Ms. Luo Zhixiang lived and worked in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, after she graduated from university in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1996. In her work unit, she was well known for being a kind-hearted person and a hard worker. After former president Jiang Zemin banned practicing Falun Gong, she and her boyfriend, Huang Guohua, went to Beijing to appeal to the government for the right to practice Falun Gong. As a result, they were arrested and detained in Guangzhou City. Then Ms. Luo was dismissed from her job. After their release, they both became homeless in order to avoid being illegally arrested from their homes. They were married on April 5, 2000.

In October 2000, the couple was arrested because they distributed Falun Gong flyers. She was released since she was pregnant at that time; however, her husband was detained for 135 days in Baiyun District Detention Center.

In May 2001, Ms. Luo gave birth to their daughter. To avoid being illegally arrested and persecuted, she was forced to send her 3-month-old infant to her mother-in-law and become homeless again. To find her, local authorities put her name on the "Wanted List," and posted a 30,000 Yuan (the average monthly wage is 500 Yuan in China) reward.

On November 22, 2001, local police found Ms. Luo and her husband; they sentenced her husband, who is still being detained in the Huadu Detention Center in Guangzhou City. They sent Ms. Luo to the Zhuhai Detention Center, where she went on a hunger strike to protest the detention. After the seventh day of her hunger strike, she was examined and found to be three months pregnant. The local government, therefore, released her to avoid being responsible if she or her unborn child were to die. But then the Tianhe District's "610 Office" authorities and the Nationhood Administration kidnapped her from her living place and detained her in a brainwashing class, where she again went on a hunger strike. She was then sent to the Tianhe Traditional Medicine Hospital. Under suspicious circumstances, she fell from the 3rd floor on November 31st, which caused a fatal head injury. She died December 4th, while 3 months pregnant. 

On December 5, 2001, upon hearing that Ms. Luo was dying, Mr. Huang's mother arrived in Guangzhou with Ms. Luo's young daughter. Once there, she found that Ms. Luo had died the previous day from the persecution she received.  Since her husband is still detained, Ms. Luo's less than three-year-old daughter is currently being cared for by her mother-in-law and father-in-law.