Death Cases

  • Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Hu Zhengxi from Hunan Province Tortured to Death

    Ms. Hu Zhengxi was in her 60's. At the beginning of May 2005, she was tortured to death for practising Falun Dafa while confined in the Baimalong Women's Forced Labour Camp in Hunan Province. On May 7, 2005, the labour camp officials sent a death notice to her family. They said Ms. Hu died of a hunger strike of more than twenty days. The real cause of death is uncertain and can't be determined because the labour camp had already cremated the body. The local people are well aware of her tragic death at the hands of the persecutors.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Shi Yulan from Liaozhong County Died From Persecution

    Ms. Shi Yulan was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Liaozhong County, Liaoning Province. She was detained a forced labour camp and tortured brutally. The persecution of Falun Dafa hurt her terribly in her mind and body. After her release she continued to be harassed by police and developed tuberculosis. She died on April 17, 2005.
  • Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Ren Conghuai Died under Persecution

    62 year old Ms. Ren Conghuai from Chongqing City was steadfast in her practice of Falun Dafa. She was mistreated by the authorities on multiple occasions. When her life was in danger, she was still sentenced to five years in prison, and police and State Security Agents were still come to harass her, monitor her. She was deeply frightened, and died on April 6, 2005.
  • Ms. Gui Lifang Dies From Persecution in Detention Centre in Hunan Province

    Ms. Guo Lifang, a 54-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner, was detained and cruelly tortured her in a detention centre. Ms. Guo used the only option left to her after all her human rights were taken away by going on a hunger strike. Even this last resort of a person's right to protest unfair treatment was taken away from her when she was force-fed. On April 17 cellmates found Ms. Guo dead in the cell.
  • Seventeen Practitioners from Beijing, Jiangxi Province, and Inner Mongolia Who Died After Being Persecuted

    Mr. Deng Ziwen, 76, suffered from angina, heart attack, and various other diseases. He often carried medicine with him, and needed emergency assistance on several occasions. Soon after he started practising Falun Gong in 1995 he discarded all of his medicines, as his health improved. He was persecuted for a long time. The CCP officials ordered his neighbours to watch him closely, and local police repeatedly went to his home to harass and threaten him. The pressure was too much for him and it caused his previous diseases to return. He passed away in June 2004.
  • Elderly Mr. Cheng Xueshan Beaten to Death by Police, His Family Not Allowed to Collect His Body

    Mr. Cheng Xueshan was a 64-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Tongjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. On April 9, 2005, while distributing exposing the persecution was arrested by policemen from the Political Security Division of the Fuyuan Police Department. Three days later, Mr. Cheng died due to the brutal torture he experienced at their hands. The police tightly guarded the hospital mortuary, and did not allow Cheng Xueshan's family members to see or pick up his body.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Chen Naifa from Fujian Province Tortured to Death by Force-Feeding Through An Incision in the Throat

    Mr. Chen Naifa, in his 40's, was formerly a traffic policeman. Because he practised Falun Dafa, he was sentenced to two years in prison. In order to protest the persecution, he went on a hunger strike without water, facing torturous force-feedings. To force-feed him, the police brutally cut a hole in his throat. Mr. Chen's physical condition was already not good because of the tortures he had endured over a long period of time, and he died under such inhuman mistreatment around April or May of 2004.
  • Father of Yao Yaoyuan: Losing My Son in My Old Age Has Made Me Grieve Terribly

    "On June 4, 2003, my son Yao Yaoyuan sadly left this world. I felt great sorrow upon his death. Only because of his saying one sentence, "I want to go out to find a job," he suffered brainwashing for 10 months. What was heartbreaking was the fact that without any trial, without giving his family any written judgment, while he was seriously ill, my son was wrongfully charged with "disturbing the social order," and was sentenced to one year of forced labour. He was finally persecuted to death."
  • Ms. Li Hongying from Heilongjiang Province Dies from Torture at the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Li Hongying suffered from haemorrhaging since returning from the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre in mid-February 2005. She had been bleeding for a year at the rehab centre, during which time the guards forced her to work, and abused her with various torture implements until her entire body swelled up and she bled non-stop. The guards told her family to pick her up when she was at the brink of death. She passed away on March 26, 2005.
  • More Than Fifty Falun Dafa Practitioners from Liaoning Province Arrested on the Same Day; Mr. Gai Chunlin Dies in Police Custody

    On April 14, 2005, Fushun City police department sent fifty police vehicles to various villages to arrest practitioners, with their sirens blaring. Police surrounded each practitioner's home before arresting them, frightening the local folks. On May 6, 2005, police notified the family of one of the arrested practitioners, Mr. Gai Chunlin, that he had died.
  • Ms. Gan Yulan and Mr. Guo Shijun Died as a Result of Torture

    Ms. Gan Yulan was 35 years old and was arrested by policemen while posting Falun Dafa leaflets exposing the persecution. She was sent to Nanning City Women Forced Labour Camp where she endured numerous tortures, which severely damaged her mental and physical health. She became very ill with severe pulmonary disease and was and sent back home in June 2002. Agents from the local 610 office continued to harass and threaten her at her home, and then sent her back to the Labour Camp in July 2002. Her condition worsened, and she was sent home because she was dying. She passed away on September 15, 2003.
  • Retired Teacher Zhao Yong from Inner Mongolia Dies in Prison

    Mr. Zhao Yong was a 63 year old retired teacher who had been detained numerous times because he practised Falun Dafa. He was sentenced to a three-year prison term in the Hohhot City Second Prison. During his confinement in the prison, he was repeatedly mistreated, severely weakening both his physical and mental state. His liver disease reoccurred. However, the prison administration refused him medical parole, and he died in April 2005.
  • Remembering Practitioner Mr. Liu Yucai, Who Died as a Result of Persecution

    Mr. Liu Yucai was over 50 years old and was detained for two years in the Tumuji Forced Labour Camp for speaking out for Falun Dafa. In order to force Mr. Liu to give up his belief, the police did not allow him to sleep. He was determined to resist the persecution. The police verbally abused him and refused to let him sleep for several days. As a result, his blood pressure rose, and he felt very cold and was in great pain. He had to be released early from the labour camp. To avoid constant police harassment he left home. However, on January 16, 2004, he died.
  • Seven Falun Gong Practitioners from Sichuan Province Passed Away Due to the Persecution

    In December 2000 Ms. Xu Qing was arrested on her way to appeal in Beijing. She was then detained at a detention centre, where she was subjected to maltreatment and lost consciousness. Her family was called to take her home. She recovered after an emergency treatment, but became mentally confused and broke down. Her family was deeply misled by the CCP's propaganda and had misunderstandings toward Falun Gong. They did not allow her to practise and refused to allow other practitioners to talk with her. Xu Qing passed away on April 16, 2005.
  • The Difficult Life of Ren Yuan, Teenage Son of Ms. Wu Lingxia, Who Was Tortured to Death

    14 year old Ren Yuan tragically lost his mother, Ms. Wu Lingxia, at the age of 13. She was unjustly imprisoned and suffered brutal persecution at the Shuangya City Detention Centre and the Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp. Due to mental and physical torture, she died on July 27, 2002. Due to the persecution Ren Yuan's home and school life were severely disrupted - his father was coerced to divorce his mother and he had to change schools when his persecuted mother could no longer look after him or herself. He now lives with his father.