Death Cases
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Practitioner Suspected to Have Died from Organ Harvesting Ten Years Ago
2014-09-08
Mr. Fan Xuejun died as a result of persecution on September 12th, 2004 while imprisoned. His family suspected that he died from organ harvesting when they inspected his body. It bore so many cuts that it appeared to have been dissected, and there was a gaping hole in the waist area. However, under huge pressure, they did not have the courage to expose their findings at the time. -
Woman Takes the Bus and Never Returns Home—Another Unjust Arrest and Murder
2014-08-19Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, unjust arrests have become commonplace, and detained practitioners are sometimes even murdered while in custody. Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Shuxian went missing on August 7th. Her family learned that she had been arrested. The police took Ms. Zhang's husband to the city hospital and told him that Ms. Zhang had suffered a heart attack and was in emergency care. According to her husband, Ms. Zhang had no previous heart condition. Ms. Zhang had died within 24 hours, in police custody, at the age of 53. -
Summary Report of Falun Gong Practitioners Killed in Prisons and Detention Centres
2014-08-18The Chinese Communist Party launched its crackdown of Falun Gong nationwide on July 20th, 1999. The Minghui website has reported 3714 deaths of practitioners as a result of the persecution as of June 30th, 2014. Among them, the deaths of 512 practitioners (14%) were attributed directly to abuses they suffered while incarcerated in prisons, detention centres, and labour camps. There were 335 death cases that were reported with explicit mentions of torture. Torture instruments used include shackles, ropes and chains, the “tiger bench,” the “death bed,” hanging, cutting with knives, or burning. -
13-Year-Old Boy: I Lost Three Family Members During the Persecution
2014-08-12The following is a story from a 13-year-old boy, who used to have a happy family filled with love. However, during the last 15 years, his family has been through enormous hardships as they are persecuted for their belief: His dad wasarrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison, and he died one year after his release; his mum was sentenced to three years of forced labour when he was just over four years old; he spent the first seven years of his young life wandering from place to place; both his paternal grandparents were taken to forced labour camps for a year; his grandma and great grandma died one after another due to extreme anxiety. -
New International Convention Adopted to Make Organ Trafficking a Criminal Offence
2014-07-25The Council of Europe has recently adopted a new international convention to make trafficking of human organs for transplant a criminal offense. The convention will be open for signatures by state members and non-state members of the Council of Europe. The European Union passed a resolution last December, condemning and calling for the end of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China, a large majority of whom are Falun Gong practitioners. -
Falun Dafa Continues to Thrive Despite 15 Years of Persecution: The Story in Numbers
2014-07-21Fifteen years ago, on July 20th, 1999, the onset of persecution turned the lives of 100 million Falun Gong practitioners upside down overnight. Practitioners who have persevered through the brutal persecution have told extraordinary stories of their faith, and the choices they have made in the face of unprecedented oppression. -
Shanghai: Ninety-seven Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in First Half of 2014
2014-07-15July 20th, 2014 marks the 15th year of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. To date, 3769 practitioners were persecuted to death. In the first half of 2014, 69 new death cases were confirmed, and 413 practitioners were put on trial. In Shanghai, according to incomplete reports published on the Minghui website, in the first half of 2014, ninety-seven practitioners were arrested, four practitioners were sentenced to at least three years in prison and seventeen practitioners were to taken to brainwashing centres. -
Deceased Practitioner's Family Wins Four-Year Lawsuit
2014-07-15May 6th, 2014, was a big day for Mr. Peng Mingsheng's family because they finally won a crucial lawsuit against the Tengzhou People's Hospital in Shandong Province. It took the family four years of constant effort to show that the hospital was liable for his death, in following the regime's pervasive policy of treating Falun Gong practitioners as targets of persecution, rather than human beings. -
Mother Seeks Justice in Son's Death
2014-07-14“My husband passed away when our son was five years old. It was not easy to raise two children as a single mother. I survived only because of my son. He was so kind and loved me very much. He told me once: 'I will take care of you, Mum, even if I end up a beggar.' I worked so hard to raise him. He was strong and healthy, but he died when he was only 39. They (Wumaping Prison authorities) said they were not responsible...” said Ms. Peng Guangzhen, a 70-year-old mother seeking justice in the death of her son, Mr. Xu Langzhou, who died in suspicious circumstances in a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) prison, incarcerated for his belief in Falun Gong. -
Tianjin High School Teacher Ms. Cong Huiyun, 64, Died One Year Ago
2014-07-14Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cong Huiyun, an excellent teacher from Tianjin No. 102 High School, passed away one year ago, in July 2013, at the age of 64. Ms. Cong was sentenced to a three-year forced labour term in September 2002 for not renouncing Falun Gong. She was tortured and injected with unknown drugs, and became disabled from the ordeal she suffered in the labour camp. She became paralysed and bedridden in 2012 and died a year later. -
First Half 2014: 69 New Falun Gong Practitioner Death Cases Confirmed
2014-07-08Sixty nine new death cases of Falun Gong practitioners have been confirmed during the first half of 2014. Among them, 49 deaths occurred in 2014. 20 practitioners died in 2013 or earlier, but the cases were confirmed as of June 28, 2014. Among the 69 deaths, 22 (32%) were caused by torture in prisons, 9 (13%) in labour camps, 4 (6%) in brainwashing centres, and 9 (13%) in police stations or detention centres. -
Older Woman Dies after Unjust Incarceration
2014-07-07Ms. Yang Xiangzhen was handing out information about Falun Gong when she was arrested in April 2012. She was first detained at the Tanghe County Detention Centre and was then transferred to the Nanyang City Detention Centre on July 21st, 2012. She was sentenced to four years in prison. Less than one year after being sent to Xinxiang Women's Prison, Ms. Yang developed symptoms of cancer and went into surgery. Prison officials sent her home afterward to avoid being held responsible for her condition. Ms. Yang passed away early this year at the age of 69. -
109 Practitioner Deaths in Weifang City, the Highest Among Prefecture-level Cities in China (Part 3 of 3)
2014-06-26Ms. Zheng Fangying, a 54-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Weifang, went to Tiananmen Square to unfurl a banner calling for for justice for Falun Gong on December 2nd, 2001. The policemen who beat her damaged her internal organs. After being on a hunger strike for 18 days and dying, she was released and sent to the railway station. When she arrived home, her family saw that her lower abdomen was bruised, and signs of injury covered her whole body. She died three days later. -
109 Practitioner Deaths in Weifang City, the Highest Among Prefecture-level Cities in China (Part 2 of 3)
2014-06-25Mr. Liu Shuchun, 38, was taken to Changle Forced Labour Camp on January 3rd, 2001. The guards instigated six inmates to beat him for over an hour and he died. His body turned black and blue all over from the beating. In order to cover up their crime, the authorities ordered that his entire head be bandaged so that people could not see his injured face. -
109 Practitioner Deaths in Weifang City, the Highest Among Prefecture-level Cities in China (Part 1 of 3)
2014-06-24The deaths of 3,768 Falun Gong practitioners who died as a direct result of persecution have been confirmed as of June 11th, 2014. Heilongjiang, Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, and Shandong are the nation's provinces with the greatest number of deaths. In Weifang City alone, a prefecture-level city in central Shandong Province, 109 practitioners were persecuted to death. This represents about one third of the total number of deaths in Shandong and is the nation's highest among prefecture-level cities.
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