Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Liu Yongfang from Liaoning Province Died in 2004 Due to the Persecution

Ms. Liu Yongfang was a Falun Gong practitioner from Xingcheng City, Liaoning Province. She used to suffer from tuberculosis and psoriasis. When her psoriasis got very serious, she lost all of her hair and she had to wear a wig. After she began to practise Falun Gong in 1996, her illnesses all disappeared and she grew a full head of hair again. After the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, Ms. Liu went to Beijing twice in 2001 to appeal for Falun Gong. Both times she was arrested and sent to Masanjia Labour Camp in Liaoning Province to be persecuted. She was released when she became seriously ill because of the torture she received there.

At the end of 2003, Liu Yongfang was arrested by officers for clarifying the truth (1) to people. The police later released her. Under the tremendous pressure from the police, her old illness of tuberculosis recurred. Even when Liu Yongfang was very ill, the police still attempted to arrest her, but were firmly rejected by her and her family. Soon afterwards, Ms. Liu's health deteriorated quickly. She passed away in the spring of 2004 despite medical treatment.

Former Wenquan Police Station director, Yang Dehai (currently director of Gucheng Police Station), made an all-out effort to persecute Falun Gong while in office. He and his accomplices Zhou Zhenxing and others applied a special torture to practitioners. They twisted practitioners' arms behind their backs and tied them with nylon ropes. Then they inserted a wooden stick under the practitioner's armpits and placed both ends of the stick on a high table. The practitioner was thus lifted up by the stick, with their feet barely touching the ground. The whole weight of their body was painfully sustained by their armpits. Normally, an ordinary person would not be able to endure such torture for more than 20 minutes. But practitioners were often tortured like this for about 2 hours. Each time, after practitioners were taken down from this torture, their wrists still felt numb after two months.

Wenquan Police Station -

Director Zhao Bin: 86-429-5159608 (Office), 86-429-5138666 (Home), 86-13019982822 (mobile)
Instructor Li Chenghe: 86-429-5159516 (Office), 86-429-5155139 (Home), 86-13898295099 (mobile)
Deputy Director Zhang Jun: 86-429-5152882 (Office), 86-429-5138888 (Home), 86-13188548899 (mobile)

Xingcheng City Police Department -

Xingcheng City Police Department Chief: 86-429-5125300
Xingcheng City Police Squad: 86-429-5125237
Xingcheng City Detention Centre: 86-429-5153226

Note:

(1) Clarifying the Truth: Because of the nationwide persecution of Falun Gong in China, and the fact that the unrelenting hate -campaign carried out by China’s state-controlled media, Falun Gong publish and broadcast nothing but false and slanderous reports about Falun Gong and cover up the brutal persecution taking place in China, practitioners inside and outside of China have been actively engaged in what is referred to as "clarifying the truth" – explaining to the public the facts about Falun Gong and exposing the evil persecution. Truth clarification activities include face to face conversations with people, posting notices and posters, handing out flyers, and hanging banners explaining the truth about Falun Gong. Outside of China, where Falun Gong is freely practised, practitioners further expose the persecution in China through anti-torture re-enactments, art exhibits, Internet websites, books, magazines, newspapers, movies and letter writing. The goal of clarifying the truth is to help people understand what Falun Gong is and, to raise public awareness and support, in order to dispel the lies of the current communist regime in China and to raise public support to to bring about the end of the persecution. (Variations: "clarifying the truth", "truth clarifying", "truth-clarifying", "truth clarification", "truth-clarification", "clarifying the facts", "clarified the truth", and "clarified the facts")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/2/19/95750.html