Death Cases

  • Practitioner Ms. Qi Suchun from Liaoning Province Died as a Result of the Persecution in 2001

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Qi Suchun from Beining City, Liaoning Province, was abducted in March 2001 and sent to the Zhaotun Town government building to undergo brainwashing. It was reported that she fell from the fourth floor of the government building and died upon impact. The true cause of the tragedy is unknown.
  • Practitioners Forced into Slave Labour at Shandong Women's Prison, At Least Two Have Died from Illness and Exhaustion

    The Shandong Province Women's Prison has the official name of Shandong Province Xingye Development Corporation Ltd. The prison authorities force illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners to work from 15 to 18 hours a day, and overnight as the workload increases. Sometimes the practitioners cannot sleep or wash themselves for several days and nights. Practitioner Ms. Li Fang died from illness and exhaustion on April 27th 2002. Another practitioner approximately 58 years of age died on her way home.
  • Six Falun Gong Practitioners from Beijing and Hebei Province Died under the Persecution

    Ms. Ji Yongfang, 85 years old, was a resident of Xinchengzi Village, Xinchengzi Town in Miyun County, Beijing. Before practising Falun Gong, Ms. Ji suffered from various kinds of illnesses and was critically ill on several occasions. After she started to practise Falun Gong in 1996, all of her illnesses disappeared. In March 2000, when she was practising the Falun Gong exercises at home, personnel from the local police station forcibly took her away and persecuted her. After she was released, she had a relapse of her old illnesses. She passed away in May 2001.
  • More Information About How Wang Ziguang Was Tortured to Death

    Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Ziguang was a teacher in Jilin City. He injured himself at school so badly that he had to leave his teaching post. Mr. Wang started to practise Falun Gong and his back pain disappeared. He appealed for Falun Dafa and was imprisoned in a forced labour camp. Mr. Wang was beaten frequently and could not get enough to eat. Under such bad conditions, his health kept getting worse. He developed liver ascites and died in December 2000.
  • Sixteen Falun Dafa Practitioners Lost Their Lives As a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Ni Shuqin from Liaoning Province was arrested and detained by the police several times because she refused to renounce her belief in Falun Dafa. In 2002, she was sentenced to 4 years of imprisonment. She was tortured to the point of being critically ill and extremely weak in Dabei Prison of Shenyang. On October 16, 2003, Ms. Ni was released on bail for medical treatment. She died on March 13, 2005. During those days of persecution, Liu Guofu, the head of the Hekanzi Town Police Station, extorted 1,000 yuan from Ni Shuqin. When she was in Dabei Prison, Ms. Ni's family members had been illegally fined over 10,000 yuan by the prison.
  • In Memory of Hainan Art School Teacher Zhang Xiaotong

    Zhang Xiaotong was from Siping City, Jilin Province and born in November 1958. She was a piano teacher in the Hainan Provincial Art School. She was kind and talented, especially in music composition. Because she cultivated Falun Dafa, Zhang Xiaotong suffered severe persecution for a long time. She died at age 46, at 6 p.m. on March 10, 2005 in the Hainan People's Hospital. Zhang Xiaotong's husband Song Yuesheng is a sculptor, and he also teaches at the Hainan Provincial Art School. Because he is a Dafa practitioner, he was illegally arrested and sentenced, and is currently still in prison.
  • More Information on Ms. Ma Jingfang, a Beijing Practitioner Who Was Persecuted to Death

    Ms. Ma Jingfang died as a result of persecution. In 2002 she was unjustly imprisoned in a labour camp in Beijing, where guards forced practitioners to get up early every morning to knit woollen jumpers. Practitioners there were routinely forced to work through the night without rest. Enduring these conditions, Ms. Ma Jingfang developed acute heart disease. Although she was released she never recovered. She was arrested again and sentenced to a labour camp for a second time, but it refused to admit Ms. Ma Jingfang because of her severe heart problems. In early March 2005, Ms. Ma Jingfang died.
  • Heilongjiang Province College Lecturer Dies from Persecution in Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Wei Xiaodong, not yet 34 years old, formerly lectured in the School of Engineering at a University in Heilongjiang Province. Mr. Wei contracted tuberculosis due to the harsh conditions in a forced labour camp. He grew thin and weak, and lost almost all of his hair. He was later transferred to a prison. On March 21, 2005, Mr. Wei died. Before his wife was even informed of his death, family members had his body cremated. Mr. Wei's wife also practises Falun Gong and is being detained and persecuted in Harbin.
  • Seven Older Falun Gong Practitioners Die as a Result of Persecution

    93 year old Ms. Jia Yinjie, from Hebei Province, began Falun Dafa cultivation practice in 1996. Subsequently, many of the diseases she suffered from disappeared. After July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, the authorities searched her daughter's house, where she lived. Later her daughter was detained after going to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. In jail, her daughter suffered inhuman torture, and this also caused Ms. Jia immense suffering. Due to pressure from this persecution, Ms. Jia could no longer continue the practice. She worried for a long time and passed away on October 31, 2001.
  • Professor An Fentian from Beijing University of Chemical Technology Died as a Result of Torture - His Wife Sentenced to Prison

    Falun Gong practitioner Professor An Fentian, a professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and his wife Chen Haifeng, were often detained and persecuted for practising Falun Dafa. He suffered tremendously during the brutal persecution. An Fentian passed away on October 16, 2004. His wife was abducted and sentenced to prison many times. She is currently in detention.
  • Unable to Bear the Persecution, A Practitioner's Husband Takes His Own Life

    In 2002, Falun Gong practitioner Ms Zhang Min from Weifang City, Shandong Province was reported to the authorities when she was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. She escaped, but her husband Chu Zhiming, a non-practitioner, was taken away by police. Because of the torment he suffered while in detention, he became mentally disoriented. As a result he took poison to commit suicide. In order to avoid further persecution, Zhang Min left home and is currently still homeless.
  • Information on Five Dafa Practitioners Who Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Zheng Chengkui was 80 and lived in Hunan Province. She was arrested in 2002 for handing out leaflets exposing the persecution. The police raided her home, confiscated her personal property, and detained her for three months. The police continued harassing Ms. Zheng after her release. The authorities also ordered her children to confine their mother at home and force her to take unnecessary medicines. Ms. Zheng Chengkui passed away in May 2004, as a result of the relentless persecution.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. An Fenghua from Heilongjiang Province Was Tortured to Death in December 2004

    47 year old Ms. An Fenghua went to Beijing twice to appeal for Falun Dafa, and was arrested, detained, and sentenced to forced labour both times. She had to squat down on the floor so that she could be handcuffed to the basement's metal fence for at least several hours at a time, and sometimes even several days. An Fenghua was tortured until she became paralysed and blind. She contracted TB, and died on December 21, 2004 in the Harbin Drug Rehabilitation Centre.
  • 64 Year Old Ms. Zhang Lanhua from Hebei Province Died from Persecution-Related Illnesses in August 2004

    Ms. Zhang Lanhua was 64 years old. In November 2000, police ransacked her home without a search warrant, confiscated her belongings and detained her. They viciously assaulted Ms. Zhang Lanhua during her detention, shocking her with electric batons, a brutal torture which blistered her mouth. After Ms. Zhang returned home, her health was consistently bad and village officials frequently came to her house to harass her. On August 16, 2004, Ms. Zhang Lanhua passed away.
  • Twelve Falun Gong Practitioners Who Were Persecuted to Death

    Nine out of twelve Falun Dafa practitioners who were persecuted to death were over 50 years old. Most of those were in their 60's and even one was 80 years old. Seven of these elderly people were ladies. How could the Chinese authorities consider these harmless, elderly people, who were only trying to live by the principles of Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance, a threat to social stability? In looking at the true situation, it makes this persecution all the more senseless and heartbreaking.