(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Cao Yuqiang, lived in Shanqian Village, Xudatun Town, Pulandian City, Liaoning Province. He suffered cruel persecution in the Huludao City Labor Camp. He died on February 19, 2004, leaving behind his 10-year-old son, Cao Xiaodong.

Mr. Cao Yuqiang

The young Cao Xiaodong currently lives in Shanqian Village, Xudatun Town, Pulandian City, Liaoning Province, and is a student at Xudatun Town Central Elementary School. His mother, Ms. Yu Xiling, has been detained and persecuted several times. She divorced his father, Mr. Cao Yuqiang during a period in which she was being severely persecuted. An elderly grandparent is raising Cao Xiaodong.

Mr. Cao Yuqiang was in his forties and lived in Shanqian Village, Xudatun Town, Pulandian City, Liaoning Province. He suffered cruel treatment after July 20, 1999, when Jiang's group began persecuting Falun Gong. Authorities detained and savagely tortured Mr. Cao numerous times. On January 26, 2003, police officers from the Pulandian City Railroad Police Station arrested and took him to the Fengsong Police Station and later to a detention center. Cao Yuqiang firmly resisted the persecution at the detention center. He held a 95-day hunger strike and was unconditionally released. Sadly, he was severely injured by torture. He passed away at home at 6:00 p.m. on April 8, 2004.

Mr. Cao Yuqiang revealed the following facts before he died:

"In 2001, the Xingtai Police Station officials suspected I had distributed truth clarification flyers and had hung up banners nearby. Late in the evening on April 29, police officer Duo Buyang, security officers Xu Gongwen and Li Wenwen, and security head Yi Demin broke into my home. It was raining at the time and I was out working. They pounded on the door. My wife opened the window and asked them what they were doing. She was wearing a thin shirt and sweatpants. They grabbed my wife by her hair, pulled her out through the window, and pushed her into a police car. My seven-year-old son was terrified and started crying. My mother confronted them and they knocked her to the ground in a puddle of water. Instead of upholding the law, they violated the law, broke into a citizen's residence, and deprived people of their personal freedom and safety."

For more information about the persecution of Mr. Cao Yuqiang and his family, please refer to these articles:

Practitioner Mr. Cao Yuqiang Dies as a Result of Persecution

http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/4/12/72168.html

http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/4/22/47255.html

January 4, 2005