Death Cases

Husband Died as a Result of the Persecution, Ms. Li Lanying Arrested in Heilongjiang Province

2009-12-14

In 2002, the police stormed into Ms. Li's home, arrested Ms. Li's husband, Gao Guang'en and he was detained for several months in the Shuangcheng City Second Detention Centre. Mr. Gao endured numerous tortures in the detention centre. He was then taken to the Changlinzi Men's Labour Camp to serve a one-year term. He was tortured until he passed out and fell to the ground. On January 5th, 2006, Mr. Gao, who was not fully recovered, collapsed while at work and died. On September 9th, 2009, while Ms. Li was posting putting up posters exposing the persecution of Falun Gong she was reported arrested by police. Ms. Li was detained in the Yaziquan Detention Centre in Harbin City.

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60-Year-Old Mr. Lai Jiamiao Dies in Custody in the Shaoguan City Prison

2009-12-12

on November 27th, 2009, Mr. Lai Jiamiao's family received a call from Shaoguan City Prison, saying that Mr. Lai was very sick, but they did not ask the family to visit. The next day the prison authorities called again and said that Mr. Lai had died. Mr. Lai's family and their own personal business manager rushed to the prison on November 29th, a Saturday, and requested an autopsy. The prison administration refused to comply, saying, "No one works at weekends." Mr. Lai's relative condemned the prison for torturing him and for failing to notify his family of his condition sooner, which resulted in Mr. Lai's death in custody.

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Mr. Lu Yunlai Dies Two Months after Release from Forced Labour Camp

2009-12-12

Mr. Lu Yunlai, 47, was arrested and sent to Baimiao Forced Labour Camp for a one-year term because he persisted in his Falun Gong practice. By the end of July 2009, Mr. Lu had developed fluid in his legs and abdomen (medical term: liver ascites), suffered an enlargement of his liver and spleen, had pulmonary tuberculosis and more. When Mr. Lu's family rushed to the labour camp, they learned that he had been checked into the hospital and diagnosed with late stage lung cancer. Lu Yunlai died on October 30th, 2009, two months after being released from Baimiao Forced Labour Camp.

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Daughter Arrested, and a Mother Overcome with Grief Passes Away

2009-12-12

The mother of Ms. Gao Huijie, a Falun Gong practitioner, passed away on October 22nd, 2009. She was 74. Ms. Gao was arrested on August 21st, 2005, and incarcerated in Liaoning Province Women' Prison. When she was brutally beaten and injured by thugs in the prison, and while she was in the hospital for surgery, she asked to see her mother, but her mother was never notified. Her mother never got the chance to see her daughter again before her death.

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Mr. Sun Hongchang Crippled as a Result of Torture, Wife Beaten to Death, Father Dies of a Broken Heart

2009-12-11

Mr. Sun Hongchang was forced to leave his home in 2000 to avoid being arrested. After his wife was tortured to death in 2003, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) police tried over and over to arrest Mr. Sun Hongchang. In 2006 he was detained in police custody and police used electric batons to shock Mr. Sun's genitals. They also used both hands to force one of Mr. Sun's legs above his head, a torture method called "splitting the hip." Mr. Sun became disabled as a result.

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Mr. Sui Jingjiang Dies as a Result of Injections of Unknown Drugs Given in Changlinzi Men's Forced Labour Camp

2009-12-10

In May 2001, the police took Mr. Sui to the Changlinzi Men's Forced Labour Camp. Section Chief Hao Wei ordered him to get an injection for high blood pressure. Mr. Sui said that he felt fine and there was no need for an injection, but Hao insisted. Mr. Sui discovered there was no label on the "medicine" bottle, so he asked the medical worker why not and what kind of drug she was giving him. After the injections he felt miserable, almost like he was paralysed. His limbs turned purple and they did not work properly. In 2006 he was sent again to the labour camp and given another poisonous injection. This caused Mr. Sui to totally collapse. Mr. Sui died on November 26th, 2009.

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Brainwashing Centres - the Most Cruel of China's "Black Jails"

2009-12-10

On April 29th, 2009, Mr. Xie Deqing, a retired engineer, was arrested outside of the Gapxin District Court and detained at Xinjin Brainwashing Centre. He was tortured so severely that within a month he became emaciated, was urinary incontinent, could barely swallow water, and developed heart disease. On the evening of May 27th, Mr. Xie passed away just four days after returning home. In order to destroy the evidence of abuse in custody, on May 29th, a large number of officers crashed Mr. Xie's funeral ceremony. They beat his eldest son Xie Weidong and injured him. Then they took away Mr. Xie's body and had it cremated.

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Elderly Ms. Wang Lianzhi Dies as a Result of Abuse in the Yunnan Province Second Women's Prison

2009-12-09

Ms. Wang Lianzhi was arrested in 2008 for practising Falun Gong and sent to prison. Ms. Wang was released on medical parole on January 7th, 2009, and she was almost in a vegetative state by then. All of her teeth were loose or falling out, she had terrible headaches, and she could not sleep. She was rushed to the Kunming City First People's Hospital on November 16th, 2009, and she never woke up from unconsciousness. Her family took her home on November 25th since there was no hope of recovery, and she died on November 27th.

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Older Practitioner Ms. Deng Kuiying Died One Year Ago in Custody after Being in a Vegetative State

2009-12-09

At the beginning of June 2007, 62-year-old Ms. Deng Kuiying was arrested for the second time when passing out Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution in a store, and was sentenced to two years of forced labour in the Beijing Forced Labour Camp. She was deprived of her visitation rights for more than one month, until she was tortured to a vegetative state. When her family finally saw her, she was unconscious and had a very weak heartbeat. After suffering one year in the hospital, Ms. Deng died on September 6th, 2008.

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Ms. Wang Huilan Dies from Forced-feeding, Police Attempt to Conceal the Crime

2009-12-09

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Huilan, 53 years old, from Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province, was arrested on September 1st, 2009 by the Domestic Security Division. On September 7th, she died from brutal forced-feeding at Zhuozhou Detention Centre. Her family and relatives were shocked and saddened by the unexpected news. A dozen of them went to the Zhuozhou City Police Department to seek justice. They demanded that officer Yang Yugang make amends for Ms. Wang's death. The Zhuozhou City Police Department attempted to spend 360,000 yuan to keep Ms. Wang's family and relatives from appealing to the authorities in Beijing and to keep the news of Ms. Wang's death from spreading, so as to eliminate any evidence of their crime.

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Three Practitioners from Weifang City Die in Custody in October 2009

2009-12-09

We have learned shocking news from Weifang City, Shandong Province, where three Falun Gong practitioners were tortured to death while in custody in October 2009. Their names are Ms. Li Xiuzhen, Ms. Wang Li, and Mr. Tian Jinzhi. Mr. Tian Jinzhi, 60, went out on October 1st, 2009 as he normally did, but he never returned home and his whereabouts were unknown. On October 11th, 2009, his family was suddenly notified by the Kuiwen District Police Department that Mr. Tian died around October 10th, 2009 while in custody. Mr. Tian's family were horrified to find that his body had been cut open and his organs seemed to have been disturbed. They are strongly doubting the cause of his death, as the police told them they cut open his body to find out the cause of death.

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Older Practitioner Ms. Jin Lianshun Dies Soon after Release from Detention

2009-12-07

On August 19th, 2009, Ms. Jin Lianshun, 69, told her neighbours while chatting how her severe seizures had been cured. One of the neighbours reported her to the community administration. Soon after she returned home, a group of officers arrested her, and her home was ransacked. The police took all her Falun Gong books and her laptop. They interrogated her and detained her 15 days in the Yanji City Detention Centre. Suddenly facing the terrifying environment, Ms. Jin was shocked. She would speak or shout while sleeping, which disturbed the inmates in the detention centre. The prisoners were afraid that she would die and urged guards to release her quickly, but the authorities refused. She could not get over the stress caused by this incident, and she died a few days later in September 2009.

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Mr. Lu Yunlai Dies Two Months after Release from Forced Labour Camp

2009-12-05

Mr. Lu Yunlai, 47, still persisted in his Falun Gong practice even though he was harassed and detained by the authorities multiple times. On September 28th, 2008, Mr. Lu and his wife were arrested by police and sent to Matougang Detention Centre. Police interrogated Mr. Lu while torturing him with a method referred to as "Roasting the Whole Lamb". Mr. Lu passed out during the interrogation. He was transferred to the the Baimiao Forced Labour Camp for a one-year term. Mr. Lu was brutally beaten and forced to do a long labour shift. By March 2009, after only four months in the labour camp, Mr. Lu Yunlai's health had significantly deteriorated as a result of torture and abuse. He was diagnosed with late stage lung cancer. Lu Yunlai died on October 30th, 2009, two months after being released from Baimiao Forced Labour Camp.

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Ms. Zhao Lianhua Dies as Result of the Persecution

2009-12-03

In 2000, Ms. Zhao Lianhua went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and she was arrested and detained in the Yanji City Detention Centre. She was released after 18 days, for she was very ill due to brutal mistreatment. After she returned home, the police constantly harassed Ms. Zhao. They tried to force her write statements to renounce Falun Gong, but Ms. Zhao resolutely refused. Ms. Zhao had to leave home to avoid being arrested. Later police detained her in the Heizuizi Labour Camp. Her life was in danger after only a few days of being in the Camp. Ms. Zhao never recovered from her mental and physical injuries and died on October 30th, 2009.

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Mr. Huang Lizhong Dies in Detention after Years of Persecution

2009-12-02

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Huang Lizhong died as a result of persecution on October 25th, 2009, in Panjin Prison. Mr. Huang had been arrested in February 2008 and his home ransacked. He was sentenced to ten years in prison. When his family went to visit him on October 20th, two criminal inmates held him up by his arms in the meeting room. He was extremely emaciated, his teeth were crooked, he had difficulty speaking, and he trembled.

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