Death Cases

  • Murder Suspected in Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Chen Guanghui’s Sudden Death

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Chen Guanghui slipped into a vegetative state in July 2004 as a result of a skull fracture from a beating at Suzhou Prison. He had been held at the No. 100 Hospital in Suzhou City where he was under constant surveillance by the prison authorities. He died suddenly on December 12th, 2006 at the age of 40. Some analysts stated Suzhou Prison officials ordered Chen Guanghui to be murdered, in order to cover up the abuse and to avoid an international investigation and criminal charges.
  • Practitioner Liu Juhua from Guizhou Province Dies Two Hours After Her Arrest

    Falun Dafa practitioner Liu Juhua, in her 50s, was arrested from her home by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) personnel at about 9:00 p.m. on December 5th, 2006. She died two hours later. It is reported that the police paid 100 thousand yuan (to be verified) and claimed that she "jumped from a tall building." But Lu Juhua's body did not show obvious injuries. The details are yet to be investigated.
  • Six Falun Dafa Practitioners from Gansu and Jilin Provinces Die as a Result of the Persecution

    Ms. Sun Yuling, 48, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Yantai City, Shandong Province. She was sentenced to three years of forced labour in December 2002 for practising Falun Dafa. She developed a fatal disease as a result of being tortured and persecuted, and was released from the forced labour camp ahead of the original term. She was as thin as a skeleton when she got home. She died unjustly four months after she returned home. All the villagers protested for her and said, "Such a good person died unjustly. Those Communist party villains are too inhuman."
  • Elderly Mr. Guo Haishan, Retired from the Chinese Academy of Missile Technology, Died as a Result of Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Guo Haishan, who was blind, had retired from the 19th Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Missile Technology (CAMT). Because he was determined to practise Falun Gong, he was arrested and sent to a brainwashing centre at the end of the summer in 2002 and in the summer of 2006, where he was subjected to torture. On November 26th, 2006, Mr. Guo died at the age of 71 as a result of the persecution.
  • Practitioner Ms. Ma Meiying from Shijiazhuang, Hebei, Died after Being Tortured

    Ms. Ma Meiying was from Dongtian Village, Xinle City, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province. In 2003 Ms. Ma Meiying went with two practitioners to Zhili Town to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution. They were reported and police detained them in Xingtang Detention Centre for six days. She went on a hunger strike to protest being persecuted. Police ordered other prisoners to violently feed them through a tube. Ms. Ma was injected with an unknown substance and force fed with salt water. She developed partial paralysis. To escape their responsibility, Xingtang police took Ms. Ma home on the sixth day, but she never recovered. Ms. Ma Meiying died on November 28th, 2006.
  • Mr. Chen Jun Learned Falun Gong in Prison and Was Beaten to Death at the Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai City

    Mr. Chen Jun, from Hunan Province, was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. He was beaten to death by the Tilanqiao Prison staff in Shanghai City because he started practising Falun Gong while he was serving his sentence. The prison guards flew into a rage from shame after discovering that Chen Jun started practising Falun Dafa. On January 18th, 2006, they started malicious physical torture and daily beatings. After one week of continuous physical torture, Chen Jun's life was in danger. He was sent home but Chen Jun passed away about a month later.
  • Two Falun Gong Practitioners from Zhejiang Province Die as a Result of Persecution

    Wang Huiyue was 86 years old when she died as a result of the persecution. Prior to Falun Gong practice, she had high blood pressure and other illnesses but since Ms. Wang started practising Falun Gong she became a healthy, energetic person again. When the CCP launched the persecution in 1999, her son was afraid that he would be implicated in the persecution, so he forbade his mother from practising any longer. Wang Huiyue fell ill shortly thereafter. However, her two daughters, who also practised Falun Gong, helped her to start practising again and she recovered. They were arrested and heartbroken Wang Huiyue passed away.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Sun Changde from Changchun City Dies at 43 as a Result of Persecution at Jilin Prison

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Sun Changde, 43, was sentenced to eight years in prison in 2002 and was held at Jilin Prison. He was savagely tortured and developed severe tuberculosis. The prison authorities refused to release him despite his condition, and his health continued to deteriorate. He was eventually released in June 2006, when both of his lungs had completely ulcerated and he was coughing up blood. He passed away on November 28th, 2006.
  • Everyone in My Family Was Persecuted

    My father unfurled a banner at Tiananmen Square to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa and suffered a brutal beating by the police on the square. Though he was injured and in pain, the guards still ordered prisoners to watch him and not let him practise the exercises. They forced him to sit on a wooden board all day and memorise prison rules, and they beat him if he did not remember them correctly. After three months of detention, his healthy body reverted to the illnesses he had before practising Dafa. He had difficulty urinating and his body was covered with extremely itchy and painful scabies. It wasn't until my father was at his last gasp that the police allowed him to go home with my mother. He passed away on May 8th, 2001.
  • Ms. Zhao Yuhua and Her Husband Forced Into Homelessness; Young Daughter Dies in Grief

    Practitioners Mr. Meng Qingzhen and Ms. Zhao Yuhua, a married couple from Heilongjiang Province were arrested, sent to forced labour camp, hounded by the police, and eventually forced to stay away from home. Their teenage daughter suffered a heart attack when they were being persecuted and died in sorrow, as her parents were not able to take care of her.
  • Four Practitioners from Sichuan, Shanghai, Liaoning and Hunan Died Due to Persecution

    Mr. Xia Pinhua detained when he went to Mianyang Forced Labour Camp to visit a fellow practitioner in May 2000. He was sentenced to one and a half years of forced labour. On returning home his old illnesses recurred, and he became bedridden. Communist Party officials came frequently to Mr. Xia's home to harass him. They told him to give up his belief in the principles of "Truthfulness, Comparison, Forbearance." The wicked officials even threatened to take him to a forced labour camp again if he did not renounce Falun Gong. Mr. Xia was physically injured and mentally harmed. He died on November 22nd, 2006.
  • Ms. Cao Aihua from Xinjiang Autonomous Region Dies as a Result of Persecution; Her Family Asks for Justice in Vain

    On November 1st, 2006, Ms. Cao Aihua was arrested and taken to the Women's Forced Labour Camp of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corporation. When her husband visited her at the forced labour camp, Ms. Cao told him that the guards in the labour camp had beaten and sworn at her. Her husband was later informed that his wife had died on November 13th. When cleaning his wife's body, her husband found a large injury on her back. He believes that his wife died after suffering injuries as a result of severe beatings.
  • Mr. Li Hongfu Dies at 31 Following Several Years of Torture

    On December 8th, 2006, Mr. Li Hongfu died after suffering several years of inhuman torture. He was only 31. The depraved guards at Xishanping Forced Labour Camp insulted and tortured Mr. Li with many torture methods, such as the tiger bench, electrical shocks, nailing bamboo slips under fingernails. One of the most cruel things the guards tell practitioners is, "We intend to make your life worse than death." After being released from the forced labour camp, he was very weak and bedridden due to paralysis.
  • The Deaths of Three Former Retired Staff Members from Xiangtan University After Suffering Persecution

    Mr. Qiu Youde, 72, was the former head of the Communist Party Organisation Department at Xiangtan University. He began practising Falun Dafa at the age of 66. After July 20th, 1999, Chinese Communist Party officials applied great pressure on him to renounce Dafa. They threatened that his son, employed at a police station, would not have a future if Mr. Qiu didn't follow their demands. They forced him to write a statement giving up Dafa, which was published in the university newspaper. Shortly thereafter Mr. Qiu was hospitalised and passed away in 2003.
  • Elderly Ms. Wang Suxiang from Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province Died as a Result of Persecution

    The family of Wang Suxiang has been constantly harassed and persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Ms. Wang's son was arrested several times, and her daughter was sent to a forced labour camp four times and nearly tortured to death. Under severe mental and physical strain, Wang Suxiang and her husband often had to go to police stations, community committees, and public security bureaus to find their detained children and secure their release. Overwhelmed by the accumulated mental and physical pressure, seventy-three-year-old Wang Suxiang fell ill and passed away on November 29th, 2006.