Selected cases of victims of "Falun Gong"

Deceived and misled by Li Hongzhi's heretical fallacies, quite a number of "Falun Gong" practitioners, when falling ill, refused to go to hospital for medical treatment or for medication. Some died tragically because of delayed treatment. There were still others who suffered from mental disorder, some even committed suicide and some turned into brutal killers as a result of their practice of "Falun Gong." The grave consequences of practicing "Falun Gong" which caused physical and mental problems to both practitioners and non-practitioners were numerous. Here we have selected 100 such cases out of many more so far recorded.

1. Hu Aiping, a worker in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, used to have a happy family. From 1996 to 1997, she and her mother-in-law practiced "Falun Gong," together with their neighbors and colleagues. As time went by, Hu Aiping became more and more obsessed with "Falun Gong." She was no longer concerned about her family, and her health became worse with each passing day. Her family members tried to make her see a doctor time and time again, but she believed in the claim of Li Hongzhi that "Falun Gong" practitioners did not need to see doctors, nor take medicine. Finally, one day in 1999, while practicing "Falun Gong," she collapsed on the ground, and was sent to a hospital by her family members. She was diagnosed as suffering from tubercular meningitis. She died on April 22,1999.

Hu Aiping's mother-in-law abandoned "Falun Gong" after Hu's death. She threw the so-called sacred portrait of Li Hongzhi, and the books on "Falun Gong" into the dustbin.

2. Wu Ziming, a farmer of Fangouqiao in the suburbs of Bengbu, Anhui Province, used to have a happy family. He drove a passenger bus, and his wife ran a kindergarten, both earning quite an enviable income a month. However, after his wife Sun Yanling started to practice "Falun Gong" in 1997, his happy family life came to an end.

In 1997, Sun Yanling went to the local Xinhua Bookstore to buy books for the kindergarten and came across some people practicing "Falun Gong." Someone propagated it to her. After that she began to practice "Falun Gong." In April 1999 Sun began spitting blood, but she refused to go to hospital, saying that "Falun Gong" was dispelling diseases and foulness from her.

After spitting blood a second time, Sun Yanling said happily to a neighbor, an old lady, that her illness had been cured by "Falun Gong." When she was fatally sick that night, she still said that she was fine. As a result, she missed the chance to be treated in a hospital and eventually died. Another happy family had been ruined by "Falun Gong."

3. Fan Zhaokun, born 1933, was a staff member of the Light Industry Research Institute of Dalian. Zhao Xuemin, Fan's wife, born 1938, was a worker at the Dalian Chemical Plant.

In the summer of 1995, Zhao began to practice "Falun Gong" at a "Falun Gong" instruction center located at the botanical garden in Zhongshan District. After several months she persuaded her husband to practice "Falun Gong" at home and stop seeing doctors for his heart disease. In February 1996, Fan died. Believing her husband could be resuscitated by "Falun Gong," Zhao refused to cremate his corpse and preserved it for a year, prohibiting her daughter from entering the room where the corpse was kept. His dead body was found in February 1997, when Zhao herself also died of a heart attack.

4. Li Shuxian, the wife of Zhang Yuling, a retired worker of the Bridge Factory in Fengtai District, Beijing, suffered from heart disease. In April 1998, she started to practice "Falun Gong." From then on, she refused to go to see the doctor, or take medicine. Eight months later, while she was sitting in meditation, she died of a heart attack.

Zhang Yuling said, "Before her death, my wife coughed for two whole nights. I urged her to go to hospital. But she said, 'It's not necessary; I will recover in two days. The master said that he is purifying my body and helping me dispelling karma. So I am sick to offset my sins.' The doctors said she died of myocardial infarction. However the leader of the local 'Falun Gong' center said that my wife had gone up to Heaven because of the many good deeds she did."

5. Jiang Weimin, 54, was a senior engineer at the Anhui Electronics Institute. He was appointed chief of the Anhui "Falun Gong" instruction center shortly after becoming a practitioner of "Falun Gong" at the beginning of 1994. But he suddenly died from a cerebral hemorrhage when practicing "Falun Gong" one day, ten months after he had assumed office.

According to Gao Qingyin, deputy head of the center, Li Hongzhi told them that "Falun Gong" practitioners would never be in danger, because they would be protected by his "law-bodies." After Jiang Weimin fell ill, Gao tried to contact Li Hongzhi to get him to treat Jiang's disease, but failed. Then he rang Wang Zhiwen, vice-chairman of the "Research Society of Falun Dafa" in Beijing, begging him to ask Li Hongzhi to cure Jiang with his supernatural powers. Although the "Research Society of Falun Dafa" in Beijing promised to save Jiang, he died nine days later.

6. Li Xia, of Qufu City, Shandong Province, started to practice "Falun Gong" after retiring in 1996, hoping to be able to cure her mother's diabetes. Thinking that "Falun Gong" was omnipotent, she took her mother home from the hospital where she had been receiving treatment, and asked her to practice "Falun Gong" with her. She stopped her mother's injections and refused to allow her to take medicine. She taught her to sit cross-legged in "Falun Gong" meditation. As a result, her mother died due to the delay of medical treatment.

This tragedy opened Li Xia's eyes to the real nature of "Falun Gong" and the charlatan Li Hongzhi.

7. Zhang Zhendong, a retired worker of Changchun City, Jilin Province, started to practice "Falun Gong" together with his wife in June, 1997.

On May 11, 1998, the old man suddenly caught a bad fever. His wife tried to persuade him to go to hospital for medical treatment, but he insisted that he was dispelling karma as a "Falun Gong" practitioner. His fellow practitioners urged him to keep practicing "Falun Gong" to take advantage of this good opportunity to dispel karma, and dissuaded him from going to the hospital or taking medicine.

On June 11, the old man finally agreed to go to the hospital. But it was too late; his disease had become incurable. Three days before his death he complained of Li Hongzhi's neglect of him. He pointed at Li's photo on the wall with trembling hands, and then tore it pieces.

8. Zhao Guangyun lived in Shunyi Residential Quarters, Jinan City, Shandong Province. In 1996, he started to practice "Falun Gong," together with his wife. According to a publicity brochure containing the health reports of "Falun Gong" practitioners distributed by the local "Falun Gong" organization, Zhao originally suffered from severe anemia, which made him too weak to be able to walk 40-50 meters at a time, but after three months of practicing "Falun Gong," he gained 10 kg and recovered his appetite and could walk as any normal man. The organization claimed that this could only be achieved by "Falun Gong" practitioners. This report was published in April 1999, but Zhao died in May of the same year.

Zhao's wife Zhuang Xiangfeng disclosed the truth of the affair: Zhao had not recovered from his illness when he was asked to write the report about his health, but the "Falun Gong" organization ordered him to claim to be recovered and to take the opportunity to dispel karma. As a result, instead of dispelling karma, he lost his life.

How did this deceitful report come into being? According to the chief editor of the material and concurrently deputy chief of the Zhongqu "Falun Gong" instruction Center in Jinan, before Li Hongzhi went to Jinan to preach, he ordered each member in Jinan to write a report of personal experience of practicing "Falun Gong," and said that the better the report was written, the more completely karma would be dispelled. Consequently, 2,000 copies were printed for each of the 90 reports concocted.

9. Ding Zhaodi, a 43-year-old worker at the No. 2 Construction Company in Jiangxi Province, used to have a happy family. But after she started to practice "Falun Gong" in 1996, she became so addicted to it that she shirked her family responsibilities altogether.

Not only did she practice "Falun Gong" herself, but she also asked her two younger sisters to join her. In order to see Li Hongzhi in person, in August 1998 the three sisters flew to Singapore at their own expense to attend a lecture given by him. In September 1998, Ding caught a cold. She refused to see a doctor or take any medication but put all her energy into practicing "Falun Gong".

Ding's daughter Hu Weina said that her mother coughed continually, and finally became very emaciated.

Ding's illness became more and more serious, but she turned a deaf ear to her family members when they urged her to seek medical treatment. She believed that "Falun Gong" would dispel all adversities and Li Hongzhi would protect her. In January 1999, she died.

Said Hu Weina: "Before, Mom was very kind to me. But after she took up 'Falun Gong,' she would spend the whole evening watching 'Falun Gong' videos or listening to tapes. She would not ask about me or check my homework, 'Falun Gong' ruined my family. Now our family has only Dad and me, and it is not like a family."

Ding's death brought her two sisters to their senses. Not only have they cut all ties with "Falun Gong," but they also use their experience to persuade other "Falun Gong" practitioners to abandon it too.