deaths from persecution

Drugged in Custody, Liaoning Woman Dies 5 Years after Being Released from Prison (Graphic Photo)

A 55-year-old woman in Shenyang City died of multiple organ failure on January 7, 2018. Ms. Wu Yefeng’s family attributed her untimely death to the abuse and torture she suffered at Liaoning Province Women’s Prison. Ms. Wu was arrested on June 15, 2008 for refusing to renounce Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by …

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Family Denied State Compensation for Xinjiang Engineer’s Unnatural Death

The family of an imprisoned woman who died an unnatural death has been denied state compensation. Ms. Zhao Shuyuan’s son filed an appeal to the Xinjiang Province Prison Management Bureau the day after she died, but it is unclear whether he had received a response before his mother’s body was forcibly cremated by the authorities …

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