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[Minghui.org] Belated News: Jewelry Merchant Dies Three Years after Being Jailed for His Faith

Oct. 9, 2022 | By a Minghui correspondent in Yunnan Province, China

Mr. Zhu Yandong was tortured in custody and his health was damaged as a result.

Name: Zhu Yandong
Chinese Name: 朱艳东
Gender: Male
Age: 51
City: Kunming
Province: Yunnan
Occupation: Jewelry merchant
Date of Death: August 25, 2019
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 9, 2013
Most Recent Place of Detention: Yunnan Province No. 1 Prison

Two years after a jewelry merchant in Kunming City, Yunnan Province took up Falun Gong, he was arrested and sentenced to three years for exposing the Chinese communist regime’s persecution of this ancient mind-body practice. Mr. Zhu Yandong was tortured in custody and his health was damaged as a result. He never recovered due to ongoing harassment following his release on September 8, 2016. He passed away three years later, on August 25, 2019. He was 51 years old.

Mr. Zhu had a very successful business selling jadeite and enjoyed a luxurious lifestyle. Despite his wealth, he still felt empty inside and lacked true happiness.

In February 2011, a close friend of his took up Falun Gong and introduced the practice to him. Both of them were deeply moved by the profound principles taught by Falun Gong. Mr. Zhu found the answers to many of the questions he had about life that had puzzled him for over twenty years.

Since then, he began diligently practicing Falun Gong, reading the books and doing the meditative exercises. Within a year, he quit all his bad habits of drinking, smoking, and gambling. Meanwhile, his high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and many other problems also disappeared. He understood the real purpose of life and enjoyed inner peace.

Because of sharing his experience with people and exposing the persecution, Mr. Zhu was arrested on September 9, 2013 and held at the Xishan District Domestic Security Office. The police ransacked his home without showing a search warrant.

Mr. Zhu was later secretly sentenced to three years at the Yunnan Province No. 1 Prison. Only after he was taken to the prison did his family learn about his verdict.

Because Mr. Zhu refused to renounce Falun Gong, the prison guards beat him and injected him with toxic drugs. His blood sugar increased quickly, which also caused his vision to decline. The guards also forced him to wear a straitjacket.

By the time he was released on September 8, 2016, Mr. Zhu had been physically and mentally traumatized. The authorities continued to harass him following his release, which caused his health to deteriorate further. He eventually succumbed to the distress and passed away on August 25, 2019.

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Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.

To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.

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