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  • Seven Falun Gong Practitioners From Shandong, Guangdong, and Liaoning Provinces Pass Away from Persecution

    Ms. Cao Guiying, 66, was a practitioner from Liaoning Province. In 1999 and 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal. She was unlawfully arrested, and sentenced to three years in a forced labour camp. Ongoing persecution in the labour camp caused Ms. Cao to develop an illness, and she was released to a hospital on bail. She passed away in July 2001.
  • Practitioners Persecuted in the Women's Division of Tumuji Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia

    The Women's Division of Tumuji Forced Labour Camp in Inner Mongolia started a brainwashing class in its hospital on August 2, 2004 in order to force practitioners to give up cultivation in Dafa. They assigned six police officers and two guards to watch one practitioner and harass her both physically and mentally. Many practitioners were severely persecuted.
  • Elderly Mr Yang Xifeng, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Hebei Province Died from Persecution in 2002

    After he started practising Falun Gong, 60 year old Mr. Yang Xifeng recovered from his illnesses, including cerebral arteriosclerosis and diabetes. Ever since the persecution of Falun Dafa began on July 20, 1999, lawless persons from the police station and the street committee harassed him, searched his home, and arrested him. The police forcibly sent him to a detention centre to persecute him, which resulted in a relapse of his old illnesses. He became very weak and unable to keep his balance while walking. He died on October 24, 2002.
  • Dafa Practitioner Mr. Wan Jixiang Has Died as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Wan Jixiang was an employee of the Yincheng City Department of Industry and Commerce in Hubei Province. He was cruelly persecuted at a detention centre. As a result, he became deaf in his left ear. On June 28, 2003, Mr. Wan was sentenced to Qingduankou Prison, where he suffered unbearable stress and had to perform excessive, hard labour. His hair turned grey, and the pain in his left ear intensified. On May 24, 2005, he died from the persecution.
  • Over Twenty Dafa Practitioners from Jiangxi, Hubei, Inner Mongolia, Hebei and Sichuan Provinces Were Persecuted to Death

    Mr. Zhang Jun, over 30 years old, was a practitioner from Jiangxi Province. At the beginning of 2000, he was persecuted and sentenced to a forced labour camp, where he was subjected to the torment of incarceration.. The team leader was especially vicious toward practitioners. He incited the prisoners to beat Mr. Zhang. Afterwards, Mr. Zhang was sent to the Gao'an Labour Camp for further persecution. As a result of the long-term torture, Mr. Zhang was reduced to a state of catatonia interspersed with episodes of incoherent murmuring. At the end of 2002, Mr. Zhang still refused to renounce his belief in Falun Gong. The camp officials were concerned that he might die in custody since his condition had seriously deteriorated. They released him and he died soon thereafter.
  • The Police in Yinchuan City Set a Trap for Falun Gong Practitioners

    On May 14, 2005, Yinchuan City Police Department members held an exhibition to slander Falun Dafa. Many practitioners who had learned about the propaganda arrived at the exhibition. Plainclothes police used the phony excuse of "someone reported you" to forcibly check practitioner Ms. Zhang Wenjuan's bag, and arrested her and another practitioner. Then, the police searched Ms. Zhang's home and took away many leaflets exposing the persecution and Video CDs of The Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. He Lihua at the Brink of Death, Ms. Yang Yuhua Died During Force-Feeding; Practitioners in Daqing City Urgently Call for Help

    Dafa practitioner, Ms. Yang Yuhua, a middle school teacher was arrested from her home on the evening of April 16, 2005. She was sent to Daqing Detention Centre, where she was savagely beaten and tortured. On May 12, many guards and inmates force-fed her, which caused her death. Ms. He Lihua is incarcerated at the same detention centre and has been holding a hunger strike since April. She was brutally force-fed. Right now her life is in danger.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Liu Chunhua from Beijing Dies Due to Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Chunhua was arrested and taken to the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp in 2001. The camp guards directed drug addict prisoners and collaborators to torture her day and night. The beatings were severe, and Ms. Liu often screamed in pain. She was released after suffering a mental collapse from the torture, and she died in early 2005 after falling from a building.
  • Sixteen Falun Dafa Practitioners from Shandong, Gansu, Hunan, and Zhejiang Province Died Due to the Persecution

    73 year old Ms. Dong Linrong was handicapped before she practised Falun Gong. She looked pale and sickly. Her festering leg wounds that she had suffered for several decades were cured when she started to practise Falun Gong. After the persecution started in 1999, Ms. Dong told people the truth about Falun Dafa. Therefore, the local police arrested her. The police came frequently to her home, confiscated her property and threatened her family. Even Ms. Dong's relatives were implicated in the persecution. Ms. Dong was harassed for a long time and suffered because of the pressure from her family and from the authorities. She was mentally traumatised. She became semi-paralysed in September 2004 and died in March 2005.
  • Torture Methods Used in the Zhuzhou Women's Forced Labour Camp: "Five Horses Splitting the Body," "Hanging in the Air," and "Modelling in the Air"

    "Inside Zhuzhou (Baimalong) Women's Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province, the persecutors tortured me with several of the torture methods at their disposal: "Five Horses Splitting the Body," "Up in the Air," "Modelling in the Air," etc. They were part of the so-called: "Educate and Save," "Re-Educate and Re-Save" and "Ideological Education Like Spring Showers and Breezes" programmes initiated by the purportedly lenient policies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)."
  • After Ten Months on a Hunger Strike, Life in Danger for 55 Year Old Ms. Li Yushu

    The Mohe County, Heilongjiang Province education committee director, Ms. Li Yushu, fifty-five years old, was detained, sentenced, and persecuted in the Harbin Women's Prison because she firmly practises Falun Dafa. Ms. Li has been on a hunger strike for 10 months and her life is in danger. Every day her hands are tied with a rope and her mouth is sealed with adhesive tape.
  • Two Older Practitioners Died from the Persecution They Endured in the Heizuizi Women's Labour Camp

    Two elderly Dafa practitioners, 63 year old Ms. Guan Shuying and 59 year old Li Jinrong died recently due to enormous mental and physical pains inflicted by tortures that they suffered at the Heizuizi Women's Labour Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. Because she was so determined, the guard beat and shocked Guan Shuying repeatedly. She lost consciousness several times during the tortures. Li Jinrong also suffered repeated electric shocking and slaps from a guard causing partial paralysis in her body.
  • Ten Practitioners Who Died as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Ma Laidong was repeatedly persecuted for telling people the truth about Falun Dafa and explaining that practitioners are innocent people being wrongfully persecuted. He had been sent to detention centres and brainwashing centres, where he was cruelly tortured. After being released, he was often followed and monitored. They also forced him not to practise Falun Dafa, thus his past illnesses recurred and he became extremely weak. He died in October 2004.
  • Fourteen Practitioners from Hunan, Shandong, Guangdong, Heilongjiang, and Other Provinces Who Died as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Gao Yujuan, 83 years old, lived in Hebei Province. After she started practising Falun Dafa, all her illnesses healed. Her white hair turned black and she grew new teeth. After July 20, 1999, her second oldest daughter was arrested and sentenced to forced labour because she told people the truth about Falun Dafa. They didn't allow Ms. Gao to visit her daughter. The 610 Office and leaders from her daughter's workplace often harassed her. Ms Gao was severely mentally tormented. She died on January 3, 2003.
  • Practitioner Mr. Hu Wenjian Passes Away in an Accident After Being Disabled From Torture in Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Hu Wenjian was abducted numerous times for practising Dafa. His home was ransacked and police beat him. He was sent to the police station, a detention centre and labour camp where he was forced to do slave labour. He was savagely mistreated at Hehuakeng Forced Labour Camp, so severely that he was disabled and half of his body was paralysed. His disability was the reason he died in a tricycle accident.