Death Cases

  • Dafa Practitioner Mr. Han Zhenju from Hebei Province Tortured to Death at Tangshan City Labour Camp

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Han Zhenju from Hebei Province was arrested in March 2003 and sent to a Labour Camp in Tangshan City. He was tortured to the brink of death. He was returned to the Kaiping Labour Camp, where he was tortured to death on May 15, 2004. Han Zhenju's family saw large areas of black and purple marks on the back of his body, and the details call for further investigation.
  • Eventual Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms Bai Xiushuang a Result of Persecution in Jilin Province

    Forty three year old Dafa practitioner Ms. Bai Xiushuang was a resident of a village near Jiutai City, Jilin Province. Ms. Bai Xiushuang went to Beijing after the persecution began on July 20, 1999 to appeal for Falun Gong. She was unjustly detained and then sent to Jiutai City's compulsory brainwashing class for one month. After her release the police frequently harassed her. Thus Bai Xiushuang made the choice to leave home to avoid being persecuted. Consequently, she suffered much physical and mental torment. Finally at the end of 2003, her previous illnesses, which had disappeared after she began practising Falun Gong, recurred, leading to her eventual death.
  • The Facts of Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Changming's Torture and Death in the Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp

    "One day we heard Liu Hongguang and Zhang Zhenhua ordering others to drag Mr. Zhang Changming into the solitary confinement compartment. We heard Mr. Zhang shouting, "Help!" Later on we learned that Mr. Zhang had been tortured to death during his second time in the solitary confinement compartment. We cannot imagine the horrors that went on inside. According to Liang Jingui, when he saw Mr. Zhang Changmin in the morning, his body was already stiff and his body was horribly misshapen."
  • Sixty-Three-Year-Old Ms. Chen Guilan Beaten to Death in Labour Camp in Gansu Province (Photo)

    63 year old Falun Gong practitioner Chen Guilan passed away on September 27, 2002, only three days after she was sent to the Second Labour Camp of Gansu Province. Sources report that Chen Guilan's husband found distinct blue and red bruises on his wife's body when he was ordered to go to the Second Labour Camp to deal with his wife's death. He wanted to take photos of her body, but was forbidden from doing do. Furthermore, the Camp did not allow him to move his wife's body to their hometown and cremate it there. In the end, the Camp cremated Chen's body.
  • Chengdu Practitioner 74 Year Old Ms. Zhou Qifeng Dies of Persecution

    74 year old Chengdu City Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhou Qifeng encountered detention, harassment and persecution by corrupt local officials. After she was released the authorities threatened to put her in a brainwashing centre if she did not renounce her belief. She knew the cruelty of brainwashing classes and under extreme distress and fright, she checked into a hospital so that she could avoid being sent to a brainwashing centre. However she was discharged and died in injustice on September 20, 2003.
  • Seriously Ill Son Passes Away After Mother Returns from Forced Labour Camp

    Fan Guang was a student from Shulan City, Jilin Province. His father was a coal miner who had lost his life in an accident many years ago. He and his mother Wang Pengying depended on each other for their lives. Due to the fact that she practised Falun Gong, his mother was arrested and detained in a labour camp. After a year and a month in the labour camp, Ms. Wang Pengying came home to find her son was dying. Fan Guang's heart and stomach were very weak. He couldn't eat anything because he had been very ill and malnourished for a long time. Ms. Wang took him to see many doctors, but it was too late. On April 10, 2004, Fan Guang died. His body was so emaciated and pale that the staff of the crematorium was moved to tears for him.
  • Doctor Liu Haibo is Dead from Torture Received in the Weizigou Labour Camp

    Liu Haibo was accused of providing a hiding place for Dafa practitioners who had broadcast the truth about the persecution on the national TV system. For this reason, The authorities brutally tortured Liu in order to obtain a confession. About 1:00 a.m. in the morning, he was tortured so severely that his heart stopped beating (It is not known what method of torture or measures were used by the police). He was sent to the emergency centre at the Changchun City Hospital, but the staff officially claimed they could not revive him, even though the emergency centre was well equipped with the proper equipment and trained personnel to successfully revive him. His family was not informed of his death. Liu Habo's father is over 70 year old and still doesn't know his son has been tortured to death. His 5 year old son is being raised by his grandmother.
  • Hunan Province State Security Police Responsible for Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Xin Jingwen

    Falun Dafa practitioner, Ms. Xin Jingwen, 68, from Yueyang City, Hunan Province, was abducted on April 28, 2004. As many as 10 police vehicles were involved in her arrest and subsequent abduction. On May 2, 2004, she was found tortured to death in theYunxi Detention Centre in Yueyang City. Police cremated her body on May 6. Those mainly responsible for her death are state security police officers Sun Guanping and Li Wanyi.
  • Ms. Yu Fenghua from Liaoning Province Tortured to Death

    Ms. Yu Fenghua was a music teacher. She was 57 years old and practised Falun Gong. She lived in Liaoning Province. One night in January 2001, Yu Fenghua was hanging a banner reading "Falun Dafa is Good" in the downtown area of Dalian. She was abducted by police who had been following her. While in detention, she refused to give up her belief in Falun Gong and firmly resisted the persecution. She also went on a hunger strike to protest. Soon she was sentenced to 8 years in prison. On May 5, 2004, Dabei Prison informed her family to pick her up. She was on the verge of death. When her family arrived, she was carried in on a stretcher. After returning home, she passed away at around 6:00 p.m. on the night of May 10.
  • Torture Death of Dafa Practitioner Ms. Tang Yun from Chongqing

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Tang Yun was born on March 22, 1970 and had lived in Chongqing. She had worked at Zitong Town Department Store. On December 4, 1999, Tang Yun went to Beijing to appeal for and validate Falun Dafa with her own experiences. Her son was only two years old at the time. Tang Yun was arrested and tortured to death on her police-escorted trip back from Beijing.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Zhou Yong from Guiyang City Died As a Result of Torture in 2001

    Mr. Zhou Yong, around 20 years old, was from Guiyang City, Guizhou Province. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2000 but was illegally arrested and sent to Tianjin City where he suffered severe persecution. He was later sent to Hebei Province where he was tortured to the brink of death. He died in hospital in 2001, but only now has the news of his death escaped from China.
  • Ms. Sun Lancheng from Hebei Province Died of Persecution in 2002

    Sun Lancheng was a 41-year-old female practitioner from Hebei Province. After suffering many detentions and poorly treated, she was arrested again in December 2002. The police sent her to a labour camp, but the labour camp again refused to admit her because of her poor health. The police had no alternative but to send her home. Not long afterward, she passed away at home on February 3, 2003.
  • Practitioners Ms. Zhu Yourong and Ms. Zhang Zhibin Tortured to Death at Labour Camp in Hebei Province

    In December 2000, authorities in Hebei Province First Forced Labour Camp (also called Tangshan City Kaiping Forced Labor Camp) tortured Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Zhu Yourong and Ms. Zhang Zhibin to death. Ms. Zhu Yourong was in her thirties. She had been sentenced to forced labour around 2000. Guards tortured her with force-feeding, physical abuse, beatings, and curses. Ms. Zhang Zhibin was thirty years old. She, along with other practitioners, demanded an investigation into Ms. Zhu Yourong's death and was also tortured to death in response.
  • Lingyuan City Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms Li Chunrong Died in 2000 as a Result of the Unjust Persecution

    Police abducted Li Chunrong, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province, and took her to a Detention Centre in July 2000. There she was subjected to brainwashing and other psychological torture. After she returned home, she could not sleep for three days and nights, and developed a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. She lost consciousness for five days and died as a result of the unjust persecution on August 9.
  • More Information about Dafa Practitioner Pan Jianjun's Death as a Result of Persecution

    33 year old college graduate Mr. Pan Jianjun was abducted by police when he was clarifying the truth about the persecution at a friend's house and sentenced to 3 years of forced labour. His forced labour term was extended to four years when he was betrayed by a "collaborator". Jianjun was seen in a detention centre at Huaihua in August 2003. At that time, he was as thin as a skeleton. He could not stand straight and had suffered severe injuries. On February 5, 2004, the prison sent a notice to his family members saying, "Pan Jianjun has died."