Li Dianxing - 李典型
Chinese name:
李典型
Gender:
Male
Age:
84
City:
Yuanling County
Province:
Hunan
Occupation:
Former Deputy Chief of Water Resource Bureau
Date of Death:
April 3, 2023
Date of Most Recent Arrest:
July 14, 2022
Most recent place of detention:
Wangling Prison
Case Description:
Mr. Li Dianxing, a resident of Huaihua City, Hunan Province was constantly harassed by the local authorities. An employee from Yuanling County Human Resources and Social Security went to his place on April 3, 2023 and demanded he return a portion of the pension he received. The person claimed that because Mr. Li wasn’t entitled to any retirement benefits while serving a previous prison term for his faith, he was thus required to return the funds he received during that time. Mr. Li was so angry and upset that he suffered a hemorrhagic stroke. He died later that day. He was 84.NNMr. Li was an engineer and deputy chief at Yuanling County Water Resource Bureau. His chronic lung and stomach diseases, and rheumatoid arthritis, disappeared after he learned Falun Gong in 1998.NNHe was arrested on March 17, 2020 by the Yuanling County police for handing out Falun Gong fliers and detained 15 days.NNThe police arrested him another time in November 2020 after he put a Falun Gong flier on a car. The Yuanling County Court sentenced him to six months and fined him 2,000 yuan on November 30, 2021. He appealed to the Huaihua City Intermediate Court, which ruled to uphold the original verdict on February 8, 2022. He was transferred to Wangling Prison in You County on July 14, 2022 and later suffered hypertension, gout, and fever as a result of the torture.NNWhile he was in prison, the Yuanling County Human Resources and Social Security secretly withheld all of his pension savings, a total of 1,118.64 yuan. By the time he was released on January 13, 2023 he had no cash and nothing to live on.NNTwo months later, on March 24, staffers from the Human Resources went to his home and demanded that he return the pension he received before. He refused to comply and argued that his pension was his personal assets earned through his decades of hard work.NNThe authorities came back again on April 3, still trying to force him to sign documents to return his pension. He suffered brain hemorrhaging as a result of rage, and died that day.
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