/* IN MEMORY: Lai Zhijun ..2000 */

Lai Zhijun ..2000

LAI Zhijun, male, 50 years old, was the assistant mayor and the deputy director of the Peoples' Representative Council in Fenggang Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province.

LAI Zhijun was arrested for protesting in Beijing against the government's illegal ban on Falun Gong. He was sent to a forced-labor camp in Sanshui, Guangdong Province. He persisted in practicing Falun Gong exercises in the camp. For this, he was savagely beaten and shocked with electric batons. Afterwards he went on a hunger strike to protest. Within a few days, he was tortured to death. A policeman named CHEN Ruihong, who might have participated in abusing LAI, witnessed his death. (CHEN was later transferred to another team.) The secretary of the director of Sanshui Forced-labor Camp personally admitted that they were responsible for LAI’s death.

According to an Associated Press report on May 31, 2001, a government official said that LAI Zhijun had been arrested last year for protesting in Beijing against the government's ban on Falun Gong. He died the same year in a labor camp in Sanshui, in the southern province of Guangdong. According to the official, who also works in Fenggang, LAI had been a government office manager in the Guangdong town of Fenggang. The official said he did not know the cause of LAI's death.


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