Death Cases

  • Elderly Man, Lin Youhui, from Guangdong Province Dies As a Result of Persecution

    There was an old gentleman in Jieyang City, Guangdong Province. His name was Lin Youhui and he was in his 60s. When he started practising Falun Dafa his tuberculosis and heart problem were healed. In the autumn of 2001, the police arrested him and sent him to a Detention Centre where he was tortured. He vomited blood as a result. The police reluctantly released him. In September 2003 he was sent to a brainwashing class, where he was devastated both mentally and physically. Soon after his release he passed away on February 14, 2004.
  • Elderly Liaoning Province Dafa Practitioner Mrs. Li Yansong Dies of Persecution

    Mrs. Li Yansong was a 57-year-old Dafa practitioner from Dalian City, Liaoning Province. In September 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. At the Dalian Bus Station, she was ordered to curse Teacher. She firmly refused and was arrested. Later she was sent to a labour camp to be persecuted. Because of the torture, her health deteriorated. Not wanting to take the responsibility, the labour camp released her on medical parole. She returned home in April 2001 and passed away in November 2003.
  • Dafa Practitioner Mr. Han Junqing Dies as a Result of Torture at Detention Centre in Beijing

    Dafa practitioner, Mr. Han Junqing, from Beijing was 47 years old. After the persecution began, he was sent to a forced labour camp for appealing for Dafa. His determination in Dafa practice won him the respect of all in the labour camp. After persisting for eight months, though, he was eventually influenced by collaborators and became a collaborator himself. After he was released he realized his mistake and cultivated diligently again. He was arrested again and tortured to death at a detention centre in June 2004.
  • An Aged Mother Grieves as Daughter is Killed and Son is Disabled by Torture While in Police Custody

    Mr. Jiang Lide is a 34-year-old Dafa practitioner from Dehui City, Jilin Province. He is very weak and has become disabled due to torture. Yet in May 2004, police abducted him and detained him again in the detention centre. His younger sister, Ms Jiang Chunxian, was sentenced to eight years in prison and sent to the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun. Thirty four days later, she died in police custody with bruises all over her body. When Mr. Jiang's mother heard that her son was taken away again, she grieved very much. Her daughter had just been tortured to death. Her grief caused her to fall ill again.
  • Hebei Province Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Wang Yaping Paralysed and Blinded from Torture Then Dies

    In June 2003 when she was distributing flyers, Ms. Wang Yaping was arrested and sent her to the Luzhazigou "610 Office" to be brainwashed. Ms. Wang persisted in her Dafa practice, however, was sentenced to two years of forced labour and was later sent to the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp. In January 2004, her lower body became paralyzed and she became incontinent. She also lost sight in one eye. Under this situation, the labour camp authorities told her family to take her home. She passed away on May 9, 2004.
  • Additional Details of the Torturing to Death of Three Falun Gong Practitioners from Shandong Province

    On November 20, 2001, Mr. Wu Haiyou's family received a notice from the local police station asking them to identify a body. Lying in the morgue, Wu's face carried an expression of agony and distortion. His body was cold, and his mouth was covered with blood. Twice, when questioned by one of Wu's family members as to how Wu had died, the officers were evasive with their answers. Afterwards, the police officers were afraid, and they returned to the scene of the crime to make sure that all evidence regarding Wu's death was eliminated.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr He Shaohuai Tortured to Death in Detention Centre in Sichuan Province (Photos)

    Mr. He Shaohuai was 53 years old and he lived in Sichuan Province. He was arrested and detained in the County Detention Centre. On September 15, at 8:00 am in the morning, Mr. He could not get up. He said he had a pain in the chest. Two people went to help him get up, but he collapsed before reaching the cell gate. He died on the way to the hospital. The police then notified his wife and did not tell her the truth. The police only said Mr. He was in the hospital, and that she should go and see him. Instead, the police took her directly to the funeral home. The autopsy report showed that he was tortured to death.
  • Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Zhen, an Economist from Hunan Province Dies as a Result of Torture (Photo)

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Zhen was 52 years old. He had worked as an economist for Xiangtan City Science and Technology Committee Equipment Company. In February 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa. Later in the month, he was abducted and beaten by agents from the National Security Bureau, who illegally sentenced him to two years of forced labour. When a Labour Camp in Hunan Province refused to accept him because of his poor physical condition, his family paid 3,000 Yuan for him to receive medical parole. Because of the physical tortures and especially the long term mental torture Li Zhen suffered, he passed away on May 26, 2004.
  • 70 Year Old Ms. Xiao Yuanxiu from Chongqing City Dies As a Result of Persecution

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Xiao Yuanxiu was a 70-year-old retiree from Chongqing City's No. 69 High School. Since 1999, the school has been persecuting Ms. Xiao. It sent her to a brainwashing centre four times and deducted several hundred yuan from her retirement compensation every time the brainwashing sessions were over. Due to the long period of physical and mental torture, her physical condition deteriorated, but those vicious people did not stop persecuting her. When the police tried to abduct her she suddenly fell to the ground and died on March 7 2004
  • Dafa Practitioner Mr Chen Xiaoqin from Hebei Province Tortured to Death at Baoding Labour Camp in 2001

    Dafa practitioner Chen Xiaoqin was from Baoding Area, Hebei Province. Before practising Falun Gong, Chen was in the late stages of cancer and doctors had determined Chen wouldn't live long. However, after Chen began to practise Falun Gong, the cancer disappeared. After Jiang's regime began the persecution of Falun Gong, Chen went to Beijing many times to appeal. In the spring of 2001, Chen was sent to the Baoding Forced Labour Camp, and was later tortured to death there.
  • More Information about How Ms. Chen Xingtao from Hunan Province was Tortured to Death

    "With the government coming to arrest people every 3-5 days, my mother could not bear the anxiety, and died from the stress of threats and intimidation on August 10, 1999. My wife Chen Xingtao became crippled as a result of the persecution and died a painful death on May 27, 2002. My father saw the family broken apart by the persecution and was grief-stricken and indignant. He died on December 23, 2002. What happened to human rights? Where is humanitarianism? Is there no justice from government officials at any level? I must have justice.
  • Detailed Information about the Torture Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Guilan by Police in Shaanxi Province (Photo)

    Ms. Sun Guilan used to be an employee at the Petroleum Machinery Factory in Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. On the afternoon of October 8, 2001, Ms. Sun was tortured to death after brutal force-feeding at the detention centre of Jintai Police Department in Baoji City. She was only 46 years old at the time. The criminal detainees that witnessed the crimes of these evil policemen all cried. Many of them had learned about the facts of the persecution against Falun Gong practitioners from the practitioners that were detained there, and now witnessed this brutal persecution firsthand.
  • The Facts Regarding the Death of Dafa Practitioner Mr. Song Gang, a Former Deputy Section Head at Yichun City's Government Legal and Law Office

    Mr Song Gang, in his forties, went to Beijing to appeal for Dafa and was illegally arrested by the police. He was often interrogated during his detention and suffered brutal torture. In the end, seeing that he was on the verge of death, the police released him temporarily, for fear of taking the responsibility should he die in their custody. In order to monitor his movements more easily, the police forced him to go to work and closely followed him. Under such mental and physical stress Song Gang's health condition worsened and he died on January 28, 2001.
  • Further Details on the Torture Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Chi Yulian from Dalian City

    Based on inside information, in June 2001, Ms. Chi Yulian was illegally detained in the Dalian City Detention Centre. She went on a hunger strike to resist the persecution. The police handcuffed her and shackled her, fastened her to the floor and neglected her until she lost consciousness. Even a seventy-year-old woman had to withstand such torture. That same night, Chi Yulian was sent to the hospital, but she died after a failed rescue effort.
  • In Memory of My Father, Zhang Baicheng, Who Was Tortured to Death Two Years Ago

    My family and I live in Meihekou City in Jilin Province. It has been exactly two years since my father Zhang Baicheng passed away. I often cry when I think of him. He was a very good father. In 2000 my father was also sentenced to one year in a forced labour camp for posting Dafa truth-clarifying materials. In December 2001 he was sent home because he had been brutally tortured! It was too horrible to look at him! In that den of evil, my father suffered extreme torture, both physically and mentally. On February 19, 2002, my father passed away, two months after he came back home.