, 2005. Around 6:30 a.m. on September 27th, 610 Office agents ransacked our home and took my wife. They sent her to Wendeng Detention Centre. They used despicable means to attempt to force her to give up practising Dafa, and she held a hunger strike. She was taken to hospital on the 12th day to be force-fed. On the 14th day she was tortured to the brink of death and then transferred to Wendeng Central Hospital. My wife never recovered, and she passed away on November 17th, 2005 (at the age of 43)."
  • Five Dafa Practitioners in Hubei, Hebei, and Jiangsu Provinces Passed Away as a Result of the Persecution

    Mr. Ma Jianshe, 53 years old, used to have diabetes. After he practised Falun Gong, the disease vanished. After the persecution began he went to Beijing to appeal, but he was arrested, pummelled by the police, detained for more than 40 days, and illegally fined 2,600 yuan. Police went to Mr. Ma's home many times to search the place and harass him and took him to a brainwashing session. They threatened, "If we find even a little Falun Gong material, we will go after you until you have lost everything." He suffered a relapse of his old disease and left the world on June 13th, 2005.
  • Five Senior Citizens Died from Persecution

    Ms. Liu Baolan, 67 years old, was a retired teacher. To tell the facts to the government, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong twice. She was detained and sent to the notorious Shibalihe Forced Labour Camp in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. Although she was over age for a labour camp, the government agents gave her a one-year sentence anyway. For years after that, the agents harassed her at her home. She was thrown into a stupor, became paralysed, and developed oedema all over. Liu Baolan passed away on November 8th, 2005.
  • 97-year-old Man Dies Without a Chance to See His Unjustly Imprisoned Son and Granddaughter

    In November 2005, the 97-year old father of Falun Gong practitioner Tian Fujin was severely ill and bedridden. He was expecting his son and granddaughter to come home and see him, but both were in prison. The Wuyuan Forced Labour Camp, however, refused to release them. On November 18th, 2005, Tian Fujin's father died. Tian Fujin and his daughter did not see him before he passed away. Mr. Tian Fujin's family has been torn apart for the last six years, six of his family members were subjected to persecution and sentenced to forced labour camps and prisons.
  • Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province Tortures Practitioners, Causing One Death and Severe Injury to Others

    In the prison systems of Heilongjiang Province, practitioners are detained mostly in eight prisons. Among those prisons, Hulan Prison and Harbin Prison carry out the most ferocious brainwashing and persecution. They employ all sorts of physical torture and abuse. The "Intensive Section" in Harbin Prison, the First Section and the Ninth Section have all persecuted practitioners to death. The practitioners detained in the Harbin Prisons have now been transferred to other prisons in the province.