Yang Yinghong

Chinese Name: 杨应红
Gender: Female
Age: Unknown
City: Yingcheng City
Province: Hubei
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Date of Death: 2004-11
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Ms. Yang Yinghong was a Falun Gong practitioner in her thirties from Yingcheng, Hubei Province. She began to practice Falun Gong in 1998. After the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, she started to clarify the truth to the local people. To stop her efforts to raise awareness about he persecution, the local police department threw her into detention. However, Yang managed to escape and continued to clarify the truth.

In the beginning of November of 2004, Yang was suddenly missing. Two days later, her family went to the local police department to inquire about her whereabouts. The person in charge in the police department said they had no idea where she could be, and asked the family to talk to the transportation department. When Yang's parents went to the transportation department, they were told that their daughter died in a car accident and had already been cremated.