Death Cases

  • Four Falun Gong Practitioners from Liaoning, Hebei, and Heilongjiang Provinces Die from Persecution

    On August 25th 2001, more than ten people from the district's police department and police station broke into his home and confiscated 66-year-old Mr. Wang Tiliang's property. The police tried to take the 67,000 yuan cash Mr. Wang had saved for his son's wedding and housing. Mr. Wang tried to stop them, but they arrested him and locked him in a detention centre. He did not get any food for twenty days out of four months. He was as thin as a stick when his work place bailed him out. The police department still withheld 5,000 yuan from him. Mr. Wang was extremely traumatised and had difficulty eating. He died on August 25th 2005.
  • Six Dafa Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

    39-year-old Ms. Bao Fengjuan had all sorts of illnesses before practising Falun Gong, but all her physical problems disappeared not long after she started the practice. She went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution in 2000 and was arrested and detained at a police station. Policemen grabbed her hair, violently pushed her, and struck her head against a concrete wall many times, causing severe head injuries. Her speech was incomprehensible from that time on. She never recovered, even after she was sent home, and she couldn't live a normal life. She was unable to look after herself. She passed away on August 19th 2005.
  • Dr. Qi Xufang from the Weihai City Health and Epidemic Prevention Station Dies as a Result of Persecution

    61-year-old Dr. Qi Xufang was reported to the local authorities when she was telling the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda. She was sent to a brainwashing centre to force her to renounce Falun Dafa. However, Ms. Qi Xufang resumed her practice and study of Falun Dafa after she was released. A few policemen ransacked her home. Facing huge pressure, her family members did not allow her to go out or contact any Falun Dafa practitioners. She suffered severely both mentally and in her daily life. She developed stomach cancer and died on August 23rd 2005.
  • Mr. Na Zhenxian in Shuangcheng City Persecuted to Death--Son Seeks Legal Help

    "On September 16th 2005, we were shocked to receive a notice from the labour camp that my father, 58-year-old Na Zhenxian, had died. We went to the labour camp and saw my father's bruised and battered body. The right side of his mouth was bloodied. There were wounds on his left eye. The bridge of his nose appeared distorted. There were bruises as big as the palm of a hand on his chest near the right armpit and on the left side of the lower abdomen. The labour camp forged family signatures on the death certificate and the interment card to destroy the evidence and thereby escape responsibility for his death."
  • Three Practitioners from Beijing and Hebei Province Persecuted to Death

    Mr. Wang Jianguo, 47 years of age, went to appeal for Falun Dafa several times. All three members of his family were practitioners. Their home was ransacked many times and their Falun Dafa books were taken away. Furthermore, the police routinely pressured Mr. Wang's workplace and his wife's workplace. The police colluded with his workplace to abduct Mr. Wang and take him to the brainwashing centre. His teenage child was left at home alone. Mr. Wang suffered severe mental and physical damage due to the extreme pressure in the brainwashing centre. He developed late stage brain cancer and died on September 7th 2002.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Zeng Guozuo Has Died as a Result of Persecution

    Practitioner Mr. Zeng Guozuo was a 54-year-old resident of Hunan Province. He was tortured during his detention in Xinkaipu Forced Labour Camp in Changsha City. Later, he was diagnosed with nasal cancer, but he was still detained another 7 months. In August 2005, fearing that Mr. Zeng was dying, his persecutors notified his local police station to pick him up. On September 18th 2005, 20 days after his release, Mr. Zeng passed away.
  • Five Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioners in Liaoning, Heilongjiang, and Shandong Provinces Die after Suffering Persecution

    64-year-old Ms. Chen Shuxian was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Liaoning Province. She learned about Dafa and started practising in 1997. After the persecution started, she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa on July 20th 1999. In October 1999, Ms. Chen went to Beijing to appeal again and was brought back by the police and sentenced to a labour camp for two years. She was detained and persecuted in Masanjia Forced Labour Camp. After Chen Shuxian returned home, personnel from various government offices harassed her many times. Ms. Chen died in May 2004.
  • Four Practitioners from Hebei, Liaoning and Hubei Provinces Who Died from Persecution

    Mr. Hao Chengshuan was a 51-year-old villager from a village near Wuhan City, Hebei Province. Before practising Falun Dafa he had many illnesses. Since he started practising Falun Dafa his entire body was healed. Beginning July 20th 1999, the 610 Office from the village went to his house and harassed him numerous times. He was extremely stressed and passed away on September 21st 2000.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Jia Junxi From Henan Province Tortured to Death at a Detention Centre

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Jia Junxi, 58 years old, was arrested on August 18th 2005 when telling people the truth about Falun Dafa and exposing the persecution. According to witnesses, he was held in solitary confinement on August 28th, where on orders from the guards, four inmates beat him savagely. The solitary confinement cell door remained locked for the following 24 hours; and no one checked on Jia Junxi during this period. Mr. Jia was tortured to death around August 29th at the county detention centre. On August 30th the perpetrators sent his stiff body to the hospital in an attempt to cover up the crime of torture that killed him.
  • Seven Elderly People in Inner Mongolia, Henan, Heilongjiang and Jilin Provinces Died as a Result of Persecution

    55-year-old Ms. Ou Xiangyuan, lived in Heilongjiang Province. At the end of 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. When she was passing through Shanhaiguan City, Ms. Ou was arrested and persecuted by police officers who snarled at her, saying, "Look, killing you is the same as killing a warehouse mouse!" Ms. Ou was detained and sent to the Harbin Provincial Hospital, where her personal freedom was limited under the guise of "treatment." She died on April 23rd 2001.
  • Practitioner Couple Xin Changnian and Chen Jing Died Due to Persecution, Their Son was Given a Heavy Sentence

    Two Falun Dafa practitioners from Jilin Province, 75-year-old Mr. Xin Changnian and his 68-year-old wife, Ms. Chen Jing, died on June 5th 2004, and July 8th 2005, respectively from relentless persecution. In 2002, their son, Mr. Xin Wei, was sentenced to nine years in prison. He has suffered severe mental and physical torture in Jilin Prison.
  • Seven Practitioners in Jilin, Liaoning and Hebei Provinces Who Died as a Result of Persecution

    In March 2002, when 63-year-old Mr. Li Shuyou went to a practitioner's house and knocked on the door, the police, who were waiting in ambush there, arrested him. They tortured him for four days and nights and then sentenced him to a forced labour camp for one year. In August of 2004, he and his wife went to Beijing and stayed in his relative's home. They were followed because they posted out some leaflets exposing the persecution. His wife was arrested, but Mr. Li escaped. Mr. Li was forced to leave home and was severely traumatised by the constant persecution and died in August of 2005.
  • Two Elderly Practitioners in Daqing City Died as a Result of the Persecution

    66-year-old Ms. Wang Chengyuan was imprisoned many times because she refused to give up practising Falun Dafa. As a result of torture she received both her legs were in extreme pain and no longer functioned. In early July 2005, Ms. Wang's leg and foot were terribly swollen, and a few days later her vision and hearing started to decline. Her mental state also deteriorated. She died early in the morning on August 6th.
  • 74-Year-Old Mr. Wu Botong from Guizhou Province Persecuted to Death

    Because seveny four year old Mr. Wu Botong told people about the goodness of Falun Dafa and exposed the persecution, he was illegally sentenced to a seven-year jail term where he was subjected to brutal persecution. On September 11th 2005, Mr. Wu Botong was persecuted to death at Dujun Prison. His body was cremated without his family's permission that very day. Information concerning the details of Mr. Wu's death is still under investigation.
  • The Persecution Suffered By Peng Dong Before His Death

    Dafa practitioner Mr. Peng Dong, in his 20s, was from Shaanxi Province. Wherever Peng Dong went, he would tell people the facts about Falun Dafa. He refused to be "transformed" and was sentenced to a two and half year term in the labour camp. When his body became extremely weak, the personnel in the labour camp forced him to shoulder a sandbag over 100 Jin (lb.), which made him nearly go into shock. Having suffered the persecution for a long time, Peng Dong's body and spirit were seriously devastated. He died on June 28th 2005.