In November 2007, eight Chinese practitioners were verified to have died as a result of persecution and torture in November 2007. According to initial statistics from the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, from January to November 2007, at least 101 practitioners died as a result of the persecution. This article elaborates on four of the deaths reported upon in an earlier FDI release.
Ms. Liu Jin and her husband practitioner Zhang were released in late 2004 and early 2005 after years of torment in prison for not giving up Falun Gong practice and for telling people the facts of Falun Gong being persecuted. On November 25, 2007, Ms. Liu Jin was arrested again at home by police from the police. Her home was ransacked and personal belongings were confiscated.
Ms. Wei Mingzhen, a 53-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Nanpiao District in Huludao City, Liaoning Province, after being held in Xingcheng City Detention Center for over five months, was sentenced to three years in prison on November 8, 2007. When her family went to visit her at the Liaoning Province Women's Prison on November 22, they noticed she was just skin and bones, and had to be supported by two inmates to walk out of her cell.
On December 9, 2007, Mr. Xu Keyong was arrested again by police from Jiuzhou Police Station and Guangyang District Police Department when he was visiting one of his family members in a hospital. The police arrested him on fabricated charges with no evidence, claiming that Mr. Xu went to Beijing to appeal during the Communist Party's 17th Congress. The police knocked him unconscious and then took him away.
Mr Li has shown obvious and continuing signs of deteriorating health on the few occasions his family has been allowed to see him. Requests for medical care or a medical release have been denied.
A description of how Falun Gong practitioners are followed and arrested. The police try to avoid public notice and disturbance, and often lie to practitioners saying they only wish to ask some questions. Once in custody, practitioners are tortured to make them 'confess' to whatever charges the police devise.
In Yakeshi City, Inner Mongolia, Nine Falun Gong practitioners were abducted by the railroad police from August 30 to September 6, 2007. Five of them have been sentence to Forced Labor.
Clearwisdom.net and its Chinese-language sister-website (minghui.ca) provide first-hand reports about the horrors of the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Dozens of reports are received every day from the victims of torture, the wrongfully imprisoned, and families crippled by the senseless hardship and grief for their loved ones imposed by the persecution. In contrast, the websites also report positive news and events from the more than 80 countries around the world where Falun Gong is practiced, and serve as an online forum for practitioners to share stories of the good things Falun Gong has brought to their lives. For more information, please contact editor@clearwisdom.net.