Qi Fengqin 10..2000

QI Fengqin, female, 43, Liaocheng, Shandong Province.

QI Fenqin was an accountant at the Liaocheng Bureau of Agriculture. She was fired from her job in 1999 due to her practice of Falun Gong. One day in early September of 2000, she went out to pass out informational flyers including "The Truth about Falun Dafa and How Its Practitioners Have Been Persecuted." She was arrested and thrown in jail. A month later (around October 11, 2000), it was confirmed that she had passed away in jail.

The authorities had refused to release her after her term at the detention center expired. Instead, they continued to hold her at the local police squad, where she protested by six days of hunger strike. The cause of her death was not clear.

After her death, the authorities froze her body without giving her family a chance to pay their final respects. The authorities also tried to prevent the news of her death from spreading. Practitioners who knew what happened were all thrown in jail within days following her death. In addition, her husband has vanished. The authorities have also extended the prison term of a fellow practitioner with the surname of LI, who was locked up in the same jail with QI Fengqin and knew of the case.

Zuo Guoqing 10.27.2003

ZUO Guoqing, male, 37 years old, was an employee of Normal Pressure Workshop in the First Petroleum Refinery Factory, Daqing Petroleum Refinery Incorporated, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. He was born in Shaodong County, Hunan Province.

Before he died of torture, ZUO was sent to forced labor camp four times for not giving up his belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance" the fundamental teachings of Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) and for being a kind person. ZUO went through various kinds of tortures.

During the second detention in Daqing Labor Camp, ZUO was tortured by forcibly being fed with food and highly concentrated salt water, even though he was not on hunger strike. ZUO was also tormented by the rope tying torture three times. The torture brought on him pleurisy, tuberculosis and pneumonia. He was released under the guise of "medical treatment."

In the afternoon of May 7th, 2003, ZUO was abducted by the National Security Bureau. In the National Security Bureau, he was cuffed to a chair continuously for over 20 days. He was often interrogated until late at night. He was then sent to Suihua City Labor Camp for continuous detention, which led to the inflammation of his entire body and a life-threatening illness.

He died at 11am on October 27, 2003 in his hometown in Hunan Province.

Li Zhishui 10..2000

LI Zhishui, male, 59 years old, was a resident of Shuangliushu village, Hemujing District, Xinji Town of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

In March 2000, LI appealed for the freedom to practice Falun Gong and for the persecution of Falun Gong in Beijing during the National People's Congress meetings. After being arrested and escorted back to Xinji, Li was detained and transferred to the "Mandatory Transformation (brainwashing) Class," where he was held by the Xinji Communist Party School.

It is unclear how LI suffered during the 80 plus days he was in the "transformation" class; however, his health deteriorated to the point that he could not eat or sleep. He was later released and sent home, where he never recovered. After two months, LI collapsed and passed away.

Li Shuhua 10.24.2003

LI Shuhua, female, 32 years old, was a resident of Peiying Street in Yushu City.

Around 9 a.m. on September 24, 2003, police officers from the Peiying Street Police Station, including two named LI Mingchao and JIANG Wei, abducted her while she was at home.

Thirteen days later, LI was beaten to death. Her body at the time of death was very thin. Half of her body was black and blue, and half of her skull was crushed. During the autopsy, more than five kilograms of bloody effusion was found in her abdominal cavity. The police prohibited the family from taking any pictures and guarded the body until it was cremated.

Two other members of LI’s family were also illegally detained for practicing Falun Gong. The police had illegally held her husband, YANG Zhanjiu, at a detention center from the Yushu City Police Department since August 2002. LI’s mother, CUI Zhanyun, was sentenced to one year and six months in the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. LI was survived by an elderly father and two young children.

According to an investigation by the Falun Dafa Information Center, a male staff member at the Politics and Security Office at the Yushu City Police Department was very nervous when he received a phone call from the investigator. He couldn’t utter a complete sentence and finally hung up the phone after saying, “I cannot answer your question over the phone.”
Telephone number at the Yushu City Police Department: 86-431-363-0348.

Lu Bingshen 10.21.2003

LU Bingshen, male, 39 years old, lived in Caikulou area, Ranghulu District, Daqing, Heilongjiang Province. LU was a firefighter in the 6th Fire Brigade in Daqing City.

In October 2002, the police illegally abducted LU while he was posting Falun Gong truth-clarification flyers on the street, and then sentenced him to two years in prison. He was shut off in a small cell and forced to sit on iron chair by the guard, ZHANG Mingzhu . Iron chair is a torture tool in which there is hole to confine people to move the body. LU was cuffed on the iron chair with both hands and feet tied. He was tortured to death.

LU was the 21st Falun Gong practitioner who died as a result of persecution in the Daqing City Forced Labor Camp. Recently people who knew details disclosed that LU was sent to the Emergency Room of Daqing people’s Hospital at 16:30 on October 20th, 2003. He was in deep coma with pupils enlarged. Electrocardiogram indicated rhythm of his heart was abnormal. He was transferred to 11th Area for emergency treatment after he was diagnosed as "abrupt halt of breath and palpitation, cause awaiting examination".

He died at 1 pm on October 21st, 2003. Daqing City Forced Labor Camp is currently sealing the records about LU's death. When asked about LU's death, the response was the following: "Mr. LU Bingshen died of heart attack."

It was said that both of LU’s legs were swollen and on his right ankle there were two blisters (one was 1cm2, and the other was 2 cm2 ). There was a scar on his right foot.

Wang Guoping 10.17.1999

WANG Guoping, male, 40 years old, lived in Shulan City.

WANG Guoping was arrested in Beijing for appealing on behalf of Falun Gong. The police beat him, poured cold water on his naked body, pressed his head into the toilet, and used other means to torture him. On October 17, 1999, he fell from the eighth floor of the Jilin Provincial Office in Beijing and died.

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.

Xuan Chengxi 10.12.2000

XUAN Chengxi, male, 61 years old, lived in Dongxia village, Beiguan of Weicheng District.

He was honest and kind, and thus was held in high esteem in the village. The villagers were shocked by the news that he had been beaten to death. The village, in which XUAN Chengxi lived, is very close to that of CHEN Zixiu, another Dafa practitioner who was also beaten to death (Note: Her case was reported by the Wall Street Journal). Both of them belonged to the Beiguan area of the Weicheng District.

Yuhe Township is one of the seven "major transforming centers" in the Weicheng District of Weifang City, Shandong Province. After October 1, 2000, around twenty Falun Dafa practitioners were taken to the township government. Faced with such cruel beatings, one practitioner could not endure the suffering of the brutal torture any longer, so he disclosed that he obtained the materials used to clarifying the facts about Falun Gong from Falun Dafa practitioner, XUAN Chengxi. Thereby, XUAN Chengxi was dragged to the government of Yuhe Township on October 12, 2000.

Thugs including the Secretary of the Township’s Committee of Politics and Law, Chu Yongsheng, Director of the Township’s Administrative Office, Chen Yonghua, a township staff member, Chen Longshan, and the Head of the Township’s Armed Forces Department with the surname of Yang all took turns beating XUAN Chengxi. In order to protect the promotional materials of clarifying the facts about Falun Gong and the safety of other practitioners XUAN Chengxi would rather die than submit, so he kept silent. The township officials savagely beat and kicked XUAN Chengxi for forty minutes not only with their hands and feet, but also with wooden sticks and electric batons. As a result XUAN Chengxi died uncleared of a false charge.

XUAN Chengxi was a kind and honest person and was well-respected in the village. The villagers were very much shocked to learn the fact he was beaten to death. After XUAN Chengxi was beaten to death, the relevant departments and the Township Government tightly blocked the passage of information, closed the village where practitioner XUAN lived, and forbade villagers from coming or going in order to keep the news from leaking out. Without notifying his relatives, they secretly had his body cremated.

Reuters, AFP, the Central News Agency, World Times reported the news on October 18 or 19, 2000.

Liu Tongling 10.12.2003

LIU Tongling, female, 53 years old, lived in Chengsan Village, Rang District, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

LIU Tongling died of torture on October 12, 2003 in Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Center. She was an employee of the Sanan Industrial Company, which is under the Venture Group of Daqing Petroleum Administration Bureau.

On April 19, 2000, LIU went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa and was illegally detained by Daqing City Liaison Office in Beijing.

On April 19, 2003, Shi Shijin, from Daqing City Liaison Office in Beijing, extorted 2,670 Yuan from LIU, and Daqing City "610 Office" extorted 1,000 Yuan from her. She was later detained in Daqing City Detention Center for a month where she was forced to “ride an airplane” for over 5 hours and then was forced to stand motionless for a prolonged time in shackles and handcuffs, the shackles badly injuring her ankles. Within several days, her legs had become swollen and infected, and she lost the ability to walk.

On September 24, 2001, the Rang District Qinjian Police Station of Daqing City arrested LIU for clarifying the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. The police extorted 175 Yuan from her. She was sent to Daqing City Detention Center and detained there for a month during which time she held a hunger strike in protest of her arrest. She was later transferred to Rang District Custody Center and illegally detained there for half a month. Policeman Feng Xinyu, among others, force-fed her and ordered criminals to beat her.

On the morning of September 6, 2002, six police from Chengxin Police Station of Rang District broke into her home, dragged her downstairs, and abducted her to the police station. That day, LIU was for the third time illegally sent to the Daqing City Detention Center for 58 days during which time she went on hunger strike again. Then, she was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor education. She was sent to Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Center but the center refused to admit her because of her poor health.

On September 9, 2003, LIU was arrested again and sent to a brainwashing class by the security guards of the Sanan Industrial Company and the police from Rang District Chengxin Police Station. She held a hunger strike in protest of the persecution.

On September 12, 2003, she was put in solitary confinement in the Harbin City Drug Rehabilitation Center, and she immediately started a hunger strike. She soon showed symptoms of heart disease, vasculitis, etc. but was refused medical treatment and visitation from family members.

On October 12, 2003 she died of torture. Just two days before her death, in extremely poor health, she was still forced to sit (in a fixed position) on a metal chair for a long period of time. Upon examination, her family found her nose broken, bruises all over her body and face, with obvious electric shock burns near her heart.

Li Jing 10.11.2001

LI Jing, female, 25 years old, Changchun City.

LI Jing graduated from Jilin School of Commerce. She was illegally detained several times because she went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong.

Changchun City’s Bureau of Public Security sentenced her to three years of "re-education" through forced labor.

On October 11, 2001, she died of the abuse.

Zhang Yulan 10.08.2002

ZHANG Yulan, female, 48 years old, was a native of Erdaobaihe in Antu County.

ZHANG Yulan was illegally arrested in January 2002 for telling the truth about Falun Gong. She was sent to the Baihe Forestry Bureau Detention Center, where she was beaten and tortured. Six police officers surrounded her and kicked, beat, and swore at her for more than five hours. When they got tired of beating her, they wrapped her long hair around their hands and smashed her head against the wall until she lost consciousness. They continued to abuse her by stepping on her waist and legs.

When she regained consciousness, she was in terrible pain and wanted to practice some of the Falun Gong exercises. Because of that, the police hung her up with handcuffs until the next morning. ZHANG passed out several times during this ordeal.

Later they secretly sent her to the Heizuizi Female Forced Labor Camp in Changchun and illegally sentenced her to one year of hard labor. Eight months later, she was sent back to the Baihe Forestry Bureau Detention Center, barely hanging on to her life. The detention center told ZHANG’s family to take her home. She died on October 8, 2002.

Li Hongwei 10.07.2002

LI Hongwei, male, age 52, was a resident of Qianjing Street, Shuangta District, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province. He was an employee at the Agriculture Mechanical Company in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province.

On the morning of September 26, 2002, police from Qianjing Police Station abducted LI when he went shopping. He was sent to Wujiawa Detention Center. On October 7, he was tortured to death. Under supervision of the police, his family members checked his corpse and found his body scared from torture.

LI Hongwei had poor health and a bad temper before practicing Falun Gong cultivation. He started to practice Falun Gong in March 1996, and very quickly regained his health and became a kind person. His family became harmonious and he lived a happy life.

In July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin began persecuting Falun Gong, and LI Hongwei and his fellow practitioners went to Beijing to appeal. They planned on telling the leadership of the country of their own experiences in practicing Falun Gong and the benefits in body and mind they had attained. They were abducted on the way to Beijing, and LI was sent to a detention center for ten days because he refused to give up his belief in Falun Gong and his right to appeal. In the detention center, the guards beat him severely numerous times for practicing the exercises. Later, LI and over one hundred practitioners were sent to a brainwashing class in the city’s forced-labor camp, which was located in Xidayingzhi.

On September 24, people slandered Falun Gong in a meeting held by the brainwashing class. When LI stood up to refute the malicious lies, the people dragged him out of the room. When many of the practitioners stood up to stop the people, the authorities sent anti-riot police to suppress them. The perpetrators transferred LI and six other practitioners to the detention center, where LI was restrained with handcuffs and fetters. His abusers kept beating him and punched his right ear, puncturing his eardrum and almost causing him to go deaf.

On October 30, 1999, the authorities sentenced LI illegally to three years in a forced labor camp, and sent him to the second team of Chaoyang City Forced Labor Camp. In January 2002, because LI refused to renounce his belief, the perpetrators transferred him to the third group, where he was forced to take part in slave labor so heavy it overburdened the workers. During the 13-14 hours working from 5 a.m. through 8 p.m. every day, each of the prisoners was forced to dig a ditch 1.2 - 1.5 m (4-5 ft) deep and 20 m (65 ft.) long, or three holes 80 cm (2.6 ft) in diameter and 6 m (20 ft.) in depth. Those who couldn’t finish the quota would be beaten or forced to stand still in the corridor for hours with the upper half of their body bent over (this type of bending at the waist is a cruel torture method designed to cause excruciating pain).

The food was horrible. The authorities only supplied two meals indoors every day. Each meal consisted of two very small pieces of half-baked corn cake, which was mixed with sand and insects. At the labor site, they supplied three meals every day, with four small pieces of corn cake for breakfast and dinner, respectively, and a steamed bun for lunch. The prisoners hardly had a chance to taste a pickled vegetable (part of a common Chinese meal), and were served vegetables boiled with a mixture of salt water, sand and dirt. The Falun Gong practitioners were forced to do the hardest work and eat the least food. Without enough to eat, the other inmates would take a portion of the practitioners’ food for themselves.

Even though the practitioners worked hard, they nevertheless suffered physical abuse. The prisoners claimed, "The team leader said we have to beat the Falun Gong practitioners." The political instructor, a vicious guard named Tong Xiaoli, instigated the police and inmates to beat the practitioners on different occasions. In January 2000, LI Hongwei and another practitioner were practicing the exercises in a cell, and Tong had WANG, SONG, JIA and three other policemen drag LI and his fellow practitioner into the reception room, where the guards shocked them with high voltage electric batons and kicked their chests and necks with their boots. During the 30 minutes of torture, LI writhed with pain on the ground and his body became swollen from the electric shock. In February 2000, prisoner GAO Chunhai, was instigated by the guards and beat LI's face and head for over 20 minutes because they found him practicing the Falun Gong exercises. LI’s head and face were swollen, distorted and bruised. He had to use his fingers to help open his eyes. In August 2002, Tong Xiaoli directed prisoners to resort to violence in an attempt to brainwash LI Hongwei and another practitioner, LIU Chunhua. They then forced the two of them to kneel down in the yard under the burning sun for more than two hours. In August 2000, LI Hongwei was transferred back to the second team for brainwashing. In October 2000, he gave in to some of the authorities demands after being deceived by collaborators (former Falun Gong practitioners who accepted brainwashing and began assisting the police in brainwashing others) from the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and was later released.

After being released, he realized he had been deceived into betraying his conscience, and he wrote a solemn statement to again adhere to Falun Gong’s principles of "Truth, Compassion, and Tolerance" and rejoin the effort of saving lives by clarifying the facts about the persecution. The Shuangta Branch of the Public Security Bureau, the Qianjin Police Station, and the city’s "610 Office" (an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary branches) joined efforts to abduct LI from his home on the morning of September 26, 2002. He was sent to the First Detention Center of Chaoyang. His home was searched and his property confiscated. LI resisted this persecution with a hunger strike, accepting no food or water, and was force-fed by the police in the detention center. On October 1, he was force-fed for the first time. He was force-fed again on October 4.

On October 6, LI was seen being dragged out of his cell again by two people. He was unable to walk at all and looked extremely pale.

LI Hongwei may have been force-fed twice on that day. On the morning of October 7, some people from the Emergency Center of Chaoyang came to the First Detention Center of Chaoyang, attempting revive LI Hongwei, but pronounced him dead shortly after their arrival. News about this case was sealed off by the detention center following LI's death.

On October 10, the police notified LI’s family that LI died on October 7. Under supervision of the police, his family members checked his corpse. They found his back was black, with scars caused by large-scale electric shock torture. His ears were also black and had traces of blood inside. In addition, his body had apparently been cleaned up. When a family member tried to take photos, the police beat him, injuring his arms, and then handcuffed him to a steam pipe for 24 hours. The police smashed the camera and exposed the film before making two points to LI’s family: 1. The corpse would not be handed over to them, 2. Only a limited number of people would be allowed to see the cremation. The family members refused to let the police cremate the body. But on November 15, the Shuangta District Police Department told the family that they had to complete the cremation within three days. On November 18, without informing the family, the police secretly cremated the corpse. The family members didn’t know about it until many days later.

A police officer from Chaoyang City, Qianjing Police station has verified the death of LI, but when asked for the cause of death, he said, "I cannot tell you."

Zhao Jinhua 10.07.1999

On Sept. 27, 1999, the Zhangxing County police took Ms. ZHAO, 42 years old, away while she was working in the fields on the farm. At 8 p.m. on October 1, while ZHAO Jinhua and other practitioners were doing the sitting meditation, the deputy of the police station, Sun Shixun charged in with a group of people. They started to pull the practitioners’ hair, hit and kicked them. They beat the practitioners with rubber batons and later dragged ZHAO Jinhua into the duty officer’s office, and shocked her three times with electric batons until she fainted.

On the morning of October 7, after Ms. Zhao was beaten, she was ordered to stand barefoot on the concrete floor. ZHAO’s face was pale. She lost consciousness and fell to the ground. The police took her to the local hospital where she was given an injection. They then took her back to the police station to be tortured again. After being tortured, ZHAO complained of congestion in the chest, numbness, and pain in the right side of the body. There was blood in her urine, both of her legs were in pain and there were black and purple bruises from her waist down. She died at 4 p.m. on October 7, 1999.

On the morning of October 8, forensic doctors from Zhaoyuan City dissected her body. In the afternoon, forensic medical experts from Yantai City performed another autopsy, detailing findings as follows: injuries and wounds on many parts of the body except the head. Deposited blood beneath the skin for a total area of 120 cm x 60 cm. Conclusion: death caused by beating with blunt objects. Jia Hongju who was directly involved in this murder was promoted to secretary of the city government’s finance department.

Associated Press (AP), Agence France-Presse (AFP), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and ABC News reported Ms. Zhao’s death.

Zhang Zhiyou 10.06.2000

ZHANG Zhiyou, male, 45 years old, lived in Yuhe County, Weicheng District of Weifang City, Shandong Province. Both he and his wife are Falun Dafa practitioners. The couple took good care of their parents and was always happy to help others, which earned them a good reputation in their village.

On July 21, 1999, the couple was taken to the county government because they went to Beijing to appeal. They were brutally beaten and were forced to pay 1,700 yuan. In October of 1999, while his wife, Li Lingyun went to Beijing to appeal again, the county government officials dragged ZHANG to the judicial office, and then cruelly beat him for an entire day.

In April of 2000, Li Lingyun once again went to Beijing to appeal. After she was escorted back to Weifang, the county government officials beat her so cruelly that she lost consciousness. The thugs didn’t want to bear the responsibility if she should die, so they asked a Falun Dafa practitioner to take her home on a tricyle. ZHANG Zhiyou hid himself away from his home for a month. However, he was still unable to escape adversity after he returned.

He was so badly beaten by the county government officials that his whole body was bruised. He still felt pain and pressure in his chest two months later, and the suffering was so unbearable that he could hardly breathe. The couple was forced to pay 8,000 yuan as a fine. They borrowed money from all around, and thus their life became extremely difficult.

On October 4, 2000, they once again went to Beijing to appeal. On October 5, they were deceived by a plainclothes policeman at a corner in Tiananmen Square, and then were transferred to the Weifang agency in Beijing. Early on the morning of October 6, on their way back, ZHANG Zhiyou clearly knew that even if he were not beaten to death, he would be subjected to severe torture after being sent back to Yuhe County.

Therefore, Zhang Zhiyou decided to return to Beijing to appeal for the innocence of Falun Gong. When the train reached Cangzhou, practitioner ZHANG, along with four other practitioners, jumped out of the window of the train while the policemen were fast asleep. ZHANG Zhiyou died. His body was forcibly cremated in Cangzhou on October 8.

Reuters, AFP, the Central News Agency and the World Times reported the case on October 18 or 19, 2000.

Liu Yucai 10.05.2000

LIU Yucai, male, 60 years old, was a private doctor in Baimayi Village in Panshi City. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on October 1, 2000. He was subsequently beaten to death at the Beijing Chaoyang District Detention Center.

On October 5, the police told his family that he had died of a heart attack. However, there were wounds on his chest and his neck. His body was cremated the next day.

AP reported his case on October 30, 2000, in an article entitled "Three Falun Gong Practitioners Died in Police Custody."

Wang Bin 10.04.2000

WANG Bin, male, 47 years old, was a computer engineer at the Design Institute of the Daqing Oil Management Bureau, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. He was once awarded the second place of the National Science and Technology Award.

In December 1999, he took the initiative, along with more than 200 Falun Gong practitioners in Daqing city, Heilongjiang Province, to sign their names on the "Falun Dafa is Good" banner. When he took this banner and a petition letter to appeal to the National People's Congress, he was detained for more than one hundred days.

In April 2000, he was arrested by the overly nervous police for 45 days and charged with "contact with other practitioners" simply because he had a meal with nine practitioners. After his release, he went to Beijing at the end of May, 2000 to appeal and was sentenced to a labor camp.

On September 24, he firmly refused to write the guarantee letter at Dongfeng Xingchun Labor Camp in Daqing city and was severely beaten many times.

WANG was severely beaten up by 4 or 5 prisoners on the night of September 27, 2000. The beating was instigated by Feng Xi, the director of the Second Team of the labor camp. Feng Xi said to the principal offender, "You can beat him to death if he doesn't write the guarantee letter."

The torture caused the artery in his neck and major blood vessels to break. His tonsils were injured, his lymph nodes crushed (they had their circulation cut off), and several bones fractured. He had cigarette burns on the back of his hands and inside his nostrils. There were also many bruises all over his body.

It was too horrible to see his condition, and his life was in danger at that time. On that night, he was tortured until he fainted. Someone reported his condition to the prison guard and asked him to take WANG to the hospital.

The guard rejected the request, saying that it was no problem, and that WANG would wake up in a while. WANG remained unconscious through to the next day. When he was finally taken to the hospital, the doctor said it was too late to rescue him.

On the night of October 4, he died of severe injuries, including ruptured blood vessels and heart failure.

Yang Yan 09..2001

YANG Yan, female, 62 years old, was illegally detained in the No. 3 Detention Center of Changchun City's Bureau of Public Security.

She was tortured to death in September 2001.

Her body was full of bruises when she died. When the family was arranging for her body to be cremated, police were present to oversee the proceedings.

Another family member was threatened by the police and later got the ashes from the Detention Center. To date, the police have blocked any information about YANG’s death.