Zou Wenzhi 10.16.2000

ZOU Wenzhi, male, age 54, had been an assistant engineer in the Alkali Manufacturing Plant of Dalian Dahua Corporation in Dalian City of Liaoning Province. He had lived in the Juxin District of Jinzhou County.

He started practicing Falun Gong in 1995. On October 16, 2000, he was brought to the company’s security office while he was working. The security guards brutally beat him to force him to give up his belief in Falun Gong. He was beaten to death. At 3:00 p.m., his body was moved to the mortuary of Dahua Hospital.

They started beating ZOU Wenzhi at 8:00 am. The beating continued until between 3:00 pm and 4:00pm. In the evening, the head of his department went to ZOU Wenzhi's home and lied to his wife, "Your husband suddenly died of a heart attack." His wife said that ZOU Wenzhi had never had a heart problem. When the entire family went to the mortuary to see ZOU Wenzhi’s body, they could not even recognize the original color of his skin, which was covered with bruises and injuries from the beating.

The medical examiner verified that, although the skin had not been broken, he had suffered severe damage to all of his organs, including his heart. His spine was broken as well. At the home of ZOU Wenzhi’s parents, JIANG, deputy director of the 2nd division of the local police department, who was the person that beat Mr. ZOU to death, knelt down in front of Mr. ZOU’s parents and his wife. He abused himself by slapping his own face. He tried to give 20,000 yuan to keep Mr. ZOU's parents’ silence, but they refused to accept it.

Realizing that this was a terrible crime, they tried to block the news. They secretly cremated ZOU Wenzhi’s body and did not allow anyone other than his relatives to attend his funeral. They also arranged to have over ten police cars, regular cars and minivans monitor the funeral. The relatives were threatened and felt that they dare not tell the truth. His parents who are over 80 years old were so sad that they cried for their son every day.

Dalian City’s No. 2 Police Department and the Dahua Corporation spread lies claiming ZOU Wenzhi committed suicide and threatened his family and relatives. On the other hand, they offered to compensate the family with 200,000 yuan, made the adjustment to ZOU's family's house and gave his son a job offer in order to hide their crime.

JIANG, deputy director of the 2nd division of the local police department, was the person responsible for ZOU’s death.