Death Cases

  • Middle School Teacher and Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Fei Chongrun Beaten to Death; Police Do Not Conduct an Investigation

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Fei Chongrun spoke to a man about the persecution of Falun Dafa whilst in a shop. The shop owner turned him in to the police. The police arrived and quickly closed the shutters before beating Fei Chongrun to death. There are many injuries on different places on Fei Chongrun's body. Two of his front teeth are missing and one tooth is broken. His wounds show that Fei Chongrun sustained bodily injuries in the front and back, and on both the right and left sides. Fei Chongrun is survived by his three-month-old daughter, and his unemployed wife. Right now, the police are refusing to conduct an investigation.
  • Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Jiangsu Province, Tianjin City, Shandong Province and Liaoning Province Die Due to Persecution

    53-year-old Practitioner Mr. Wang Shihai was from Tianjin City. In June 2002, Mr. Wang's house was ransacked by police officers. He was taken to the police station, where he was yelled at, beaten, and starved. Mr. Wang was mentally traumatised and his blood pressure rose to over 200. Later Mr. Wang was detained for one month. After he returned home, police officers constantly went to his house to harass him. Mr. Wang's mind was severely disturbed and his health condition worsened. Finally he passed away in July 2005.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Tang Zhiqiang From Sichuan Province Passed Away Due to Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Tang Zhiqiang changed from being a disabled person who could not take care of himself into a healthy and confident person after practising Falun Dafa. Because he persisted in his belief in Falun Dafa, the lawless Communist Party officials detained him, ransacked his home, and threatened and harassed him, which caused his health to deteriorate. On March 29th, 2004, the police arrested Tang Zhiqiang when he was making materials exposing the perscution. The police officers took turns beating, kicking and insulting him throughout the night. They sent Tang Zhiqiang to a detention centre and held him there for more than five months. Tang Zhiqiang passed away on December 9th, 2005 at the age of 40.
  • Five Dafa Practitioners in Liaoning Province, Heilongjiang Province, and Hebei Province Passed Away as a Result of Being Persecuted

    Mr. Cheng Jinsheng was a seventy-two-year-old practitioner. He and his wife, also a practitioner, were reported when they were handing out materials exposing the persecution in a supermarket. Police took Mr. Cheng to a detention centre and imprisoned him. He was forced to work for more than ten hours every day and had to sleep on a cold concrete floor. His health quickly deteriorated. When he came home he could no longer walk and had to rely on crutches. In May 2001 police came and took his wife away to a brainwashing session. Mr. Cheng was overcome with anxiety and was bedridden. His health continued to decline and he passed away on December 15th, 2004.
  • Three Falun Dafa Practitioners in Heilongjiang and Hebei Provinces Died under Persecution

    Practitioner Ms. Li Xiaohua, in her 40s, was a primary school teacher. On November 17th, 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested. She was severely injured from a beating sustained in custody, and her head swelled. Ms. Li was detained in the local detention centre and then later sentenced to forced labour at the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp. She was rejected by the camp because she had high blood pressure sustained from torture. Ms. Li was detained in the detention centre until her relatives helped to get her released on medical parole. The 610 Office members and State Security Agents constantly harassed Ms. Li at her home until she died on January 2nd, 2002.
  • Five Falun Dafa Practitioners Died of Persecution in Sichuan and Jilin Provinces

    Mr. Liu Hejun, 73, was a retired teacher from Sichuan Province. Mr. Liu began Falun Dafa cultivation in August 1996. Less than one month after starting to practise all of his illnesses disappeared. Mr. Liu went to Beijing in December 2000 to appeal for Dafa and was detained for one month. Later, some vicious party members continuously went to his home to harass him and suspended his pension for several months. Mr. Liu passed away in the winter of 2002.
  • Details of the Persecution Leading to the Death of 53-Year-Old Ms Wang Xiuqing in Jilin Province

    During the past six years, the Chinese Communist Party has brutally persecuted Falun Gong. Ms. Wang Xiuqing is one of the millions of practitioners affected by this persecution. She has been arrested four times, subjected to brainwashing twice, and detained in the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun once. The long-term persecution affected Ms. Wang physically and psychologically, and it took her life on November 3rd, 2005.
  • Middle School Teacher and Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Fei Chongrun Beaten to Death; Police Do Not Conduct an Investigation

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Fei Chongrun, formerly named Fei Weidong, 41 years old, was nearly six feet tall and very healthy. At noon on October 18th 2005, he talked about the human rights abuses against Falun Gong while buying a motorcycle at the Yongfeng Vehicle Shop at No. 335 West Lushan Road in Jiujiang County. The shop owner turned him in to the police. The police arrived and quickly closed the shutters before beating Fei Chongrun to death. Fei Chongrun is survived by his 80-year-old father, his three-month-old daughter, and his unemployed wife. Right now, the police are refusing to conduct an investigation.
  • Enslaved in a Toxic Environment, Ms. Zhang Yuzhi Was Persecuted to Death at the Heizuizi Labour Camp

    Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuzhi, 48 years old, lived in Erdaobaihe Town. On February 4th 2002, she was illegally arrested from her home by police and detained in the Huizuizi Labour Camp in Changchun City. She was forced to work in a toxic environment for 16 hours per day. The surrounding air was viscous and contained many cancer-causing materials. Ms. Zhang worked with an adhesive substance that emitted strong, irritating smells. She was tortured psychologically by brainwashing. Under the dual pressure, she contracted leukaemia. The camp did not allow her family to take her home until she could no longer take care of herself. Ms. Zhang went home on August 31st 2002 and passed away two weeks later.
  • Ms. Qiu Guoying Dies after being Tortured until Comatose

    Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qiu Guoying was a treasurer at the Land Administration Bureau in Wuyi County, Zhejiang Province. Before practising Falun Dafa, Ms. Qiu Guoying suffered an incurable disease. After practising Falun Dafa, all her illnesses disappeared and gave her a totally different appearance. After the evil persecution began since July 20, 1999, Ms. Qiu insisted on practising Falun Gong and was not willing to write any word against her will. She was sent to a brainwashing centre. She was tortured into a comatose state and passed away at the Wuyi No. 1 People Hospital.
  • Mr. Wang Liwu in Gansu Province Suffers Mental Breakdown and Dies After Being Tortured

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Liwu from Gansu Province, went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa in 2001. He was detained in Qingyang City Detention Centre, where he suffered a fractured skull at the hands of the police and a mental breakdown. Mr. Wang's mental state was so confused as a result of the torture that he took his own life by drinking agricultural chemicals, even though the teachings of Falun Dafa prohibit all killing, including suicide.
  • Five Senior Citizens in Heilongjiang, Shandong, Jilin, and Other Provinces Pass Away Due to Persecution

    Mr. Liu Cunnian, 65, had twice appealed in Beijing to make public the truth of his own benefits from Falun Gong. Because of the Communist Party's sinister efforts to deprive people of the freedom of speech, he was arrested and sent back to his hometown where the local police unlawfully searched his house, confiscated his personal property and arrested him. They extorted fines of a few thousand yuan. Mr. Liu's wife and daughter were detained and sent to a forced labour camp. For six years, Mr. Liu Cunnian endured so much mental anguish that he became ill and passed away on October 17th, 2005.
  • Three Falun Dafa Practitioners from Liaoning and Guangdong Provinces Die Due to Persecution

    45-year-old Ms. Zhao Yuzhe was completely cured of multiple diseases after she started practising Falun Dafa in 1997. When the persecution of Falun Gong started, lawless officials from the township police station harassed her many times at her home. In January 2001, the officials tricked her into going to the township police station, where she was detained for over ten days. She passed out and threw up there, and she was very weak. However, the officials didn't care or ask about her. The officials then continued harassing her at her home. After Ms. Zhao Yuzhe had suffered extreme injury, she became very sick and passed away on November 27th, 2005.
  • Nineteen Cases of Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death Confirmed in November

    Independent channels have confirmed another 19 deaths of Falun Gong practitioners. The latest findings came in November 2005. Since former president Jiang Zemin and his followers ordered the persecution, the regime is to blame for at least 2,790 death from savage acts under this persecution. Statistics for these 19 deaths are as follows: 11 were female practitioners, 55% of the total; seven practitioners were above 55 years of age, 37% of the total. Fourteen practitioners died in 2005, six of those in November 2005 alone.
  • Musician Liu Zhifang Tortured to Death in Gansu Province Brainwashing Centre

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Liu Zhifang was a Pipa (Chinese lute) musician employed by the Gansu Province Yu-Opera Institute. She died at the end of July 2005, due to being hung up for a long time with her hands cuffed behind her back. The details are yet to be investigated. The administration of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) "Legal Education School" follows Jiang and his regime's secret order that "Killing Falun Gong practitioners counts as suicide;" they spread around that Ms. Liu Zhifang's case was suicide, and strictly sealed off any information.