Zhang Weixin 08.31.2001

ZHANG Weixin, female, 44 years old, used to work in Unit 3 of the Daqing City Installation Company, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

On August 26, 2001, ZHANG went to appeal in Beijing. On August 29, officials in Daqing City received a phone call asking someone to bring ZHANG back from Beijing.

On the afternoon of August 31, the people who went to pick her up called back to report that she had died on her way back and her body were cremated in Goubangzi. Her family only received the cremation box.

Wang Chan 08.29.2002

WANG Chan, a 39-year-old male, 1.78 m tall, was an employee of the central office of the People's Bank of China in Beijing.

His work performance was commendable, and because of that his employer once sent him to Canada for business. He was a sincere, well-spoken man, who affirmed his practice of Falun Gong. He lost his job, and was forced into homelessness, only because of his perseverance in safeguarding Falun Gong.

On the afternoon of August 21, 2002, Jining Police arrested Mr. WANG at the Liangshan County Bus Station in Shandong Province. He was then detained in Jining detention center.

Sometime between August 21 and 29, WANG Chan was tortured to death during interrogation.

Wei Shujiang 08.29.2001

WEI Shujiang, male, 53 years old, lived in Town of Taiping, Daoli District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

WEI died of injuries of torture on August 29, 2001.

On June 26, 2000, WEI and his family were arrested while appealing in Tianamen Square. Three days later, WEI and his son were abducted and thrown into Daoli Jailhouse in Harbin City. His wife was detained at Daoli Duck Animal Enclosure Detention Center.

WEI was made to do hard labor and was tortured afterwards. WEI was ordered by prison guards and inmates to maintain a painful posture without moving or making sound for many consecutive hours. WEI suffered from extreme pain in the stomach and inability to excrete waste when his allotted time in the washroom was shortened. The Jailhouse extorted 4000 Yuan from WEI’s family in exchange for WEI’s release.

After WEI’s release, he was bedridden at home. His wife and son were both arrested from home, and without anyone to care for him, WEI died on August 29, 2001.

Zhang Li 08.27.2002

ZHANG Li, female, age 40, resident at Tiexi District, Anshan City, Liaoning Province.

On March 19, 2002, the police abducted ZHANG Li and sent her to Anshan City Detention Center. During the period of her illegal detention, ZHANG Li suffered all kinds of torture until she was on the verge of death. On August 27, 2002, attempts to revive ZHANG Li failed and she died in the city hospital.

ZHANG Li was forced to leave home after July 20, 1999. On March 19, 2002, the Lishan District Police Department of Anshan City illegally abducted her, along with five other practitioners of Falun Gong who were living in the same place. During the period of her illegal detention, she was tortured with every method imaginable and passed out several times. Her face was lacerated from being beaten. Later, she was illegally sentenced to life in prison. During her imprisonment, the police interrogated and tortured her cruelly on many different occasions.

She held a hunger strike, and the police sent ZHANG Li to the city hospital for force-feeding. They also handcuffed and shackled her after throwing her into the lobby. She was dying and many people went to look at her out of curiosity. Somebody said, "She is dying but is still in handcuffs, so she must have received the death penalty". The police said, "She is a Falun Gong practitioner".

ZHANG Li was questioned many times during the period of her illegal detention in the First Detention Center. Every time when she came back from questioning, her body was covered in blood and her skin was full of lacerations from being cut with a knife.

On August 27, 2002, while the police were questioning ZHANG Li, she was beaten to the verge of death, and she was sent to the city hospital. A police officer ordered a doctor, "Don't treat her!" In response, the doctor asked the policeman to sign a document because the police officer asked him to forsake a life, thus breaking his professional oath. The police left ZHANG Li in the hospital and had someone watch her. ZHANG Li died on the same day. Her body was cremated and was buried in Anshan City Qianqiu Cemetery.

After her death, the police tried to withhold all information on the case and threatened ZHANG Li’s family not to contact outsiders. They confiscated pictures that the family had taken to document the physical abuse from her home. They also hastily cremated ZHANG Li’s body without permission from the family. The police covered her body with white clothing in order to hide the evidence of their crimes.

Ji Jingchang 08.26.2002

JI Jingchang, male, 52 years old, Nanguan District.

JI Jingchang lived in the Nanguan District of Changchun City. JI’s entire family practiced Falun Gong. Because of that, the local police often came to his home to interrogate the family. They even used a gun to threaten his son. The police arrested the family several times and tortured them.

As a result of the torture he was subjected to, JI became bedridden and dependent upon others. On August 26, 2002, he died of the injuries.

Xiao Peifeng 08.25.2003

XIAO Peifeng, male, 52, Zibo City, was tortured to death by the Boshanqiugu Labor Camp and was buried on August 25, 2003.

Insiders revealed that XIAO Peifeng’s chin was smashed through, and there were injuries on his chest and armpits. The police would not show them other parts of his body.

Insiders revealed that from the appearance of his body, XIAO Peifeng had been dead for many days. The police from Boshanqiugu Labor Camp did not deny this fact, but refused to disclose the cause of his death.

Chen Qiulan 08.24.2001

CHEN Qiulan, female, Daqing City, lived in Heilongjiang Province.

In July 2001, CHEN was arrested and sent to Daqing Detention center when she was caught distributing Falun Gong flyers. She suffered brutal torture during the detention and began to have seizures and lose consciousness, sometimes as often as three times a day.

On Aug. 24, 2001 she died.

Hou Mingkai 08.23.2002

HOU Mingkai, male, 35 years old, lived in Changchun City

After July 20, 1999, HOU was put on the "610 Office" wanted list because he persisted in practicing Falun Gong, actively clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution, and exposing the Jiang regime’s lies.

In July 2001, he was forced to leave his home. According to internal police sources, as a result of his involvement in tapping into Changchun cable TV on March 5, 2002, the "610 Office" issued a reward for him of 50,000 yuan and promised a promotion of two levels to anyone who captured him. That led to a sweeping search for him.

On August 21, 2002, HOU was arrested and tortured to death two days later. The police claimed he "committed suicide by jumping off a building." On August 23, his body was secretly cremated. Relevant authorities strictly blocked information about his death.

Rao Zhuoyuan 08..2002

RAO Zhuoyuan, male, 33 years old, lived in Guangzhou.

RAO was forcibly taken to Guangzhou First Forced Labor Camp in mid-June, 2002. Because he firmly kept his belief and refused to be brainwashed, he was beaten by the labor camp police and was handcuffed to a basketball pole.

Everyday he was exposed to scorching sun or heavy rain. Later, RAO broke his neck when he fell from the 5th floor stairs for some unknown reason. He was transferred to Huadu People’s Hospital. The staff from the labor camp prohibited relatives from visiting. When the relatives were finally allowed to visit, his situation was so bad that he couldn’t speak. He died early August 2002.

Wang Baoxian 08.18.2002

WANG Baoxian, male, 42 years old, was an engineer at an automobile manufacturing center in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province.

WANG died on August 18, 2002 from torture suffered in the Fuyu Labor Camp in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province.

On June 19, 2001, WANG was abducted to the Fuyu County Detention Center for a year of illegal detention. He was severely beaten by head of the 4th brigade at the Fuyu Labor Camp, until his face was disfigured and he lost consciousness. He suffered massive internal bleeding in his chest and other parts of his body. He lost control of his bladder, and his urine and stool were bloody.

On August 18, 2002, WANG died in the Fuyu County Hospital. Later, the Public Security authorities forcefully cremated his body.

Zeng Xianmei 08.14.2001

ZENG Xianmei, female, age 63, Lushunkou District, Dalian City of Liaoning Province.

ZENG started practicing Falun Gong in 1995. On August 9, 2001, when she was doing housework in her daughter's home at Sanyuan Street of Xigang District (her daughter was not at home at the time), policemen from the Xigang District, Branch of Dalian Public Security Bureau broke into the home through the window after ZENG refused to open the door. Policemen illegally ransacked her daughter's home and found Falun Gong books and some other materials.

They used this as an excuse to take ZENG Xianmei away for "interrogation". On August 14, it suddenly became known that ZENG had passed away. According to internal sources, her body was full of wounds and bruises.

ZENG Xianmei's family saw her on the day before her death. Mr. ZHANG Zeyuan, ZENG ’s husband, wrote the following record:

"We really could not believe that this elderly lady, who had been so healthy and happy a few days ago and who was always so kind to others, could have died so tragically and suddenly. It was unbearable to see my wife’s naked remains under the white sheets. Although her head was wrapped with gauze, a bloodstain, which was as big as a fist, could still be seen near her cerebellum through the gauze, which indicated there was an injury there. Protruding black bruises covered her right eye. There was a round black and blue injury about 1 or 2 cm in diameter under the lower jaw, and about 2 or 3 cm inside the middle of the lip. On the right shoulder, there was a large area covered with bruises and some skin had worn off in the middle of the area. Black and blue bruises and injuries were also found on the right costal (rib) area, left waist and right hip. The backs of her hands were badly swollen. There was a wound on the lower left leg, covered with gauze, with blood on it. The backs of both her feet were swollen and covered with small cuts. We also found other bloody clothes that belonged to her in the garbage can in the bathroom. Anybody can easily judge the cause of the death through these injuries and bruises of different sizes and types on the various areas of my wife’s body.

When we asked for my wife’s emergency treatment record, the hospital authorities claimed that they were still working on it. After we kept requesting it, a female doctor told us that the police sent my wife to the hospital at about 1:10 p.m. and she died around 5:10 p.m. There was no blood transfusion during the several-hour emergency treatment even though she was over 60 years old and had lost a lot of blood. How could she survive by herself without any blood transfusion? Later, the hospital demanded the relatives to pay the expense for the emergency treatment before they would release the record.

After abducting my wife, the Xigang police department did not issue or process any legal documents. Five days later, what they returned to us was a corpse, completely covered with bruises and wounds. After the tragedy happened, they didn't inform her immediate kin. Instead, they prevented the news from getting out and delayed reporting things in a timely manner to prevent my wife’s relatives from seeing her at the hospital. What's more, they demanded that we pay the costs. This is totally unreasonable and there was no due process of law.

Until now, we still cannot understand why my wife was tortured to death so tragically just because she practiced Falun Gong. Why? A life was taken away during this five-day detention in a law enforcement agency of the state. Why did this happen? This has become a question, which nobody could answer.

I know that she can't come back now that she’s dead. But I hope that relevant leaders and government departments in this socialist country, which claims to have "a perfect legal system," can one day give us a satisfactory answer, the family of the deceased.

If what I have written here is not true, I am willing to be punished by the law of heaven." - ZHANG Zeyuan

Wang Yixin 08.14.2000

WANG Yixin, male, nearly 70, was from Guojiacun Village, Gouxi Town, Fangzi District, Weifang City.

On June 30, 2000, some people led by Changchun Song, the Deputy Secretary of the town branch of the Chinese Communist Party took Mr. WANG and illegally locked him in the yard of the public road station for over 40 days. During this period Mr. WANG slept on a wet cement floor everyday. The only coat that he used as a cover on the floor was stolen.

Mr. WANG endured inhuman torture both physically and mentally everyday. In the end he went on a hunger strike for two days to protest when it became unbearable. On the third day he was sent home. At home Mr. WANG could not take food, stayed in bed, and looked sallow; he also could not use the bathroom. Soon Mr. WANG passed away.

Cui Zhengshu 08.12.2003

CUI Zhengshu, female, 36 years old, lived with her family on Zhihe Street in Chuanying District, Jilin City.

She was unlawfully arrested in March 2002 by officers from the Jilin City “610 Office” and the Chuanying District police station. She was then illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor and sent to the No. 4 Division of the Heizuizi Female Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City.

The guards at the labor camp tortured her mercilessly because she persisted in practicing Falun Gong. In one instance, they allowed her only 22 hours of sleep in 33 days. When her condition became critical, the guards were afraid that she might die in the labor camp, so they sent her home on April 18, 2003, on medical parole. On August 12, 2003, CUI Zhengshu died of the torture she suffered in the labor camp.

Zhang Tieyan 08.11.2000

ZHANG Tieyan, female, 29, lived in Daqing City, Helongjiang Province. ZHANG was a graduate of a vocational school and worked at a Heilongjiang petroleum oil factory (Daqing City’s Lama Dianhua factory).

Because ZHANG did not sign a guarantee saying she would give up Falun Dafa, on April 19, 2000, her office placed her under house arrest for 3 days. On April 21, she was sent to the Ranghu Street Detention Center for 15 days. On May 5, she was taken to the Sartu District Detention Center.

She died at the detention center on August 11.

Zhang Xuewen 08.08.2003

ZHANG Xuewen, male, 54 years old, was a farmer in Fangtai Town, Hulan County, Heilongjiang Province. He died on August 8, 2003 in Hulan Prison in Harbin City.

ZHANG was abducted for several times and illegally detained because he persisted in his belief of Falun Dafa. In April 2003, ZHANG was detained at the county detention center where the doctor and guards force-fed him with boiling water. Following these force-feedings, he had blood in his stool for several days.

In early August 2003, ZHANG was transferred to the Hulan Prison in Harbin City [formerly the Gezhi Prison]. ZHANG died in this prison on the morning of August 8, 2003.

On examination, his body was misshapen and emaciated. His teeth had fallen out during force-feeding.

Li Shande 08..2002

LI Shande, male, Dezhou City, was severely beaten, hung, forced to drink water and beer (practitioners abstain from Alcohol), forbidden to sleep and severely tortured at the Wangchun Labor Camp.

He died in August 2002. One police officer from the Wangchun Labor Camp hung up the phone when a journalist called to ask for the cause of his death. When the journalist called again, they did not pick up the phone.