Death Cases
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68-Year-Old Ms. Xia Yuanlan Dies after Being Tortured in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region
2008-04-03
Ms. Xia Yuanlan, 68, lived with her three daughters after her husband passed away. She was constantly ill with a variety of ailments, but after she started practising Falun Gong, they disappeared. She stopped practising for a time because of the pressure of the persecution, but had returned to cultivation in recent years. On February 21st, 2007, Ms. Xia was arrested with three other fellow practitioners when distributing materials exposing the persecution and sent to Shuimogou District Detention Centre. on March 25th, the Shuimogou District Detention Centre personnel notified Ms. Xia's family to pick her up. They told her family that her heart disease had recurred. Her family took her to hospital, but her health did not improve, and she passed away. -
Practitioner's Mother in Her 90's Passes Away Due to Police Harassment
2008-04-03At about 8:00 p.m. on January 28th, 2008, a dozen police officers broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ma Yukun's home, intending to take him away. However, he was not there. When they learned that Ma Yukun had left home, the police ransacked the house, including the bedroom of Mr. Ma's mother. This severely frightened his 90-year-old mother, and she passed away the next day. Mr. Ma's mother was known as a kind-hearted woman and was respected by all in the neighbourhood. She was in good health prior to the police harassment. -
Mystery Surrounding the Death of Computer Science Teacher Mr. Xiong Zhengming's--Was He Murdered for His Organs?
2008-04-02In early December 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Xiong Zhengming, 39, died suddenly while he was being transferred to Mianyang Forced Labour Camp. The whole incident is very suspicious. TheNational Security head, Ye Xudong, called Xiong Zhengming's family and said he committed suicide, and asked them to go to Deyang at once, for the funeral. Mr. Xiong Zhengming had no facial injuries, but there was a hole in the back of his head. Ye Xudong claimed that Xiong had committed suicide. How could a person wearing handcuffs and with police officers on either side of him commit suicide? Questioned by Xiong's family, Ye Xudong changed his story, saying it was a car accident. But there was no accident scene or collision record written by the traffic police. The autopsy was quickly done, but the examiner dared not examine Xiong's back. Is it possible that Xiong's kidneys were missing? -
Additional Information on the Death of Mr. Zhou Qingyu in the Chongqing City Detention Centre
2008-04-01Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhou Qingyu, 67, was arrested in early 2007 while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong. He was sentenced to 18 months of forced labour and detained at the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City. Prisoner Li Liang hit Mr. Zhou in the neck, which caused a painful injury. He had to bow his head all the time, even while labouring and doing military training on the field. He was forced to clean everyday and often teased by prisoners because of his neck injury. Mr. Zhou suffered from a stroke on the night of December 29th, 2007. Mr. Zhou Qingyu died that night. -
Practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiaodong from Gansu Province Beaten to Death in 2003
2008-03-30
On October 24th, 2003, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Xiaodong, 32, was beaten to death by guards at the Xiguoyuan Detention Centre. At 5:00 p.m. that day, they informed his family. When his family members arrived at the detention centre, they found that the guards had tampered with evidence at the scene in order to conceal their crime. Mr. Zhang's parents, in their 70s, grieved deeply over the loss of their son. After Mr. Zhang's tragic death, his family brought a lawsuit against the detention centre through the Lanzhou District Attorney's Office. But the centre responded with defiance and brazenly harassed Mr. Zhang's family. -
Family Hires Lawyer to Investigate the Torture Leading to their Loved One's Death - Prison Officials Lie and Coerce Inmates to Help Hide the Truth
2008-03-30Two years after Mr. Yang Xiaojie died as a direct result of the torture meted out to him in a Chinese prison, his family hired a lawyer to seek justice. When the lawyer went to the Hebei Province Fourth Prison to investigate, Yue Yuhai, the chief of the Prison Political Section, gave false and misleading statements. He lied. He refused to admit to that Mr. Yang was tortured, and covered up the fact that Mr. Yang was ill and that his family was not allowed to visit him for over one year. Yue Yuhai forced inmates Fan Jiangshan and others who had monitored Mr. Yang to lie to the lawyer, telling him that Mr. Yang had been very well treated in prison. -
Elderly Mr. Ma Fusheng Dies as a Result of Persecution in Jilin Province
2008-03-29Mr. Ma Fusheng, 68, was a professor at the Changchun City Geology Institute in Jilin Province. Mr. Ma went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2000. For this he was arrested and detained in a detention centre and a mental hospital. He was inhumanly tortured, and held a hunger strike to protest the persecution for nine days before he was released. The local police considered him a key person and constantly harassed him at home. In March 2003, he was arrested again and sentenced to one year of forced labour. Mr. Ma became very weak after one year of forced labour, and had difficulty moving. He died on February 17th, 2008. -
Older Practitioner Mr. Chong Cunjie from Hebei Province Dies as a Result of Persecution
2008-03-26Mr. Chong Cunjie, 63 years old, was an employee of the Hebei Province Forced Labour Camp. In 1999, the Hengshui City Legal Bureau arrested him for practising Falun Gong. All of the Labour Camp employees pleaded that Mr. Chong be released, but he was sentenced to two years in prison. On February 13th, 2002, he escaped arrest by climbing down a pipe from the fourth floor of his home building. However, he was arrested on March 16th, 2002. He was sentenced to five years in prison, and released on March 16th, 2007. Mr. Chong was fired from his job. He had an 89-year-old mother and young grandson to care for. Mr. Chong's health was severely damaged from being imprisoned for seven years. He died of a heart attack in hospital on February 5th, 2008. -
Practitioner Zhang Chun from Wuhan City Dies in Custody
2008-03-26Practitioner Zhang Chun (gender unknown) lived in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. Zhang Chun was arrested while posting up information about the persecution on the night of March 14th, 2008. Several days later, the Wuhan City Seventh Hospital staff suddenly notified the family that the practitioner died of a "stroke," and insisted on immediately cremating the body. -
Mr. Zhou Qingyu Died in Detention
2008-03-26Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhou Qingyu, 67, was a retired worker from Dajiang Factory in Chongqing City. He was arrested in early 2007, and sentenced to forced labour. He had been detained at the Xishanping Forced Labour Camp in Chongqing City. During a training session in July 2007, prisoner Li Liang hit Mr. Zhou in the head with his palm, which caused head pain. Mr. Zhou suffered from a stroke on the night of December 29th, 2007, and died. -
Ms. Jia Yan Dies in Police Custody in Heilongjiang Province
2008-03-25Ms. Jia Yan lived in Mulan County, Heilongjiang Province. On December 6th, 2007, Ms. Jia Yan was arrested along with three other practitioners by police. The four practitioners were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution in a village at the time of their arrest. They were detained in Tieli City Detention Centre (under the Forestry Police Department). Ms. Jia' family received a call three months later that Ms. Jia Yan had died. -
Wang Guiming Tortured to Death, His Wife, Threatened after Appealing on His Behalf, Is Afraid to Go Home
2008-03-25Mr. Wang Guiming was arrested by police and sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City on February 27th, 2008. On February 29th, at the age of 38, he died as a result of torture in the labour camp. His wife, Han Fengxia, appealed on behalf of her husband. As a result Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities from the police station and the street and community administration offices have threatened her many times. Right now she is too frightened to go home. -
Ms. Zhou Huimin Dies in Police Custody in Sichuan Province
2008-03-25In September 2007, police arrested Ms. Zhou Huimin and ransacked her home. She was then taken to the Xinjin Brainwashing Centre. Later she was detained at the Chengdu City Detention Centre. On February 1st, 2008, the Domestic Security Division of Wuhou District Police Department issued an "arrest warrant" for Ms. Zhou, although she had already been in custody for five months. She went on hunger strike to protest the persecution. On February 5th, guards took her to hospital. On March 10th, a friend of Ms. Zhou heard a Domestic Security Agent say that Ms. Zhou was dying. State Security agents in Sichuan Province Police Department ordered that she not be released. The police replied, "Let her die where she is." Ms. Zhou died at 5:30 a.m. on March 13th, 2008. -
Mr. Zhang Zhijun Tortured to Death in Xi'an City Prison, Shaanxi Province
2008-03-25Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Zhijun had been arrested and incarcerated because he practised Falun Gong. On February 23rd, 2008, his family received a call that Mr. Zhang had died, and they rushed to the Xi'an City Prison in Shaanxi Province. The prison administration refused to let the family see Mr. Zhang's body. Finally, under the family's persistent demands, they were allowed to see Zhang Zhijun's body. His face was so bloated that it was very difficult to look at. There were obvious purple and blue rope marks on his neck. His family demanded legal representation, but lawyers present said that the higher officials had already ordered legal counsel. No one dared to accept this case. The police cremated the body on February 24th, 2008. -
Five Older Falun Gong Practitioners from Sichuan, Inner Mongolia, Hunan, Heilongjiang and Henan Provinces Died Due to Persecution
2008-03-23Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cheng Fagui, who was around 53 years old, was arrested on December 11th, 2006 and sent to a forced labour camp for one year. She endured innumerable sufferings from the brutal torture. She was also force-fed with unknown drugs. Ms. Cheng was finally released on November 12th, 2007, but she died soon after in 2008. Ms. Wang Yulan was around 58 years of age. After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Ms. Wang was harassed, threatened, arrested, confined and forced to attend a brainwashing session. She was brutally persecuted and placed under surveillance by the local authorities. Wang Yulan was devastated by the brutal torture and persecution. Because of the pressure, she developed headaches, vomiting, dizziness and heart problems. She left the world on January 10th, 2008.
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