Three Elderly Ladies Died of Persecution Because They Practised Falun Dafa

Mrs. Xiao Yongzhen was sixty-three years old. She was employed by the financial department of Nanyang City Central Hospital, Henan Province. Shortly after she started to practise Falun Dafa in1997, her heart disease and other illnesses vanished. Since July 20, 1999, the Beijing Police Station, the security department from Nanyang Wangcheng district, and the security department from Nanyang Wolong district have detained her numerous times, sentencing her to labour camp (she was rejected by the labour camp due to her health problems induced by persecution), extorted money from her, raided her house and confiscated her properties. All of this occurred because of her appealing for Falun Dafa. Her workplace also stopped her salary. She was arrested in November 2003 and was held in the Shangzhuang Detention Centre of Nanyang City for over five months. The police did not release her to the hospital until she developed a high fever and succumbed to a coma. After endless harassment Mrs. Xiao Yongzhen died in Center Hospital in October 2004. She had been steadfast in her beliefs in Falun Dafa, never compromising or giving in to the perpetrators. She had been in and out of the detention centre at least five times.

Mrs. Li Tianzhen was ninety years old and lived in Nanyang City, Henan Province. She started to practise Falun Dafa at the beginning of 1995. Her many diseases included kidney and heart problems disappeared after she started the practice. Her hair returned to its natural black colour, her skin turned soft and fair, and she had not had to take any medicine for ten years. After the start of the persecution on July 20, 1999, the Resident Committee harassed her many times, arrested her daughter who was sixty years old, raided her house and confiscated her properties, extorted money from her, and sentenced her to three years in prison. She was detained at least nine times. Her granddaughter was arrested many times also and has been homeless for many years. The persecution gravely affected her health and strength. She passed away January 6, 2005.

Mrs. Yi Shuangmei was fifty-seven years old and lived in Nanyang City, Henan Province. After practising Dafa in 1997, her hyperthyroidism was cured without medical treatment. In March 2000 on her way to visit fellow practitioners, she was arrested and several hundred yuan (1) in cash was confiscated without a receipt. The police arrested about twenty practitioners that day and took away all their cash and sent them to No. 2 Detention Centre in Nanyang City. They did not release Mrs. Yi until they had extorted several hundreds more yuan from her. (The practitioners arrested that day were each fined 3,000 to 5,000 yuan. The police released those who handed over the fine, and sent those who could not pay to the Detention Centre). The local police and the Resident Committee harassed her many times at home after she was released. She passed away on November 2004.

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(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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/4/24/100358.html