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Ms. Yang Jiaye was sentenced to two years of forced labor for playing Falun Gong music on the street. He died in the forced labor camp on November 18, 2008, within five months from the date of his arrest.
Falun Gong Mr. Zhang Litian was arrested by CCP using the excuse of the Olympics in April 2008, and was secretly sentenced five years in prison in August. He died in jail on November 18.
Mr. Yang Jiaye Dies at Guangxi Province Forced Labor Camp
Mr. Yang Jiaye lived in Lingshan County, Guangxi Province. He had poliomyelitis (commonly known as polio), but he benefited both physically and spiritually after beginning to practice Falun Gong. On June 30, 2008, the Domestic Security Team Leader Liang Yongshen and Fang Daoyang arrested him at his home because they found him playing Falun Gong music on the street. They had him sentenced to two years of forced labor the next day and took him to the1st Forced Labor Camp of Nanning City in Guangxi Province. He died at age 30 on November 18, 2008, while detained in the 4th Ward.
On the day of his death, Mr. Yang's older brother and younger sister both rushed to the labor camp to find out the cause. The camp administration and Lingshan County CCP Political and Judiciary Committee personnel pressured his family to try to force them to sign the papers necessary to allow immediate cremation of the body without inspection. Under strong resistance, the officials finally allowed his family to see the body on the morning of November 19, then cremated it on November 21.
Responsible parties:
Lingshan County Domestic Security Team: 86-777-6529570
Fang Daoyang, Political Commissar of Lingshan County Domestic Security Team
Ling Yongshen, leader of Lingshan County Domestic Security Team
Mr. Zhang Litian Dies in Jinzhou City Prison, Liaoning Province (Photo)
Mr. Zhang Litian, 36, was born in Laizhou City, Shandong Province, but lived in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province most of his life. Due to the persecution, he stayed in his old hometown in Shandong Province for the past several years, to avoid arrest.
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In April 2008, using the excuse of preparing for the Olympics, residence permit community police from Jinzhou City and Taihe District followed the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) order to locate every Falun Gong practitioner on their list. They traced Mr. Zhang to Shandong Province, and they arrested him and brought him back to Jinzhou City, where he was locked in the 1st Detention Center of Jinzhou City. Zhang Litian went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution immediately after being arrested. In August 2008, Taihe District Court secretly tried Mr. Zhang in the Detention Center, sentenced him to five years in prison, and took him to the 12th Ward of Jinzhou City Prison. He died on November 17, 2008. The Prison Administration told his family that he died of a heart attack, but his family knows that Mr. Zhang was very healthy and never had any heart problems. His father is in his 70s, and his young daughter is only 10 years old.
