Zhang Dezhen 01.29.2003

Ms. ZHANG Dezhen, 38 years old, was a teacher at the Mengyin County Number 6th High School (Jiuzai High School). She was detained and beaten many times by the members of the Mengyin Police Department and the “610 Office”.

On January 29, 2003, ZHANG Dezhen was held at a ward in the South No. Three Building of Mengyin County Hospital of Chinese Traditional Medicine where members of the “610 Office”, prison doctors of the Mengyin County Detention Center and the doctors from the Mengyin County Hospital of Chinese Traditional Medicine plotted together and illegally gave ZHANG Dezhen an injection of some kind of drug. (After the injection, usually the victims would feel hot and thirsty. When the dosage was small the victims would feel extremely thirsty and hungry and if the dosage was large the victims would feel short of breath and experience heart failure.) ZHANG Dezhen died following the forced injection.

On January 31, 2003, ZHANG Dezhen's family members were notified to meet with "610 Office" representatives. Her brother, Zhang Dewen, and her nephew were taken directly to the funeral home. Her body was curled up, there were wounds on top of wounds, and she was highly emaciated. Several of her teeth were knocked out. Members of the Mengyin County "610 Office" forced Zhang Dewen to sign a slip releasing the body for cremation, but he refused. As a result, Zhang Dewen was also brutally beaten. He had no choice but to sign the slip. Thus, no autopsy was performed by a court appointed doctor, and no family member attended the cremation.

Liu Shufen 01.29.2003

LIU Shufen, female, 39, Tangzi Village, Anti Township, Yinan County.

Ms. LIU Shufen was arrested without due process of the law by the Mengyin County Police Department and the “610 Office” on September 16, 2002 and locked up at the Mengyin County Detention Center. During the illegal detention she was brutally tortured by the “610 Office” and the detention center. After more than four months of cruel torture she died on January 29, 2003 (Chinese Lunar Calendar December 27).

On January 31, 2003 (Chinese Lunar Calendar December 29) LIU Shufen’s family members were notified to meet with the "610 Office" representatives and were asked to have a meal with the Deputy Director, Lei Yancheng. After the meal they were directly taken to the Mengyin County funeral home where they saw LIU Shufen’s body. They found that LIU’s body was curled up; there were wounds all over her body, and she was highly emaciated. The perpetrators of the "610 Office" tried to use threats and blackmail to force LIU Shufen’s family members to sign the cremation notice.

Only when LIU Shufen’s family members lodged a strong protest did the perpetrators allow a postmortem to be performed. The legal medical expert found that there was bleeding in LIU Shufen’s head and there were wounds on top of wounds that were apparently the result of severe beating. LIU Shufen’s remains were immediately cremated by police order. After the death of LIU Shufen and ZHANG Dezhen the police searched their homes and their relatives’ homes and took away all their photos. These policemen were afraid that their crime of murdering innocent people might be exposed.

Several Falun Dafa practitioners who were detained together with LIU Shufen and ZHANG Dezhen disclosed that both LIU and ZHANG were badly beaten. At the time, LIU Shufen was the only Falun Dafa practitioner who witnessed the murder of ZHANG Dezhen. LIU Shufen herself was then beaten into unconsciousness. The policemen were afraid that their crimes would be exposed so they said that LIU Shufen had a brain problem and needed an operation. LIU Shufen was taken out of the detention center. She died after the operation. It was apparent that they killed her to prevent her from disclosing their crimes.

Chen Guibin 01..2001

CHEN Guibin, male, 35 years old, used to work at the Yinhe Company in Wucheng County, Shandong Province. He had practiced Falun Dafa for more than six years and was strong and healthy. Well known as a good worker in the company, he was a solid force in the machine shop.

Since july 1999, when Jiang Zemin and his accomplices started persecuting Falun Gong, CHEN Guibin was detained many times, and fined more than 2,500 yuan. Before New Year's Day of 2001, CHEN Guibin was arrested once again. Then on january 8, four guards from the Yinhe Company Security Department took CHEN to the security office. As soon as CHEN stepped into the office, they put handcuffs on him and started the brutal beating. Two bones in his neck were broken.

Even when CHEN's whole body was injured and he was paralyzed, the four guards still wouldn't let up. They kept beating CHEN and finally threw him outside into the snow, where he lay for more than an hour. When they saw that he wasn't able to move, they carried him back to the detention room. The four guards tossed his quilt on the floor, leaving nothing to cover his body, Then they opened the window and tried to freeze CHEN to death.

On January 9, his mother called many relatives to talk with the company. They finally rescued him, but his injuries were too severe, he left the world in extreme pain.

Jiang Liying 01.25.2001

JIANG Liying, female, Zhaoyuan City.

Ever since her childhood, one of JIANG Liying’s legs had been disabled. Since the persecution of Falun Gong started, she had appealed in Beijing numerous times and was unlawfully detained and fined (her family was forced to pay bonds of up to 2000 yuan). At 8 a.m. on January 19, 2001, Zhaoyuan City police, Li Guibo and Liu Wenqing charged into JIANG Liying’s home and unlawfully searched it, confiscating Dafa materials and books. They then brought her to the detention center.

On the morning of January 21, JIANG Liying was transferred from the detention center to the “610 Office” where she was interrogated about where the materials that exposed the truth about the persecution came from. Due to her refusal to reveal the source of the materials, she was beaten and tortured. They beat her with fists, kicked her, shocked her with electric batons, squashed the front of her body with metal sheets and used a hammer to hit the metal. She was tortured for 24 hours straight.

On the January 23, she was taken to the Linglong Substation and not allowed to eat. At 5 p.m., on January 24, 2001, the substation notified her family of her detainment. At this time, JIANG Liying was already unconscious and both of her hands had turned black. Her family asked for her immediate release. After gaining permission from the central police department, she was finally released. Her family rushed her to hospital, but her life could not be saved. JIANG Liying died at 10:10 a.m. on January 25.

Zhang Zhigen 01.25.2002

ZHANG Zhigen, female, 53 years old, was an employee of Zhangjiakou City Embroidery Workshop in Hebei Province. She lived on Gongyuan Road in Zhangjiakou City. She went to Beijing to make petition for Falun Gong on October 24 1999 and was arrested while doing the sitting meditation in Tiananmen Square. She was sent to Tiananmen Square Police Substation. The policemen beat her. Later, when she was sent back to Zhangjiakou City Qiaoxi Police Substation, the policemen performed a body search and confiscated more than 1000 Yuan (Chinese currency: an average urban Chinese worker's monthly wage is about 500 Yuan) cash from her illegally.

After that, she was detained twice, first for 10 days in Xuanhua Detention Center and then for 40 days in Huai'an Detention Center. They didn't release her until her family paid so-called fines of more than 10,000 and 3000 Yuan.

In April 2000, she was illegally detained in Xuanhua Detention Center for 17 days. Sufferings in the Detention Center caused her leg to turn into black and she could not walk, but no one took care of her. Only when her leg developed black and purple dots and she had blood in her urine was she released. She was carried to Zhangjiakou No.1 Subsidiary Hospital. The doctors had to amputate one of her legs due to the delay in treatment. She became disabled.

On October 6, 2000, ZHANG, on crutches, took a taxi to Beijing again. She was arrested while meditating in Tiananmen Square. She was detained in Zhangjiakou City Shisanli Detention Center for 9 days. The warden confiscated her crutches. She had to get help from other Falun Gong practitioners for everything, including going to the restroom. To protest the illegal detention, she went on another hunger strike. When her other leg started to turn black and she was dying, the detention center notified her family to pick her up. She was sent to Zhangjiakou No.1 Subsidiary Hospital again, where she was on intravenous drip for 24 hours and then released the following day. She went home, but never recovered. On January 25 2002, she died.

Sun Xueyan 01.23.2003

SUN Xueyan, female, age 72, lived in the 7th group, 31st subdivision, Qichaihong community, Guanshan administrative area, Beipiao City of Liaoning Province.

SUN Xueyan was abducted by the local Security Bureau of Beipiao City and detained in the Beipiao Jail several times because she spread the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. She was not allowed to sleep for six days straight. In November of 2002, YUN was once again detained in the Beipiao jail, there, she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, later on, her life was in danger so she was released from the prison. After coming back home, she had a high fever. She died on January 23, 2003.

In the early morning of January 30, 2002, SUN Xueyan went out to spread news of the truth, three ruffians, who had been spying on Sun the whole time, kid-napped and dragged Sun to the local security bureau. The bureau chief kicked her seven times with his heavy leather boots, and then the chief poured a big jar of cold tea on her. After that, the chief from the “610 Office” poured another big jar of cold water on Sun. Sun’s face was covered with water, with tea foam all over her face, and her body was also drenched. At this time, it was right in the middle of winter, with cold winds piercing through to the bones. The policemen forced her to stand right at the entrance to a big street, and put a big cardboard poster beside SUN which read, “The person who posts Falun Gong flyers,” so that people would recognize her. They asked a local TV station to videotape SUN and showed the tape several times in the local area. The local newspapers also reported her abduction. Sun’s home was ransacked, and police stole many Falun Gong materials and some equipment. The worth of the equipment would be around 20,000 to 30,000 yuan (US$2,400-3,600).

The Public Security Bureau interrogated Sun for six days. Four people took turns to watch her, and Sun was not allowed to sleep for six days. Each day, she was asked to tell where she got the Falun Gong materials and the equipment. Sun didn’t eat anything during this time. On the sixth day, she was taken to another office to be questioned, but the police department got nothing from her, so, Sun was finally put into jail.

On the eighth day after her hunger strike, Sun felt extremely exhausted that afternoon. She was then released from the prison because the policemen were afraid that she might die in the jail and they were afraid of the consequences. On the third day after Sun came back home, as she was still lying in bed. Around 1:30 a.m. four policemen came and kicked down the door and ransacked Sun’s home again. As soon as the Chinese Spring Festival was over, Sun was under constant police surveillance. Everyday, there would be one police car parked right under the apartment where Sun lived, and this lasted for two weeks. After the police car was gone, the local public security would send staff to Sun’s home every two or three days, harassing her and ransacking her belongings.

Around 5:00 p.m., on July 17, 2002, the local public security bureau sent out four to five policemen to Sun’s residence and abducted her back to the local public security bureau. There, Sun was detained for 15 days, and the bureau then blackmailed Sun’s daughter for 1500 yuan ($US181.00) for Sun’s release.

On November 6, 2002 (right before the 16th Chinese Central Government’s National Delegation Meeting was held), some policemen from the local bureau broke into Sun’s house again, forced her into the police car, and took her to the bureau for detention. Sun started a hunger strike to resist the persecution, and during the hunger strike she fainted. She started a fever and when it did not go away, this endangered her life. The local bureau reported the case to some upper security bureau, and was told that Sun could not be released because it was right during the period when the 16th National Delegation Meeting was being held. Only after November 18 would Sun be released. By November 13, Sun was barely alive. The Beipiao City mayor finally decided to let Sun go home.

When her family took Sun home, her fever would not go down. She could not eat anything and she lost control of her excretory organs and died on January 23, 2003.

Wang Xiujuan 01.21.2001

WANG Xiujuan, female, 36 years old, was a farmer in Masong Village, Weifang City, Shandong Province was beaten to death on January 21, 2001.

According to eyewitness accounts, WANG Xiujuan and seven fellow Falun Gong practitioners had been illegally detained since September 26, 2000 by the township under the pretense of a "transformation class," and they were not released until February 13, 2001, almost five months later. Each practitioner was kept in a separate room that was locked day and night, and they were not allowed family visits, even for the Chinese Lunar New Year.

The staff led by the Secretary of the Township’s Committee of politics and Law, Zhao Shijun often beat practitioners with twisted wire whips. (This causes severe damage to a person’s skin and can take the skin right off.) Besides beating the practitioners, the thugs barred family members from sending in food to the practitioners.

They attempted to break practitioners’ belief using violence, starvation and exposure to the cold. However, despite the brutality, none of the practitioners fought back or talked back, nor did they yield to their persecutors. In the afternoon of January 21, 2001, Zhao Shijun and staff member Gao Yongrui badly beat WANG who had not had any food for 4 or 5 days. At about 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon, WANG was beaten to death.

To avoid responsibility they cremated WANG without notifying her family members. AAP reported the case on April 13, 2001.

Wu Jingxia 01.19.2002

WU Jingxia, 29, Gejia Village, Fenghuang Street, Fangzi District, Weifang City

WU Jingxia was arrested on January 6, 2002 while she was distributing flyers with information about Falun Gong. She was sent to a brainwashing class on January 18 and tortured to death around 5:00 p.m. on January 19. Notice of her death was not sent to her family until January 20.

According to a witness, many police officers monitored the family members and relatives who came to show their last respects. Ms. WU Jingxia's family members and relatives witnessed the cuts and bruises that were visible all over her body and also noticed the four or five deep depressions on her chest caused by electric batons. Her lower back and thighs were beaten so severely that they had dark bruises. The beatings had fractured one of her thighbones, and her face was covered with blood, which made her body difficult to recognize.

After her death, members from the Fenghuang Street Administrative Office and the Fangzi District Police Department set illegal surveillance systems in place to monitor her mother, her husband, and all of her other relatives. They were under 24-hour house arrest. At the same time, the authorities did not allow relatives and friends to visit the family. Nearby villages were also under control to block the news from getting out. The perpetrators were extremely afraid of their crime being exposed.

Ms. WU left behind a 15-month-old baby.

Zhang Qifa 01.18.2003

ZHANG Qifa, 38 years old, lived in Baishan City, Jilin Province.
ZHANG Quanfu, male, 65 years old, lived in Baishan City, Jilin Province.

ZHANG Quanfu and his son, ZHANG Qifa, were both employees at the Sanchazi Department of Forestry in the Jiangyuan County Forestry Bureau of Baishan City.

ZHANG Quanfu began to practice Falun Gong in January 1999, and soon all his illnesses, including bone spurs and uremia, disappeared. After the persecution of Falun Gong begun in July 1999, he and his son both went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong twice. Subsequently, they were illegally sent to the Baishan City Forced Labor Camp and then the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City.

ZHANG Quanfu suffered all sorts of torture in the labor camps. He became very thin, his body was covered with scabies, and there was pus and blood in his stool. On January 8, 2003, he was beaten to death by the police in the 2nd Squadron of the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp’s 6th Brigade.

On January 18, 2003, ten days after his father’s death, ZHANG Qifa was released from the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. He was on the brink of death, and his body was covered with wounds. He could not walk because of pain in his legs, and he had difficulty breathing, defecating, and urinating. He died at noon on January 18, 2003.

The police from Sancha Police Station in Jiangyuan County, Baishan City, confirmed the deaths of ZHANG Quanfu and his son, ZHANG Qifa.

Sun Yumei 01..2001

SUN Yumei, female, was a 55 years old worker at Zhangjiakou City Gas Engine Factory, and lived at Heishiba, Qiaodong District. Before SUN took up Falun Gong, she suffered from severe kidney problems and rheumatic heart disease that had caused osteoporosis, swelling of her joints and detachment of her retina. She almost lost her eyesight as a result. After learning Falun Gong in September 1998, all of her medical problems disappeared. After the persecution was launched in July 1999, she went to Beijing many times to make petitions.

In July 2000, when she was in Tiananmen Square, the police knocked her down and she suffered from severe head injuries: her head swelled, her scalp was bleeding, and she lost consciousness. As soon as she woke up, without giving any treatment, the police took her to Menkougou and detained her illegally. She was released after she went on a hunger strike.

On October 27, 2000, she went to Beijing again and was arrested at Xiahuayuan by Zhajiakou City Police together with twelve other Falun Gong practitioners. Li Jingyuan, the public security bureau chief was responsible for spearheading the persecution of the thirteen practitioners.

Directed by their superiors YAN Zhiyou, MA Fuwei and LI Quanfu, the Criminal Police Squad of Qiaodong Public Security Subdivision forbid practitioners to sleep for one week, forced them to sit on the Tiger Bench for many days and nights, and brutally force-fed them. After being jailed for 60 days, the practitioners were covered with cuts and bruises, however the labor camp refused to admit them.

SUN was carried into the forced labor camp because she was suffering from dropsy (severe accumulation of body fluids in tissue that causes swelling). A few days later, she was acquitted, but remained jailed by Wuyilu Police Station Chief Deng Jianmin. The policemen didn’t release her until her condition turned critical and her life was in jeopardy. However, local police continued to hound her after she went home. She was forced to leave home to escape further persecution.

She died in Yutian County, Hebei Province as a result of several rounds of persecution by the police, which destroyed her physically.

Liu Rongxiu 01.14.2001

LIU Rongxiu, female, 50 years old, was a resident of Qingyuan section of Changan district, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

In early December 2000, LIU went to Beijing to appeal to the government together with another practitioner named Hu. The two were brought back on December 6th by the Yuhualu police sub-station (Changan branch, Shijiazhuang Police Department).

These two 50 year-old women were initially sentenced to criminal detention and, later, to a labor camp. On January 14th, 2001, LIU died while in police custody. The location of LIU’s torture and death was the Shijiazhuang City Detention Center.

Sun Youfa 01.13.2001

SUN Youfa, born on December 12, 1977, was a male, 24 years old resident at the No. 2 Group in Kangping Donjiao in the Town of Lishu, Lishu County. The police arrested him on the afternoon of December 31, 2000, when he unfurled a Falun Gong banner on Tiananmen Square, and sent him to the Beijing Fengtai Detention Center later that evening.

On January 1, 2001, the police beat him during interrogation and put handcuffs on his hands and feet before sending him back to his cell. SUN could neither lie down nor stand, but could only sit curled up. He went on a hunger strike to protest.

From January 2 to 3, the police force-fed him several times. They grabbed his nose, hit him on his chest, and forced milk mixed with salt into him. This treatment caused SUN to choke and made it increasingly difficult for him to breathe.

On the afternoon of January 6, they had to send him to the hospital. After examining SUN, a doctor told the detention center that he was in critical condition. Later that evening, the police hustled him to the train station. The staff there refused to take him due to his poor condition, so the police had to bring him back to the center. They later sent him again to the train station but this time just left him there. SUN died on January 13.

According to the person who took a picture of SUN’s body, it was covered with wounds. There was blood in his mouth, and his eyes were open.

Yu Guanyun 01.12.2003

YU Guanyun, male, 61 years old, lived in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province

YU died on January 12, 2003 from torture suffered in the Changlinzi Labor Camp and the Wanjia Hospital in Harbin City.

YU was illegally detained twice before being abducted and sentenced to three years of forced labor in the Changlinzi Labor Camp in Harbin City in July 2002. He died on January 12, 2003 in Wanjia Hospital.

His eldest son, 28-year-old Yun Zhenyi, was also tortured to death in the Wanjia Hospital on June 14, 2002. Examination showed that his head had been struck repeatedly with a heavy object.

Zhang Quanfu 01.08.2003

ZHANG Quanfu, male, 65 years old, lived in Baishan City, Jilin Province.

ZHANG Qifa, 38 years old, lived in Baishan City, Jilin Province. ZHANG Quanfu and his son, ZHANG Qifa, were both employees at the Sanchazi Department of Forestry in the Jiangyuan County Forestry Bureau of Baishan City.

ZHANG Quanfu began to practice Falun Gong in January 1999, and soon all his illnesses, including bone spurs and uremia, disappeared. After the persecution of Falun Gong begun in July 1999, he and his son both went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong twice. Subsequently, they were illegally sent to the Baishan City Forced Labor Camp and then the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City.

ZHANG Quanfu suffered all sorts of torture in the labor camps. He became very thin, his body was covered with scabies, and there was pus and blood in his stool. On January 8, 2003, he was beaten to death by the police in the 2nd Squadron of the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp’s 6th Brigade.

On January 18, 2003, ten days after his father’s death, ZHANG Qifa was released from the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp. He was on the brink of death, and his body was covered with wounds. He could not walk because of pain in his legs, and he had difficulty breathing, defecating, and urinating. He died at noon on January 18, 2003.

The police from Sancha Police Station in Jiangyuan County, Baishan City, confirmed the deaths of ZHANG Quanfu and his son, ZHANG Qifa.

Sun Shiwen 01.08.2001

SUN Shiwen, male, 40 years old, from the Town of Chengzijie in Jiutai City, was tortured to death in Jiutai Forced Labor Camp.

His wife gave the following account on March 15, 2001: “My name is LI Jianying. My husband, SUN Shiwen, was illegally sent to Jiutai Forced Labor Camp on December 14, 2000 and tortured to death on January 8, 2001. The authorities of the camp told us that he died of a heart attack. When my family saw his body, the back of his skull was crushed and there was a bump on the left side of his head. He sustained injuries on the front of his head. There was blood in his nostrils and on his hands, which had not been wiped clean. When my family requested to have an autopsy, they said that we had to pay for it. Since I was also locked in a labor camp for practicing Falun Gong at that time and we had three kids, we did not have money for the autopsy. We were unable to obtain any evidence.”

Hong Haoyuan 01.05.2003

HONG Haoyuan, male, 28 years old, was an expert in mobile communication technology from the Chaozhou City Postal and Telecommunications Bureau, Chaozhou, Guangdong Province.

In the spring of 2000, HONG went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was detained in the basement of Guangdong’s office in Beijing. He was force-fed drugs and locked in a mental hospital among mental patients for one month. In May 2000, HONG was transferred to the Sanshui Forced Labor Camp for a two-year term.

While there, he kept practicing Falun Gong. He and several other Falun Gong practitioners went on a hunger strike for the right to practice Falun Gong. They were tortured, confined inside a tiny, completely dark room, subjected to electric shocks and beating, which resulted in severe internal injuries.

In former Division 7, the guards forced HONG to write a pledge promising to give up Falun Gong; otherwise, they would use two to three electric batons of more than ten thousand volts to shock him for over ten hours a day.

In the second half of 2001, HONG practiced the exercises openly. Guards openly beat him so fiercely with a bench that they broke the bench in two and severely injured HONG’S internal organs. The forced labor camp did not release him until April 2002.

At that time, a formerly healthy young man had been tortured to skin and bones, with severe injuries. Relatives, friends and neighbors could not recognize him. In the early morning of January 5, 2003, HONG passed away.

Zhang Zhenfu 01.04.2002

ZHANG Zhenfu, male, 58 years old, lived in Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province. ZHANG was tortured to death on January 4, 2002 in Hegang City’s Detention Center.

On January 2, 2002, police from the Shengli Police Station in Hegang City abducted ZHANG and his son, Tingfan, from home. ZHANG died during a violent force-feeding on January 4, 2004.

Liu Shuchun 01.03.2001

LIU Shuchun, male, 38 years old, was a resident of Songzhuang town in Changyi County of Weifang City. At the end of 2000, LIU Shuchun was sentenced to a labor camp because he practiced Falun Gong.

He was tortured to death in the Changle Labor Camp at the beginning of 2001. His whole body was deep black and blue with large-scale bruises. In order to cover up their crimes, the labor camp officials wrapped up LIU Shuchun's head so that no one could see the wounds on his face.

The labor camp officials notified LIU’s family of his death on January 3, but they did not tell LIU’s wife who was detained in Jinan Female Detention Center because she practiced Falun Gong. Up to date, she is still detained there. Now, only LIU’s elderly parents and a 7-year-old daughter are left at home, with nobody to take care of them.

Wang Xiufen 01.01.2002

WANG Xiufen, female, 36 years old, lived in Zuojia Town, Yongji City. On the morning of December 21, 2001, police illegally arrested her when she went with another Falun Gong practitioner to Tumenling Town in Jiutai City to distribute Falun Gong materials.

At about 9 a.m. on January 1, 2002, the Jiutai City Police Department informed WANG’s family that she had been arrested, and they illegally ransacked her home that same afternoon. At around 5 p.m., the police department called WANG's family to take her to a hospital for medical treatment. Her family members went to the police department and requested to see her, but were informed that she was at the hospital.

When the family arrived at the Jiutai City People's Hospital, they saw she was near death. About ten minutes later, she died. At the time, she had no clothes on her lower body. Her left ankle was swollen, part of her right leg was blue in color, and the skin from her back to her buttocks and ribs was a purplish, dark blood color. She also had a wound above her eyes. According to an eyewitness at the hospital, her mouth and eyes were bloody but had been wiped clean.

WANG’s family members decided to wait for the autopsy. The Jiutai City Police Department became extremely nervous and sent two carloads of police to the hospital. Soon the family members came to understand that she had been tortured to death, so they videotaped her body at the autopsy as evidence.

When the Jiutai City Police Department learned about the videotaping, they threatened the family, forced them to turn in the tape, and confiscated the video camera. Then the police blocked all information and threatened the family, causing them to be in a constant state of panic and fear.

He Huajiang 01.01.2002

HE Huajiang, male, 45 years old, lived in Qingxin, Heilongjiang Province. HE Huajiang died of torture on December 23, 2002 in the Daqing Forced Labor Camp.

He worked for the 4th Unit of 6th Oil Factory in Daqing City. On September 16, 2002, officers from the Qingxin Police Station in Hulu District forcefully abducted HE from his workplace and then ransacked his home.

After detaining him for over three months, they sent him to the 2nd unit of the Daqing Forced Labor Camp on December 23, 2002 to serve a 3-year sentence. For refusing to write the so-called “letter of regret [for practicing Falun Dafa],” the police ordered several prisoners, including Wang Qinglin, Jiang Fa, and Zhao Yanjun, to torture HE from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. The prisoners tied HE to an iron chair, sealed his mouth, and opened the windows. In addition, they took him outside to freeze him. Around 11 p.m., HE was found frozen to death in the 2nd unit bathroom.

Fu Qiang (a doctor in the labor camp) tried to revive him but failed. HE’s body was secretly cremated by the forced labor camp on January 1, 2003. Those responsible for torturing HE include the above-mentioned prisoners as well as Director Han Jinshan, Clinic Doctor Fu Qiang, Vice Director Wang Yongxiang, 1st Unit Leader Wang Xichun, Vice Leader Zhang Mingzhu, and Officers Wang Gang and Xu Enjun.

Gao Xianmin 01..2000

GAO Xianmin, male, 41 years old, lived in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.

On New Year's Day of 2000, GAO and ten other Falun Gong practitioners from the Tianhe District in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province were having a picnic in Tianhe Park. They were arrested and detained in the Tianhe Detention Center. The practitioners conducted hunger strikes to protest the illegal detention.

Policeman ZHU Wenyong, the director of the Tianhe Detention Center at that time, directed four criminal inmates to stand on the practitioner's four limbs while other inmates forced the practitioner's mouth open with a toothbrush. They then poured a whole packet (500 grams) of salt into a bottle, mixed with only a little water.

All of the Dafa practitioners on hunger strike were force-fed in this manner. Female practitioner ZHANG Chunmei was once force-fed with two packets of salt. She could not move afterwards, remained unconscious for several days and nights, and lost control of her bowels and bladder.

In the beginning, when they force-fed Dafa practitioner GAO Xianmin, one of the inmates witnessing the scene became frightened and fainted. Policeman ZHU Wenyong had the prisoner removed and replaced him with another one to continue the force-feeding. GAO Xianmin eventually died as a result of the brutal force-feeding.

Fu Chunsheng 01.01.2002

FU Chunsheng, male, 51 years old, was an employee of the Hydro-Engineering Machinery Plant in Jilin City.

On December 12, 1999, he was abducted and detained in the Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp in Jilin City for having gone to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. He was sentenced to one year of forced labor. FU was later transferred to the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai and was eventually released on September 12, 2001

On December 28, 2001, three police officers, including ZHANG Yuanren, from the Dachangtun Police Station in Fengman District broke into FU’s house, arrested him, and ransacked his home. FU was then sent to the 3rd Detention Center in Jilin on December 29, 2001.

On January 3, 2002, the police informed FU’s family that he had died of a “sudden heart attack” at 11:50 p.m. on January 1, 2002. However, his family confirmed that FU never had any heart problem and had been very healthy since he started to practice Falun Gong. During his detention,
he had received several physical exams that found his blood pressure and heart completely normal.

On January 5, his family members saw his body. He was so badly beaten that they could not bear to look at him. His ears and torso were black and blue, his head was turned to the side, and his arms turned outward as if they had been tied up. His head and face were distorted, with blood in and around his mouth. There were wounds on his abdomen and extravasated blood on his body. His eyes were open.