(Minghui.org)

Name: Liu XinguiChinese Name: 刘新贵Gender: MaleAge: 83City: N/AProvince: ChongqingOccupation: N/ADate of Death: around May 4, 2023Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 3, 2010Most Recent Place of Detention: Yongchuan Prison

An 83-year-old man in Yunyang County, Chongqing, died at a prison hospital around May 4, 2023, while serving an unknown term for his faith in Falun Gong. Prison authorities claimed that he died of COVID-19 even though he never tested positive for the virus.

Due to strict censorship and the cover-up of the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese communist regime, it’s not clear when Mr. Liu Xingui was arrested, indicted, or sentenced. Minghui.org confirmed that he was moved from the Yongchuan Prison’s group of newly admitted inmates to cell 6 in Division 10 in late March 2023.

Inmate Zhou Caiyou headed cell 6. He assigned another inmate named Yang Peng to monitor Mr. Liu around the clock. With directives from education section chief Ma Jibao and guards Tang Yixin and Guo Fudan, Yang forced Mr. Liu to sit on a small plastic stool for long hours every day. Whenever Mr. Liu moved a bit, Yang would correct him or kick the stool.

Mr. Liu’s health quickly declined to the point that he could not sit in a stable position. He was taken to the prison hospital, where he died around May 4, 2023. To cover up their crimes, Division 10 and the prison hospital listed his cause of death as COVID-19.

Another Falun Gong practitioner, Mr. Tang Fenghua, who was reassigned to the same cell in Division 10 on the same day as Mr. Liu, died at a hospital on April 17, 2025, after being tortured to critical condition at the prison. He was 71.

Both Division 10 and Division 12 are notorious for severely abusing steadfast Falun Gong practitioners. The two divisions both set up “transformation bases” in May 2018 and began to accept male Falun Gong practitioners from other prisons across Chongqing. Four inmates were assigned to monitor one practitioner. Like Mr. Liu, the practitioners were forced to sit on small stools motionlessly for long hours every day. Other forms of torture included verbal abuse, pepper spray, electric shocks, sleep deprivation, limited food intake, and being barred from purchasing daily necessities. The practitioners were also made to watch videos demonizing Falun Gong. Division 10 was also equipped with multiple computers and a large amount of books and DVDs slandering Falun Gong.