Death Cases

  • After Guarding Ms. Cao Aihua's Body for Seven Months, Her Family Members Are Filled With Grief and Indignation Over Lack of Justice

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Cao Aihua from Alar City, in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region was sent to the Xinjiang Military Corps Women's Forced Labour Camp and died within 12 days as a result of torture. For nearly seven months her son has guarded her body at a funereal home while her other family members never stopped appealing to all levels of government. The Labour Camp Administration Bureau Head said to the family bluntly, "The investigation result is not to be released to the family members." For all these months, every governmental entity has been shirking responsibility regarding Cao Aihua's death, and harbouring the guilty, and even oppressing and intimidating the family members, causing them great anguish.
  • Ms. Zhao Chunying from Heilongjiang Province Murdered in 2003, Three of Her Organs Removed

    Police and prison doctor Wang Lijun murdered Ms. Zhao Chunying, a Falun Dafa practitioner, four years ago during her 23 days of detention at Hengshan District Police Station and Jixi City Second Detention Centre. Her family members asked that an autopsy be performed to determine the cause of death. It was discovered that Ms. Zhao's heart, spleen, and pancreas had been removed.
  • Ms. Fu Zhaocui from Heilongjiang Province Arrested While Still in Mourning for Her Father, Who Died as a Result of Persecution

    Around 4 p.m. on May 24th, 2007, more than ten police officers from the Second Police Station in Hailin City, Heilongjiang Province forcibly took Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Fu Zhaocui from her home and imprisoned her in the Public Security Division of Mudanjiang City Railway Bureau, disregarding the fact that it was only three days since her father's death and she was still in mourning. On May 22nd Fu Zhaocui's father passed away. Her father was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in 2002. He went home in 2005 with his body severely damaged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
  • Two Practitioners Died as a Result of Persecution in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province

    Around October 20th, 1999, Ms. Zhang Guifen was arrested for going to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa. She was detained in the Jinzhou City Detention Centre for 30 days, then forced to go through brainwashing in the Guta District Brainwashing Centre. Ms. Zhang was tortured for one month in the brainwashing centre and had more than one thousand yuan extorted from her. She was constantly harassed and threatened for the next several years, which damaged her mental and physical health. Ms. Zhang died on September 14th, 2003; she was only 52 years old.
  • Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Ou Xueyuan Passed Away as a Result of Persecuted in Changlinzi Labour Camp in Heilongjiang Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ou Xueyuan, approximately 60 years of age, was a resident in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. He was arrested twice and sent to a labour camp, for informing people about the true nature of Falun Gong. He was inhumanely tortured in the notorious Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp. Long term persecution severely damaged his health and spirit. When he came out of the labour camp the second time at the end of 2005, he was in extremely poor physical condition. His body was covered with wounds and he was extremely weak. The torture had severely damaged his internal organs. He died on October 17th, 2006.
  • Another Young Falun Gong Practitioner Tortured to Death in Daqing Prison in Heilongjiang Province

    On April 1st, 2006, the Chinese Communist Party's Mid-Level Court in Yichun City sentenced Mr. Zhou Shuhai to five-and-a-half years in prison. In June 2006, Zhou Shuhai was detained at Hulan Prison in Heilongjiang Province, where the "Intensive Training Team" inhumanly tortured him in an attempt to force him to renounce Falun Gong. When he was sent to the hospital emergency resuscitation on May 31st, 2007, he was already dead. He was skin and bones when he died. The hospital could not resuscitate him. Mr. Zhou died at the young age of 35.
  • Chinese Communist Party Plans to Intensify Persecution of Falun Gong Until the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics

    According to an internal source from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region Police Department, the upper levels have issued an order stating that until the time of the Beijing 2008 Olympics, police should "more severely treat" people with contradictory opinions [against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)], especially Falun Gong practitioners. On May 22nd, 2007, the Regional CCP Committees held an urgent meeting to discuss strategies to persecute Falun Gong. The departments that joined the meeting included the regional police departments, all departments and offices in charge of persecuting Falun Gong in each government agency, and several commercial companies.
  • Several Practitioners in Critical Condition from Abuse at the Qingyang District People's Hospital in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province

    On May 5th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Zhao Zhongling was killed in Qingyang District People's Hospital in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. In addition, several practitioners in Qingyang District People's Hospital are on hunger strike. One has been on hunger strike for six months (name unknown) and is in critical condition. Practitioner Ms. Huang Min has been on hunger strike for 80 days and is extremely weak. Her family is trying to rescue her.
  • Ms. Shi Tongwen, 67, Has Died as a Result of Torture by Police in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province

    Since 1999, Ms. Shi Tongwen and her family members have suffered brutal persecution. All of her family members, except her four-year-old grandson, were sent to a brainwashing centre. During their detention there, Shi Tongwen was on the verge of death due to the persecution. Later, she was paralyzed from torture and could not take care of herself. At 10 a.m. on May 6th, 2007, she died at the age of 67.
  • Shuangcheng City in Heilongjiang Province Policeman Zhang Guofu Persecuted His Brother, Sister-in-law and Niece

    In April 2002, Zhu Qingwen, Secretary of Shuangcheng City, ordered policemen Zhang Guofu and over 740 police officers to engage in a citywide arrest of Falun Dafa practitioners. Zhang Guofu's brother Zhang Tao, his sister-in-law, and his niece were among those arrested. Zhang Tao was persecuted in Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp, from which he was granted bail for treatment only when he was on the verge of death. He died on July 31st, 2002.
  • Ms. Mao Chunxia from Luoyang City, Henan Province Suffers Relentless Persecution; Her Father Dies from Trauma

    For refusing to renounce Falun Gong, Ms. Mao Chunxia was sent to a forced labour camp in 2000, where she suffered severe abuse. On December 23rd, 2006, the police officers forcefully ransacked her home and arrested her. Chanhe District Police Department detained Mao Chunxia for 15 days, then she managed to escape. Nobody has known her whereabouts since then. The police often harassed her family members. Her father could not bear the constant pressure. As a result, he fell ill and died on February 7th, 2007.
  • My Memories of Practitioner Ms. Lin Tiemei from Guangxi Autonomous Region

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Lin Tiemei was a graduate school student. On December 8th, 2005, she died from the persecution at the Guangxi Women's Forced Labour Camp and Mental Hospital. She was only 33 years old. I could not ease my heart when I saw the news on the Internet that Ms. Lin had been brutally persecuted to death. For a long time I could not accept it. The bloody scenes of the two of us suffering inhuman torture in that den of monsters appeared before my eyes one after another.
  • Elderly Ms. Zhang Baoying from Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province Dies as a Result of Long-Term Persecution

    Because elderly Falun Dafa practitioners Ms. Zhang Baoying and her husband Mr. Jiao Yutian both kept cultivating Falun Dafa and following the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance, they were harassed, threatened, and mistreated by their employer, the 610 Office, and local police. Mr. Jiao Yutian died in July 2003, and Ms. Zhang Baoying died on May 20th, 2007 after being harassed, robbed, and threatened with arrest by police officers.
  • Persecution of Ms. Zhang Wuying from Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province Continues after Her Husband's Death

    In 2000, the then five-months pregnant Zhang Wuying and her husband, Wu Dianhui, were abducted and taken to a psychiatric hospital in Changzhou City by the leader of the school where she worked. There, she was tied to a bed and injected with drugs. On May 1st, 2001, Mr. Wu, was sent into the Disciplinary Team in Fangqiang Farm, Dafeng City, Jiangsu Province, where he suffered almost two years of persecution. He was shocked with electric batons until his flesh was burnt, made to do extra-strenuous slave labour, prohibited from sleeping at night, imprisoned in small cells, handcuffed, and beaten up by other inmates in the labour camp. After Mr. Wu was released from the labour camp, and after suffering almost three years of illness, torture, and pain, he died on February 11th, 2006.
  • Chao Zhiming Disabled and His Wife Persecuted to Death

    Practitioner Chao Zhiming and his wife, Zhu Xiuying, were persecuted cruelly over the past few years for practising Falun Gong. Now Chao Zhiming is disabled, and his wife has died due to the persecution. The Chaos' personal belongings taken away by the police and the medical costs for their physical ailments caused by the persecution added up to about 120,000 yuan for the past several years. At present, Chao Zhiming is paralysed and can hardly take care of himself, and has lost some of his ability to speak.