Beijing Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested, Mr. Deng Huaiying Dies in a Detention Centre

Name: Deng Huaiying

Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Beijing

Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: Approximately May 15th, 2013
Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 27th, 2013

Most Recent Place of Detention: Haidian Detention Centre

City: Beijing
Persecution Suffered: imprisonment, detention

Many Falun Gong practitioners from Beijing have recently been arrested. One of them, Mr. Deng Huaiying, died in a detention centre.

Mr. Deng had served a long prison sentence, then died in a detention centre

Mr. Deng was reported to the police on April 27th, 2013, for distributing materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in the Haidian District of Beijing. He was detained in the Haidian Detention Centre until he passed away on May 15th, 2013. His family is currently seeking the cause of his death through the local police.

According to reports published on the Minghui website, Mr. Deng had been imprisoned in Qianjin Prison for practising Falun Gong.

Qianjin Prison incarcerates male Falun Gong practitioners

Since 2000, a large number of practitioners have been detained in Qianjin Prison. It is one of the major prisons in Beijing where heavily sentenced male Falun Gong practitioners are detained. The majority of them served--and are still serving--sentences ranging from five to more than 10 years. Among them are staff members of the Falun Dafa Research Society who were sentenced at the end of 1999, including Mr. Li Chang, Mr. Ji Liewu and Mr. Wang Zhiwen; practitioners from Qinghua University, including Mr. Yu Chao, Mr. Meng Jun, and Mr. Wang Weiyu; and many other practitioners, including Mr. Liang Minghua, Mr. Wu Jun, Mr. Gao Jianming, Mr. Qin Wei, Mr. Xu Huaquan, Mr. Wu Chao, Mr. Wu Yinchang, Mr. Li Yeliang, Mr. Zhang Yanbin, and Mr. Deng Huaiying.

Other practitioners recently arrested in Bejing

Ms. Yan Feng, Ms. Lin Fuhua, Ms. Yue, and Ms. Zhang were arrested on May 16th, 2013, while exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in the Changping District of Beijing. They are now in Changping Detention Centre.

Practitioner Ms. Zhang Xiuping, a laundry service business owner, and her niece, Ms. Li Hua, were arrested around 5 a.m. on May 16th, 2013, at her store in Xiangtang Village, Beijing. Their family didn't find out about their arrests until a few days later when they couldn't contact them. The family asked around, and eventually Ms. Zhang's landlord told them what had happened. Currently, no one knows the whereabouts of Ms. Zhang and her niece.