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Ms. Lu Yongzhen and Mr. Zhang Lingwu from Jin City, Changde, Hunan Province Have Recently Died from the Persecution
By Falun Dafa practitioners in Hunan Province, China
(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Lu Yongzhen from Jin City, Changde, Hunan Province, Died from Persecution
in October, 2004 Ms. Lu Yongzhen, 63, was a Falun Dafa practitioner employed by the Jin City
Paint Factory in Changde, Hunan Province. She went to Beijing twice to
peacefully appeal for Falun Gong and was twice sentenced to forced labor and
cruelly beaten numerous times. She died from the persecution on October 8, 2004. On February 25, 2000, Ms. Lu went to Beijing to appeal for the first time.
She was tied up and brutally beaten while being held at the detention center for
over nine months. On December 27, 2000, Ms. Lu went to Beijing again and was
arrested and taken back to Jin City. The same night that she was taken back to
the detention center in Jin City, the police officers tied her up and physically
abused her for over six hours. The officers even stepped on her head with their
feet. The marks left by the ropes were clearly visible on her body for many days
afterwards. On March 25, 2001, Ms. Lu and fifteen other Falun Gong students were placed
on a big truck. Eleven police vehicles made up the motorcade, with large signs
reading, "disruption of social order," hung on the practitioners'
necks. The Falun Gong students were humiliated by inmates convicted of criminal
offenses. On April 2, Lu Yongzhen was sentenced to one year of forced labor and
was sent to the Baimalong Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province. On the evening of March 26, 2003, the police ransacked Ms. Lu's home and
abducted her. She was not released for over a month. On June 7, 2003, she was
again arrested. Police officers Zhou Rending, Lei Minzhu and Luo Pijie all
actively engaged in the persecution against her. In July 2003, Lu Yongzhen was
sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor. The labor camp authorities
refused to accept her due to a high blood pressure reading of over 200. The police, nevertheless, still did not release Ms. Lu, and instead took her
to the detention center. She was released on December 28, only after the police
had successfully extorted 1,000 yuan from her for so-called living
expenses. As a result of the abuse at the hands of the police, Ms. Lu suffered
from severe injury to her head. After she exposed the brutal persecution she had
experienced over the past six months, officials at the Xiangyang Street
Neighborhood Administration Office called her in and asked her why she told
about her experiences and reported then over the Internet. Lu Yongzhen told
them, " The whole world needs to know of your brutality." Ms. Lu suffered from daily harassment by the authorities until October 8,
2004, when she finally died from the persecution. Zhang Lingwu from Jin City, Changde, Hunan, Died from Persecution in January,
2005 Mr. Zhang Lingwu, 60, was a Falun Dafa practitioner from Wujiaohua in Jin
City, Changde, Hunan Province. On February 25, 2004, the police ransacked his
home and took him into custody. He was brutally beaten the same night and was
subsequently sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor. Mr. Zhang was
released after going on a hunger strike. Mr. Zhang passed away on January 4, 2005. So far, there are four Falun Gong
practitioners who have died from the persecution in the Jin City area. January 27, 2005
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