Sun Jihong 09.29.2002

YUAN Hezhen, female, 42 years old, lived in Huanan County, Heilongjiang Province. YUAN died of torture in July 2003. She was an employee of Hua-Nan Forest Bureau, a branch of Heilongjiang Forestry.

In May 2000, YUAN was arrested in Beijing and sent to a detention center where she went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal treatment.

For this, she was brutally beaten, handcuffed in a painful posture and forced-fed. YUAN was tortured until she vomited blood, had bloody stools, and became extremely weak.

She was eventually released but was forced into homelessness to avoid further persecution. She died in July 2003.

Her husband, Sun Jihong, was arrested on September 25, 2002, and was beaten to death four days later.

Wu Haiyou ...

Wu Haiyou, male.

Six policemen from the Xipaotai Police Station, the Zhifu District Police Department, arrested Falun Gong practitioner WU Haiyou.

He was beaten and rolled all the way down the stairs from the 4th floor to the ground floor. He fell unconscious on the spot.

Five days later, WU Haiyou's family received a notice to pick up his body. They had beaten WU Haiyou to death.

Yang Xueqin 09..2002

YANG Xueqin, female, 65 years old, lived in Guangzhou.

YANG was a retired cadre of the Department of Transportation in Guangdong Province. Members of her work unit abducted her in August 2002 because she refused to give up practicing Falun Gong. She was detained in Shanshui brainwashing center. She was tortured to death there around September or October 2002.

The center blocked all the information. A reporter tried to confirm the case through Guangdong Department of Transportation and the Guangdong 610 Office, but he was given conflicting the Guangdong 610 Office said that YANG "died of a hunger strike and we couldn’t save her in the hospital."

Chen Aizhong 09.23.2001

CHEN Aizhong, male, was 34 years old and lived in Canfangying Village, Beixinbao Township, Huailai County, Hebei Province

CHEN started to practice Falun Gong in 1998. He participated in the appeal on April 25, 1999. He went with his families (who also practice Falun Gong) to Beijing to make an appeal for Falun Gong after the persecution started, but were stopped by the local government on the way, and were detained for 3 days in Huailai County Detention Center. He suffered harsh tortures after being taken back by the Beixinbao Township local government. He were forced to pay a fine of 500 Yuan before being released.

On October 13, 1999, when CHEN went to visit his sister (CHEN Shulan), he was forcefully taken back by the personnel from Beixinbao Township local government and the police station. After being detained for two months in Huailai Detention Center, CHEN was found no guilty and released.

On December 28, 1999, CHEN and other family members went to Beijing to make appeal together, and all were arrested again and suffered all kinds of tortures. After being taken back by the local government, they were punished with a 15-day detention at first, but then the term was changed to a long-term detention. This time they were illegally detained for almost 10 months.

In October 2000, CHEN was again arrested. He was taken to Xuanwu District Detention Center in Beijing. For not revealing his name and address, he was harshly tortured and suffered all kinds of abuses. It was winter and the temperature dropped below 0 °C (below 32 °F). The head of the county police department, Xu Weiguo, gave orders that practitioners not be given quilts or blankets and that they sleep on the concrete floor. He told the practitioners, "Who cares if you eat or not. If any of you die, you just die in vain." CHEN was sent home by police when he was in critical condition after 19 days of hunger strike.

On November 21, 2000, CHEN was arrested with his brothers and sisters on a trip. After being put into a detention center, CHEN was tied to a cross and suffered all kinds of torture and abuse. The wounds on his body were so horrifying that the police temporarily hid him in a basement outside the detention center, because they were afraid they would not be able to explain the wounds when higher-level officers inspected the detention center.

At night, an inmate leader once again tied CHEN to a board on the floor and poured water on his face with a basin. The inmate kept pouring water on CHEN's body until he was released the next day. At 6 PM in the evening, since the injuries to CHEN were so severe that he could not take care of himself, the police at the detention center sent him home.

On 2001 New Year's Eve, the whole family of CHEN once again went to Beijing to tell others the truth about the situation regarding Falun Gong. CHEN Aizhong was illegally detained in Dongbeiwang police station in Beijing. Because he would not reveal his name and address, he was beaten and shocked with electric batons. He was stripped to the skin and handcuffed to a tree in freezing weather for over one hour. The snow under his feet was melted into a pool.

He was then sent to the detention center of Haidian District Police Department in Beijing. The inmates there inhumanly tortured him by breaking the skin of all his ten fingers using the toothbrush handles; they called this torture "opening a lock" (first to hold his two finger tips, then insert a toothbrush handle between two fingers and forcefully and continuously twist them). Then the inmates buried CHEN under snow, which caused his two legs to lose feeling so that he could not walk.

In Haidian District Detention Center, he went on a hunger strike for 9 days before being taken back by the local government and sent to Huailai Detention Center. He was illegally sentenced for 2 years of forced labor, and sent to Zhangjiakou Forced Labor Camp. The labor camp refused to take him because of his health condition, so he was driven back to Huailai Detention Center. Later, he was re-sentenced to 3 years of forced labor and sent to Tangshan No. 1 Forced Labor Camp on September 12, 2001.

On September 21, 2001, family of CHEN was notified that CHEN was dead. When the sister of CHEN was allowed to look at the body, she found there was a trace of blood on his lips, his two ears were swollen and looked purple and black, and his right ear opening had blood upon touching it. There was a 10 centimeters (about 4 inches) long wound on his left chest. And there was a large area of bruise with blood from his two shoulders to his back and asked how that was caused.

Families were not allowed to take pictures of CHEN. And CHEN's body was cremated on the afternoon of September 23 without family members' approval, signature, or any other legal procedures.

Wang Yongdong 09.21.2001

WANG Yongdong, male, born in 1966, of Yangxi Street, Yishui County. WANG Yongdong was a self-employed Bokchoy vender and was the vice assistant in charge of the Falun Dafa Assistance Center in Yishui County.

On the evening of National Day (October 1) of China in 2001, the Yishui County government started another wave of arresting and detaining Falun Dafa practitioners in the county. They also sent the arrested Falun Dafa practitioners to a brainwashing class in Yishui Town, Fengjia Village.

Around 8 a.m. on September 21, 2001, police from the Administration and Security Section in Yishui County Police Station arrested practitioner, WANG Yongdong on east market (near the Yishui County Bus Station). The police ruthlessly beat him in public.

Afterwards, six policemen including Zhang Jueyuan, Zhang Zhitian and Wang Jingwen took practitioner WANG to his home for a search. During the illegal search, practitioner WANG didn't cooperate with the unreasonable requests and commands. He also calmly explained the truth about the persecution to the police and pointed out their illegal behavior.

Therefore the police were flustered and exasperated, so they beat practitioner WANG again until about 10 a.m. Practitioner WANG was killed in his own home. Then the police then threw his body from the fourth floor, in an attempt to make it look like he committed suicide by jumping off the building.

After the Court of Yishui County received a complaint filed by WANG Yongdong's family, the legal medical experts of Shandong Province High Court, Linyi City Intermediate Court and Yishui County Basic Court had an autopsy performed on practitioner WANG's body.

The result of the autopsy showed that practitioner WANG's skin was black and purple. His neck had obvious finger marks. His Adam's apple was protruding in a strange fashion. His clavicle was broken; three of his left ribs were fractured, and two of his right ribs were fractured. There was a hole in his leg. The leg bone was fractured to pieces. His thighbone was also fractured.

Wang Shuqin 09.21.2002

WANG Shuqin, female, 63 years old, lived in Wolitun, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

WANG was tortured to death on September 21, 2002 in Daqing City Detention Center.

At the Shuanghe Labor Camp in Qiqihar City, WANG was cruelly tortured before being released unconditionally in autumn 2001.

On January 15, 2001, both WANG and her husband were arrested, and she was released following a 28-day hunger strike.

On July 24, 2002, she and her husband were arrested again by police from the Wolitun Station and sent to the Daqing City Detention Center.

Tao Hongsheng 09.20.2000

TAO Hongsheng, male, 46 years old, used to work in the Security Department of Hebei Province. His home address was No. 2 Dormitory Building, Apartment 2-501, Security Department, Hebei Province, Tel: 0311-3618132

On December 26th, 1999, TAO went to appeal for Falun Gong in Beijing, where he was sentenced to three years in a labor camp. TAO was detained in the No. 2 Team, No. 201 Group of the detention center in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

On July 20th, 2000, TAO was subjected to the inhumane punishment called the "small" cell, a solitary confinement room so tight that one is absolutely deprived of all freedom of movement. The sanitary conditions of the small cell are intolerable.

Worms of up to 1-inch long were mixed in with the moldy food and vegetables served as food. In the small cell, TAO's health condition quickly deteriorated, first with daily diarrhea and then with bloody stool and urine. TAO was unable to eat for nearly 20 days, breathing with much difficulty, and suffering from diarrhea and severe edema. With his worsening edema, Tao could hardly open his eyes.

On September 17th, after nearly two months in the small cell, TAO was send back home where he passed away on September 20th, 2000. The location of TAO’s torture and death was Shijiazhuang City Detention Center, Hebei Province.

Yu Xiuling 09.19.2001

YU Xiuling, female, age 32, lived in No. 7 Group, Tuchenzi Village, Damiao Town, Chaoyang County of Liaoning Province.

Because she practiced Falun Gong, YU was arrested from her residence by the Public Security Bureau of Longcheng District, Chaoyang City on September 14, 2001, and she was then detained illegally in the Shijiazi Jail. On the sixth day after her detention, or, on September 19, at 8 a.m. in the morning, YU was taken to the branch bureau of the Longcheng District.

The police forced her to give up practicing Falun Gong, and asked her about where she obtained the Falun Gong materials. YU refused to give up her belief and insisted that there was nothing wrong in practicing Falun Gong. During the interrogation, the police and security chief WANG X, Sun X and some other policemen, with no conscience, beat and tortured YU the entire time in order to get a confession out of YU.

YU Xiuling was handcuffed to a gas heater, and was not released until 9 p.m. that night -- altogether 13 hours. She suffered excruciating torture, and as a result, she was barely breathing. At that time, the police became nervous, and some suggested that she be taken to the hospital.

Someone said, "No, if the hospital can’t help her, we will be in trouble. How will we tell this news to everyone?" WANG, Sun and some other people then decided to throw YU off the four story office building to kill her, even though YU was still alive, so that they could cover up the crime and stop the exposure of their evil deeds. At that night, around 12 p.m., they hurriedly cremated YU’s body.

Right before the cremation, the police department notified YU’s husband HONG Dianxiang and told him that YU committed suicide by jumping off the building. They threatened HONG by saying that if he wanted to appeal this case, and then just go ahead. They had orders from upper security bureau that no behavior as too inhumane or brutal when it came to the Falun Gong problem.

HONG didn’t have a chance to take a close look at YU’s injuries, but he found that YU’s arm was broken, and her lower body appeared a purple-green color.

It was revealed to Falun Gong correspondents by an anonymous source with the Public Security Bureau that, right after the incidence, the Longcheng Public Security Bureau had held a meeting, and asked everybody to agree to the story that YU Xiuling committed suicide by jumping off from the building.

The police and security chief WANG and SUN were heavily involved in the death of YU Xiuling.

The case was reported by Boxun.net.6

Yang Guizhen 09.17.2003

YANG Guizhen, female, 40 years old, was a villager from Taojialin Village in the township of Guanzhen, Zhucheng City, Shandong province.

She was arrested last September for distributing Falun Gong flyers and incarcerated in the Zhucheng City Detention Center. The guards brought her in for an interrogation on September 14, and because she refused to sign a false statement, several guards instigated some inmates to give her a terrible beating. After the beating, she was handcuffed to a chair for four days and four nights.

During that time, she was not given any food or water, and she was not even allowed to go to the bathroom. When she was finally allowed to go to the bathroom on September 17, she was no longer able to walk on her own. She fell unconscious to the ground, and stopped breathing.

A guard resuscitated her by pinching her Renzhong point (a major acupuncture point). As soon as she regained consciousness, the guards handcuffed her back to the chair again. A short while later, this gentle and kind farming woman passed away.

After the tragedy took place, an information blockade was immediately imposed. Trying to prevent the news of her death from leaking out, the police surrounded her village, kept a close watch over her relatives, and arrested practitioners who had known her or was trying to find out what had happened to her.

AFP and the Central News Agency reported the news.

Cong Yu'e ..2000

CONG Yu'e, female, 53, of Mouping District, Yantai City

Because CONG Yu'e went to Beijing to appeal in October 2000 she was arrested and imprisoned in the Gao Ling Town Detention Center, and not allowed to eat or drink.

She was tortured to death after much suffering there.

In order to cover up her death, the local government offered her family 1500 yuan each year as a private settlement.

Ma Yanfang 09..2000

Ms. MA Yanfang was born in 1967 at Xingshigou Village, Daren Township, Zhucheng City, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province. She was a worker in the Zhucheng Ceramic Factory.

Ms. MA Yanfang began to practice Falun Dafa in 1998 and walked for over ten days to appeal the persecution in Beijing in October 1999. She was arrested on her way to Beijing and was sent to the Zhucheng Detention Center. She was locked up in the detention center for 30 days and was fined 3,000 yuan [500 yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China.].

Afterwards she was forced to work under supervision and only received 120 yuan living allowance a month and was given a punishment of "continuing to work in the factory for two years".

In May 2000, MA Yanfang went to Beijing to appeal again. She had no money so she begged all the way and walked alone for 17 days to arrive in Beijing. She was dispatched to and locked up at her factory. Ms. MA staged a hunger strike to protest the persecution and was sent to a mental hospital.

In September 2000 after two months of forced nervous-system-damaging injections and other drugs she was ultimately tortured to death in the Zhucheng City Mental Hospital.

Li Xiufen 09.09.2003

LI Xiufen, female, 63 years old, was a retired teacher from Nahe County, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

Before LI died of torture, her family in Daqing City suffered long-term persecution at the hands of the police. Her daughter-in-law Cui Xiaojuan was tortured to death on December 30, 1999 for practicing Falun Gong ;

Her son Xu Xiangdong was illegally sentenced to twelve years in prison. In order to take care of her grandson, who, because of the persecution, has been forcibly separated from both of his parents, LI moved to Daqing City and lived there. LI went to Harbin City to visit her son, who was in solitary confinement at the time. When she saw him, he looked completely deformed - he was just skin and bones. LI was extremely shocked and deeply grieved.

After she returned home, the police continued to harass and persecute her, and she eventually passed away on September 9, 2003 after enduring long-term harassment and persecution.

Ding Yan 09..2001

DING Yan, female, 32 years old, was a hairdresser in Shijiazhuang City. On October 28th, 1999, more than three months after the start of the brutal persecution on Falun Gong practitioners, at least 20 Falun Gong practitioners held a clandestine press conference in a Beijing hotel. DING was one of the principal organizers of the press conference. On November 25th, 1999, she was arrested in Guangzhou. In June 2000, she was sentenced to 4 years in prison.

While incarcerated in different places, DING suffered various tortures by the police, including forced hard labor, very tight shackles, being hung while her hands were shackled behind her back, etc. In the Shijiazhuang Detention Center, DING was placed in an iron cage with nails sticking up more than an inch from the wood floor.

DING’s final detention-place was the Chengde City Prison. The prison guards there subjected DING to the "water jail" torture, where she was stripped naked and locked in an iron cage with spikes on all sides. The cage was filled with dirty water up to her neck. DING died in September 2001, after enduring months of the water torture.

Yang Wenhua 08..2002

YANG Wenhua, male, 48 years old, was a farmer in Huangniuchang Village, Yanshou County, Heilongjiang Province. YANG died in August 2002 from prolonged persecution.

YANG’s family peacefully appealed in Beijing, and subsequently, local police illegally detained him six times and extorted his family’s savings and property. His wife and children fled to the mountains to avoid bringing trouble.

In April 2002, after he had been abducted and held for almost four months, YANG held a six-day hunger strike and was released. To avoid further arrest, YANG was forced to abandon his home.

Without food or shelter, and in poor health, YANG soon lost consciousness and passed away. His body was found on an uninhabited mountain.