Death Cases
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Mr. Feng Jianyong, a Practitioner from Shanxi Province, Died as a Result of Persecution
2005-01-30Mr. Feng Jianyong was a 30 year old Falun Dafa practitioner from Shanxi Province. In order to avoid police harassment, he was forced to leave his home and go into hiding. Over the past two years, he suffered both mentally and physically. As he was not able to regularly study the teachings or practise the exercises, he developed physical complications, which caused swelling in his body. Even in hospital police intimidated him. He died on October 21, 2004. -
Ph.D. Zhang Lei from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Was Tortured to Death in December 1999
2005-01-29Falun Dafa practitioner, Dr Zhang Lei, obtained a Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. At the end of November 1999, he was arrested on Tiananmen Square while practising the Falun Dafa exercises, and detained. He died from a fall from a building on December 16, 1999. The details are being investigated. -
Crimes of the Laiwu Iron and Steel Complex "610 Office": Mr. Shang Qingling Tortured to Death, Ms. Jiao Fangyu Forced to Have an Abortion
2005-01-29The "610 Office" in Laiwu City have committed many unspeakable crimes against Falun Dafa practitioners: Mr. Shang Qingling suffered barbaric force-feeding in a detention centre, which led to his lungs becoming infected. He died on February 1, 2001. He left behind a wife and a son, with no one to care for them. A six months pregnant lady was forced to have an abortion and then was thrown into a brainwashing centre and forced labour camp. -
Mr. Cheng Jingshan, a 64-year-old Falun Dafa Practitioner from Hebei Province, Dies As a Result of Torture
2005-01-28Mr. Cheng Jingshan was a 64 year old farmer from Hebei Province. At the end of 2003, Cheng gained his release after 28 months of unlawful detention in a forced labour camp. In the autumn of 2004, he was arrested again. The police beat him cruelly and he thus became disfigured. Subsequently, Cheng was transferred to a brainwashing centre and then to a forced labour camp for a 3-year term. Mr. Cheng was tortured until he was in a critical condition. In May 2004, his family members carried him home. However, he was brain damaged and his mind was not clear. He died on January 11, 2005. -
Ms. Liu Baoying, A Guizhou Province Practitioner In Her Fifties, Died as a Result of Persecution in 2001
2005-01-2851 year old Guizhou Province practitioner Ms. Liu Baoying suffered tremendously both mentally and physically due to persecution inflicted by the neighbourhood committee. The neighbourhood committee also mentally isolated Ms. Liu Baoying. They didn't allow other people to talk with her, and threatened them if they tried. They slandered Ms. Liu, telling others that she was a bad person.Her suffering led to relapses of old illnesses. She gradually became very skinny, and died unjustly on February 23, 2001. -
A Death Due to Persecution: What I Learned at Beijing's Dongcheng Detention Centre
2005-01-28"I was arrested and sent to a Detention Centre in Beijing.Once I was shifted to another cell, and found my cellmate to be an elderly lady (a criminal) from Inner Mongolia Province. On October 21, 2001, a Falun Dafa practitioner was tortured to death. That practitioner had only been imprisoned for a few days and the elderly lady was imprisoned with her. The practitioner was on a hunger strike. Nobody knew her name or where she came from. On October 21, 2001, she was dragged out of the cell and force-fed by police at the detention centre. She never came back." -
50 Something Mr. Hu Weiping from Hunan Province, Died Recently As a Result of State Security Police Brutality
2005-01-27Mr. Hu Weiping, an employee of Hengyang City Petroleum Company in Hunan Province, was a kindhearted person. On the afternoon of April 16, 2004, officers from the Hengyang City State Security Unit broke into his home and abducted him. He was handcuffed and hung up, viciously beaten, and force-fed unknown toxic substances as the officers tried to pressure him to give up his belief. On December 27, 2004, he died from complications of injuries he sustained during a beating by the state security police. -
Middle-Aged and Elderly Falun Gong Practitioners Ms Xu Xiuzhi, MsCui Xueyi and Ms Wang Zongrong from Hebei Province Died in 2004 as a Result of Persecution
2005-01-2648 year old Ms. Xu Xiuzhi, 50 something Mr. Cui Xueyi and 66 year old Ms. Wang Zongrong were all Falun Dafa practitioners from Hebei Province. They all believed in following the principles of Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance and were arrested, detained without lawful process and persecuted and harassed relentlessly, even after they were released. The tremendous pressure led to their unjust deaths. -
Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Yu Shufen from Hebei Province, Passed Away in 2002 due to Harassment and Abuse
2005-01-25Ms. Yu Shufen lived in Hebei Province. She was in good mental and physical health ever since she began practising Falun Gong. Authorities targeted her after the national persecution began on July 20, 1999 and they persecuted her severely for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2001. The 610 Office destroyed her home, breaking all the windows in all five rooms. The relentless harassment and abuse caused Ms. Yu Shufen to suffer a mental collapse and pass away in 2002. -
Practitioners Mr Jia Zhenjie, Ms Zhang Bingli and Ms Zhang Wenping from Hebei Province, Were Tortured to Death in 2001 and 2002
2005-01-25It has been reported that three Falun Dafa practitioners, a man in his forties and two ladies in their fifties, are known to have died as a result of persecution and torture in Hebei Province in 2002 and 2001 respectively. Besides this, a lady practitioner was beaten in a brainwashing centre so severely for more than an hour with sticks and planks that they broke. However the police carried on beating her. -
Sixty-nine Additional Persecution-Related Deaths Confirmed in December 2004
2005-01-24Information published on Clearwisdom.net has confirmed that another 69 Falun Gong practitioners have died as a result of the persecution in China. As of January 5, 2005, the confirmed death toll of practitioners has reached 1,238 during the more than five years since July 20, 1999, when Jiang Zemin's political faction began its blatant persecution of Falun Gong. These 69 persecution-related deaths come from 18 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. -
The Suffering of Mr. Zhou Zhi, Tortured to Death in the Second Prison of Shenyang
2005-01-2440 year old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhou Zhi from Liaoning Province was secretly sentenced to 11 years in prison in November 2003, without testimonies, notification of his family, or even a verdict. He tortured to death for his firm belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," in the Second Prison of Shenyang City on August 16, 2004. -
60 Year Old Ms. Wang Ying from Heilongjiang Province, Died Recently after Being Tortured in a Brainwashing Class
2005-01-24Ms. Wang Ying was 60 years old, and a Falun Dafa practitioner from Heilongjiang Province. She was arrested and tortured at the end of 2000, because she went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa. The local police picked her up from Beijing, and then sent her to a Detention Centre. She was extorted out of 4,000 yuan in a brainwashing class, and her body was severely injured. Ms. Wang never recovered from the injuries, and after her release from the class, she died on January 9, 2005. -
68 Year Old Ms. Zhang Meilan Died in 2001 as a Result of Persecution
2005-01-2468 year old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Meilan went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa many times. In 2001 she managed to escape house arrest and went to Beijing again to appeal for Falun Dafa. Although she returned home safely, she was detained by her employer upon her return, and died several days after she was released. -
Ms. Li Haiyan from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous District Dies from Persecution-Induced Illness; Her Mother Was Tortured to Death in 2002
2005-01-23Ms. Li Haiyan was a 30 year old Falun Dafa practitioner from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous District. Because she was a determined practitioner who clarified the truth to people, she was arrested and tortured several times and thus contracted tuberculosis during her incarceration. She was released on medical parole in September 2004, and she died at 4 AM on January 13, 2005.