Death Cases

  • Death and Torture in Lanzhou City Pingantai Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Gong Practitioner Ms. Hou Youfang was a 48-year-old teacher in Jinchang City's Xipo Middle School. She was sent to the Pingantai Forced Labour Camp because she practised Falun Gong. She was subjected to all kinds of torture, including brutal beatings and being hung up by handcuffs fastened behind her back. When she died, many of the bones in her body were fractured.
  • Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Hubei, Heilongjiang, Hebei, and Guangxi Provinces

    Mr. Zhang Gongmei, aged 73, had for a few years spent a lot of money on medical expenses. He then started practising Falun Dafa and his health quickly recovered. He went to Beijing to appeal for the restoration of the right to practise Falun Dafa. The police considered Mr. Zhang's case as a typical "Falun Dafa case." They ransacked his house, confiscated his property, and later took him away to be brainwashed. Mr. Zhang died of torture on July 23rd 2005.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Yao Fengjie Dies After Being Tortured at Wanjia Forced Labour Camp

    During the time she was detained at the labour camp, Yao Fengjie refused to write repentance statements and was tortured with the "big hang up." As a result of savage torture she received in Wanjia Forced Labour Camp, Ms. Yao Fengjie was a pitiful sight when she was released. She could not withstand the continuous harassment and passed away on September 5th 2005.
  • 58-Year-Old Mr. Na Zhenxian Tortured to Death in Changlinzi Men's Forced Labour Camp

    At 2:00 p.m. on September 16th 2005, the Changlinzi Men's Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province notified 58-year-old Mr. Na Zhenxian's family that Mr. Na was very sick, and to visit him immediately. His family went right away, but found he had been tortured to death, and had many wounds on his body. Details on how he died still need to be investigated.
  • In Memory of Mr. Ma Jujun, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Xinjiang Province

    "Because Mr. Ma Jujun constantly appealed for Dafa, corrupt officials sentenced him to two years in a labour camp. After his release, the 610 Office arrested him and sent him to a brainwashing centre for further persecution. Because he was steadfast in his belief, he was frequently trailed, monitored, harassed and threatened. Later, he was arrested and sent to the Mental Hospital in Urumchi where he suffered inhuman torture. He was persecuted to death on September 27th 2004."
  • Four Practitioners from Heilongjiang Province Who Passed Away Under Persecution

    In December 2000, 55-year-old Ms. Sun Guilan set out to Beijing to appeal for Dafa, but some police officers arrested her on the train and sent her to the police station. Ms. Sun refused to reveal her name or address so the police punched and kicked her. After four days the police stripped her of her clothing and threw her onto the snowy ground in the middle of nowhere and left her there. With painstaking effort, Sun Guilan managed to return home. For the next few years Ms. Sun suffered the persecution by being continually harassed by police. She eventually had to leave home and live in a homeless situation. Under the enormous pressure and hardship, she passed away on June 1st 2003.
  • Details on the Torture Death of Ms. Shi Shengying, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Shenyang City (Photo)

    On August 25th 2005, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Shi Shengying's family members received a phone call from the police at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison, informing them that Shi Shengying had passed away and her body was at the hospital. When Shi Shengying's family saw her body, it showed many injuries, old and new: an old wound on her left side rib area, her throat showed a blue-black semi-circle, and below her throat was a fresh-looking, blood stained square wound. It was suspected that the above were signs of being suffocated while been physically assaulted.
  • Torture Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yuan Qingjiang

    Mr Yuan Qingjiang was tortured to death on July 23rd 2005, at the Daqing Prison. When Mr. Yuan's family finally saw his body, they saw a big hole above the big toe of the right foot; the legs, particularly the right leg, were black and blue; the skin near the left pelvis area was missing and the flesh was exposed. Friends who went with the family said, "Look, he was murdered."
  • Six Elderly Practitioners from Shaanxi Province Who Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Li died in her 70s. After the government of China started its persecution of Falun Gong on July 20th 1999, the police often harassed her at her home. Her husband fell prey to the CCP's poisonous lies about Falun Gong, so he took Falun Gong books from her and forbade her from practising Falun Gong. After Ms. Li witnessed Falun Gong practitioners around her being arrested and tortured, she passed away in grief and anguish.
  • Four Practitioners from Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Henan and Jilin Provinces Persecuted to Death

    Mr. Xu Siming was a practitioner from Jilin Province. In December 2000, Mr. Xu went to Beijing twice to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. After he returned, he kept telling people the facts about the persecution. In 2002, he was detained during the massive arrest of practitioners after the Changchun Cable TV station was tapped and a Falun Gong TV programme was aired. Afterwards, the local police and the local residential committee frequently harassed, followed and monitored him. Mr. Xu suffered a great deal physically and mentally, and he passed away in June 2005.
  • Mr. Jiang Chenggang from Guizhou Province Tortured to Death

    63-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Jiang Chenggang from Guizhou Province, who firmly cultivated in the practice of Falun Dafa, was abused by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials for a long time. He endured numerous forms of torture in the labour camp including being drugged with an unknown substance, which left him with memory loss, and he drooled involuntarily. He died on October 18, 2004.
  • Experiences of Practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiaodong from Gansu Province, Who Died in Detention in 2003

    Mr. Zhang Xiaodong travelled between a few townships to expose the persecution. Meanwhile, the police were looking for him and deceived and tricked his family, who don't practise Dafa. His family helped the police find Mr. Zhang, and the police took him away. Mr. Zhang was sentenced to six years of imprisonment. During his last two years in prison, Mr. Zhang suffered all kinds of torture and abuse. On October 24th 2003, Mr. Zhang died in the No. 1 Detention Centre, so thin he looked like a skeleton.
  • Five Falun Dafa Practitioners Die Due to Persecution

    In April 2001, the police sentenced Mr. Wang Shize to two years of forced labour for practising Falun Dafa and detained him in a detention centre. Because he refused to give up his cultivation and did not cooperate with the persecutors in the detention centre, the police beat him many times. On January 29th 2002, a policeman kicked Mr. Wang's head and body several times with his leather shoes. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Wang Shize passed away. Later the police lied about the incident, claiming that Mr. Wang died of a stroke when he was using the toilet. They also had the nerve to ask Mr. Wang's family members for the funeral expenses.
  • More Facts on the 2002 Torture Death of Falun Dafa Practitioner Sun Jihong

    Sun Jihong, 40, was chief of the Huanan Forestry Bureau Police Station in Heilongjiang Province. He was imprisoned many times because of his belief in Falun Gong. On September 25th 2002, Sun Jihong was again detained and imprisoned in Beijing. After four days of torture, Sun Jihong died on September 29th. There was a hole in his forehead, six holes in his cheeks, and his body was covered with cuts and bruises.
  • More Details on How Dafa Practitioner Mr Zhang Xiaodong Was Tortured to Death

    Zhang Xiaodong, whilst incarcerated in a detention centre, went on a hunger strike to protest his unjust treatment and was brutally force-fed. During the force-feeding process, the police continuously beat him and repeatedly used the force-feeding tube to rub and irritate Zhang Xiaodong's nasal cavity, throat and oesophagus while he was still conscious. Subsequently Zhang Xiaodong died this way on October 23rd 2003. The detention centre then forced all prison inmates to lie and aid in covering up their crimes and atrocities.