Death Cases
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Primary School Teacher Ms. Deng Shangyuan Dies as a Result of Persecution
2005-08-26
Ms. Deng Shangyuan was a teacher employed at a primary school located in Baoxing Town, Sichuan Province. She had been detained and mistreated many times during the persecution, and had been closely monitored and harassed constantly by lawless officials. In March 2005, policemen stormed into her home in the middle of the night and ransacked it, causing her to be unable to sleep at all. She became very thin, and died on July 25th 2005. -
Details of How Falun Dafa Practitioner Wang Hongde Was Persecuted to Death
2005-08-24Due to mental pressure Wang Hongde's situation in Daqing City's Hongweixing Prison worsened each day. He had a hard time breathing, and had whole-body oedema. Mr. Wang was at the brink of death as a result of being tortured in prison. He was eventually sent to hospital in heavy handcuffs and shackles. However, due to the abrupt cessation of treatment, several recurrences of the illness, and not getting immediate treatment, he lost his chance to be treated and died on May 14th 2005. -
Ms. Kong Fanrong Tortured to Death in 2003, Her Family Still Suffering Persecution
2005-08-23
Ms. Kong Fanrong and her family have been suffering persecution from since 1999. On May 11th 2003, Kong Fanrong died due to torture she received in detention. Her husband was arrested in March 2005. By the time he returned home, he was nearly dead from torture. Their daughter was arrested at the end of July. -
Mr. Zeng Hongfu from Sichuan Province Went Blind, Then Passed Away in 2004 As a Result of Persecution
2005-08-23Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zeng Hongfu was persecuted repeatedly, causing him to develop diabetes. The police tried to force him to renounce Falun Dafa but he refused. Later, Zeng Hongfu went blind, but the officials still kept him under 24-hour surveillance. Under such enormous pressure and stress, Mr. Zeng's health deteriorated and he died in July 2004. -
Information on Seven Elderly Falun Gong Practitioners Who Died as a Result of the Persecution
2005-08-2359-year-old Mr. Hu Mingxiang of Sichuan Province, was diagnosed with cancer before 1997. Soon after he started to practise Falun Gong, the cancer disappeared. After the Chinese Communist Party began to persecute Falun Gong, he was put on the "blacklist" because he had been in charge of a Falun Dafa site producing leaflets exposing the persecution for the local area. The local police confiscated his property and a lot of the materials. Because of the persecution, Mr. Hu suffered a relapse of the cancer and died. -
Wanjia Labour Camp Guards Torture Practitioner Ms. Zhang Hong to Death (Photo)
2005-08-22In July 2004, because of her firm persistence in practising Falun Dafa, Ms. Zhang Hong was sentenced to the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp in Harbin City for the second time. Because she refused to write the "Three Statements" she was incarcerated in a solitary confinement room, which was dark, cold and damp. She was lying on a bare bed with her hands cuffed to the head of the bed and feet tied to the foot of the bed. Even in hot summer, people would shiver with cold in this room. This was the darkest room in the hell-like Wanjia Forced Labour Camp. Many practitioners were tortured to death or to disability there. -
Grandma in Her 90s Seeks Help to Free Her Granddaughter
2005-08-21Because she was a Falun Dafa practitioner Kong Fanrong was tortured to death in Shulan City Detention Centre on May 11th 2003. Her husband Bian Hongxiang (also a Falun Dafa practitioner), 93-year-old mother-in-law, and daughter Bian Lingyun as well as her in-laws have been continuously harassed and arrested by the police. Now that her granddaughter has been arrested, there is no one to take care of the 93-year-old grandmother. -
Deaths of 98 More Falun Gong Practitioners Confirmed in July (Photos)
2005-08-20The genocidal persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Jiang Zemin's group that began on July 20th 1999 has spanned six years. During those past six years, at least 2,739 Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured to death. These cases have been confirmed through independent channels. At least 98 additional deaths were verified in July 2005. Among these 98 deaths that were verified in July, 37 Falun Gong practitioners died between January and July 2005, and eight practitioners died in July. The demographics: 57 practitioners were women, representing 57% of the death toll; 47%, that is 46 practitioners, were older than 55 years. -
In Memory of Fellow Practitioner Jin Xiuqing
2005-08-20On June 29th 2005, thunderstorms swept across most of the southeastern regions in China, and rivers and lakes flooded furiously. Throughout central China, however, the scorching sun was hanging high, the vast land had turned into a giant inferno. On this particular day, she just left quietly without saying a single word, left this world, left her friends and relatives, and left this land that she loved so passionately. Without any justification, she died inside a small, damp, and sorrow-filled cell in the Beishan Detention Centre in Liaoning Province. She, Jin Xiuqing, was a 60-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner. -
Four Elderly Practitioners Die From Persecution in Hebei, Hunan and Jilin Provinces
2005-08-1960-year-old Mr. Dong Jinchang frequently suffered brutal torture and beatings at the detention centre. He was released only after his physical condition deteriorated severely and the centre officials were afraid that they would be held accountable. He never regained his health after returning home, and died around mid-July 2005. -
Five Practitioners from Hebei, Liaoning, and Sichuan Provinces Die Due to Persecution
2005-08-19Mr. Shi Peifeng lived in Liaoning Province. He started practising Falun Dafa in January 1998. He had kidney disease, which improved greatly after he practised Falun Dafa. After he went to Beijing to appeal on November 20th 1999, he was taken to the Longshan Brainwashing Centre and later transferred to the Fifth Detention Centre for further persecution. He was released after his parents were forced to pay a fine. Under the long-term persecution, his practice environment was severely sabotaged. In August 2003, his kidney disease returned. He was only 21 when he died on September 19th 2004. -
Ms. Ren Tingfang and Her Daughter Zhang Xiaohe Gansu Province Both Died As Result of Persecution in 2002
2005-08-18Under severe pressure Ms. Ren Tingfang was forced to become destitute and homeless in order to avoid being arrested at home from 2000 to 2002. After years of living under this persecution, by September of 2002 she weighed only around 80 lbs. Her physical condition worsened and she was only twenty-three when she passed away. -
Mr. Yue Huimin from Qiqihar City Dies from Torture Suffered in the Fuyu Labour Camp
2005-08-18Mr. Yue Huimin's health deteriorated, his body developed a scabies infection, he was emaciated, suffered with diabetes, had damage to the lower part of his brain and had developed hepatitis type B. He often fainted and did not sleep properly for more than a year. After two years of cruel torture, the Fuyu Labour Camp extended his term by two months. He was finally carried home while he was dying, nearly blind, his inner ears were infected and his whole body was swollen with dropsy. On March 18th 2005, Mr. Yue Huimin died in great agony. -
At Least 85 Practitioners Tortured to Death in Weifang City in the Past Six Years
2005-08-17Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)cooperated in applying their genocidal policies against Falun Gong practitioners, who peacefully persist in their belief in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. They achieved this by using the totalitarian government's machinery, including the police and the media. In the six years between July 20th 1999 and July 20th 2005, the CCP, in violation of the Chinese constitution and by breaking numerous laws, has monitored, abducted, detained, tortured, and brainwashed Falun Gong practitioners and has sent many of them to forced labour camps and prisons. According to the Clearwisdom website, the verified number of deaths by torture of Falun Gong practitioners is 2,711. At least 85 Falun Gong practitioners from Weifang City have been tortured to death. -
Six Dafa Practitioners from Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin and Henan Provinces Persecuted to Death
2005-08-17Mr. Wang Liansheng, 37 years old, was a teacher in the elementary school attached to Nong'an County Normal College, Jilin Province and firmly practised Falun Dafa. In 2001, he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Dafa. After he was detained for more than 20 hours, he walked out of the police station openly and with dignity. When the education system made cuts at the end of 2001, he was not on the list to lose his job. However, because he practised Falun Gong, his school's leaders forced him to write the "three statements" to denounce Falun Gong. Otherwise, he would lose his job. The leaders went to his home many times to threaten and harass him. Because the mental pressure was too great for him and his wife compelled him to get a divorce, he suffered a mental collapse. He died on March 18th 2002.
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