Liu Xiaoling 04..2001

LIU Xiaoling, female, 37 years old, lived in Wuzhan Township, Zhaodong City, Heilongjiang Province.

LIU was tortured to death in spring 2001 in the Zhaodong City Detention Center, Helongjiang Province.

At the end of 1999, LIU was arrested and detained. In prison, she went on a hunger strike, and in spring 2001, she was brutally force-fed with rancid bean curd soup, causing her death.

The legal autopsy revealed broken ribs as well as rancid bean curd in her lungs.

Li Rong 04..2002

LI Rong, female, lived in Changchun City.

In March 2002, she was arrested by the local police and accused of participating in the effort to tap into Changchun cable TV on March 5. In the short time between the end of March when she was arrested and the beginning of April, she was tortured to death.

The Changchun City Police Command Center admitted the fact of her death. An officer of the First Division of Police (431-8924896) in Changchun City did not deny her death but hung up several times when phone inquiries were made. Details of the case are in the process of being investigated.

Zou Guirong 04.23.2002

ZOU Guirong, female, 36 years old, used to be a worker at Xinbin County's Public Highway System in Fushun City, Liaoning Province.

In 1999, ZOU Guirong was put into jail because she went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong. She was moved to many different places during her illegal detention. They are: the labor camp in Fushun City, the Masanjia Labor Camp, the Zhangshi Labor Camp, the Shenxin Labor Camp and the underground prison hospital at the Dabei Jail in Shenyang City.

In August 2001, ZOU Guirong was force-fed and she suffered chest pains. Her electrocardiogram showed signs of abnormality, so the labor camp had to allow ZOU’s family to take her back home. However, only a few days later, SONG Junlin, the Political and Judiciary Committee Secretary of Xinbin County commanded the local police to break into ZOU’s home. They took her away by force and secretly transferred her to Fushun City’s Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp.

ZOU Guirong revealed her experiences twice to Minghui web site through the article, "My Experience Inside Masanjia Labor Camp". In her story, she gave details of the brutal beatings, shock from electric batons, physical abuse, personal insults, deprivation of sleep and food that she had experienced in the camp.

On November 13, 2000, six or seven inmates led by warden QIU Ping started to beat ZOU for more than three hours. During the beatings, ZOU lost control of her bowels. Later her face swelled up and one of her eyes almost swelled closed.

On October 17, 2000, because ZOU Guirong exposed the persecution that occurred to her while in Masanjia Labor Camp, warden Zhang Xiurong grabbed her neck and said, "I am just going to persecute you today". Zhang took out a knife from one the drawers of an office desk, and tried to convince ZOU that she should just commit suicide by cutting her own veins.

When ZOU was in the underground surveillance hospital of Dabei Jail, she started to undergo a hunger strike to protest the persecution, and was force-fed. She described in the article that two male cellmates held her head, restraining her neck and body. Then, they pressed the back of her head against the wall. They tried to insert a tube into her throat to feed her, but failed for more than ten tries. They told her to spit out the blood. One male inmate was so angry that he grabbed ZOU by the hair and forcefully threw her against the wall. One older nurse, whose last name was ZHU, slapped ZOU’s face twice and kicked ZOU in the legs, all the while clenching her teeth together spitefully. Then, she said to ZOU, "I am definitely going to feed you today. I am just going to use Fascism to treat such a heroine like you". At that time, ZOU had to undergo more than 30 incidences of forced feeding and the torture lasting for two hours.

As reported in Minghui on January 30, 2002, Wujiabao Labor Camp, together with the Second People’s Hospital in Wushun City, had set up a special place just to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. When ZOU was in that place, she was force fed with a tube and given intravenous shots almost everyday. Warden LIU Baochai stepped on ZOU’s face with his heavy leather boots, and forcefully muffled ZOU’s mouth with a towel while one nurse inserted a half-inch thick tube through ZOU’s nose, occasionally rubbing off the blood that gathered on the tube. Warden LIU Baochai ordered, "Force feed her throughout the day, and keep her on the bed. She will have to pee and poop on herself—nobody should be allowed to help her". As a result of the persecution, ZOU lost control of her bowels.

April 11, 2002, ZOU Guirong, together with eleven other fellow practitioners such as WANG Xiaoyie were again abducted, and they were put into the Shizi Tower Jail in Jiangjun District, Wushun City. There, the practitioners started a collective hunger strike to protest the unreasonable persecution. ZOU was force-fed again and suffered torture to both her body and mind.

On April 23, ZOU fell and injured herself while trying to escape from the jail. She was hospitalized, but it became impossible to get her out and she died in Wushun City Hospital.

Officials from the "610 Office" in Xinbin County admitted that it was they who sent ZOU Guirong to the Wujiabao Labor Camp, and they claimed that Falun Gong was a political struggle.

Zhang Wenya 04.22.2001

ZHANG Wenya, male, 35 yeas old, was a Falun Gong practitioner in Changchun who was persecuted to death on April 22, 2001, in Xi’an.

The police in Xi’an explained to his family that he had committed suicide and showed them a video of his suicide.

Question: How could there be a video if it was suicide? If a person committing suicide notifies the police of his intent and invites the police to film him, how could they not stop him?

Li Huixi 04.22.2000

LI Huixi, male, 40, Shouguang County, Weifang City, Shandong Province

LI Huixi went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong and was escorted back to the local police station of Houzhen Town on April 21, 2000. He was beaten to death on that night.

On April 22, 2000, the police informed his family that he was dead and cremated his body in a hurry. The police warned his family members not to disclose the news and gave them 45,000 yuan to keep quiet.

AFP and the Central News Agency reported news on April 25, 2000.

Sun Shizhong 04.19.2002

SUN Shizhong, male, was a resident in Songyuan City.

SUN Shizhong was incarcerated in the Yinmahe Labor Camp in Jiutai County. Around noon on April 19, 2002, a police officer named LU Changtai was determined to force twelve practitioners, including SUN, into renouncing Falun Gong. He sent inmates to get the electric batons, forced practitioners to take off their clothes, and shocked them.

Then he let the inmates take three practitioners—SUN Shizhong, SHI Renji, and ZHANG Guangchao—to a torture room and take turns beating them. The inmates tied SUN to a bed, whipped him with wooden strips, hit him with their elbows, kicked him with their boots, and bent him so that his legs were against his head. Later, they took SUN to the washroom to beat him up further.

Around 5 p.m. on April 19, 2002, one of the inmates said, "He is probably dead". The other one said, "He is faking". The next morning they discovered that SUN had died.

The police sentenced four inmates, including one named ZHANG Zuohai who directly participated in the beating. However, GAO Ke, the police officer that was truly responsible for SUN’s death was still at large.

Xu Zengliang 04.17.2001

XU Zengliang, male, 29, with a Bachelor's degree, was originally from Shuipo Village, Haiqing Town, City of Jiaonan.

XU Zengliang graduated with a Bachelor degree from the Shandong Chinese Medicine University in 1998, and was allocated to the Chinese Medicine Department of the Pingdu City Chinese Medicine Hospital. Due to his refusal to stop practicing Falun Gong, he was beaten to death on April 17, 2001.

When he died, his upper body was bare, and his legs were covered with red circles of three centimeters in diameter. On one side of his head, there was a 14cm long cut and his ear was also cut. He was covered with blood.

Li Xianglan 04.17.2001

LI Xianglan, female, 49, was from Zhenjiazhuang Village, Linjiacun Township, Zhucheng City, Weifang Prefecture, Shandong Province. She was brutally tortured during detention.

On April 15, 2001 the police beat her until she had wounds on top of wounds and was on the verge of death. The policemen did not want her to die in the detention center; so as to shirk their responsibility, they sent her back home.

LI died on the following day after she was released. After her death, police repeatedly threatened her family members. The police would not allow them to either appeal or sue. Instead the police tried to cover up their crimes of torture and murder.

Liu Yuqing 04.13.2002

LIU Yuqing, female, 40 years old, was a resident of 7 Zu, 10 Wei, Guchengzi Street, Wanghua District, Fushun City. She worked in the Fushun Special Steel Factory.

LIU Yuqing went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on October 23, 1999, and was arrested on the October 25 at Tiananmen Square. The police put her into a detention center. Later she was taken back by officers from the Wanghua District Police Department and detained in Fushun City Rehabilitation Center. One and a half months later, she was transferred to her work unit for detention, not allowed to go home and monitored by persons from the plant’s security section, without being allowed any personal freedom. This situation continued until February 2000.

On December 31, 2000, LIU Yuqing went to Tiananmen Square again and unfolded a banner reading "Falun Gong Is Good", telling people around the world that Falun Gong is good. She was arrested on the site and suffered brutal beatings and the "Tiger Bench" torture. She went on a hunger strike to protest her arrest and was unconditionally released seven days later.

On February 15, 2001, three officers from the Putun Police Station in Wanghua District forcibly dragged her down from the third floor at her work unit and took LIU Yuqing to the police station against her will. On the second day she was sent to Fushun City Detention Center, and half a month later she was transferred to Fushun City Wujiabao Labor Camp. During this period she suffered from torture, brutal beatings, interrogations, sleep deprivation and other physical and mental tortures. Her internal organs suffered serious damage from the beatings. In just over one month, she became extremely weak. She had a fever, blood in her urine, and looked sick and emaciated. Upon hearing the news, her family went to the labor camp asking for her release. On April 11, 2001, she was taken home.

However, the police department pursued this matter. After 8:00 p.m. on February 9, 2002, over a dozen people from Wanghua Police Department, the Guchengzi and Yanwu police stations, and from the local residential committee, led by police chief Yu Shoujun broke into her home by jumping over the wall and took away her personal property. LIU Yuqing suffered another round of persecution. Only 40 years old, she passed away on April 13, 2002. At her death, LIU Yuqing’s eyes were open and her mouth half open, with an expression of sadness for the injustice.

One police officer in Guchengzi police station admitted that LIU Yuqing passed away on April 13, 2002.

Yang Hailing 04.12.2003

YANG Hailing, female, 34 years old, was an employee at No.18 Donghai Coal Mine in Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province. YANG was tortured to death in the Mishan City No.1 Detention Center on April 12, 2003.

In March 2002, she was arrested for making truth-clarification materials and was sentenced to over 10 years in prison. She was refused admittance into the prison due to health reasons, so she was detained instead in the Mishan City No.1 Detention Center.

Her hands were cuffed behind her back so long that the tendons in both hands snapped. The police forcibly inserted a beer bottle in her mouth, and then force-fed her with a mustard solution. She was not given medical treatment, and died of torture on April 12, 2003.

Wu Jingfang 04.11.2002

WU Jingfang, female, 51years old, lived in Jieyang City, Guangdong Province

WU was abducted by the police on March 31, 2002 and locked up at the Number Two Jieyang Municipal Police Station. She was tortured to death in less than ten days and was secretly cremated.

On December 28, 2000, without any legal procedure, local policemen broke into her home, abducted her and imprisoned her in the county police station. On September 21, 2001, she was once again forcibly sent to a brainwashing class held by the city. While she was there, she firmly resisted their illegal demands.

On December 27, 2001, together with a few other fellow practitioners, she left the brainwashing class and wandered about in a homeless state.

On March 31, 2002, local policemen unlawfully arrested her at home and imprisoned her in the Number Two Jieyang Municipal Police Station. She protested the persecution by going on a hunger strike. Shortly after, she was tortured to death by the police and was secretly cremated on April 11.

Sun Yuhua 04.11.2003

SUN Yuhua, female, age 37, lived in the Jiefang Stationary Office Building, Tiedong District, Anshan City, Liaoning Province.

The police of Dabei Prison beat Sun to death on the morning of April 11, 2003.

At the end of October 2001, she was forced into a state of homelessness to avoid being abducted and taken to a brainwashing facility.

In June 2002, she was arrested by officers from Dongerbao Police Department, and was severely tortured. However, she maintained an unshakable belief in Falun Gong and respect for her teacher, so she refused to cooperate, and protested by holding a hunger strike. When she was on the brink of death she was released. Four months later, before she had completely recovered from the previous persecution, the police from Dongerbao Public Security Bureau forced open her front door, broke into her room, and again arrested her.

In March 2003, she was illegally sentenced to four years in prison, and on April 4, she was sent to the Dabei Prison of Shenyang City. On April 11, she was tortured to death. Her body was covered with all kinds of bruises, including blisters on her ribs resulting from electric shocks.

Police beat Sun to death on the morning of April 11, 2003. Police did not notify her family until the next day. Her medical file listed the cause of death as "myocardial infarction." The time of death was marked as 10:30 a.m., April 11, 2003. Although they put make-up on her face, there were still very visible marks caused from the electric baton shocks and bruises from the beatings. Her family members were threatened not to reveal any information to the public, and the prison attempted to prevent any information about the death from becoming public knowledge.

Her husband is also a Falun Gong practitioner, and he was arrested when explaining the facts about Falun Gong and was illegally sentenced to Anshan City’s Forced-Labor Camp. His child in elementary school was left behind to live with his grandmother.

Zhang Yanchao 04.09..

ZHANG Yanchao, male, 30 years old, lived in Xihuangqi Village, Lalin Town, Wuchang City, Heilongjiang Province. ZHANG died of torture on April 9 by Harbin City Police.

While on a business trip in early April, ZHANG was abducted by police from Hongqi Township Police Station. ZHANG was tortured in Wuchang City Prison, and several days later he was suddenly and quietly taken away by the Harbin City Police Department. On April 30, the Harbin City Police Department notified ZHANG's family that he had died.

At the Huangshanzuizi Crematory in Harbin City, ZHANG's family members and fellow villagers saw that his body had been brutalized beyond recognition. His skull had apparently been opened and later closed again. One of his eyeballs was missing and the socket was caved in, leaving a gaping hole. There was virtually no skin on his head and many parts of his face, and there was not a single tooth left in his lower jaw. Bruises and wounds covered his body, many parts of which were skinless. There was a long cut on his sunken chest, which had been sewn closed.

ZHANG's wife is now being illegally detained and his daughter was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution.

Wang Aijuan 04.08.2001

WANG Aijuan , female, 43 years old, was an employee at the Cotton Textile Factory.

At nightfall on April 3, 2001, when Ms. WANG Aijuan, Ms. Li Zhilian and Ms. Song Hongzhi went to distribute Falun Gong truth-clarifying materials in Qingchi Town, they were arrested by policemen from the Fangzi Branch of the Weifang Police Station, and savagely beaten.

Two days later, they were sent to Fangzi Detention Center illegally. The three of them refused to cooperate and started on a hunger strike as soon as they arrived at the detention center.

On the fourth day (April 6), Fangzi's National Security Team led by Wang Quanfeng (male, age around 38, the head of the Team) cruelly beat the three practitioners who were detained without due process. Wang Quanfeng and other policemen trampled on the practitioners' heads and kicked them.

The thugs led by Wang Quanfeng and Li Jinsheng (the head of the detention center, male, around 44) together with prisoners from the working units began to force-feed the practitioners. The practitioners resisted. The policemen then threw the practitioners to the ground and stepped on their temples not allowing them to move at all. If they did move, they were cruelly kicked in the breasts and groin area. Even though their bodies were covered with wounds, the practitioners did not give in.

On the fifth day (April 7), the torture intensified. Wang Quanfeng and Li Jinsheng gathered together a large number of prisoners to forcibly drag the three practitioners outside and tie them onto iron benches (a torture instrument). Li Jinsheng then assigned several people for each practitioner to proceed with the torture. Some would pull on someone's hair while others held their heads as the medical personnel pushed in the tubes. The practitioners struggled to resist. Each was force-fed two or three times before the thugs finally stopped. The practitioners who had no food-intake for 5 days were each force-fed one-kilogram of salt. Ms. WANG Aijuan was the last one to be force-fed.

Shortly after the force-feeding, the practitioners were in pain and started to vomit. Soon their clothing became saturated. Later the practitioners developed abdominal pain and needed to use the toilet, but Guo and others deliberately turned them down. WANG Aijuan cried after defecating in her pants. The thugs still would not release her from the bench. Her cellmates wanted to give her some water, but the police didn't even allow that.

On the morning of April 8, WANG Aijuan experienced severe pain in her groin area that immobilized her. The policemen on duty notified the prison doctor. They found WANG had also developed a high fever, so the practitioners were released from the benches at noontime. The doctor gave WANG Aijuan some medicine. When WANG went to the toilet, she collapsed in the washroom and had to be carried back to her room. Shortly after, WANG Aijuan was in shock. When the police found out that WANG Aijuan was dying, they put her in an ambulance and rushed her to the hospital. WANG Aijuan never came back. Later it was confirmed that she had died of the torture.

After WANG Aijuan died, individuals from the "610 Office" called her husband to attend the cremation of her body. WANG's husband knew that his wife had died because of the police's mistreatment, and he didn't give his consent to the cremation of her body. However the policemen beat him and then cremated WANG Aijuan's body without his consent.

After Li Zhilian and Song Zhihong returned from the hospital in Fangzi Town, the thugs from the "610 Office" illegally sentenced them to the labor camp to prevent the news that WANG Aijuan had died of torture from leaking out.

Agency France Press reported this on April 17, 2001.

Li Rong 04..2002

LI Rong, female, lived in Changchun City.

In March 2002, she was arrested by the local police and accused of participating in the effort to tap into Changchun cable TV on March 5.

In the short time between the end of March when she was arrested and the beginning of April, she was tortured to death.

The Changchun City Police Command Center admitted the fact of her death. An officer of the First Division of Police (431-8924896) in Changchun City did not deny her death but hung up several times when phone inquiries were made. Details of the case are in the process of being investigated.

Hua Haiyu 04..2003

HUA Haiyu, male, 53 years old, lived in Daqing Silver-Wave Lake and was a staff in the Corporation of Material Equipment of Daqing Petroleum Administration Bureau, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

HUA was arrested because he practiced Falun Gong. He died in April 2003, soon after he was released from the detention center.

After HUA’s death, the Material Equipment Corporation forced his wife (a Falun Gong practitioner), PU Yufan to write a "guarantee statement" to denounce Falun Gong. She refused to do so, and as a result, the work unit fired her son and daughter-in-law. She was forced to leave home. Her eighty-year-old mother lived in sorrow without care.

Li Zhongmin 04.03.2003

LI Zhongmin, male, 31 years old, was tortured to death on March 3, 2003.

In 2001, LI Zhongmin was arrested illegally by the Kaifa District Public Security Office of Dalian City, Liaoning Province and brutally tortured by LIU Wei and other policemen with high voltage electric-shock batons. LIU Wei ordered a couple of police to force LI Zhongmin against a brick on the ground and then used his foot to step on LI Zhongmin’s head very forcefully. LI Zhongmin's forehead was gashed open at several locations and his jacket was torn into pieces, but he escaped that night.

He was again arrested illegally by the Dalian City Police Department on January 12, 2002. His hands and feet were shackled, and he was held in the No. 7 cell, Yaojia Detention Center, Dalian City, Liaoning Province. He was tortured while in detention, and this was reported earlier on the Clearwisdom.net website. Later he was secretly and illegally sentenced to 15 years in jail. He was transferred to Dabei Prison in Shenyang City and subjected to constant torture until his death on March 4, 2003.

When he died, some witnesses saw numerous wounds on his body, with bloodstains on the back of his head and a big area of bruises on his inner thighs. There were many red marks on his back, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken in. After being arrested, LI Zhongmin refused to cooperate with the police’s demands. Over the course of more than one year of detention, he went on hunger strikes to protest his illegal arrest and persecution. He suffered horrendous abuse and mistreatment, and as a result, at the age of 31, he looked like an old man.

The police department had all along regarded him as a "key person," and several police units had asked the higher authorities to reward their "achievements" in arresting him. The higher authorities they had petitioned included Dalian City Police Department, Jinzhou District Police Department, Wafangdian Police Department, Pulandian Police Department, among others.

Zhongmin’s brother, LI Zhongke, also a Falun Gong practitioner, is being held and abused in Dalian City Labor Camp. Not long after hearing of LI Zhongmin’s death, his maternal grandmother was burdened with extreme sorrow and passed away as a result.

In the Kaifa District Public Security Office, LIU Wei (over forty years old), Vice Director of the "610 Office," SUN Deshun, Director of the "610 Office," and several other police officers are the main people responsible for persecuting practitioners. LIU Wei is especially cruel. He brutally tortured practitioners regardless of their ages and gender, and because of his brutality towards practitioners he was recognized and awarded by his superiors with a "Third Place Award."

Li Ying 04.02.2003

LI Ying, female, Wanghua District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province. She used to be a cashier in Gutian Market, and she ran a family-owned rice shop along Haicheng Street. Everyone who was acquainted with LI Ying knew that she became healthy after practicing Falun Gong, and she was righteous, kind and open-minded, no matter what happened to her. She would always take care of other people’s concerns first, and she got along well with people around her.

On March 31, 2003 at 11:30 a.m., she was abducted by police officers from the No. 1 Division of the Fushun City Police Department. Four police officers brutally tortured her. Three days later on April 2, she was tortured to death.

LI Ying's family went to the police department to ask for her and they requested meeting with her, but were met with rejection. They pleaded with the police and protested again and again. In the end, the police reluctantly let them in to see LI Ying. They saw her lying on the ground, with a white sheet covering her body. They pulled the sheet up and saw that LI Ying was on the verge of death. She only had strength to tell her husband, "Four police beat me..." before she passed away.

After she was beaten to death, the police department spread rumors, saying that LI Ying died of a disease. The autopsy revealed that her shoulder area was purple and black and that the color ran four centimeters deep. Her kidney had accumulated water, her liver was blackened, and there was a hole in her heart with blood flowing out of it. The police department covered up the whole event, and they also forced LI Ying’s family to keep silent. LI Ying’s family is currently unwilling to reveal the truth due to pressure from the police.

On April 10, 2003, some people made a telephone inquiry and called the Public Security Bureau at 86-413-2624451 in Fushun city, the call was immediately hung up by the receiver as soon as the inquiry about the LI Ying’s death was mentioned. When people called 86-413-6452534, the phone number for the community center along Youyan Street, the receiver didn’t disagree with the fact that LI Ying was beaten to death, but asked the caller to call other people and at the same time, claiming that no other people were around.

Lai Zhijun ..2000

LAI Zhijun, male, 50 years old, was the assistant mayor and the deputy director of the Peoples' Representative Council in Fenggang Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province.

LAI Zhijun was arrested for protesting in Beijing against the government's illegal ban on Falun Gong. He was sent to a forced-labor camp in Sanshui, Guangdong Province. He persisted in practicing Falun Gong exercises in the camp. For this, he was savagely beaten and shocked with electric batons. Afterwards he went on a hunger strike to protest. Within a few days, he was tortured to death. A policeman named CHEN Ruihong, who might have participated in abusing LAI, witnessed his death. (CHEN was later transferred to another team.) The secretary of the director of Sanshui Forced-labor Camp personally admitted that they were responsible for LAI’s death.

According to an Associated Press report on May 31, 2001, a government official said that LAI Zhijun had been arrested last year for protesting in Beijing against the government's ban on Falun Gong. He died the same year in a labor camp in Sanshui, in the southern province of Guangdong. According to the official, who also works in Fenggang, LAI had been a government office manager in the Guangdong town of Fenggang. The official said he did not know the cause of LAI's death.