Qi Fengqin 10..2000
QI Fenqin was an accountant at the Liaocheng Bureau of Agriculture. She was fired from her job in 1999 due to her practice of Falun Gong. One day in early September of 2000, she went out to pass out informational flyers including "The Truth about Falun Dafa and How Its Practitioners Have Been Persecuted." She was arrested and thrown in jail. A month later (around October 11, 2000), it was confirmed that she had passed away in jail.
The authorities had refused to release her after her term at the detention center expired. Instead, they continued to hold her at the local police squad, where she protested by six days of hunger strike. The cause of her death was not clear.
After her death, the authorities froze her body without giving her family a chance to pay their final respects. The authorities also tried to prevent the news of her death from spreading. Practitioners who knew what happened were all thrown in jail within days following her death. In addition, her husband has vanished. The authorities have also extended the prison term of a fellow practitioner with the surname of LI, who was locked up in the same jail with QI Fengqin and knew of the case.
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