Yang Xin - 杨信
Chinese name:
杨信
Gender:
Male
Age:
70
City:
Yushu
Province:
Jilin
Occupation:
Date of Death:
August 10, 2023
Date of Most Recent Arrest:
June 21, 2021
Most recent place of detention:
Case Description:
Mr. Yang Xin of Yushu City, Jilin Province, was arrested and detained many times because he refused to renounce Falun Gong. When he was incarcerated in a prison, he was tortured until he vomited blood and nearly lost his eyesight. The torture he sustained in a detention center caused him to have bloody stools. He lost his pension as a result of the persecution. The authorities continued to harass him. He died on August 10, 2023.NNMr. Yang and Mr. Zhu Haishan, who also died because of the persecution, went out to deliver DVDs with information about Falun Gong on July 23, 2010, and were arrested. Mr. Yang was sentenced to three years in prison on December 30, 2010, by the Yushu City Court.NNIn Shiling Prison in Siping City, the guards and inmates tried to force Mr. Yang to renounce his faith. They shocked him with electric batons, beat him, deprived him of sleep, and made him sit still on a small stool for hours. As a result of the torture, he nearly lost his sight and his physical condition deteriorated. When he was at the verge of death, the prison released him to avoid being held responsible. However, instead of taking him home, an agent from the Yushu City 610 Office took him to a brainwashing center and continued to torture him.NNMr. Yang’s physical and mental health never recovered after he was released. He felt weak and lethargic. With blurred vision, he could not farm to support himself and had to lend his farmland out to other farmers.NNChengfa Town Police Station officers started to harass Mr. Yang in July 2017, a few months before the communist regime’s 19th Congress. Between 2017 and 2021 the police arrested him four times, ransacked his home, and detained him for a total of 18 days.NNA Chengfa Town official harassed Mr. Yang and his wife Ms. Tian Fenghua on November 18, 2020, and ordered them to sign guarantee statements to stop practicing Falun Gong. The official said that if they signed the statements, the government would never harass them again and would return the money confiscated from them. Because the couple refused to sign, Mr. Yang’s pension was suspended.NNDue to continued harassment, Mr. Yang lived under a lot of stress and agony. He died on August 10, 2023. He was 70.
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