Three Perscution Deaths of Elderly Practitioners from Liaoning Province, Hebei Province, and Shandong Province

was 72 years old and lived in Chaoyang County, Liaoning Province. Since she began cultivating Falun Dafa in 1996, all of her sicknesses disappeared.. She was abducted by police in May 2001 while passing out leaflets to expose the persecution, and was detained for one month in Chaoyang County Detention Centre. She was seriously injured during the detention, resulting in incontinence. She died in September 2001 after being released.

Mr. Cao Jinlin was 55 years old and lived in Potou City, Hebei Province. Even though he was practising Falun Dafa privately in his home, the police still came to his house to harass him after July 20, 1999, when Falun Dafa was officially outlawed by the Chinese Communist Party. He was sent to a brainwashing class around September 15, 2001, where he was injured both mentally and physically, and died around February 20, 2005.

Mr. Qi Guangyu was 68 years old, a farmer who lived in Pingdu City, Shandong Province. He started cultivating Falun Dafa in 2003 and obtained good health as a result. Local police arrested him and extorted three thousand yuan (1) before releasing him. He died soon after due to the stress of being persecuted.

Note:

(1) "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/14/97302.html