Death Cases

  • Mr. Wu Junyang Tortured to Death at Benxi City Detention Centre

    Falun Dafa practitioner Wu Junyang was cruelly tortured in a detention centre until he was blind in both eyes, covered in wounds and bruises, incontinent and his penis was black. 70 days after his arrest, on November 27, 2004, he passed away.
  • Mrs. Wang Shanling, a 68-Year-Old Falun Gong Practitioner from Jilin Province, Persecuted to Death

    68 year old practitioner Mrs. Wang Shanling lived in Jilin Province. Because she practised Falun Gong local police, ransacked her house arrested and interrogated her, then extorted 2000 yuan from her. Thereafter, the police frequently threatened Mrs. Wang. Under intense persecution, she passed away on January 3, 2005.
  • Hebei Province Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Yu Zhanyang Persecuted to Death in 1999

    47 year old Mr. Yu Zhanyang lived in a village in Hebei Province. In 1998, he was diagnosed with a severe case of lung cancer. The lung cancer could have taken Mr. Yu's life had he not discovered Falun Dafa. By reading "Zhuan Falun" [the main text in Falun Dafa] and doing the exercises, Mr. Yu miraculously recovered. Since the onslaught of the persecution against Falun Dafa in July 1999, the local police frequently harassed Mr. Yu and inflicted much physical and mental distress on him. As a result, Mr. Yu's lung cancer recurred, and took his life on October 10, 1999.
  • Persecution of Falun Gong Leads to Six Deaths in Hubei Province: Mr. Wang Xisong Passed Away in 2000, Five Other Practitioners Also Lost their Lives

    Mr. Wang Xisong was a Falun Dafa practitioner who worked at Huanggang City's Pharmaceutical Factory in Hubei Province. He went to Beijing to peacefully appeal for a stop to the persecution against Falun Dafa where he was arrested, sent back home and then held at a Detention Centre where he suffered extensive physical abuse. He never recovered from the injuries inflicted at the detention centre at the time he passed away around September 12th, 2000.
  • Mr Yue Baoxue from Heilongjiang Province Dies as a Result of Long-Term Torture

    Mr. Yue Baoxue, 38-years old, was a practitioner from Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang province. He was determined in his cultivation of Falun Gong and appealed for Falun Dafa many times. He suffered brutal torture at Shuangcheng Detention Centre, because he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. He was then sent to Changlinzi Forced Labour Camp where he was detained for over two years. His health worsened due to this long-term torture. His muscles atrophied and shrank. A large scar could be seen on his lower abdomen. On January 5, 2005, he passed away.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Su Aigui from Hubei Province Dies from Force-Feeding

    A female Falun Dafa practitioner, 53-year-old Ms. Su Aigui from Hubei Province, was severely tortured after she appealed twice in Tiananmen Square. She was arrested and sent to a detention centre, where she was force-fed with vinegar and hot peppers. Finally, the doctor at the detention centre realized that Ms. Su was near death. Not wanting to take responsibility, the authorities had prison staff carry her home. However, she had difficulty eating due to the torture she received in the detention centre and was unable to further improve. She passed away on January 7, 2005.
  • 71 Year Old Ms. Zhao Huiqun from Chongqing City Died as a Result of Persecution in 2002

    Ms. Zhao Huiqun was retired and living in Chongqing City. After taking up the practice of Falun Gong, many of the illnesses that had troubled her for years disappeared. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, she went to Beijing twice to clarify the truth. Both times she was brutally beaten by the Beijing police. Twice she was sent to brainwashing classes to be persecuted. Police stole several hundred yuan from her home and her pension was also stopped. As a result of the long-term mental pressure and her economic difficulties, she passed away on January 20, 2002, at the age of 71.
  • Beijing Female Falun Gong Practitioners Yang Haiqin, Wang Qiuling and Wang Fengqin Died from Persecution

    Three lady Falun Dafa practitioners from Beijing died as a result of extensive mental and physical torture, suffering brainwashing , forced labour and brutal treatment. These ladies were doing nothing other than exercising their constitutional right to peacefully practise their spiritual belief: a basic human right. Yet, shamefully, today Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance is a crime in China and millions are being wrongfully punished for upholding these noble principles.
  • Kept Prisoner in Her Own Home, Jiangxi Province Falun Gong Practitioner Ms Chen Zurong Died in 2004

    Ms. Chen Zurong was a Falun Gong practitioner from Jiangxi Province was arrested for distributing Falun Dafa truth-clarification materials. She was sent to a detention centre, where she was brutally beaten. After her release, the police and her work unit kept coming to harass her. They also threatened her whole family, saying that they would take away her salary and apartment. Her husband was very scared, so he locked her up in the apartment, not allowing her to step out of the room. Chen's health got worse and worse. She passed away on February 5, 2004.
  • Liu Ziwei of Jilin Province Was Tortured to Death, Family Members' Appeal Rejected

    Mr Liu Ziwei, a Falun Gong practitioner from Jilin Province, was tortured to death at Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City. Liu's family refused to cremate him and requested an investigation into the cause of his death. However, the family was pressured from all levels of the government to give up the investigation. Liu's family has consulted many lawyers, but since this matter relates to Falun Gong, no lawyer is willing to take the case.
  • Intimidation and Pressure Leads to Death of 80-Year-Old Ms. Jiu Junying from Shaanxi Province in 2000

    Practitising Falun Dafa improved 80 year old Ms. Jiu Junying's asthma tremendously, so much so that her previous stays in hospital for oxygen support were a thing of the past and after 2 months of practice she could walk on her own without using a cane. However, after July 1999, the level of intimidation, pressure and coercion for her to give up Falun Dafa from the police and 610 Office meant that her health deteriorated and she passed away on November 19, 2000.
  • Practitioner Ms Zou Qianzhu Died as a Result of Torture at Guizhou Women's Forced Labour Camp

    44 year old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms Zou Qianzhu was incarcerated in Guizhou Women's Forced Labour Camp, because she was resolute in her faith in Falun Dafa. When her family visited her in August 2004, Deputy Long of the Education Department threatened Zou in front of her family, "If you do not listen to the Communist Party and write a 'Repentance Statement,' you will never leave here alive." She died in the camp on October 22, 2004 and was cremated before her family could arrive and view her body.
  • Two Over-60-year-old Female Falun Gong Practitioners, Ms. Luo Sufang and Ms. Shen Daoqiu from Sichuan Province, Died as a Result of Torture

    Two over 60 ladies were treated so abominably, through torture, extortion, brainwashing, police harassment and coercion to write a statement to renounce Falun Dafa, that they both lost their lives. Yet two more fatalities in this senseless and horrifying persecution of morally upstanding people, who adhered to Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance, to the cost of their lives.
  • Falun Gong Practitioners Mr. Wang Xing and Ms. Zeng Shaolan from Yunnan Province Died as a Result of Persecution

    Mr Wang Xing, a teacher in his 30's from Yunnan Province, jumped through the train window to escape persecution but died during the fall. This happened while he was being escorted back to Kunming City after having gone to Beijing to appeal in 2000. Ms Zeng Shaolan, an over 50 year old retired worker from Yunnan Province, died on August 6, 2002 after being arrested.
  • Ms. Yang Xiaoyan, a Falun Dafa Practitioner in Liaoning Province, Driven to Mental Illness Through Persecution, Leading to Her Death in 2002

    45 year old practitioner Ms. Yang Xiaoyan was a resident in Liaoning Province. In early January 2000, members of the local 610 Office arrested her. She was forced to attend brainwashing sessions. During the detention, the perpetrators provided only very thin quilts, even in extremely cold winter weather. The quilts were covered with excrement and dirt and smelled disgusting. As a result of the persecution she suffered, Ms. Yang became mentally ill. After she fell from a window at her residence, she became bedridden until her death in July 2002.