Name: Tong Dingqing (童顶庆 )
Gender: Male
Age: In his 50's
Address: Quanhe Village, Yangshi Town, Lianyuan City, Loudi
City, Hunan Province
Occupation: Chaling County official
Date of Death: September 2011
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 11, 2005
Most Recent Place of Detention: Xinkaipu Forced Labor Camp
(长沙新开铺劳教所 )
City: Lianyuan
Province: Hunan
Persecution Suffered: Forced labor, forced injections,
dismissal from workplace, home ransacked
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Tong Dingqing was a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official in Chaling County until he was dismissed from his job for practicing Falun Gong. On the morning of June 2, 2005, six officers from Lianyuan City Domestic Security Division broke into his home and ransacked it. They confiscated his Falun Gong books and two copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Mr. Tong was not at home at the time, and the officers told his family members that he must go to the police station when he returns.
Tong Yongsheng, the party secretary of Quanhe Village, assisted officers from the Domestic Security Division in arresting Mr. Tong Dingqing at his home on June 11, 2005. He was then taken to Xinkaipu Forced Labor Camp in Changsha to serve a ten-month term, where he was tortured and injected with unknown drugs. He was released only when he was in critical condition and his blood pressure was very high.
Mr. Tong started practicing Falun Gong again at home, and gradually his health improved. When he went to work in Changsha City in 2008, Tong Yongsheng led Liu Fangshan, the head of Lianyuan 610 Office, and six others to Changsha to try to arrest him. However, Mr. Tong managed to escape. He was forced to quit his job and flee the city.
Officers from Loudi Domestic Security Division broke into the homes of more than a dozen local practitioners in Loudi late on the evening of July 15, 2009, and arrested them. They then traveled to Lianyuan and arrested Mr. Tong Dingqing. However, they found no Falun Gong books or other related materials, so they had no choice but to release him.
The repeated arrests and harassment from authorities took a severe toll on Mr. Tong and family. He became completely paralyzed in 2009, and his wife Wan Dong'e died of bone marrow cancer in September 2010. Mr Tong remained bedridden until he passed away in September 2011, when he was in his fifties.
Category: Deaths
