Death Cases

  • Merciless Persecution Causes Elderly Dafa Practitioner, Ms. Wang Shuhua, to Die of Fatal Disease

    Ms. Wang Shuhua was a 58-year-old resident of Tianjin City. Because she persisted in practising Falun Gong and clarifying the truth about Falun Gong, she was arrested on July 20, 2001. While in the detention center, she was mercilessly tortured. This caused her heart disease, which had been cured through the practice of Falun Gong, to recur. She was released 50 days later, but passed away on June 1, 2002 as a result of the persecution she had suffered.
  • Beatings, Humiliation and Brainwashing Lead to Death of Hubei Province Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Liu Wenbin

    Mr. Liu Wenbin, 54, was an official with the Light Industry Bureau Supply Company of Xiantao City. After having recovered from various diseases since he started practising Falun Gong, he was happy to tell people the benefits he had received, even after the persecution began. Unfortunately he was thus arrested and he lost his job. Criminals beat, insulted him and he endured rigourous brainwashing. When his family came to talk to policeman Zhou Guohuai and explained to him that Liu was very weak. Zhou said, "I'm not afraid of him dying here." Later Liu was released but the police kept harassing him until he passed away.
  • More Information On Zhao Guoan's Torture Death at Xuchang City's No. 3 Labour Camp

    Mr Zhao Guoan, was a 55 year old Dafa practitioner in Luohe City, Henan Province. Because Mr. Zhao kept telling people about Falun Gong, he was sent to Xuchang City No. 3 Labour Camp by the police on August 7, 2003. Four months later, his family was notified by the labour camp that Mr. Zhao had died of a "heart attack." When his wife, Ms. Zhang Guirong, insisted on seeing his body, she was greatly shocked by what she saw.
  • Slave Labour in Toxic Conditions Led to Death of Practitioner Zhao Fengyun in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp

    On February 27, 2004, fifty year old Ms. Zhao Fengyun, died after enduring long periods of physical and mental torture at Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. Zhao Fengyun was forced to do intensive labour, book printing for a printing factory. She worked from 6 am to 9 or 10 pm. There was a machine, JBE3-50, that emitted a very strong and toxic smell of glue. Under these conditions, Zhao Fengyun suddenly had a heart attack and passed away.
  • An Undergraduate Student Tortured to Death at the Harbin Prison

    According to reliable sources, an undergraduate student of Harbin Industrial University whose name and age are unknown, was tortured to death in Harbin Prison on the morning of April 5, 2004. Because he refused to write statements denouncing Falun Gong, he was put in the confinement cell. The police ordered four criminals to torture him. In order to cover up their crimes, the police carried his corpse to the prison hospital pretending they were giving him emergency treatment. His body was covered with wounds and there was no trace of food in his stomach.
  • Siping City Police Admit They Tortured Ms. Dai Chunhua to Death (Photo)

    Ms. Dai Chunhua, a thirty-four-year-old Falun Gong practitioner, was a nurse at the First People's Hospital in Jilin Province. On February 19, 2002, she was arrested by police from Siping City, and detained at the city's detention centre. Twenty days later, she was tortured to death. Surprisingly, the police department of Siping City acknowledged that they tortured her to death, and therefore the police department paid the funeral expenses. In many cases, the police do not admit responsibility and grieving families are forced to bear the funeral expenses.
  • Shandong Province Dafa Practitioner Ms. Zhu Meijuan Dies While Escaping Persecution; Husband Unjustly Detained: Young Daughter Left at Home Alone

    Shandong Province Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhu Meijuan fell to her death whilst escaping from an attempted police arrest at home. The exact date of her death has not been verified, but it is thought to have been on March 21 2004. Her husband, Zhou Zhaohua, is serving a four year sentence also because he practises Falun Gong. Sadly, their 11-year-old daughter is left at home alone, with no parents to care for her.
  • One Young and One Elderly Dafa Practitioner Die as a Result of Persecution in Jiayu County, Hubei Province

    60 year old Dafa practitioner Mr. Shen Guoyan lived in Hubei Province. In late September 2001, he was arrested while publicly distributing truth clarification materials and was sent to a Detention Centre where the guards viciously beat him and violently struck his chest. They tortured him with various methods until his whole body became swollen and he was on the brink of death. Mr. Shen was released in October 2002, however passed away in February 2003. His ten-year-old grandson whose only family was Shen Guoyan is now left home all alone.
  • Homeless and Penniless Dr. Piao Jizi Dies from Torture-Related Illnesses

    Ms. Piao Jizi was a 49-year-old doctor working at the Disease Prevention Unit of Yanji, Jilin Province. Through the practice of Falun Gong she was healed of many serious illnesses. However her health deteriorated drastically after spending time in forced re-education through labour. After her release she had to leave home to avoid further persecution. The tremendous pressure on her body and mind resulted in her death on January 8, 2004.
  • Belated Report: Liaoning Province Falun Gong Practitioner, Mr. Ma Zhongxing Tortured to Death in 2001

    Mr. Ma Zhongxing, 52, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Liaoning Province. After making an appeal to call to the end of the persecution he was arrested and sent to a labour camp. He suffered brutal treatment and developed symptoms of severe heart disease. Fearing that he might die in detention, the authorities released him but continued to harass him until he passed away on November 1, 2001.
  • Husband's Harrowing Story of Cover-Up Regarding Wife's Death (Photo)

    "A head surgeon named Sun said, "She had meningitis but we haven't made a correct pathology report." We went to the morgue and the people there asked me to sign a document. I asked what the document was for. He asked my wife's name. I told him and he again asked me to sign, so I did. I left the morgue and suddenly realized there was something behind the document, so I went back and saw division heads Zhang and Li from the "610 Office" were taking away my wife's body."..."As the victim's husband, I don't know who to go to protest the mysterious circumstances surrounding my wife's death. She was a healthy person when she was arrested and yet died in a very short time."
  • Sham Autopsy Report to Hide Truth of Suspicious Death of Liaoning Province Dafa Practitioner Ms. Li Ying (Photo)

    Ms. Li Ying was tortured to death by the No.1 Division of the Fushun Police Department in Liaoning Province. But the police, procuratorate and court have together given false testimony, and at present, the murderers are still at large. Li Ying's family questioned the leaders for the cause of her death. Hao said that she had died of natural causes. Not convinced they paid for a second autopsy to be performed. The professor examined in detail the obvious dark, purple wounds on Ms. Li's body, which numbered over a dozen and he said aloud to himself, "What heavy item hit the body? However the autopsy report said, "Lung thrombus, natural death."
  • Less than Two Months After Release from Detention Centre, 60 Year Old Mr. Wang Gaibian Died from Torture Related Illnesses in 2003

    Mr. Wang Gaibian was 60 years old. In March 2002, Mr. Wang was arrested by Wuan City police and sent to a Detention Centre. There, the police forced him to rip cotton for more than twelve hours a day. Sometimes, the police used a leather scourge to thrash him. Mr. Wang became very weak because of the torture. The police didn't release him until after he was tortured almost to the point of death. Less than two months after he was released, he died.
  • Ms. Yang Xiuqin from Henan Province Dies as a Result of Torture

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yang Xiuqin from Zhoukou City, Henan Province was 50 years old. Because of going to appeal for Falun Gong many times, vicious police officers violently kicked her head and injured her brain, which led to continuous high blood pressure. Later when she was unlawfully detained again, she had blood in her stool for several days, and her blood pressure was extremely high. After getting out of prison, her health got worse and worse. She died on November 16, 2003.
  • Liaoning Province Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Wang Guoyue Dies as a Result of Tremendous Physical and Mental Brutality

    Mr. Wang Guoyue lived in Anshan City, Liaoning Province. In April 2001, he started a three year sentence of forced labour. After only 20 days in the labour camp he was released on medical parole yet continued to suffer from police harassment. Having experienced tremendous physical and mental brutality, he passed away on May 18, 2003. He was 44 years old.