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Breaking News - Falun Gong Practitioner Died Due to Persecution

According to Minghui Net’s report on the 27th of February, Falun Gong practitioner Bai Yingjie from Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province died due to long-term persecution by the authorities on the 30th of August, 2007. It was learnt that Mr Bai was continually harassed and threatened by the local police station at his home after being critically persecuted at Changlinzi Labour Camp, which he left in 2004.

The 56 year-old man used to be a worker for Harbin Chemical Plant and started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. He benefited both physically and mentally after practicing, with a variety of diseases including bronchitis and hypertension being reported to have disappeared.

In order to clarify the truth about Falun Gong, Mr Bai went to appeal in Beijing and was detained for 15 days in July 1999 when the CCP started to suppress Falun Gong.
Mr Bai was detained illegally for one year in July 2001. He was kidnapped with his wife again while they visited their neighbors on August 30, 2002. Bai’s relatives were informed that Bai would be detained for three years without any legal procedures. Afterwards Bai was also hijacked and persecuted at Harbin Wanjia Labour Camp, one week after he was sent to Changlinzi Labour Camp.

The police forced Bai into conducting a so-called “transformation” there. He was tortured terribly and had to work till 12 o’clock midnight everyday for his belief in “Truth, Compassion and Forbearance”. He suffered hypertension, severe heart failure and stagnant chest water, even though he was denied to rest until others has finished.

Since the labour camp did not want to take responsibilities for his suffering and injuries, they sent him back home on December 1st, 2004.

Under great pressure by local police and officers after he was sent back home, his condition worsened and he died on August 30, 2007.

The above news is brought to you by Cheng Rong and Chris Thomas for Breaking News on the SOH Radio Network.