IN MEMORY

Deng Xiangyun 08.02.2002

2008-08-02T07:08:00.000-07:00

DENG Xiangyun, female, 39 years old, lived in Gongnong District, Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province.

DENG died on August 2, 2002 from torture suffered in Hegang City’s Second Detention Center.

In February 2001, DENG was abducted and detained by the local police. In October 2001, she had become blind in both eyes and fell into a coma. DENG was diagnosed with encephaloma and was released on medical parole. On April 20, 2002, the Hegang City police arrested DENG and detained her in the Second Detention Center.

In detention, her encephaloma recurred and she was taken to the hospital but refused treatment. Her health rapidly deteriorated and her blindness recurred. On August 1, the police sent DENG home and she passed away the next day, leaving behind a 10-year-old son and her husband.

Zhang Tao 07.31.2002

2008-07-30T07:43:00.000-07:00

ZHANG Tao, male, 53 years old, lived in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. ZHANG was tortured to death on July 31, 2002 in Changlinzi Labor Camp, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province.

Between July 22, 1999 and March 2002, ZHANG was illegally arrested and detained six times because he peacefully sought an end to the persecution against Falun Dafa. During this time, he was beaten intensely and made to do hard labor and undergo brainwashing. During his detention in the Harbin Police Station during November 2001, ZHANG was extorted 3,400 Yuan as well as tortured on a metal chair for 12 days straight, until his buttocks became raw and his legs and feet were swollen. He was later sentenced to three years of forced labor camp.

In March 2002, ZHANG was transferred to the Changlinzi Labor Camp in Harbin. Due to the prolonged persecution, ZHANG displayed abnormal physical symptoms - he was unable to walk and sleep, and suffered unbearable pain in his internal organs. In late July, ZHANG went on a hunger strike to protest. Prison guards locked him in a small confinement cell where he was hung by handcuffs and force-fed.

Before July 31, ZHANG Died of torture. On examination, ZHANG’s neck was heavily bruised and swollen, and one of his shoulders was obviously fractured and disfigured.

Jin Junjie 07..1999

2008-07-29T22:33:00.000-07:00

JIN Junjie, 29 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner in Changchun City and was illegally sentenced to “re-education” through forced labor after the persecution started in July 1999.

JIN died of torture in the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp. The whereabouts of the body was not known when the death was reported.

Zhi Guixiang 07.27.2002

2008-07-28T23:33:00.000-07:00

ZHI Guixiang, female, 31 years old, was a native of Daling Town, Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province. On July 19, 2002, police illegally arrested ZHI Guixiang on the street and sent her to the Luyuan Police Branch’s Zhengyang Police Station in Changchun City.

A fellow practitioner saw her at the police station on July 20. She could barely talk. Her entire body was covered with wounds that were rubbed with salt. She told her fellow practitioner that she felt her internal organs were damaged from beating.

While in detention, she went on a hunger strike without water to protest the persecution. The police sent her to Sheling Hospital to be force-fed. She refused to cooperate, so on the second day, the police handcuffed her feet. On the third day, she was shaking from being forced to sit on a torture board.

On the fourth day, the head of her cell ordered inmates to cover her mouth with a towel and hold her down to make her sit on the board. Later, after they took her to a small cell and removed the towel, they found the towel was saturated with blood. Despite her condition, they put her on a torture tool where they handcuffed her hands and feet so that she could only sit with her body in a bent position and her head down. She had to be fed and carried to the toilet. On July 25, 2002, ZHI’s condition became critical. She died on July 27.

ZHU Zhishan and the other police officers at the Luyuan Police Branch are responsible for ZHI’s death. However, ZHU openly lied about the cause of her death, claiming that she died in the hospital as a result of her hunger strike. ZHI’s family later went to the hospital but could not find her medical record.

On July 31, without informing ZHI’s family, the police secretly cremated her body at the Shuangfeng Crematory. ZHU Zhishan’s name was on the cremation document as having “power of attorney.”

Wu Lingxia 07.27.2002

2008-07-28T23:31:00.000-07:00

WU Lingxia, female, 37 years old, lived in Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province.

WU passed away on July 27, 2002 due to torture suffered in Xigemu Labor Center in Jiamusi City.

In May of 2001, local police arrested WU while she was visiting a fellow practitioner. She was arrested and sent to Shuangyashan Detention Center, where she was illegally detained for a month.

On July 2, 2001 she was transferred to the Xigemu Labor Center in Jiamusi City, where she was severely tortured for long periods of time and given no medical attention when her condition worsened. This resulted in hepatocirrhosis and ascites. She was sent home after a yearlong detention, and passed away on July 27, 2002. Her body had festered scars and severe edema in her abdomen. She leaves behind her teenage son and parents in their 70's.

Li Baoshui 07.26.1999

2008-07-26T05:35:00.000-07:00

LI Baoshui, male, 39, was a human resources manager at the Bureau of Labor in Daqing City, Helongjiang Province.

LI was a party member and a model worker for many years. Without a warrant or any other documents and under no lawful procedures, LI was arrested and held in the Daqing Detention Center on July 22, 1999.

He was persecuted to death on July 26, 1999.

Liu Yufeng 07.23.2000

2008-07-23T01:38:00.000-07:00

LIU Yufeng, male, 64 years old, was a retired worker at Wendeng City. Liu Yufeng was an honest and upright man. He was openhearted and publicly recognized as a good person. After practicing Falun Dafa, his diseased body regained health.

On the morning of July 18, 2000, LIU was arrested and detained at the Wendeng Detention Center because he took part in a group Falun Dafa practice at Huilong Mountain. On July 19, the detention center called LIU's daughter telling her to bring 200-300 Yuan for her father's medical treatment.

On July 22, the Wendeng Detention Center called his daughter again, and told her to take LIU home. When his son-in-law carried out LIU, LIU could neither move nor speak. He was in a coma. Around 10:00 a.m. on July 22, LIU was taken home; at 7:00 a.m. on July 23, 2000, he died.

Autopsy by legal medical experts showed that, extravagated blood was discovered in his right eye-lid. There were cuts and bruises on his face, and black and blue marks left by electric shocks on his throat, chest, and legs. The skin had begun to separate from the body, and the soft tissue below the skin was damaged. It was discovered that the second, third, and forth ribs on both the right and left sides were fractured. The upper one-third of the sternum was broken. His whole body was covered with bruises and injuries.

Tian Xiangcui 07.22.2000

2008-07-22T03:07:00.000-07:00

TIAN Xiangcui, female, 61, Qujiagou, Fengyi Town, Longkou City, Shandong Province

TIAN Xiangcui was a Falun Gong practitioner and was detained at the Fengyi town government facility on July 12 or 13, 2000, for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Lead by Cao Chengxu, the staff at the Fengyi town government persecuted 17 Falun Gong practitioners, including TIAN Xiangcui. The practitioners were forced to stand still for the whole day under the burning sun, facing east in the morning and west in the afternoon. Oftentimes, four or five people surrounded and beat one practitioner.

Because TIAN Xiangcui had a Falun Dafa banner in her bag, she was beaten the most. The staff beat her at noon when it was the hottest time during the summer months. They not only beat her with their hands and kicked her, but also used an electric baton on her. Due to the heat in the summer and the severe beating, TIAN was not able to eat anything and coughed badly while she was detained in the town government. Her phlegm also smelled bad.

On July 17, TIAN and other practitioners were jailed in the Zhangjia Gou detention center. TIAN slipped into a coma.

Three days later, on July 20, TIAN's family members were told to take her home so they could shift the burden of her death. TIAN remained in a coma after returning home. On July 22, TIAN was sent to the hospital.

She never regained consciousness and passed away.

Liu Yan 07.21.2002

2008-07-21T04:34:00.000-07:00

LIU Yan, male, 33 years old, lived in Qing'an County, Heilongjiang Province.

LIU was arrested and detained on multiple occasions in 1999 and 2000 for peacefully appealing for Falun Dafa. In detention, LIU suffered whippings with bamboo sticks and force-feedings with high-density brine, causing him to spit blood and pass bloody stool. He was also tied with thin ropes and hung up.

In protest, LIU staged several hunger strikes; one was 21 days long. His health deteriorated – he became emaciated, his feet and lungs became swollen, and he had a fever, cough, and spit blood.

He was released and his family sent him to a hospital, costing them thousands of Yuan in medical expenses. LIU was unable to recover, and passed away on July 21, 2002.

Chen Chengyong 07.21.2001

2008-07-21T04:31:00.000-07:00

CHEN Chengyong, male, 35 years old, was an electrical technician in Guangzhou Paper Factory, Guangzhou.

Mr. CHEN lost his job because he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. In January 2000, he was detained for fifteen days for practicing Falun Gong in public.

In July 2000, he was detained for three weeks. He was arrested in Beijing for displaying a Falun Gong banner in Tiananmen Square. Because he refused to give up Falun Gong, he was forcibly taken to the Guangzhou brainwashing center, where he was tortured.

A report on July 21, 2001 indicated that CHEN Chengyong passed away in a shed on the outskirts of Guangzhou city. When his sister identified the body, the corpse was already decomposing. It was estimated that he had been dead for quite sometime before the family was notified.

Chengyong's elder sister was sent to the brainwashing center after she identified the body. She was illegally sentenced to a labor camp for two years.

Chengyong's father passed away after suffering a fatal heart attack because of the tragic death of his son and the imprisonment of his daughter.

Dai Zhizheng, CHEN Chengyong’s wife, an Australia citizen, tried to go to China to bring back her husband’s ashes. The Chinese Consulate in Sydney refused to give her a visa. Eight months later, with the help of the Australia government, CHEN Chengyong’s ashes were shipped to Australia.

Bai Xiaojun 07.18.2003

2008-07-18T02:57:00.000-07:00

Bai Xiaojun, male, 35 years old, Changchun City.

BAI Xiaojun held a Master’s degree in philosophy and was a lecturer at the Northeastern Normal University in Jilin Province.

In July 2000, BAI was sentenced to one year of "re-education" through forced labor because he went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong.

In January 2002, after BAI’s term was extended for an additional seven months, he was sent to Division Four of the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun. During this illegal detention, he was beaten and was severely injured as a result. BAI was sent to the police hospital and on July 18, 2003, died of torture.

During a telephone inquiry, WANG Xiaoming, the director of the Changchun City Weizigou Labor Camp (Tel: 0431-519-5959), did not deny the fact that BAI had been tortured to death.

BAI Shaohua, younger brother of BAI Xiaojun, graduated with a Bachlor's degree from the People’s University of China. He has been illegally imprisoned and viciously tortured.

Their mother is also Falun Gong practitioner and was beaten when she went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution. She was forced to leave home and her whereabouts is unknown.

Yuan Hezhen 07..2003

2008-07-16T02:46:00.000-07:00

YUAN Hezhen, female, 42 years old, lived in Huanan County, Heilongjiang Province, YUAN died of torture in July 2003. She was an employee of Hua-Nan Forest Bureau, a branch of Heilongjiang Forestry.

In May 2000, YUAN was arrested in Beijing and sent to a detention center where she went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal treatment. For this, she was brutally beaten, handcuffed in a painful posture and forced-fed. YUAN was tortured until she vomited blood, had bloody stools, and became extremely weak.

She was eventually released but was forced into homelessness to avoid further persecution. She died in July 2003.

Her husband, Sun Jihong, was arrested on September 25, 2002, and was beaten to death four days later.

Wang Yan ..2002

2008-07-14T23:18:00.000-07:00

WANG Yan, female, 55 years old, lived on Hongqi Street in Changchun City.

She later moved because police continually harassed her. Her address was not known. Around the time of the Spring Festival, she went to appeal in Beijing on behalf of Falun Gong but died in a prison in Beijing.

The exact cause of her death is unknown.
The police notified her family that she died after jumping out of a vehicle.

Han Chunyuan 07..2002

2008-07-13T06:54:00.000-07:00

HAN Chunyuan, female, was a Falun Gong practitioner in Changchun City who was illegally sentenced to four years in prison.

In July 2002, a guard named JIANG repeatedly shocked her with an electric baton until she died.

Wang Peisheng 07.12.2000

2008-07-12T00:38:00.000-07:00

WANG Peisheng, male, 68, was a retired official of Weifang Hardware Store. WANG started to practice late in life. Because he was a former contact person of the Falun Gong assistance center in Weifang, he had been under surveillance since July 20, 1999.

In March 2000, he was detained for writing to the National People's Congress about Falun Gong issues. While incustody, he was detained in a hot and humid cell 24 hours a day and had been deprived of the right to go out of the cell for exercises.

On June 27, 2000 he went to Beijing to appeal and was escorted back to Weifang where he was again detained. The detention center forced his family members to pay a living expense of 40 yuan a day, however the food in the detention center was very bad. He had to drink contaminated water, eat pickles and perform manual labor (digging and unloading trucks). At 2:00 a.m. on July 12, he left this world.

His wife did not receive the notice of his death until 1:00 p.m. that afternoon. In order to cover up the truth, the police forced his family to have his body cremated before the cause of his death was identified.

Reuters, AFP, and the Central News Agency reported the news on July 17, 2000.

Fan Yaxiong 07..2000

2008-07-09T02:38:00.000-07:00

FAN Yaxiong, female, 42 years old, was a teacher at the No. 15 Middle School in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. She lived in the Erzhong area of Qiaoxi District. Before 1990, FAN was the provost of a middle school.
Before July 20, 1999, she was appointed as vice principal of the school and was a well-respected teacher.

On July 20, 1999, right after Falun Gong was banned in China, FAN went to make a petition to the central government of PRC in Beijing, but she was captured by policemen on the way. The Zhangjiakou City Police Department, Mingdenan Police Station, and the Education Committee took turns to press her to give up practice of Falun Gong. Later she was put under house arrest.

On January 24, 2000, FAN went to Beijing again to tell people the truth about Falun Gong and officers from the Police Station in Tiananmen, Beijing, arrested her again. She was then transferred to the Qiaoxi Police Station, and later sent to Xuanhua Detention Center. In the Detention Center she went on a hunger strike to protest the inhuman treatment she suffered. Four policemen pushed her to the ground and tortured her. She was tortured to a critical condition, the police had to release her in the end of February of 2000.

In early March 2000, FAN went to Beijing again to make petition for Falun Gong even though she was penniless at that time. After arriving in Beijing, she was arrested by the police and brutally beaten up. Later on, she was incarcerated at the Xuanhua Detention Center where she was again subjected to brutal torture. The director of the Detention Center Sun led a group of police to beat FAN until she was near death. They stuffed her into a hemp sack and threw it into the prison cell. Other Falun Gong practitioners detained in the same cell opened the sack and found that her lower back had been severely injured, that her lower body couldn't move, and that she was in a coma. They immediately called for help. Seeing that she was near death, the police released her.

In May of 2000, FAN was arrested a fourth time. The "610 Office" (an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Communist Party and all other political and judiciary systems) in Zhangjiakou City sent her to the Shalinzi Mental Hospital. They tied her up in a bed, and forcibly injected her with nerve-damaging drugs. During the period when she was detained, the police extorted over 20,000 Yuan from her using various excuses.

In June 2000, FAN was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor "education." While she was detained in Tanshan Labor Camp, the police beat, kicked, and cursed her every day. She went through all kinds of physical and mental torments. Two days after she was released from the labor camp, she passed away.

Li Zaiji 07.07.2000

2008-07-07T22:24:00.000-07:00

LI Zaiji, male, 48 years old, lived in Chengxiang Building 10 on Qingdao Street in Jilin City. He was sentenced to one year of forced labor for appealing on behalf of Falun Gong in October of 1999.

On July 7, 2000, Jilin City police informed LI’s family that they should visit him in the hospital. Upon arriving at the hospital, LI’s mother found that he had died. One of his eyes was still open, and his body was covered with wounds.

LI’s body was cremated at 9 a.m. on July 14 under the tight surveillance of more than 200 police officers.

Tong Zhentian 07.04.2001

2008-07-04T02:06:00.000-07:00

TONG Zhentian, male, 22 years old, was a resident of Nancheng Street in Shulan City.

On January 1, 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and was taken to the Shulan City Detention Center. The police stripped him, poured more than a hundred buckets of cold water on him, and viciously beat him. They illegally sentenced him to one year in the Jilin City Forced Labor Camp where he was tortured for refusing to renounce Falun Gong.

At 2 a.m. on April 21, 2001, when TONG’s condition became critical, camp officials sent him home to avoid responsibility. The camp police continued to harass TONG at home, however, in an attempt to force him into renouncing Falun Gong. TONG died on July 4, 2001.

Li Yuling 07.04.2003

2008-07-04T01:59:00.000-07:00

At 5:00 a.m. on July 4, 2003, Beijing Dafa practitioner LI Yuling, female, was tortured to death by Dongcheng District police officials in Beijing.

This came briefly after her unjust and illegal arrest on June 25, 2003. Ms. LI Yuling left home at approx. 3:00 p.m. on June 25. Dongcheng District police officials arrested her while she was distributing truth-clarifying material. Later, they transferred her to the Heping Hotel under the guise of "helping her to reform." The police tried to coerce her into revealing the source of the materials, and the names of other Falun Gong practitioners, but she firmly refused to cooperate.

The police then brutally beat Ms. LI and tortured her around the clock. LI Yuling didn't show any fear when faced with brutal torture. During the nine days of detention, she held a hunger strike to protest. She resisted the illegal detention and brutal torture with dignity. The policemen flew into a rage and tortured her relentlessly. At 5:00 a.m. on July 4, LI Yuling died.

When Ms. LI’s family received the death notice from the police, they went to the Longfusi Hospital, where her body was being held. They saw that the left half of the face was swollen and bruised. Her ribs along the sides were black and blue. The police didn't allow her family to take a careful look at the body. Furthermore, they threatened, "No picture taking! No videotaping! Don't touch the body!" They said that those were orders from "higher up."

Huang Ke 07.03.2003

2008-07-03T07:26:00.000-07:00

HUANG Ke, male, 31 years old, was an employee at the No. 10 Research Lab, Fushun Research Institute for Petroleum and Petrochemicals, an affiliate of the Petroleum Chemical Company of China.

HUANG Ke, from Wanghua District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was arrested in late June 2003. The perpetrators were police from the Guangming Police Station in Wanghua District. He was detained at the Fushun First Detention Center, and was tortured to death on July 3, only ten days after his arrest.

In March 2003, he was abducted and was sent to the Fushun First Detention Center. He refused to give up his personal belief in Falun Gong (Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance). To protest the unlawful treatment, he went on a hunger strike. Then, he was sent to a hospital where he was force-fed, but with no success due to his resistance. After about ten days, seeing that he was on the verge of dying, the police let him go home.

In June 2003, HUANG was arrested and put in the Fushun First Detention Center again, where he went on a hunger strike to protest. He was force fed many times. At 6:00 a.m. on July 3, he passed away in the detention center.

In October 1999, HUANG’s wife ZHONG Yunxiu was also tortured to death for being firm in practicing Falun Gong. At that time, their daughter was not yet two years old. After HUANG Ke’s death, his elderly parents and his daughter, who is not yet six years old, will be left uncared for. The former Xinmin Police Station has merged with the Guangming Police Station, under the name Guangming Police Station.

An employee in HUANG Ke’s work unit, Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals (Office: 86-413-6428144), confirmed that HUANG died in the detention center. As to HUANG’s case, the receptionist at the Fushun First Detention Center (86-413-7702472), sometimes said, "There was no such person", while other times said, "I don’t know". When the reporter called Guangming Police Station in Wangjiang District (86-413-6429829), to ask for the cause of HUANG’s death, a policeman answered that he couldn’t talk about the death case over the phone.

Sun Yanqing ..2000

2008-07-01T07:47:00.000-07:00

SUN, female, in her 40’s, from Zhangjiakou City, died of forced feeding three years ago in the Xuanhua District Hospital.

She was in her 40's and worked at the Mechanical Maintenance Facility of the Xuanhua District Steel Works in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. SUN was abducted by policemen when she went to Beijing to make an appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong.

During detention, she went on a weeklong hunger strike to protest; however the policemen tortured her by force-feeding. SUN died a few days later after she was sent back to Xuanhua and hospitalized. Her son, less than ten years old, was left unattended.

A co-worker in Zhangjiakou City confirmed that SUN was a Falun Gong practitioner and that she died more than three years ago.

Zhang Xiaochun 06.29.2002

2008-06-29T00:34:00.000-07:00

ZHANG Xiaochun, male, 43 years old, lived in Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province.

ZHANG was tortured to death on June 29, 2002 in the Fuyu Labor Camp in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province.

On June 19, 2001, ZHANG was abducted to the Fuyu County Detention Center for a year of illegal detention.

On June 19, 2002, ZHANG went on a hunger strike to protest his prolonged illegal detention. He died 10 days later during force-feeding torture administered by the Detention Center head Cao Guolu and his cohorts.

His body was later secretly cremated.

Zheng Huabing 06.28.2000

2008-06-28T00:15:00.000-07:00

ZHENG Huabing, male, 19 years old, was a native from Enping, Guangdong Province.

On June 28, 2000, ZHENG was going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. However, police captured him at the Guangzhou Railway Station. Since he refused to give his name and address, they sent ZHENG to a mental hospital in Zhengcheng, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, where he suffered all kinds of torture.

His only money, 500 Yuan RMB, was seized, and he was put in a room for TB patients. Later this mental hospital informed his family to bail him out. At that time, ZHENG was extremely weak and had edema all over his body. Shortly after returning home, he passed away, at the age of nineteen.

Zhengcheng mental hospital phone: (020) 82878303

Gong Baohua 06.27.2000

2008-06-27T14:17:00.000-07:00

On June 17, 2000, Ms. GONG, female, 35 years old, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was therefore intercepted by police, along with seven other Falun Gong practitioners, at the Dongzhimen Bus Station. After being taken to the local police station, six of them were brutally beaten by police.

Among them, Ms. GONG was beaten the worst. Afterwards, medical examination in the Yukou Clinic showed that the bridge of her nose had been broken. At that time her family members and local villagers requested that the police allow her to return home to recover. In order to cover up the brutality, the police instead sent Ms. GONG and the other practitioners to the county detention center.

At that time, she and other practitioners started a hunger strike, which was their only available means to defend their rights. Around 8pm of June 25, 2000, the guards force-fed her through her nose, disregarding the fact it was broken. When returning to the cell, Gong's face looked pale. She repeatedly said that her chest felt numb and she suspected that the guards had incorrectly inserted the feeding tube, entering her trachea during the force-feeding.

About 10 minutes later, she suddenly lost consciousness. Her cellmates called for the guards, but nobody answered. After a while, when she had already regained consciousness, the guards finally came over, and brought Ms. GONG out of the cell for emergency treatment. She was sent back in the morning. Because her health condition looked very poor, her cellmates asked the guards repeatedly for a medical examination.

She was then called out, but returned in the afternoon. That night there was no sign of improvement in her health. On the morning of June 27, 2000, the inmates urged the guards to give her another medical checkup, since her condition was quickly deteriorating.

Around 10am, the detention center clinicians agreed to send Ms. GONG to the hospital. At approx. 9pm that evening, GONG Baohua was pronounced dead.

Li Xiaojing 06.27.2002

2008-06-27T02:30:00.000-07:00

LI Xiaojing, female, 33 years old, was a teacher at the University of Guangzhou, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.

On the night of June 27, 2002, Ms. LI was abducted and taken to the brainwashing class of Guangzhou City's Huangpu Drug Rehabilitation Center. She died the next day.

Half an hour after supper on the following day (around 6:00 p.m.), an ambulance suddenly came to the Drug Rehabilitation Center. Many police officers also arrived at the brainwashing class. They dispatched all Falun Gong practitioners to a meeting room in the brainwashing center to watch television there, forbidding anyone from leaving the room.

Next, they blocked the entrance to the room where LI Xiaojing was staying and took photos inside the room. The ambulance did not leave until after 7:00 p.m., and the police left after 11:00 p.m. A few days later, the head of the local 610 office told several practitioners that LI Xiaojing had died.