Hou Xiuping ..2000

HOU Xiuping, female, 35 years old, lived in the Nanguan District of Changchun City.

After July 22, 1999, she went to appeal in Beijing against the persecution of Falun Gong. She was illegally detained for distributing Falun Gong materials in her own small shop.

In December 2000, she was illegally sentenced to three years of "re-education" through forced labor. She died as a result of her treatment in the labor camp.

When her family was in the Bureau of Public Security, taking care of the paperwork, police told them that she had "jumped out of the building and committed suicide" from another room where police detained her.

Later, when her family rejected the "suicide" explanation and wanted to appeal, the Bureau of Public Security gave the family 20,000 Yuan as a private settlement.

Ye Xiufeng 03.28.2001

YE Xiufeng, female, 65 years old, lived in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

YE Xiufeng was affiliated with the Administrative Station of the No. 1 Oil Extraction Plant in Daqing City. In mid of December 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal and then was illegally detained after taken back to Daqing.

She protested the unlawful persecution by hunger strike. On the 45th day, her condition was extremely poor.

Being afraid that she might die in the center, the police released her. But her health was severely damaged and soon after, on March 28, 2001 she died.

Zhang Yuanming 03..2001

ZHANG Yuanming, male, 42 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner and lived in Zhencai Villiage in Nongan County, Changchun.

In November 2000, he was illegally detained in the Fenjin Labor Camp. Before the Spring Festival of 2001, ZHANG died as a result of the abuse he suffered in the camp.

Tian 03..2001

Mrs. TIAN

To escape from police, TIAN’s wife jumped out of a seventh-floor window, along with LIU Lei, in March 2001, when thirty to forty police officers broke into the room where she and seven other Falun Gong practitioners were preparing materials to expose the persecution.

They covered the heads of five practitioners with bags and beat them with iron rods, belts, and electrical batons until they fell unconscious.

TIAN’s wife and LIU Lei died of their fall and the other seven practitioners were detained.

Ren Tingling 03..2001

REN Tingling, female, was 51 years old and from Haiyang Town, Yantai City, Shandong Province.

On February 22, 2001 (Chinese lunar calendar), Haiyang City's "610 Office" issued an order which stated that those practitioners who did not give up practicing Falun Gong would be forced to gather at "115 Base" to be brainwashed. Over 160 practitioners from the city were put in rooms of different sizes. Men and women were locked together in the same rooms.

REN Tingling, jailed in room 209, was from Xiaotan Village in Liuge Town. She was brought back from Beijing after appealing for Falun Gong and was illegally imprisoned. Before coming to the "115 Base", she was imprisoned in the Dongcun Detention Center. People in the Dongcun Detention Center used extremely cruel and inhuman methods to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.

In March, when she was brought to the "115 Base", REN Tingling was at the verge of death. One day, the other practitioners from room 209 found that REN Tingling was in extreme discomfort. She was holding her body, clutching her own shoulders with her arms and her whole body was shaking. She was in critical condition.

The other practitioners immediately told the guard, but the guard did not care. Shortly after that, the guard forced the practitioners to go watch a brainwashing video. Some practitioners wanted to stay and take care of REN but the guard prohibited them.

That morning, between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m., REN Tingling died.

Liu Lei 03..2001

LIU Lei, female, from Changchun City.

In March 2001, when WANG Hongxiang, XIAO Jinyu, ZHANG Jian, JIA Shenlin, BAI Mingxu, HUANG Lijuan, LIU Lei, TIAN's wife, and another practitioner with the surname of SUN, who were all from the development region in Changchun, were producing Falun Gong materials to help expose the truth about the persecution, thirty to forty police officers broke into the room.

The police covered the heads of five practitioners with bags and beat them with iron rods, belts, and electrical batons until they fell unconscious. LIU Lei and TIAN's wife jumped out of the window from the seventh floor and died. The other seven practitioners were detained.

AFP reported the case on April 27, 2001.

Hou Lijun 03..2001

HOU Lijun, female, approx. 60 years old, was a teacher at the Changchun City University of Technology.

After the persecution started in 1999, she was detained several times in a local drug rehabilitation facility in Changchun. She went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to appeal around November 2000, but was tortured and sustained massive bruises.

Her face was swollen and deformed and she was near death. The next day she was taken to a hospital for an examination. The doctor said that she could only leave after two to three months.

Since the police were afraid of having to take responsibility for her, they let her go home. She died around March 2001 due to severe internal injuries.

Liu Yi 03.18.2002

LIU Yi, male, 34 years old, lived on Qingnian Road in the Luyuan District of Changchun City.

Because he was a Falun Gong practitioner and resisted the persecution, Mr. LIU was viciously beaten to death in the office of the Criminal Police Division of the Luyuan District Police Bureau on March 18, 2002.

His body was placed in People's Liberation Army No. 208 Hospital. The police watched his family around the clock and strictly blocked any news.

LIU’s was the first case of death resulting from brutality following the police dragnet for Falun Gong practitioners that began after March 5. Directly under pressure from Jiang Zemin, more than 5,000 Falun Gong practitioners were arrested and detained.

Hao Runjuan 03.18.2002

HAO Runjuan, female, 28 years old, used to live in Baiyun District, Guangzhou City.

HAO Runjuan went to Beijing to appeal four times. She was illegally arrested on February 25, 2002 and was tortured to death on March 18, 2002. Over twenty-two days, HAO Runjuan suffered all kinds of brutal torture.

After HAO Runjuan was illegally arrested on February 25, 2002, personnel of Jingtai police station, Baiyun District brutally beat her continuously for three days, and withheld water and food. Three days later, she was taken against her will into Guangzhou City Baiyun Detention Center and was held in cell A211. Cellmates closely monitored her.

In order to resist such illegal detention and to help more people know about the truth of Falun Gong, HAO Runjuan persistently practiced the Falun Gong exercises in her cell every day. She patiently clarified the truth to the common criminals in the cell and remained on a hunger strike, taking no food or water, to protest the persecution.

The police added some unknown yellow drug when they force-fed HAO. Following each force-feeding, she vomited continuously, discharging something like phlegm.

As soon as HAO Runjuan practiced the exercises, the guards would immediately shackle both her feet in irons and fix the shackles onto the cement floor so that she could not move. (This is called "connected rings and fixed shackles.") Because of such torture, HAO became extremely weak and lost control of her bladder and bowels.

HAO Runjuan had never cooperated with any arrangement, order or command of her persecutors. Instead, she persisted in protesting the abuses with a hunger strike. Even after she had lost control of her bowels and bladder, the police replaced the shackles with even thicker and heavier ones. This caused her tremendous pain.

At one time, in order to stop HAO from practicing the exercises, the guards cuffed her hands behind her back, with one hand coming down from the shoulder and connecting to the other hand coming up from the lower back. This was excruciatingly painful and caused dislocation of one of her shoulders.

During this period, while still wearing heavy shackles, guards often dragged HAO out for interrogation. Every night they deprived her of sleep. After twenty-two days of this kind of torture, HAO died of the abuse.

When the family was notified to identify the body, it had become completely unrecognizable, but there were still fresh, red bloodstains on it. Because the body was so disfigured, none of her family members believed it was HAO Runjuan, even after seeing the body twice. Then, the family had to bring the two-year-old son for a DNA blood test to prove the body was truly that of his mother.

Yu Qiushi 03.16.2002

YU Qiushi, female, 64 years old, used to live in Zhenlai County. YU Qiushi was illegally arrested while distributing Falun Gong materials in Zhenlai County on December 21, 2001.

When she was sent to a detention center, she went on a hunger strike without water to protest the persecution. The police used force-feeding methods to torture her until she developed bloody stools and became very weak.

On January 1, 2002, the eleventh day of her hunger strike, the police sent her to the county hospital where she was injected with an unknown drug that caused her to develop abdominal distension and swelling of the legs. Her family was not allowed to take her home until she was on the verge of death.

She died at home seventy days later, on March 16, 2002.

Liu Haibo 03.13.2002

LIU Haibo, male, 35 years old, was a medical doctor in the CT room of Luyuan District Hospital inChangchun City

LIU Haibo was illegally detained and tortured several times for practicing Falun Gong, and his home was ransacked.

On the evening of March 11, 2002, LIU was abducted from home by police officers from the Kuancheng District Bureau of Public Security of Changchun City. Police viciously tortured him to extort a "confession."

On March 13, several police officers shocked him with high-voltage electric batons. At 1:00 a.m. the next day, he was found dead.

Yu Yongquan 03.08.2003

YU Yongquan, male, 45 years old, was an employee at at Daqing City No.2 Rice Mill, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

On May 11, 2002, Police officers from Ranghulu District Police Department abducted YU at a truth-clarifying material production site.

On September 22, 2002, without notifying family members, Ranghulu District Court sentenced YU to ten years in jail. He was sent to the Hongweixing Jail in Daqing City.

On March 8, 2003, YU was sent to the hospital that belongs to the jail when he was tortured near death. He died on the same day. Jail authorities forbade examining his body and forced to cremate his body.

Lu Xiuyun 03.07.2002

LU Xiuyun, female, 53 years old, lived in Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

On January 13, 2002, after LIU had attended a Falun Gong gathering, she was abducted and put into Daqing City's Detention Center. Since she was imprisoned she had launched a hunger strike for protest.

On January 22, after being force-fed, she felt an extreme pain in her chest and abdomen; she suffered for a whole day. In the morning of January 23 she was found to have no pulse and her blood pressure could not be detected.

Even though she was in critical situation, a doctor named Sun in the detention center still kept on force-feeding her. Shortly after that she was in shock. She was sent to Daqing City's People's Hospital for emergency medical treatment.

After she was taken back home on February 22, 2002, she went into a coma and experienced swelling in her head. She passed away at 9:00 p.m. on March 7, 2002.

Liu Shusong 03.07.2001

LIU Shusong, male, was a 28 years old resident in Shijianzhuang City. LIU was born in Xijuanzi Village, Chulongtang Township, Cang County, Hebei Province.

On March 6th, 2001, while on a train to Beijing, LIU was arrested by the police without any reason or explanation. On the afternoon of March 8th, 2001, LIU's father received a death notice from the Shijiazhuang police.

When LIU’s father went to see the body on March 9 at the Hebei Provincial Hospital, he saw that the top and the back of LIU's head had been severely injured. He also found four scars on each side of Shusong's chest between the 3rd and 5th ribs—most likely from electric shocks. LIU's left wrist was deeply festered and his right wrist had a large bruise on it. The bones in LIU's heel were also exposed and cracked.

The location of LIU’s torture and death was the Shijiazhuang Public Security Bureau, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

Meng Xianzhi 03.05.2002

MENG Xianzhi, female, 54 years old, lived in Honghe Development, Taiping District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province.

MENG died on March 5, 2002 from torture suffered in Division 7 of Wanjia Forced Labor Camp.

MENG was arrested from her home in July 2001. She endured constant beatings and mental torture, and developed scabies. On March 4, 2002, MENG lost consciousness while washing her scabies and lost control of her bladder and bowels.

The prison doctor measured her blood pressure to be higher than 260/180, and she was diagnosed with a brain hemorrhage. MENG died the next day in Hospital #2 of Harbin Medical School.

Chen Hongping 03.05.2003

CHEN Hongping, female, was native from Canfangying Village, Beixinpu Town, Huailai County, Hebei Province.

On June 10, 2001, while she and her sister were talking to people about Falun Gong at the Donghuayuan Bus Station in Huailai County, she was arrested by policemen of Donghuayuan Police Station. The police hung her up and beat her severely. As a result, she spit up blood, her entire body was black and blue, patches of her hair fell apart showing a piece of her scalp, and both of her legs were broken.

Even though she had been tortured to a state of paralysis in both legs, the police still sent her to the Huailai Detention Center for further torture.

The next day, CHEN was taken directly to the Gaoyang Labor Camp in Hebei Province, without any legal procedure. At that time, her injuries were very severe. In the labor camp, she was intimidated and tortured by the police and criminals. Moreover, dozens of collaborators (former practitioners who gave up and turned against Falun Gong under pressure) attempted to brainwash her 24 hours a day.

After one and a half years of torture, CHEN was on the verge of death. On January 29, 2003, Gaoyang Labor Camp sent her to the local hospital and she was diagnosed with four serious illnesses. Not wanting her to die in the labor camp, the Gaoyang Labor Camp hastily ordered a policewoman to send her home the same night.

After arriving at home, she was still in high fever and kept coughing; her heart failed to work properly, and she could not eat. On March 5, she passed away at home.

Jiang Shuahua 03.03.2002

JIANG Shuahua, female, 50 years old lived in Shihuiyao Village, Yangtian Township, Chicheng County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.

She was abducted by policemen on February 8, 2002 and tortured to death at 1:00 a.m. on March 3, 2002.

Zhang Changming 03.02.2003

ZHANG Changming, male, 50 years old, was an employee at the Xinjian Coal Mine in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province. ZHANG died on March 2, 2003 from torture suffered in the Jiamusi Forced Labor Camp.

In December 1999, ZHANG was illegally sentenced to a 3-year term at a forced labor camp. Although he escaped from the detention center on November 3, 2000, he was eventually found and brought back, where he again suffered repeated torture including solitary confinement and intense beatings.

On February 28, 2003, ZHANG was stabbed in his head and body with screwdrivers by YANG Chunming, supervisor, and YANG Wenbing, police officer, until ZHANG had internal bleeding, large bruises, and vomited blood. He was refused treatment at the hospital, so on March 2, 2003 he was brought home.

That night, he passed away. His entire back was blue, his legs shrunken, and his chest, jaw, and right hand were covered in large bruises. His family remains under surveillance.

Lu Shuqiu 02..2002

LU Shuqiu, female, 46 years old, lived on Yan’an Street in the Changyi District of Jilin City.

In October 2000, she went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and was arrested. On November 24, 2000, she was illegally sent to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, where she was tortured for eight months. She was forced to do heavy labor from 4 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day with only one five-minute break to use the washroom.

In late February 2001, LU was transferred to the 6th Team, the so-called "model team", an "honor" awarded by the Re-education Labor Department of the Justice Bureau. There, she suffered vicious torture at the hands of a guard named ZHANG Tao and was on the verge of a mental breakdown.

In April 2001, the Re-education Labor Department sent an inspection team to the camp. One of the visitors asked LU, "Is Falun Dafa good? Did someone deceive you into going to Beijing to make trouble ?" LU answered, "I became healthy after I practiced Falun Gong. I benefited from it. Nobody deceived me, and it was my own decision to go to Beijing".

After the inspection team left, camp officials intensified LU’s torture. They shocked her with several electric batons simultaneously, causing damage to her heart. She started a hunger strike in the beginning of May. The police subsequently handcuffed her to an iron bed and force-fed her three times a day. Although the doctors instructed that she be fed with milk, a female guard named SUN Mingyan used salty soup and corn soup instead. The force-feeding was actually a very cruel form of punishment, and LU's health was completely destroyed. She sustained heart damage from the electrical shocks and stomach injuries from the force-feeding and had continuous vaginal bleeding.. At the end of July 2001, seeing that LU was in a critical condition, the camp notified her family to take her home.

In February 2002, LU managed to go to Beijing to appeal her case. Several days later, her family received a notice from the police, asking them to bring 2,000 yuan to Beijing to bail her out. But the next day, the police informed the family that LU had died at the Jilin City Police Department’s Beijing Office.