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Name: Yin YucaiChinese Name: 殷育才Gender: MaleAge: 92City: DuchangProvince: JiangxiOccupation: Former judgeDate of Death: 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: January 13, 2014Most Recent Place of Detention: Nanchang Prison
Mr. Yin Yucai
A 92-year-old man in Duchang County, Jiangxi Province, died in 2024 (exactly when is unknown), after suffering decades of persecution for his faith in Falun Gong.
Mr. Yin Yucai, born in 1932, was a former presiding judge of the Duchang County Criminal Court and former director of the Duchang County Parasitic Disease Treatment and Prevention Facility in Jiangxi Province. He took up Falun Gong in 1996, which greatly improved his mind and body. His positive experience made him enthusiastic in promoting Falun Gong, and he was a volunteer coordinator of local Falun Gong practitioners at one point.
After the Chinese Communist Party launched a nationwide campaign to eradicate Falun Gong in July 1999, Mr. Yin held firm to his faith and was repeatedly targeted. He served one labor camp term and two prison terms totaling over 14 years. Due to the abuse in custody, he suffered a mental breakdown while serving an eight-year term.
Mr. Yin’s last employer, the Duchang County Blood Station, suspended his pension when he was serving his first prison term and only gave him 1,000-yuan monthly stipend, which was later stopped beginning in the second half of 2012. After his last release in March 2017, Mr. Yin faced constant harassment by the police. The relentless persecution plus a lack of income took a toll on his health, and he died in 2024.
Mr. Yin died while his daughter, Ms. Yin Xianping, around 59, was still in prison for practicing Falun Gong. Ms. Yin was arrested on February 23, 2021, and sentenced to four years on August 2 that year. Her latest prison sentence came one year after she completed a three-year prison term for her faith.
Three Years of Forced Labor
Mr. Yin went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Dafa on July 3, 2000. He was arrested and detained for 35 days, with most of that time being spent at the Duchang County Detention Center.
He was arrested again at the end of 2000. When he was released after a week detention, he returned to Beijing, only to be arrested once more and given three years of forced labor.
For three full years, from 2001 to 2003, Mr. Yin was held in the Jiujiang City Forced Labor Camp, also known as Majialong Forced Labor Camp. Aside from the intensive work making colored lights and assembling quartz clock cassettes, he was constantly insulted and humiliated by the guards.
Even after he was released from the labor camp, the police monitored and harassed him. They frequently broke into and searched his home, extorted money from him, and threatened him.
Eight Years in Prison, Tortured to Mental Collapse
On January 29, 2005, officers from the Duchang Domestic Security Office arrested Mr. Yin for having Falun Gong informational flyers at home and held him in the local detention center. In June 2006, the Duchang County Court sentenced him to eight years in prison and didn’t allow him to appeal. He was transferred to Zhuhu Farm and then to the Yuzhang Prison, where he was subjected to brainwashing and ordered to renounce Falun Gong.
In 2010, a dozen guards were assigned the duty of “transforming” Mr. Yin. They forced him to sit in the corner around the clock, and they rarely allowed him any sleep. They did not stop the torture even when he soiled his pants. They did not let him wash his clothes either. They eventually succeeded in coercing him to write statements renouncing his faith.
In March 2010, Mr. Yin was transferred from the first ward to ward 12, where the guards forced him to do strenuous cleaning. Beginning in October that year, the guards instructed the inmates to intensify the mistreatment. After they laced his food and water with drugs that damaged the central nervous system, Mr. Yin began to suffer joint pain and felt unwell. He couldn’t walk by himself and needed help from other inmates.
This prolonged torture caused Mr. Yin’s health to deteriorate. He developed generalized edema, vomited blood, and had blood in his stool. He was transferred to the hospital after being diagnosed with tachycardia (an abnormally rapid heart rate) at the prison clinic.
After his release on July 4, 2011, Mr. Yin dared not go home and went to stay with a relative. He wore a thick hat and mask but still shivered even in the summer. He dared not meet anyone and kept saying, “They [the police] want to kill me and my family. I can’t go home.”
Another Three Years and Two Months in Prison for Distributing Falun Gong Materials
Mr. Yin was arrested again when he was distributing Falun Gong materials in Xubu Town on the morning on January 13, 2014. He was taken to the police station and interrogated for over five hours. Police officer Huang Jimou punched him. That afternoon, Mr. Yu was transferred to the town police department for further interrogation before he was taken to Duchang County Detention Center. His home was ransacked.
Mr. Yin was tried on May 21, 2014. His lawyer entered a not-guilty plea for him. The judge later sentenced the then 83-year-old man to three years and two months without informing his family. His daughter only learned about his sentencing when she visited him on June 13.
Mr. Yin was admitted to Jingdezhen Third Prison on June 24. When his family was allowed to visit him two months later on August 27, they were devastated to see how much weight he had lost and how poorly he was mentally.
Mr. Yin was released in March 2017.
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