Death Cases

  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Liu Yongqi from Jilin Province Dies Within Three Days of Being Sent to Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp

    Falun Dafa practitioner, Mr. Liu Yongqi from Baishan, Jilin Province died from the consequences of brutal torture on December 13, 2004 at the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province. This happened on the third day after he was unlawfully taken there for custody. He could be heard shouting "Falun Dafa is good" throughout the whole night, before his death. The details of the tortures Mr. Liu Yongqi had to suffer before his death are not yet available as the labour camp authorities have blocked any information regarding Mr. Liu's death.
  • Mr. Luo Xiaolong from the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Died in 2003 as a Result of the Persecution

    Falun Dafa Practitioner Mr. Luo Xiaolong from the Xinjiang Autonomous Region was about 29 years old and had lived in Shihezi City. Between 2001 and 2002, he was arrested by police, along with practitioner Wang Jianhong, for distributing a lot of Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials. He suffered brutal tortures and was later sentenced. In about July 2003, as Luo Xiaolong was at the brink of death, the prison had to allow him to go home for medical treatment. He died soon after he returned home.
  • Information about Two Hebei Province Female Practitioners Who Died in 2003 as a Result of Persecution

    Ms. Wang Xiping, 42 years old, lived in Hebei Province. She was incarcerated in a labour camp and detention centre, cuffed with 20 pound shackles, and brutally beaten. She suffered from poor health after she was released, and died on May 23, 2003. 63 year old Ms. Yan E'zi also came from Hebei Province. In December 2000, she was arrested and detained in the county detention centre for more than 14 months. She was severely persecuted both mentally and physically and was emaciated. Authorities extorted 2,000 yuan from her family before she was released. After she returned home, she was not able to recover from her state of poor health, and died on October 10, 2003.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioner Li Guoshun from Fujian Province Died in Custody

    Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Li Guoshun from Fujian Province was arrested on August 23, 2004 while passing out truth clarifying materials. He went on hunger strike to protest the persecution, and the doctors at the Minxi Prison Hospital, along with the police, ignored his deteriorating condition. He died on October 14, 2004.
  • Practitioner Jiang Yanqing from Shenyang City Died after Extended Police Harassment

    50 year old Mr. Jiang Yanqing, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shenyang City, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2000 and was arrested. During the following two years 2000 and 2001, he was detained at three labour camps. He suffered extreme tortures wherever he was incarcerated. In one instance, police knocked out some of his teeth. In May 2004 he suddenly fell into a coma and never regained consciousness. Twenty days later, he passed away.
  • Hebei Province Former Workshop Director and Falun Dafa Practitioner Ms. Xu Xiuzhi Died as a Result of the Persecution

    Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Xu Xiuzhi from Hebei Province was 49 years old. As a result of abuse and torture she experienced in a labour camp in July 2004, she became paralyzed in her lower body. Ms. Xu Xiuzhi passed away on August 8, 2004.
  • More Facts about the Death of Mr. Wu Junyang, a Falun Gong Practitioner from Liaoning Province

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wu Junyang was from Liaoning Province. He was arrested in September 2004 and detained in a police station. On November 26, 2004, Mr. Wu Junyang was sent by police officers in an ambulance to the hospital. He had been tortured so severely that he had bruises all over his body and had lost consciousness. When the family hurriedly arrived at the hospital, Mr. Wu was lying on a hospital bench in the corridor. When they came up to him to see what had happened, the police officers took the opportunity to escape, leaving them with no one on whom to pin responsibility. He died at the age of 30.
  • 63 Year Old Practitioner Mr. Qi Zhongquan of Hubei Province Dies from Persecution

    Mr. Qi, 63, was from Wuhan City, Hubei Province. One evening in October 2001, he and his wife (also a practitioner) went to post truth-clarifying signs on the streets. They were caught by police and taken to a Detention Centre. He was tortured, became emaciated, and his old illnesses he had had before he practised Falun Dafa resurfaced. Even after he was released police harassed him at home. He was so badly stressed from this treatment that his health drastically declined. On March 2, 2004, Mr. Qi Zhongquan died.
  • 33 Year-Old Practitioner Mr. Zhang Jun from Liaoning Province Died From Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Jun from Liaoning Province was savagely tortured by the authorities for persisting in his belief. He was held at the Dalian City Forced Labour Camp. Police They handcuffed him to a heating pipe and shocked him with electric batons. They tried to force him to give up Falun Gong practice, to curse Dafa and write a "Guarantee Statement," but Zhang Jun refused. After he was released he was constantly harrased by police and died in October 2004.
  • 71 Year Old Tortured Practitioner Mr. Tian Zhongxin, a Teacher from Liaoning Province, Dies as a Result of the Persecution

    Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Tian Zhongxin was 71 years old and an Elementary School teacher in Liaoning Province. Through his practise of Falun Dafa he was cured of hepatitis. When he went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa in 1999, he was arrested, forced to do slave labour, beaten with electric shock batons and his hand scorched with a red-hot iron stove hook. Due to the pressure his hepatitis recurred and he passed away on November 18, 2004 as an indirect result of the persecution.
  • Two Practitioners in Jilin Province Die as a Result of Persecution

    Fifty six year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Dong Suyun from Nong-an County, Jilin Province died on January 23, 2004, as a result of torture she received in a labour camp . Practitioner Mr. Mu Xingbo from Changchun City, Jilin Province was on a police "wanted" list because he had been producing printed matter explaining the truth about Falun Gong. He was forced to move many times to avoid arrest. Tragically, his physical condition had been severely damaged during his long periods of forced homelessness and starvation and he passed away on October 12, 2004.
  • 51 Year Old Practitioner Mr. Liu Jieyun Tortured to Death in Shanxi Province Prison

    On the morning of July 20, 2004, prison guards locked three Falun Dafa practitioners into a "Brainwashing Cell" in Jinzhong Prison in order to comply with an order issued by the Judiciary Bureau to "force solid practitioners to give up within 100 days." Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Liu Jieyun, 51, was stripped and guards took turns beating him with a police baton, handcuffs, and wooden sticks. An inmate poured boiling water all over Mr. Liu's body. He died after having being brutally beaten for more than one hour.
  • Ms. Shang Junxiu from Hubei Province Dies from Constant Harassment by Police and Former Employer

    54 year old Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Shang Junxiu, was arrested when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was held in a detention centre, where her health rapidly deteriorated. She was not released until the police extorted 6,000 yuan from her family. Early in 2002, her former employer conspired with the 610 Office to abduct her and take her a Brainwashing Centre. Following her release she was constantly harassed by police and she died on September 1, 2004.
  • Jilin City Practitioner Ms. Liu Shiwei Has Died as a Result of Torture in Labour Camp

    Jilin City Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Shiwei, 48, was arrested at home along with her husband. The police beat the couple and forced them to write so-called Guarantee Statements. Ms. Liu Shiwei was later sentenced to one year of forced labour and was sent to the Heizuizi Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City, where she suffered from various tortures. Once, her hands were tied tightly behind her back for a long time until they turned purple for lack of blood circulation. Ms. Liu was released in September. In November 2004, less than two months later, she passed away.
  • 51 Year Old Practitioner Ms Hu Yuxia from Gansu Province Died as a Result of Terrorisation in 2002

    Ms. Hu Yuxia was a 51-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Gansu Province. For not giving up Falun Dafa cultivation practice, State Security Department personnel abducted her in August 2000. They tried to extort a confession from her under torture, causing her much suffering. Then she was unlawfully held in a detention centre. After her release she was constantly harassed. Her terrorised family then cooperated with the authorities to try to make her renounce her belief. Because of the long-term spiritual torment and physical tortures, Hu Yuxia passed away in November 2002.