Death Cases

  • Three Falun Dafa Practitioners in Sichuan and Henan Provinces Die Due to Persecution

    50-year-old Ms. Liu Renshu lived in Sichuan Province. In July 2000, police ransacked her home, detained her for more than fifty days because they found a copy of the Falun Dafa book Zhuan Falun, and extorted three thousand yuan from her. Later, police and lawless officials continually harassed her at home, threatened her, and caused huge mental and physical pressure. She died on January 2nd, 2003.
  • A Mother Dies Alone While Her Son is in Prison

    We heard in April 2005 that Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Huzhe from Jilin Province was tortured until he was very weak and could not take care of himself. In the middle of September, Mr. Li's over seventy year old mother wept a lot because she missed her son and because she was blind she could not go visit him. She died in her home. Her decomposed body was found many days later, with her fists clenched tight. It was a tragic scene, as it was obvious that she died in great pain.
  • Mr. Wang Shaoqing from Shandong Province Died After Being Tortured in Mental Hospital

    42-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Shaoqing was tortured in the Wangcun Labour Camp for two years. Falun Dafa practitioners were forced to get up early in the morning at around 5:30 a.m., and had to labour until 10 p.m., except for meal times, which were as short as a little over ten minutes. Mr. Wang Shaoqing protested and requested the authorities to reduce the labour time and improve the living conditions. As a result, prison guards handcuffed him, hung him up by the handcuffs, and tried to force him to "admit his mistakes." He was arrested again and tortured in a mental hospital for a year. It caused him to have a nervous breakdown, and he died in July 2005.
  • Three Falun Dafa Practitioners in Jilin and Liaoning Provinces Die as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Zhao Shufen, 55, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Liaoning Province. She learned Falun Dafa in 1997. She used to have high blood pressure and could not take care of herself, but was cured after cultivating Falun Dafa. She went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong after the illegal persecution started in 1999. She was detained in the Shenyang City Detention Centre, and later was detained in the Dongguan Township Police Station. She was constantly harassed by the authorities, placing huge mental pressure on her. She died on September 10th, 2005.
  • Four Falun Dafa Practitioners in Hunan, Hebei, and Shandong Provinces Died Due to Persecution

    66-year-old Mr. Liu Chunqing was a Falun Dafa practitioner from a village in Shandong Province. In 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong and to tell the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda. The authorities detained him for a month and subjected him to various methods of torture, knocking his teeth out in the process. They extorted 2,000 yuan from him before releasing him on bail. The police arrested Mr. Liu on many subsequent occasions and ransacked his home. He was forced to endure constant humiliation and eventually died as a result of the persecution on July 12th, 2003.
  • Four Practitioners from Liaoning, Shandong, and Sichuan Provinces Who Died as a Result of the Persecution of Falun Gong

    62-year-old Ms. Wang Fengqin was a retired worker from Liaoning Province. Ms. Wang had gone to Beijing twice to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and to spread the truth about the persecution. She was arrested several times, sent to labour camps, and forced to attend brainwashing classes. During her final detention, Ms. Wang became extremely weak as a result of the torture, and she had to be released on parole. She died during July 2005.
  • Elderly Nursery Principal Ms. Cai Shufen in Dalian Died Due to Persecution

    Over the course of 6 years of persecution, 65-year-old Ms Cai Shufen suffered intense pressure and pain due to the harassment from the officers at the police stations and local officials. In June 2005, the Xianglujiao Police Department announced that they would arrest her again; she and her family were under much pressure. On September 1st, 2005, she passed away.
  • Six Dafa Practitioners from Hebei, Heilongjiang, and Henan Provinces Die as a Result of Persecution

    59-year-old Ms. Zhao Xiuzhu was sent to brainwashing sessions, because she often told the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda in the education system and to all of the leaders. On December 15th, 1999, Ms. Zhao left home by herself and went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. She was imprisoned, her family's property was confiscated, and she was tracked and harassed many times. Whenever a politically sensitive date approached, she was harassed repeatedly. On August 26th, 2005, she passed away.
  • Eight Falun Dafa Practitioners in Hunan, Shaanxi, and Hebei Provinces Died as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Su Shukun was 78 years old and lived with her daughter. In November 2000, Ms. Su went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Dafa and was sent to a forced labour camp. She was subjected to various tortures, leaving her with deteriorating health. In July 2002, her daughter was arrested and sent to a forced labour camp because of distributing Dafa leaflets exposing the persecution. Ms. Su was so devastated and exhausted by the ongoing persecution that her old illnesses returned. Ms. Su Shukun died on August 8th, 2003.
  • Three Elderly Practitioners from Hebei, Shanxi, and Liaoning Provinces Died Due to the Persecution

    80-year-old Ms. Jiao Xiuying was harassed many times and her home was ransacked; three of her family members were sentenced because they refused to renounce Falun Gong. One night in October 2002, a group of policemen (about 20) broke into her house and ransacked it. The sudden trauma caused Ms. Jiao to collapse. She was helped to bed but was never able to get up again. A few days later, the policemen deceived and detained her daughter. Jiao Xiuying passed away in November 2002.
  • Three Years After Liu Xiwen Died, His Family Continues to Suffer Harassment

    Mr. Liu Xiwen was a retired teacher. Since the persecution began, Liu was continuously harassed and mistreated by lawless officials from his previous school. After he went to appeal in Beijing in December 2000, the persecution he endured escalated. Suffering severe injury to body and mind, Liu finally passed away on May 20th, 2002. Before this, he had been exiled for fourteen months and eighteen months of his salary was confiscated.
  • Policeman Han Xinlei Murdered Due to Openly Withdrawing From the CCP

    On September 9th 2005, policeman Han Xinlei of Xi'an City Police Department in Shaanxi Province was murdered because he openly declared that he was withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by written declaration. Mr. Han Xinlei's parents and grandparents are all living under terror of the CCP right now. Mr. Han's family members are all working in the Police Department, but the CCP is not letting them live in peace.
  • Four Practitioners from Shandong, Jilin, and Hebei Provinces Died After Suffering Persecution

    Ms. Yan Guoping was around 45 years old. She was a librarian at Hebei Jingmao University. In May 2002 people from her work place and the police from the local police station "arrested" her and sent her to the notorious Hebei Province Legal System Education Centre to be brainwashed. Under pressure, she stopped cultivating Falun Gong and developed kidney cancer, which quickly spread. Even though she had given in to the brainwashing, people from the local police station and residents' committee still came to her home to harass and exert pressure on her while she was undergoing treatment. Ms. Yan Guoping died in the autumn of 2002.
  • Four More Cases of Falun Dafa Practitioners Being Persecuted to Death in Guangdong, Liaoning, and Sichuan Provinces

    58-year-old Mr. Gong Jinyin, 58, lived in Sichuan Province. In January 2001, Gong went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa. As a result, he was arrested and sentenced to two and a half years of forced labour without proper legal trials. On February 2nd 2001, the local police took Gong Jinyin to the Xinhua Forced Labour Camp, where he was brutally beaten. A prisoner repeatedly stabbed Gong's thigh with sharpened bamboo sticks, causing permanent damage to his leg. Despite the fact that these actions are illegal, the camp officer on duty simply turned a blind eye to the whole affair. In June 2002, Gong was released to go home, but he died on February 8th 2003 of poor health induced by torture he suffered while in detention.
  • More Details of the Death Case of Elderly Ms. Xiao Hongxiu

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Xiao Hongxiu was 65 years old. On April 8th 2003, Ms. Xiao was secretly sentenced to six years in prison and confined in a women's prison. Ms. Xiao was mistreated for an extended period of time, including being forced to take unknown drugs, not being allowed to talk, and being forced to do heavy labour. Even when she was very weak due to torture, the prison guards still did not allow her to rest. They said she had to go to the labour site and just stand there if she was too weak to work. Ms. Xiao passed out many times. She died in prison on July 25th 2004.