Mr. Tong Dingqing from Loudi in Hunan Province Dies as a Result of Persecution

Name: Tong Dingqing
Gender: Male
Age: In his 50's
Address: Quanhe Village, Yangshi Town, Lianyuan City, Loudi City, Hunan Province
Occupation: Chaling County official
Date of Death: September 2011
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 11th, 2005
Most Recent Place of Detention: Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp
City: Lianyuan
Province: Hunan
Persecution Suffered: Forced labour, forced injections, dismissal from workplace, home ransacked

Mr. Tong Dingqing was a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official in Chaling County until he was dismissed from his job for practising Falun Gong. On the morning of June 2nd, 2005, six officers from Lianyuan City Domestic Security Division broke into his home and ransacked it. They confiscated his Falun Gong books and two copies of materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. Tong was not at home at the time, and the officers told his family members that he must go to the police station when he returns.

Tong Yongsheng, the party secretary of Quanhe Village, assisted officers from the Domestic Security Division in arresting Mr. Tong Dingqing at his home on June 11th, 2005. He was then taken to Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Changsha to serve a ten-month term, where he was tortured and injected with unknown drugs. He was released only when he was in critical condition and his blood pressure was very high.

Mr. Tong started practising Falun Gong again at home, and gradually his health improved. When he went to work in Changsha City in 2008, Tong Yongsheng led Liu Fangshan, the head of Lianyuan 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), and six others to Changsha to try to arrest him. However, Mr. Tong managed to escape. He was forced to quit his job and flee the city.

Officers from Loudi Domestic Security Division broke into the homes of more than a dozen local practitioners in Loudi late on the evening of July 15th, 2009, and arrested them. They then travelled to Lianyuan and arrested Mr. Tong Dingqing. However, they found no Falun Gong books or other related materials, so they had no choice but to release him.

The repeated arrests and harassment from authorities took a severe toll on Mr. Tong and family. He became completely paralysed in 2009, and his wife Wan Dong'e died of bone marrow cancer in September 2010. Mr Tong remained bedridden until he passed away in September 2011, when he was in his fifties.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2011/10/24/248259.html