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Name: Han GuiyunChinese Name: 韩桂云Gender: FemaleAge: 87City: YingkouProvince: LiaoningOccupation: Retired teacherDate of Death: August 21, 2025Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 31, 2019Most Recent Place of Detention: Wutaizi Police Station
A retired teacher suffered a stroke in 2022, months after she was sentenced to three years for practicing Falun Gong and had her pension suspended. Due to her poor health, she was denied prison admission, but the police kept harassing her at home to see if she’d be well enough to be imprisoned. She died on August 21, 2025, at the age of 87.
Ms. Han Guiyun was a retired teacher of the Yingkou City Health School in Liaoning Province. She had enjoyed good health thanks to her practice of Falun Gong until her latest episode of persecution, which caused her health to rapidly deteriorate and eventually claimed her life.
Ms. Han was arrested in a park on May 31, 2019, after being reported for talking to people about Falun Gong. The police ransacked her home and released her on bail at around 1 a.m. Five officers showed up at her door and took her to the Wutaizi Police Station on June 18, 2019, to sign the bail release documents.
After a hearing by the Zhanqian District Court on March 10, 2021, the police took Ms. Han for a physical exam. She was found to have dangerously high blood pressure. She also vomited, and was rejected admission by the local detention center.
A police officer and two people from the residential committee harassed Ms. Han on March 12, 2021. They said that if she agreed to sign a statement promising to no longer practice Falun Gong, they would give her a light sentence and she would still receive 60% of her pension. They threatened to suspend her entire pension if she refused to comply. Ms. Han said she wouldn’t sign such a statement and they left.
The police made another attempt to detain Ms. Han in late April 2021. She was denied admission by the detention center again due to her high blood pressure, a condition she had been struggling with for the past year due to constant harassment by the police.
Judge Wang Feng sentenced Ms. Han to three years with a 10,000 yuan fine on June 3 and delivered the verdict to her on July 2, 2021. The “evidence” used against her included the fact that she had been practicing Falun Gong since 1996 and that she possessed Falun Gong materials at home. She appealed with the Yingkou City Intermediate Court, which ruled to uphold her original sentence.
The police and court staffers kept harassing Ms. Han at home before, during and after her trial. She was unable to stand up straight and had intensive back pain, as a result of the distress induced by the non-stop police harassment.
Ms. Han suffered a stroke on February 21, 2022 and was hospitalized. As the authorities suspended her monthly 4,600 yuan pension beginning in July 2021, she couldn’t afford the ongoing medical treatment and was discharged about three weeks later. Between July 2021 and her death in August 2025, she had a total of 230,000 yuan of pension suspended.
Paralyzed on her right side of the body, Ms. Han relied on her son to care for her. She could only take liquid food, after most of her teeth fell out due to the mental distress. She also couldn’t recognize people, had trouble expressing herself clearly, and struggled with poor hearing.
Ms. Han’s health continued to decline over the years. She passed away on August 21, 2025.
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