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[Minghui.org] 31-year-old Man Dies while Serving 8.5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong

Falun Gong practitioners march down Constitution Avenue to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the spiritual practice in China, in Washington on July 21, 2022. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

Feb. 2, 2023 | By a Minghui correspondent in Jilin Province, China

(Minghui.org)

Name: Jiang Yong
Chinese Name: 姜勇
Gender: Male
Age: 31
City: Changchun
Province: Jilin
Occupation: N/A
Date of Death: January 23, 2023
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 28, 2021
Most Recent Place of Detention: Gongzhuling Prison

Mr. Jiang Yong’s parents were informed of his death on January 23, 2023, the second day of the Chinese New Year. He was 31.

Mr. Jiang, a Changchun City, Jilin Province resident, was serving an 8.5-year term for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999. Despite his being in critical condition from staging a prolonged hunger strike to protest the persecution, the authorities refused to release Mr. Jiang on medical parole, citing that he refused to renounce his faith.

Mr. Jiang and his parents, who also practice Falun Gong, were arrested at home at around 9 p.m. on June 28, 2021. Their Falun Gong books, two tablets and seven cellphones were confiscated.

While Mr. Jiang’s parents were released after ten days of detention, Mr. Jiang was kept in custody and sentenced to 8.5 years in Gongzhuling Prison for the trumped-up charge of “subverting state power.”

Mr. Jiang held a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The Jilin Provincial Tuberculosis Hospital issued a critical condition notice for him on October 11, 2022. He was later transferred to the Changchun City Police Hospital, where he eventually passed away.

Mr. Jiang’s family frequently went to the Jilin Province Prison Administration Bureau and the prison to demand his release on medical parole, only to be ignored or given the run-around.

Perpetrators’ information:

Wang Ming’an (王明安), officer, Qianjindajie Police Station
Wang Xianchao (王显超), officer, Qianjindajie Police Station
Zhao Wenqi (赵文奇), officer, Qianjindajie Police Station: +86-15754360356
Gongzhuling Prison: +86-434-6538139
Feng Gang (冯刚), head of Jilin Province Prison Administration Bureau: +86-431-82750571
Liu (刘), prosecutor, Chaoyang District Procuratorate: +86-431-85887057

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Source: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2023/2/2/207164.html

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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