Death Cases
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Falun Gong Practitioner Yang Chanrong Arrested Again After Being Imprisoned for Seven Years; His Wife Was Persecuted to Death
2010-10-26
Falun Gong practitioner Yang Chanrong was secretly arrested on May 26th, 2010, by the Changzhou 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong). He was first detained at a brainwashing centre and was then transferred to the Xilin Detention Centre in Changzhou City, where he has been detained ever since. In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong. Yang Chanrong and his family have suffered from arrest, detention, brainwashing, sentencing, forced labour, torture and other forms of persecution. On January 9th, 2001, Zhou Fenglin, Yang Chanrong's wife, was persecuted to death due to force-feeding at the Xilin Detention Centre. -
Ms. Song Meiying's Sudden Death Suspected to Be the Result of Violent Beatings
2010-10-26Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Song Meiying, 52, suddenly died on August 26th, 2010. Bodily injuries on her remains indicated that she had likely been beaten to death. Ms. Song left home on that day on an electric motorcycle to go shopping, as was her daily routine. She spoke with people about the persecution of Falun Gong as she was shopping. When her son returned home he called her mobile phone, but instead of hearing his mother's voice, he heard a male voice who claimed to be a policeman. He told Ms. Song's son that his mother had an accident and was in a coma. Ms. Song died at 9:30 p.m. that same day. Ms. Song's relatives requested to take a final look at her remains. They were shocked upon seeing that Ms. Song's face was completely deformed. -
Elementary School Teacher Ms. Hu Lianhua Dies in Detention, Just One Month after Being Arrested
2010-10-25Elementary school teacher Ms. Hu Lianhua refused to give up practising Falun Gong and was arrested and tortured many times by government agencies. Ms. Hu died in detention on October 2nd, just a month after she was arrested again. Hu Lianhua went to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong in Beijing in 2000 and was fired by the Department of Education in Yanshan after she returned home. Ms. Hu was arrested four times in the following nine years. In August 2008, Ms. Hu was arrested while she was giving out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. Ms. Hu was not released until she was in critical condition as a result of torture. -
Circumstances Surrounding Ms. Zhang Chengmei's Death Due to Torture in Wangcun No. 2 Forced Labour Camp in Shandong Province
2010-10-22
When Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang was taken to Wangcun No. 2 Women's Forced Labour Camp she was healthy and sturdy. When I saw her a little over a month later, she had become emaciated and was unrecognisable. After my release, I asked about Ms. Zhang. Later I learned that she had died in the labour camp hospital on February 6th. When her family saw her body, they noticed that her teeth were missing, and her arm was broken. When she died, she was nothing but skin and bones. The police did not allow her family to take pictures and hastily had her cremated. -
610 Office Chief Ma Shaoyu's Misdeeds
2010-10-20The 610 Office--named after the date of its creation on June 10th, 1999--is an extralegal police task force responsible for carrying out the campaign to persecute Falun Gong. Ma Shaoyu was promoted to chairman at the Yanji 610 Office in Jilin Province because he was actively involved in the persecution of Falun Gong in 2005. Ma organises one or two brainwashing sessions every year and. personally plans the arrests of Falun Gong practitioners. Over ten practitioners have died due to torture on his account. -
Ms. Sun Min Tortured to Death, Her Husband Mr. Wu Yang's Whereabouts Unknown
2010-10-19
Mr. Wu Yang and his wife Ms. Sun Ming were arrested by police in Beijing. Within a very short time, Ms. Sun was tortured to death. The police then created a fake suicide scene and fabricated the autopsy report, saying that she committed suicide by jumping off a building. Ms. Sun's body was found to be covered with cuts and injuries, prompting several experts from the autopsy department to declare that her cause of death was not from jumping off a building. -
Falun Gong Practitioner Zeng Huaguo Murdered by Police in Shaodong County, Hunan Province within Six Days
2010-10-19
Mr. Zeng Huaguo was arrested in June by police when he promoted Falun Gong to a person who happened to be a plainclothes policeman and detained in a detention centre. The police searched his home and took away his Falun Gong books. After his release, Mr. Zeng went to the police station to ask for his Falun Gong books and was tortured severely and then in August he was sent to hospital where he died. -
Brutal Torture Methods Used in the Shayang Forced Labour Camp in Hubei Province
2010-10-18Practitioners at Shayang Forced Labour Camp are brainwashed and forced to watch videos slandering Falun Gong. If practitioners refuse to co-operate with the guards, they are placed in solitary confinement where they are forbidden from using the toilet. Practitioner Liu Deyu from Jingmen was tortured to death here. Guards use various tools to pry open practitioners' mouths to force feed them, and they sometimes intentionally push a spoon down a practitioner's throat to make it easier to pour the food down. Many practitioners have had their jaws broken and lost their teeth as a result of the force feeding. -
Ms. Du Xiuying Sentenced to Forced Labour Camp, Having Already Lost Her Husband and Brother-in-law in the Persecution
2010-10-14Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Du Xiuying and other practitioners were reported and arrested by the authorities while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong on September 12th, in Harbin City. They were all detained at Hulan District Detention Centre. Ms. Du Xiying was sentenced to forced labour. In the brutal persecution by the Chinese Communist Party regime, Ms. Du Xiying's husband, Mr. Yu Huaicai, and her brother-in-law Mr. Li Min, were tortured to death by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities. -
Mr. Zhang Shuan from Henan Province Passes Away Due to Harassment by Authorities While His Wife Is Imprisoned
2010-10-13Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Guo Huaniu was arrested by the police right before the Olympic Games were held in Beijing in 2008. Ms. Guo's husband, Mr. Zhang Shuan, was also imprisoned in the city detention centre but released later. In early September 2010, Mr. Zhang told a fellow Falun Gong practitioner that officials came to his house to investigate whether the people who were visiting him were really his relatives. Mr. Zhang told the practitioner that he had to stop practising Falun Gong because of pressure from the authorities. He died on September 9th. He was only in his fifties. -
A Family Is Torn Apart as a Result of the Persecution
2010-10-12In the A'cheng District in Harbin lived a family of four: a beloved mother and her three daughters. The three daughters had witnessed the miracles of Falun Gong, and one by one came to practise it. They all benefited from the practice. But since the persecution began in 1999, all three sisters have faced severe torment. The youngest sister suffered mental disorders due to the persecution. Two members in the family have since passed away. -
Ms. Li Junxia Persecuted Until She Died
2010-10-10Ms. Li Junxia was a victim of the persecution of Falun Gong. She had been repeatedly harassed, and developed a mental disorder after the agents of the 610 Office [an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong] detained her in a mental hospital at the end of 2006. What happened to Ms. Li in the mental hospital is unknown. Her family noticed that she had a mental disorder after she was released. She died after falling from a building in 2009. -
Ms. Wei Minghua Dies from Persecution, Her Husband Serves Long Prison Sentence for Practising Falun Gong
2010-10-07Ms. Wei Minghua, was a senior teacher at the Qingyuan County No. 1 Middle School in Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Since the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners began in 1999, she and her husband, Mr. Li Wensong, were arrested many times, and her wages and pension were cut off. She died at the age of 56 on July 3rd, 2010. Her husband was imprisoned for more than seven years, and lost his government job. -
Mr. Zhang Yunping, 58, Died after Suffering Seven Years of Gross Mistreatment
2010-10-06
Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Yunping was arrested in March 2003. When he went on a protest hunger strike he was brutally beaten and shocked with electric batons. While serving an eight-year term in Jidong Prison, he was brutally tortured. Mr. Zhang Yunping suffered severe physical and psychological damage after his arrest. The prison released him on medical parole on February 23rd, 2010. He died on September 6th, at the age of 58. -
Ms. Ma Yuming, In Her Fifties, Dies after Being Poisoned in Detention Centre
2010-10-03On May 1st, 2010, Ms. Ma Yuming went to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in Liuzhou City. While making her way home, she was searched at the South Train Station, and the police found Falun Gong materials in her possession. She was taken to Liuzhou Railroad Police Department Detention Centre, where guard Xie Junrong forced Ms. Ma to take part in a series of military training exercises in the last week of May, despite the fact that she was suffering from high blood pressure. Unbeknownst to Ms. Ma, every day the guards laced her food with unknown drugs, causing her condition to worsen to the point that she eventually became very confused and then lost consciousness. On June 19th, Ms. Ma passed away at Liuzhou Central Hospital.
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