Death Cases

  • Two Dafa Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Hegang City Since September 2005

    According to reliable news sources, Dafa practitioner Mr. Xu Zhicheng was persecuted to death. Detailed information is to be investigated. According to the news, this is the second Dafa practitioner to be persecuted to death since the local authorities started a round of arrests on September 7th 2005. Xu Zhicheng was around forty years old. Because he firmly practised Falun Dafa, he was sentenced to a labour camp for three years and suffered from tortures in the Hegang City Forced Labour Camp. At the end of September, Mr. Xu was again abducted from his home by the authorities.
  • Chen Guibin from Shandong Province Died from Beating by Security Officers at His Place of Employment in 2001

    A March 4th 2001 news report revealed that Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Guibin from Wucheng County, Shandong Province died as a result of being beaten by security officers at his place of employment, a cotton manufacturing facility. Even after Mr. Chen Guibin became paralysed from the beatings he remained mentally quite clear. During treatment at a hospital, he told all his friends and relatives about how he was grossly abused and persecuted. Chen Guibin said, "When they were beating me, my head banged against the strongbox and I lost consciousness. They continued beating me for a long time. He was sent to a hospital but after he was discharged he died shortly after on February 7th 2001.
  • Three Elderly Lady Practitioners Die After Facing Persecution

    67 year old Mrs. Wei Peixiu went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, was arrested, and was subjected to brainwashing for three days. During another period of detention she was beaten, kicked, forced to kneel on bricks and forced to carry bricks on her back. Her knees bled, and her waist and back were injured from the torture. Due to the almost incessant harassment from the police, Mrs. Wei Peixiu died on the evening of September 1st 2005.
  • 71 Year Old Mr. Xu Shaofa Died as a Result of Long-Term Harassment

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Xu Shaofa was seventy-one years old. Before practising cultivation, he used to have stomach problems, heart disease, bronchitis, and he was very thin and weak due to being wracked by sickness. Shortly after cultivating Falun Dafa in 1998, all of his health problems were miraculously gone. He told the facts of Falun Dafa to the Chinese government yet the police went to his home and threatened to have his children fired from their jobs if he did not quit practising Falun Gong. Due to long term harassment and pressure, Mr. Xu Shaofa died on June 24th 2005.
  • Mr Peng Geng, a Policeman from the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Office, Was Persecuted to Death Because He Firmly Practised Falun Dafa

    Mr. Peng Geng, thirty-one years old and a former policeman of the Liaoning Provincial Public Security Office, was suspended from his duties because he firmly practised Falun Dafa, and he was detained and tortured in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp and other labour camps or prisons. When he became terminally ill, the court and prison both agreed on release on medical grounds, but the 610 office of Shenyang City refused to release him. On July 14th 2005 Peng was persecuted to death. In the final moments of his life, Peng Geng still told his family members: "Falun Dafa is good."
  • A Practitioner Is Tortured to Death in the Second Detention Centre of Hegang City

    A male Falun Dafa practitioner was tortured to death in the Second Detention Centre of Hegang City in early October of 2005. It is said that the practitioner's body is stored in an autopsy room in the detention centre. Other details are unknown, and we hope people who know additional details can provide them. The related agencies of Hegang City have tightly controlled the news. The family members have not been notified and are not allowed to visit him. The persecutors are planning to secretly cremate his body.
  • Three Older Ladies Have Died After Frequent Persecution

    Ms. Yang Suqing was a 58-year-old practitioner. On the afternoon of January 7th 2001, when she was at home, three police officers rushed into her home and illegally confiscated her Falun Dafa books and took her into custody. They released her after extorting 1000 yuan from her. One day in July 2001, she went out to post leaflets exposing the persecution and was arrested by the police. After many rescue efforts were made, she was released from the forced labour camp. Unable to recover, she died on October 28th of the same year.
  • How Wang Jinian and Zhang Quanfu Died as a Result of Torture at the Chaoyanggou Labour Camp in Changchun City

    34-year-old Mr. Wang Jinian was sent to the Chaoyanggou Labour Camp and was tortured for one year. In December, the camp authorities released him due to the extreme weakness of his body. Because of the severe torture, his condition worsened. He died in January 2002 about 20 days after he returned home. 65-year-old Mr. Zhang Quanfu was also sent to Chaoyanggou Labour Camp and viciously tortured. Only when he was on the verge of death, was he finally sent to the hospital. Mr. Zhang Quanfu passed away in less than a day after he was sent to the hospital in early 2003.
  • More Details On the Deaths of Ms. Zhang Wenjun from Chongqing City and Mr. Ma Jianshe from Xinji City

    In 2004, police arrested 69-year-old Zhang Wenjun and sent her to a forced labour camp for two years. Her pension was unreasonably suspended. Then she was detained in prison for over a year. She suffered from hunger and cold and had oedema before she passed away in August 2005. Mr. Ma Jianshe walked to Beijing to tell people the facts of Falun Dafa and suffered severe beatings and abuse. His home was also ransacked, and he was forced to pay a fine and put into prison. In 2003, he was arrested again and sent to a brainwashing centre. After returning home, he was harassed and intimidated several times by police. He became ill in 2004 and passed away in June 2005.
  • Information Regarding Mr. Fan Dacheng's Death from Torture in Xinjiang Autonomous Region

    Since the persecution against Falun Dafa began, the staff from his workplace persecuted practitioner Mr. Fan Dacheng and he did not received even a single yuan of his salary. Mr. Fan was unlawfully sentenced to two years in a labour camp, served from March 2001 to March 2003. During that time, Mr. Fan was tortured by inhumane means. In April 2004, Mr. Fan was unlawfully sentenced to three years simply for displaying a "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" banner and tortured to the brink of death. By the time the authorities released him he had lost the ability to eat. Fan Dacheng passed away on September 13, 2004.
  • Li Xiaomei, Falun Gong Practitioner from Guangxi Province, Died from Long-Term Persecution

    48-year-old Ms. Li Xiaomei suffered persecution repeatedly and incarcerated in brainwashing and detention centres. As a result, she was devastated both mentally and physically. While she was still in prison, her health was poor. After returning home, her health deteriorated further, and she was too weak to take care of herself. She passed away on April 10th 2005.
  • Dafa Practitioner Ms Wang Kaiping from Chongqing was Persecuted to Death

    58-year-old Wang Kaiping was taken to the Li Ziba Detention Centre by local officials. She was sentenced to a forced labour camp because she had hung scrolls and distributed leaflets exposing the persecution. Wang Kaiping was tortured so severely that she became emaciated and vomited blood. In June 2005 she was released on medical grounds through her family. After she returned home she could not stop vomiting blood. After examination at hospital she was diagnosed with leukaemia. She passed away in the hospital during the night of August 21st 2005.
  • Mother Persecuted to Death, Father Jailed, Son Ran Away in Desperation

    Ms Geng Cuifang, a Dafa practitioner from Lanzhou City, was persecuted to death on June 13th 2002. After two months, her husband, practitioner Su Anzhou, was wrongfully sentenced to prison for 20 years. Geng Cuifang's son was less than 18 years old at that time. His mother had just died as a result of the police's actions, and his father was jailed. Losing his parents and source of livelihood, the boy ran away in desperation. Relatives and friends have sought his whereabouts since that time but do not know where he is currently.
  • Six Older Practitioners Who Died as a Result of Persecution

    67-year-old Mr. Liu Yuting was arrested by the local authorities and sent to a detention centre. In the detention centre, he was punished by being forced to stand against the wall and given very bad food. With so many inmates in the jail, he had to sleep on the floor. His diabetes he had prior to practising relapsed because of the bad conditions in the jail. The jail had to release him but they did that only after extorting 5,000 yuan from his family. After he came out, Mr. Liu learned that his pension card had been taken away by his former workplace and his daughter had been sent to a labour camp. During this period, the authorities also went to his home to harass him. Under such tremendous pressure, the elderly practitioner died on March 30th 2002.
  • Remembering Fellow Practitioners Ms. Shi Shengying and Ms. Ren Shujie

    On August 25th 2005, Ms. Shi Shengying was tortured to death in the Shenyang Women's Prison in Liaoning Province. On September 4th 2005, I again heard the news of Ms. Ren Shujie's death as a result of torture. I recalled my short acquaintance with them. I now dedicate this article to these two practitioners, Shi Shengying and Ren Shujie. Ms. Ren Shujie radiated a righteous field around her. Ms. Shi Shengying was frequently tortured until she fainted. It is my regret that I can no longer see Shi Shengying.