BBC Reports the Death of Liu Chengjun, a practitioner who intercepted state-controlled cable TV signals to broadcast the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong (Excerpts)


30 December, 2003

[...]

A Chinese man jailed for [intercepting] cable television and broadcasting footage of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement has died in prison, according to the group's website.

The group said that Liu Chengjun had suffered "cruel torture" and that eyewitnesses described blood stains all over his body.

Liu was serving 19 years in prison in the northern province of Jilin for his part in the 2002 protest.

He was one of 15 Falun Gong members who [...]broadcast around 40 minutes of pro-Falun Gong material on a cable TV station in Changchun, capital of Jilin.

The Falun Gong website said that he died on 26 December in a civilian hospital.

It said that his body had been cremated on the same day without an autopsy.

The Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said in a statement that Liu had been severely beaten after his detention in March 2002, and had also been ill.

Falun Gong was banned by the Chinese government in 1999, after thousands of the group's followers demonstrated in Beijing [...]

 

Falun Gong has said that more than 840 followers have been tortured to death in China.

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