Death Cases

  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Guo Shijun Dies as a Result of Abuse at the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp

    52 year old Mr. Guo Shijun, was barbarically tortured at the Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp to the point where he developed liver and lung cancer. He passed away on February 9, 2005. People in the village all know that he was very healthy before he was abducted.
  • Tianjin City Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liu Jinhua Died as a Result of Relentless Police Harassment and Persecution

    After 57 year old Mr. Liu Jinhua started practising cultivation his diabetes and liver cirrhosis were healed. Because he wrote "Falun Dafa is good" on an telegraph pole, officials sentenced him to three years of forced labour, where he was persecuted until he became seriously sick. Upon his release officials kept on harassing him at home. Mr. Liu Jinhua died in February 2005 as a result of the relentless persecution.
  • The Deaths from Persecution of Three Elderly Shanghai Falun Dafa Practitioners

    Three elderly practitioners were each subjected to persecution of various kinds leading to their tragic deaths: Mr. Ding Youmu endured forced labour leading to blindness in both eyes, and a malignant tumour; Mr. Xie's wife and son were unjustly sent to forced labour camps, and the five years of separation was heartbreaking for him; Mr. Zhang Baoqing was threatened with dismissal from his job or preventing his child from enrolling in school, in order to coerce him to give up practising Falun Dafa. He died from a recurrence of old illnesses.
  • Shanxi Province Falun Dafa Practitioners Mr. Li Mingyue and His Son Li Junwen Died as a Result of Persecution in 2002 and 2004

    69 year old Mr. Li Mingyue and his son Li Junwen died as a result of the persecution. Mr. Li Mingyue died three to four days after four or five police officers came to his house to harass him in October 2002. Li Junwen died in May 2004, after being tortured multiple times by police. He is survived by two children who are less than 10 years old.
  • School Teacher Ms. Li Jinmei from Shanxi Province and Senior Citizen Mr. Zhao Yupu from Heilongjiang Province Died As a Result of Persecution in 2002 and 2004

    57 year old Ms. Li Jinmei was detained in a detention centre extorted out of 5000 yuan, because she practised Falun Dafa. She died in September 2002 as a result of being continuously harassed and mistreated. 71 year old Mr. Zhao Yupu was arrested, had his Falun Dafa books confiscated, and also had 7000 yuan extorted from him. Because of his advanced age, he was released on parole, but Mr. Zhao died in June 2004 as a result of the constant police harassment.
  • Death of Elderly Lady as a Result of Torture and Police Harassment

    Ms. Chen Guiqin, 58 years old, was a teacher in Heilongjiang Province. After July 20, 1999, officers from the local public security bureau, the national security bureau, the government, her workplace and the area of her residence frequently went to her home to harass her and she was detained in detention centres several times. She suffered terrible torture and even after her release the police continued to persecute her at home. She eventually died in January 2004.
  • Practitioner Ms. Tong Huilan, 70, Suffered an Unjust Death in January 2004

    Ms. Tong Huilan, a 70-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner from Wuhan City, Hubei Province, miraculously recovered from late-stage cancer after practising Falun Gong. Ms. Tong went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in November 2000. She was arrested, and the police beat her so badly that she suffered a concussion. Later in 2002, the perpetrators captured her, tried to brainwash her and even confiscated her hard-earned savings of 2,000 yuan. Tong Huilan died an unjust death on January 20, 2004.
  • To Cover Up Their Crime of Murder, Police in Shandong Province Frame a Falun Gong Practitioner as Having Committed Suicide

    Just after 10:00 a.m. on May 7, 2001, officials forcibly entered the home of Falun Gong practitioner Ms Li Xianglan and found information that exposed how Jiang Zemin's regime frames Falun Gong. She was arrested. When she returned back at her house after 11:00 p.m. she walked with great difficulty into the room. Her husband asked, "Did they beat you?" The short conversation was the last one they had in this life. When he woke up early next morning he discovered that Li Xianglan lying down in the yard - dead. Her legs and face were all bloody and covered with bruises and some portions of her legs were without skin.
  • Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioner Wang Guangzhi Was Persecuted to Death in Sichuan Province

    63 year old Mr. Wang Guangzhi, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment and violently force-fed, when he went on a hunger strike for 38 days to protest the illegal detention and abuse, causing his teeth to become loose. He was persecuted to the verge of death before being sent home. Mr. Wang passed away in October 2004.
  • 60 Year Old Ms. Zou Siying from Jiangxi Province Died from Persecution in 2003; Her Daughter Presently Held in Custody

    Ms. Zou Siying was around 60 years old. From July 1999 to May 2000, she was detained at the Jinxian County Detention Centre three times. She developed extremely high blood pressure as a result of the abuse endured. She was released on so-called "medical parole." Within months of her returning home, she passed away from persecution. Her daughter, also a practitioner, was sent twice to a forced labour camp and arrested for a third time in December 2004.
  • An Entire Family is Persecuted: One Daughter Dead, a Mother and a Second Daughter in Prison

    Mrs. Li Weihong, her mother and her younger sister are all Falun Dafa practitioners from Shanghai. In order to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa, the mother and her two daughters went to Beijing to appeal to the authorities there. Because they refused to give up their beliefs in Dafa, they were brutally persecuted, and their family suffered great tribulations. Mrs. Li Weihong died, not cleared of false charges against her. Her mother and sister are still being detained and persecuted.
  • Documentation of the Torture and Death of Mr Shen Baoping, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Xinjiang Province

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Shen Baoping was 32 years old. In 2001, he was detained and tortured until he was just skin and bones. For example, he was hung up by both hands while his body was beaten mercilessly with electric batons, police clubs, and leather belts, until finally the torturer was exhausted. His unyielding belief frustrated the prison guards and they hated the fact that they he would not go against his conscience, no matter what vicious methods they employed. In August 2004, Shen Baoping was finally beaten to death by prison guards and criminals.
  • Elderly Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Sun Guirong from Heilongjiang Province Dies as a Result of Mistreatment

    Ms. Sun Guirong was sentenced to prison and tortured until she became seriously ill. She was diagnosed with late-stage colon cancer and only then released. The police continued to harass and threaten her at home, until she passed away in January 2005.
  • 65 Year Old Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr Cui Dexin from Hebei Province Died in 2002 as a Result of Mistreatment and Constant Harassment

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Cui Dexin was 65 years old. In 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. The policemen at Tiananmen Square, however, detained him and sent him to the Shijiazhuang City Liaison Office in Beijing, where he was tortured. he was released after his family were forced to pay 1200 yuan. At that time, he was already very weak due to the torture. As a result of being continually harassed and threatened, Cui Dexin passed away in April 2002.
  • My Husband Was Persecuted to the Point of Mental Collapse and Death

    "In August 2001, my husband was sent to a brainwashing class at the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp to be "reformed". In only a few days, he was tortured to the point of mental collapse. In February 2002, still not fully recovered, he was once again forcibly taken away and again sent to the Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp. When he was released in July 2003, he had been tortured to the point where he was unable to take care of himself. He was bedridden for a long time and he eventually passed away in November 2004."