131 Falun Dafa Practitioners Have Died As a Direct Result of Persecution in Heilongjiang Province

(Clearwisdom.net) At of the end of October 2003, based on investigations done through means available to the general public, there have been at least 816 confirmed deaths of Falun Gong practitioners in China. This is the direct result of the brutal persecution initiated by Jiang's regime. These deaths occurred across over thirty provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities. In Heilongjiang Province alone, 131 residents who practice the Falun Gong principles of Truth-Compassion-Tolerance were tortured to death for their beliefs. That is 16.1% of the total number of deaths, the highest in the nation.

Hebei Province Dafa Practitioner Sun Yanqing Died of Forced Feeding Three Years Ago; Many Other Practitioners from Hebei Province Have Also Lost their Lives Due to Torture

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Hebei Province Dafa practitioner, Ms. Sun Yanqing, died of forced feeding three years ago in the Xuanhua District Hospital. She was in her 40's and worked at the Mechanical Maintenance Facility of the Xuanhua District Steel Works in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. Ms. Sun was abducted when she went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Dafa. Her condition became critical after she was tortured by being force-fed during a week-long hunger strike. Ms. Sun died a few days later after she was sent back to Xuanhua and hospitalized. She left behind a young son, less than ten years old. A co-worker at the Mechanical Maintenance Facility of the Xuanhua District Steel Works (86-313-8673380) in Zhangjiakou City confirmed that Sun Yanqing was a Falun Gong practitioner and that she died more than two years ago.

More Facts Related to Dafa Practitioner Mr. Li Jianhou's Death in Deyang Jail, Sichuan Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner Mr. Li Jianhou, 68, was a resident of Nanchong City, Suchuan Province. On March 27, 2003, he was tortured to death by officials at the Deyang jail.

Mr. Li Jianhou was a former administrative coordinating commissioner for Nanchong City. He refused to renounce Falun Gong and was illegally sentenced to a 3-year term in Deyang jail in late January of 2003. On March 29, 2003, he was pronounced dead by the jail. According to a news source, in February the guards bound Mr. Li to a bed at the jail clinic to force-feed and intravenously transfuse him. Later they transferred him to the Deyang Jail No. 5 Hospital where Mr. Li passed away.

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