Guan Lin 11..2002

Ms. GUAN Lin, female, translation director of an African language program at China Radio International, lived in the Yongle Residential Area of Shijingshan District in Beijing.

In 2001, Ms. GUAN was forced to leave her home to avoid being subjected to brainwashing.

In the mid-November of 2002, she was arrested while telling others the truth about the situation regarding Falun Gong in Tiananmen Square. Shortly thereafter, she was tortured to death.

Before taking up the practice of Falun Gong, Guan Lin had suffered from cancer. However, after she began to cultivate Falun Gong, she miraculously recovered. Her death sent shockwaves throughout China Radio International.

Li Liang 11.26.2003

LI Liang, male, 45 years old, lived in Maoming City. LI used to work at Maoming City Human Resources Bureau. He began Falun Gong practice in 1998 and fully recovered from his chronic Hepatitis B.

On May 30, 2003, perpetrators named PENG JiYANG Weijie, WU Ke, and LI Bin, from the Maoming City 610 Office, and YAO Kangxin, from Maoming City Human Resources Bureau, broke into LI’s home, abducted him, ransacked his home, and sent him to Maoming Detention Center.

Because LI refused to give up Dafa practice, he was sent Guangdong Sanshui Labor Camp, where he was not allowed to practice Falun Gong. He was tortured until his lower limbs swelled severely. He passed away on November 26, 2003 after the hospital staff failed to revive him.

One of LI’s friends recently investigated the cause of his death. An official with the last name LIN, at the workers' office from Maoming City Human Ressources Bureau (668-2281-375), changed the causes of LI's death several times, and then claimed that he was a new staff member and didn't know about the case.

The same day, a man with the last name LI, at the Maoming City 610 Office (668-2910-610), tried to arrest LI's friend who had called for information.

The official told LI's friend, "only if you come over to our office will we be able to talk to you about the details."

Zhao Jin 11.23.2000

ZHAO Jin, female, 19 years old, lived in Yushu Village in Baishan Xiang, which is in the Fengman District of Jilin City. On November 22, 2000, she took a bus with forty-four other practitioners from Changchun to Beijing in order to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong.

On November 23, 2000, when the bus reached the Inspection Station at Yutian County in Hebei Province, police intercepted it. The police ordered the bus driver to follow their car to Yutian County Police Station.

While the bus was moving, ZHAO jumped out of a window on the right side of the bus. The police stopped the bus and said that ZHAO was fine. On the third night, the police reported that she died of jumping out of the bus window and asked five practitioners to stay behind as witnesses.

The police cremated ZHAO’s body without waiting for her family. However, according to an eyewitness, ZHAO was beaten to death by the police.

Another witness said that she had called a taxi to Beijing after jumping from the bus. The police caught the taxi and brought her back to the detention center where other practitioners then heard mixed sounds of police dogs and a girl’s cries.

Meng Qingxi 11.20.2000

Meng Qingxi, male, in his 40's, was from Mengjia village, Mucun town, Fangzi district, Weifang city, Shandong province.

On the evening of September 30, 2000, town government officials abducted him and took him to the town law office. There were more than 20 Dafa practitioners being held there, all in the same room.

They were detained because the town government wanted to obey the Party's order to "transform Falun Gong practitioners by force". It soon became apparent that the transformation was only an excuse to extort money. They instructed everyone that whoever paid 2,000 Yuan could go home immediately.

MENG Qingxi's entire family practices Falun Gong. They had been fined more than twenty thousand yuan since last year. They already owed heavy debts and had difficult lives. They weren't able to collect enough money after visiting all of their relatives and friends.

The town government personnel forced them to go home to borrow more money during the day, and then took them back to the law office at night for "study and transformation". If they couldn't borrow money during the day, they would be brutally tortured at night.

MENG and his wife and the other over twenty Dafa practitioners spent almost 60 such nights and days in the law office.

On the night of November 20, government personnel beat MENG Qingxi to death. Then they accused MENG Qingxi of "fearing labor education" and accused him of "committing suicide for fear of punishment." They tried to confuse people and cover up their evil deeds by propagating this rumor.

After MENG was beaten to death, the town government forced cremation and buried him. The thugs were afraid that if people saw his horrible-looking body, they would know he was beaten to death.

The town government is monitoring MENG Qingxi's family 24 hours a day and does not allow them to contact the outside.

Agency France Presse reported the case.

Wei Zaixin 11.15.2002

WEI Zaixin, male, 63 years old, was a senior engineer at the school of Advanced Technological Studies in Fushun City, Liaoning province.

Due to his steadfast commitment to Falun Gong, WEI Zaixin, was on the verge of death from torture by the police in Jiangjun Detention Center, Fushun City, Liaoning Province, in June 2002. He failed to respond to any medical treatment and passed away on November 15, 2002.

WEI Zaixin was a senior engineer at the School of Advanced Technological Studies in Fushun City, Liaoning Province. On February 7, 2002, he went to the home of a fellow practitioner where he was abducted, beaten, and cruelly tortured by the police from Section One of the Police Department of Fushun City, Liaoning Province. Police from the Liangzhan Street Police Station were also present to help extort a confession from him.

After being tortured for the entire night, he was sent to the intensive control team in Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp.

In June 2002, WEI Zaixin was sent to the No. 2 Detention Center in Shizilou, Jiangjun District by the Jiangjun Police Station in Fushun City to await his sentence. While WEI was detained there, the police in the detention center instigated criminal inmates to abuse him in an inhumane manner.

In July, the Police Department sent him, now on the verge of death due to torture, to the city hospital and asked his family members to pick him up.

On November 15, 2002, because he was so seriously injured from the torture by the police, he failed to respond to any medical treatment and passed away.

The pictures of WEI Zaixin, taken in the hospital, show that he was in a coma at that time. A witness said that, before WEI passed away, it seemed that he had aged 20 years since before his detainment; his whole body was swollen. Because family members were not allowed to visit him or send him clothes, his body was covered with festering wounds after his long period of detainment. He could not stand, sit, or lie down.

This elderly gentleman was in pain every minute. He was forced to sleep near the toilet, where prisoners would trample and step all over him. The old man suffered brutal torture and humiliation. The prisoners would often pull down his pants when he was unguarded. His pants were thickly covered with blood and skin.

The prison guards would order the prisoners to pull down his pants when they saw that WEI’s blood, flesh and skin had dried and stuck to his pants again. They repeatedly tortured and maliciously humiliated him.

Under the instigation of the prison guards, the persecution of WEI by the prisoners escalated steadily. In order to destroy WEI both physically and mentally, the prisoners spared no means to further his suffering.

A staff member at the School of Advanced Technological Studies in Fushun City confirmed to the reporter from Falun Gong Information Center that WEI died in November. However, the staff member seemed very nervous when answering the questions and refused to release any more details.

Yang Guiqin 11.13.2002

YANG Guiqin, female, 43 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Liaoyuan City.

She was tortured to death on November 13, 2002, while incarcerated in the Second Team, Fourth Division of the Jilin Province Women's Prison. Prison authorities waited two days before notifying YANG’s family of her death. Furthermore, her family was not allowed to see the body, which was quickly cremated without their consent.

Song Changguang 11.12.2002

SONG Changguang, male, 26 years old, Biangang Village, Changchun City.

SONG Changguang was about to graduate from the Telecommunications College of Jilin University. He was a Falun Gong practitioner and lived in the Biangang Village area of Changchun. SONG was detained in Division Four of the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp.

Guards and inmates there fiendishly beat him. His body was covered with bruises, and his toenails fell off from being pounded with a hammer. Soon after his release, he died on November 12, 2002, from internal injuries due to torture.

Wang Lixuan 11.07.2000

WANG Lixuan, female, 27 years old, Xixia, Yantai City. (See MENG Hao below.)

MENG Hao, Wang Lixuan’s son, about 8 months old.

Since July 20, 1999, WANG Lixuan had gone eight times to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa (during which she went on three appeals while pregnant and twice carrying her son). She was arrested on October 21, 2000 on her way to Beijing. When she escaped from the detention center on October 22, she went to Beijing again.

On November 7, 2000 both WANG Lixuan and her son were tortured to death at the Tuanhe Labor Re-education Camp. When her family received the death notification, they saw their frozen bodies. Autopsy showed that WANG Lixuan’s neck was broken, her tailbone was cracked, and there were dents in her head and a needle in her waist.

Her son, MENG Hao’s ankles bore two deep cuts, his head had two purple bruises, and there was blood in his nose. According to analysis, it is possible that Meng Hao was hung upside down with handcuffs on his ankles.

WANG Lixuan’s father, Wang Guihai, 53 years old, is a Falun Gong practitioner. At 10 p.m. on November 2, 2000, police climbed over his courtyard and charged into his home. They searched his house, cut off the phone line and forcefully took him to the Zibo City Wangchun Labor Camp.

WANG Lixuan’s mother, Li Xiuxiang, 51 years old, is a Falun Gong practitioner and has been detained many times for appealing in Beijing.

WANG Lixuan’s younger sister, Wang Lihui, 23 years old, is a Falun Gong practitioner and a student from Yantai University. Due to the fact that she went to appeal at Beijing, she was expelled and unlawfully taken to the Zibo Wangchun Labor Camp.

WANG Lixuan’s younger brother, Wang Xuchao, 21 years old, is a Falun Gong practitioner and a student at Jinan Architecture University. He was expelled due to appealing in Beijing.

Zou Songtao 11.03.2000

ZOU Songtao, male, 28, Qingdao City.

ZOU Songtao was a postgraduate student of Oceanic Biology. Since July 22, 1999, he has been illegally detained many times, and since he refused to answer any questions or sign statements, he was tortured in an iron chair with both hands handcuffed to the chair. His head and face became swollen so badly that people could hardly recognize him.

On July 18, ZOU was arrested at his home and sentenced to 3 years in a labor re-education camp. He was detained in the Qingdao Labor Education Camp (also known as the Shengjian Basan Factory) from July 18 to September 26. Only family members who didn't practice Falun Gong could visit him.

On September 26, without notifying his family, he was suddenly transferred to the Shandong Labor Re-education Camp at Zibo City, Wangchun District for intensive "transformation education", where none of his family members were allowed to visit him.

At 1:10 p.m. on November 3, 2000, ZOU was beaten to death with an electric baton by police officer, Zhen Wannian and officer Shao. His family was forced not to spread the news of his death and was even forbidden to cry at home, just in case other people would find out.

On the afternoon of November 4, 2000, his body was cremated against his family’s wishes at Zhangdian in Zibo City.

His wife, ZHANG Yunhe was forced to leave her home to avoid arrest, and her current whereabouts are unknown. His mother-in-law passed away from grief. His three-year-old daughter now lives with his elderly father-in-law.

Agence France Presse and RFA reported this news on November 8, 2000.

Yang Guijun 10..2002

YANG Guiqin, female, 43 years old, lived in Changchun, Jilin Province.
YANG Guijun, female, 47 years old, lived in Liaoyuan City. (See YANG Guiqin below.)

YANG Guijun had been on the police’s wanted list for practicing Falun Gong. On March 12, 2002, Liaoyuan City Communist Party Secretary ZHAO Zhenqi led more than forty police, including the head of Liaoyuan City Police Department, in surrounding a Falun Gong material production site. They arrested fifteen practitioners, including YANG Guijun and her sister YANG Guiqin.

The Liaoyuan City Secondary People’s Court illegally gave all fifteen practitioners heavy sentences. Guijun and Guiqin received thirteen- and fourteen-year sentences, respectively, in Jilin Province Female Prison. Guiqin was tortured to death after being in prison for two months. Seven months later, YANG Guijun was also tortured to death there.

Investigations revealed that the women were subjected to horrible torture by the city police. They were forced to sit on the “Tiger Bench,” shocked with electric batons, hung up by handcuffs, had their feet burned with cigarettes, and subjected to “needling.” The “Tiger Bench” is a small iron bench approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall. Victims’ knees are tied down tightly onto this bench, and their hands are tied back or on the knees. They have to sit straight up, looking straight ahead. Usually, hard objects are inserted beneath their lower legs or ankles to increase the pain. In “needling,” the torturers use very thin needles to piece the practitioners’ fingertips, toe tips, and neck. The needles leave no marks or traces of blood on the skin, but the piercing causes excrutiating pain.

Wang Jinlong 10..2001

WANG Jinlong, 34, from Junan County, Linyi City, Shandong Province.

WANG Jinlong was arrested in August of 2001 for traveling with two other Falun Gong practitioners to Yanggu County to tell people the truth about Falun Gong. WANG protested his unlawful captivity with a hunger strike. For this he was tortured severely and force-fed for half a month, which led to his death.

WANG's body was immediately sent to the crematorium by authorities to hide any evidence of abuse. Authorities later went so far as to extort money from WANG's family when they went to claim his ashes.

Zhong Yunxiu 10..1999

HUANG, male, 31 years old, was an employee at the No. 10 Research Lab, Fushun Research Institute for Petroleum and Petrochemicals, an affiliate of the Petroleum Chemical Company of China.

HUANG Ke, from Wanghua District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was arrested in late June 2003. The perpetrators were police from the Guangming Police Station in Wanghua District. He was detained at the Fushun First Detention Center, and was tortured to death on July 3, only ten days after his arrest.

In March 2003, he was abducted and was sent to the Fushun First Detention Center. He refused to give up his personal belief in Falun Gong (Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance). To protest the unlawful treatment, he went on a hunger strike. Then, he was sent to a hospital where he was force-fed, but with no success due to his resistance.

After about ten days, seeing that he was on the verge of dying, the police let him go home. In June 2003, HUANG was arrested and put in the Fushun First Detention Center again, where he went on a hunger strike to protest. He was force fed many times. At 6:00 a.m. on July 3, he passed away in the detention center.

In October 1999, HUANG’s wife ZHONG Yunxiu was also tortured to death for being firm in practicing Falun Gong. At that time, their daughter was not yet two years old. After HUANG Ke’s death, his elderly parents and his daughter, who is not yet six years old, will be left uncared for. The former Xinmin Police Station has merged with the Guangming Police Station, under the name Guangming Police Station.

An employee in HUANG Ke’s work unit, Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals (Office: 86-413-6428144), confirmed that HUANG died in the detention center. As to HUANG’s case, the receptionist at the Fushun First Detention Center (86-413-7702472), sometimes said, "There was no such person," while other times said, “I don’t know.” When the reporter called Guangming Police Station in Wangjiang District (86-413-6429829), to ask for the cause of HUANG’s death, a policeman answered that he couldn’t talk about the death case over the phone.