Huang Weijun 05..2002

HUANG Weijun, female, 50 years old, was a native of Jieyang City, Guangdong Province.

HUANG was arrested in May 2002 and was tortured to death the same month at the Number One Jieyang Municipal Police Station.

HUANG was arrested when she was clarifying the facts about Falun Gong. She was detained in the Number One Jieyang Municipal Police Station where she suffered tremendous torture. She went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal arrest.

However, with no regard for the practitioners’ lives and safety, the 610 Office did not notify her family members until her hunger strike had gone on for more than ten days. It was too late to attempt any rescue measures, and she passed away.

Zuo Zhigang 05.30.2001

ZUO Zhigang, male, 33 years old, worked at a computer company located on Zhongshan Street in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

On May 30th, 2001, police from the Public Security Bureau of Shijiazhuang City and the "610" Office (an office designated for the persecution of Falun Gong) suddenly appeared at ZUO’s workplace and took him to the Qiaoxi District Police Station for interrogation.

ZUO died that same day and his corpse was full of scars. In addition, one of ZUO’s ears was dark purple and there were two big square-shaped holes on his back. A mark on his neck indicated that he was strangled by a rope. The location of ZUO’s torture and death was Qiaoxi District Police Station in Shijiazhuang City.

Yin Shuyun 05.28.2000

YIN Shuyun, female, 46 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Changchun City.

In 2000, during sessions of the National People’s Congress and the Party’s Congress, she went to Beijing to appeal in Tiananmen Square against the persecution of Falun Gong. She was arrested and sent to Heizuizi Female Labor Camp in Jilin for "re-education" through forced labor.

Several police officers together with LIU Lianyin, head of the labor camp’s Second Division, severely beat YIN. They kicked her in the stomach and used electric batons to shock her mouth, teeth, and body.

While beating her, the police kept asking YIN whether she still wanted to practice Falun Gong. When she answered, "Yes", they beat her more and more viciously until her body was black and blue all over.

LIU grasped YIN’s head and smashed it against the wall till she bled. They pulled her hair out by handfuls.

On the afternoon of May 28, 2000, YIN Shuyun died of this torture.

Li Mei 05.28.2001

LI Mei, female, 33, Laiyang City, Shandong Province.

Zhao from the Township dragged LI Mei to the town center to be tortured and later placed her in the Laiyang City Communist Education College to be brainwashed. During this time, she led others in steadfastly practicing Falun Gong so she was beaten until her spinal cord was severed and her lower body was paralyzed. She was rushed to the hospital and died on May 28, 2001.

The township government refused to pay her hospital fees; however, in order to stop the news of their actions from spreading, they gave her family 30,000 Yuan (the average urban worker's monthly wage is 500 Yuan) and asked them to tell other people that LI Mei's death was a suicide. Government officials also confiscated all photographs of LI Mei from her home.

LI Mei’s husband wanted justice and tried to get a lawyer. But due to the fact that his wife practices Falun Gong, no one dared to take on the case. After LI Mei died, the hospital wanted 60,000 yuan from her family for the body; however, as a farmer, there is no way her husband could afford it. Therefore, her body still remains at the hospital to this day.

Reuters, Agence France Presse, RFA and the World Daily reported this case on September 19, 2000.

Zhou Wenjie 05.26.2002

ZHOU Wenjie, female, 43 years old, was an English teacher at Dongfeng County's No. 2 Middle School in Liaoyuan City. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong.

In October 1999, she was unlawfully sentenced to one year of forced labor and was kept in the Heizuizi Female Forced Labor Camp in Jilin Province. While in the labor camp, she remained firm in her belief and resisted the brainwashing.
Consequently, her sentence was extended for one more year. She was released in September 2001.

On May 20, 2002, police from the Changchun Railway Police Station abducted and arrested ZHOU for telling the truth about Falun Gong. She protested her arrest with a hunger strike and was tortured to death on May 26, 2002.

The police did not notify ZHOU’s family of her death until a few days later. The family found traces of rope marks on her body, including her neck, armpits, and arms. Director WU from the 1st Section of the Changchun Railway Police Station
handled ZHOU’s case.

However, the police stated that she had a heart attack during her hunger strike and died en route to the hospital. According to inside information from the police department, however, ZHOU was tortured to death by the police officers in Changchun City.

Xu Xijun 05..2002

XU Xijun, 29 years old, was a resident of Qiuligou, Dunhua City, and worked in Changchun.

After the persecution of Falun Gong started on July 20, 1999, he was illegally detained in the Fenjin Labor Camp and the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun.

He suffered tremendously both physically and mentally, resulting in his not being able to eat. He died in May 2002.

Yang Guiqin 05..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.

Mei Yulan 05.23.2000

On May 13, 2000, Ms. MEI, female, 44 years old, was arrested when she was practicing Falun Gong exercises outside her house.

She started a hunger strike to defend her rights. On May 17, 2000, three days into her hunger strike, she was force-fed by an inmate, who had not received any medical training. Her screaming during the force-feeding showed the extreme pain she was in.

After returning to the cell, she had a headache, and that night she began to vomit blood. The guard, whose surname was Sun, refused to send her for emergency treatment.

He said: "Forget it, she won't die. I’ll take responsibility if anything happens". She then died of abuse on May 23, 2000.

Five practitioners who knew about her death were sent to the detention center on May 26.

Liu Jinling 05..2002

LIU Jinling, female, 37 years old, lived in Taiping District, Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province.

LIU Jinling passed away in May 2002 from injuries of torture.

On December 19, 2000, she was arrested while appealing in Beijing, and was tortured at a police station in suburban Beijing. She was beaten and then repeatedly pulled outside to freeze and then pulled inside, causing her whole body to become swollen and her blood pressure to reach 220.

She never recovered and was diagnosed in Harbin City Jiangbei Rehabilitation Hospital in spring 2001 with pulmonary edema of the heart. She passed away in May 2002.

Zheng Wenqin 05.21.2002

ZHENG Wenqin, female, was an accountant at the Art Troupe of Zhaoyuan County, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. ZHENG Wenqing was tortured to death on May 21, 2002 at Zhaoyuan County Detention Center. She was an accountant at the Art Troupe of Zhaoyuan County, Daqing City.

On May 11, 2002, ZHENG was abducted by police and sent to Sartu District Police Department where she was interrogated for three days wbeing hung in the air by her handcuffs. Afterwards, the Politics and Security Division of Zhaoyuan County Police Department took them to a local detention center.

Four days later, she was transferred to Zhaoyuan County Detention Center where she began a hunger strike to protest the illegal treatment. Three days after she was transferred to the detention center, ZHENG was tortured to death by force-feeding.

Song Cuiling 05.20.2002

SONG Cuiling, female, 52 years old, was a retired worker in the Zhangjiakou City Coal-Powered Machinery Factory, Hebei Province.

In October 2000, she went to Beijing to make petition for Falun Gong. As a result, she was detained for one month and fined 10,000 Yuan. To protest the inhuman treatment, she went to Beijing again at the end of December in 2000. She was arrested again and wasn't released until early March of 2001 after she went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention.

On August 19, 2001, a bunch of thugs from Mingdenan Police Station broke into SONG's house. The policemen carried her from the sixth floor and took her to a brainwashing class.

On May 4, 2002, she went to Beijing to protest the persecution. She was arrested and taken away by Tiananmen policemen. The policemen used electric-shock to torture on her. Excessive electric shocks left SONG incontinent. When she was sent back to Zhangjiakou Detention Center, her pants were all wet, and her arms and legs were black and blue.

SONG suffered inhumane torture at the Zhangjiakou Detention Center. Every morning at 6 AM, she was carried outdoors to the courtyard and left on the ground all day. It was still chilly in the mornings in May of Zhangjiakou and by noon, she suffered from the scorching sun. SONG went on a hunger strike from the beginning of her arrest. By the 9th day of her hunger strike, she passed out. After she was in a coma for 3 days, the chief of Mingdenan Police Station, Song Quanlin, brought a doctor and a nurse to force feed SONG.

When Song Quanlin saw SONG lying on the ground, he said viciously, "It is her again. She's been arrested several times. Each time, she would fast and lie on the ground like this. It's all fake." He also exclaimed, "We can release all other people, however, we cannot release these 4 (referring to the 4 practitioners in his jurisdiction, including SONG)." The director of Zhangjiakou Detention Center Cui said, "Force feed her. Give her a checkup." The doctor went to feel SONG's pulse and said, "Her heart and pulse are all normal." Then they started to insert a tube into SONG's stomach.

SONG was getting weaker and weaker everyday. They could not even force her to take water. She was drowsy all day but from time to time she would open her eyes. She passed out on the second day and developed bedsores. Since she lost control of her bowels and bladder, the bedsores never healed. She could not even put on her pants each day. Another Falun Gong practitioner who was jailed in SONG's cell told the guard that Song was in critical condition, but the director Cui said, "We are only responsible for guarding prisoners. We do not have the authority to release any of them. We can only inform relevant departments to come have a look."

On May 20, a Falun Gong practitioner in SONG's cell found that SONG could not breathe normally. When she tried to feed SONG some water, SONG's head suddenly dropped. She hurried to touch her nose and found she was already dead. The time was 11:45 a.m. When the practitioner reported SONG's death, a guard named DING and a Doctor LIU came in. LIU felt SONG's pulse and said, "She's faking death." She then left. At 12:10 p.m., two criminal inmates came in and carried SONG's body out.

The second day the guard said that SONG was in Hospital 251. In fact, SONG had already died when she was carried to the hospital. In order to cheat the public, the police pretended that they tried to save SONG's life until 12:40 p.m. The doctor said that, "the cause of SONG's death is unclear." The police did not inform SONG's family until 1:30 p.m. when SONG’s body was already in the mortuary.

Guo Ping 05.17.2002

GUO Ping, female, 27, Huangjiazhuang Village, Weizhou Road, Kuiwen District, Weifang City

On December 29, 2001, GUO Ping and her husband, Liu Peidong, were at home when several policemen from the Ershilibao Police Station of Kuiwen District broke into their house and abducted them. The couple was held in the Detention Center of Kuiwen District.

On May 15, 2002, GUO Ping was sent to the No. 2 People's Hospital of Weifang City for emergency treatment when she was on the brink of death after being detained and tortured for five and half months in the detention center. During the emergency treatment she was still handcuffed. Several police officers controlled the patient's room. People from the local Procuratorate and Court came to see GUO Ping. A judge asked a police officer that why they didn't release the person after torturing the person to so bad a condition?

Her husband was escorted from the detention center to the hospital to witness the condition of his wife who had swollen hands and feet as a result of the torture. After he returned to the detention center, he started a hunger strike, protesting the police's inhuman, brutal torture.

At 11:00 pm on May 17, GUO Ping lost her life as a result of the torture. Family members including parents and parents-in-laws were very angry with the thugs at the Bureau of Public Security for torturing their loved one to death.

Wang Ailing 05.15.2001

WANG Ailing, female and 51 years old, used to work at the Zhangjiakou Printing Factory in Hebei Province.

She went to Beijing many times to protest the persecution of Falun Gong, and was detained six times. In December 2000 she was sent to the Xuanhua Detention Center.

WANG was released only after she was in critical condition caused by severe torture. After she was sent back home she could no longer take care of herself and she died on May 15, 2001.

Chen Yongzhe 05.14.2002

CHEN Yongzhe, male, 34 years old, lived in Shulan City. In March 2001, CHEN Yongzhe was transferred along with eight other Falun Gong practitioners from the Shulan City Detention Center to the Huanxiling Forced Labor Camp. As soon as they got there, the torture began. The guard ordered the bed stripped down to the board. Five practitioners had to squeeze onto this 160-centimeter wide board. They had to sit all day on the board with their legs crossed, from right after breakfast until 9 p.m. except for two breaks for lunch and dinner.

On April 27, 2001, the police escalated the torture. In their private office, Captain XU Xuequan and guards by the names of WANG, CUI, and PAN beat the practitioners. They played music to cover up the practitioners’ painful moans. They called in CHEN that evening and severely tortured him. The next morning, CHEN's face was totally distorted. Some areas had turned black and blue and the skin had peeled off. His chin and mouth were swollen. He was not able to wash his face. He said that he was beaten for two and a half hours.

Several days later, CHEN asked the guards to stop the abuse. In response, they tied his four limbs to the four corners of a cold metal bed. Five guards used electric batons to shock him for three hours. There were burns on his body and face, and his neck was covered with blisters.

On June 12, 2001, the guards took CHEN for a physical examination. He was diagnosed with serious pulmonary tuberculosis. Soon afterwards, camp officials released him in order to avoid responsibility. He died at home on May 14, 2002.

Kong Fanrong 05.11.2003

KONG Fanrong, female, 56 years old, lived in Shulan City KONG Fanrong had a happy family and, with her husband, ran a successful ice cream store. After July 1999, when the ban on Falun Gong was in effect, she went to Beijing twice to tell the government about the benefits she had received from practicing. Subsequently, the Shulan government illegally detained her for 30 days.

On January 28, 2000, her husband was illegally sent to a labor camp for practicing Falun Gong. On July 8, 2001, KONG attended a Falun Gong Conference. The local government put her on their wanted list with a reward of 100,000 yuan. She had to leave home to avoid arrest and could no longer care for her eighty-nine-year-old mother.

On January 4, 2003, LIU Qiang, head of the Anqing Road Police Station at the Jingcheng District Police Branch in Changchun, along with other police officers including SHI Yongliang and HUANG Huicheng, broke into KONG’s rental home in Huayao, Changchun, and arrested her. In the police station, they interrogated her while shocking her with electric batons, beating her, and confining her on the "Tiger Bench", which 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.

When the police attempted to take a photo of her, she refused to open her eyes to cooperate. One policeman pressed his fingers into her eyes and said, "If you don't open your eyes, I'm going to dig your eyeballs out". Then they took her off the "Tiger Bench" and beat her until she passed out. Later, they sent her to Changchun’s Daguang Detention Center. Soon she was transferred to the Shuangyang Detention Center. Several days later, she was sent to the Shulan City Detention Center where she suffered torture that would result in her death within three months. The head of the detention center, ZHAO Qunchang, was directly responsible for her death.

On May 9, 2003, representatives from the Shulan City Court went to the hospital where KONG had been sent, planning to unlawfully sentence her right there. Despite that fact that she was too weak to talk and was in critical condition at that time, they ordered the doctor to issue a document stating, "The patient is conscious but not able to talk. Will resume court proceedings after treatment." When KONG’s family demanded her release, the court told them that she would not be released even if she were dead.

On May 11, 2003, KONG died in the hospital. Her body was black and blue. The Shulan government tightly blocked information and did not allow the family to take any pictures. They tried to forcibly cremate the woman’s body and even attempted to abduct her husband.

Zhao Chunying 05.10.2003

ZHAO Chunying, female, 31 years old, used to work at Xiaohengshan Mine, Hengshan District, Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province. ZHAO died around May 10, 2003 in Jixi City No. 2 Detention Center.

ZHAO was detained in Wanjia Forced Labor Camp in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province for clarifying the facts of the persecution. Since April 17, 2003, ZHAO was detained in Jixi City No. 2 Detention Center. She was beaten to death, and upon examination her body was found covered with wounds.

Zhao Fengnian 05.09.2001

ZHAO Fengnian, male, 48 years old, was an administrator in the Bureau of Industry and Business Administration in Sanshili Town, Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

On April 28th, 2001, ZHAO went to Beijing to appeal for the right and freedom to practice Falun Gong. He was arrested by plainclothes police and brutally beaten. On the same night, ZHAO was escorted back by his employer to the Ershilipu District, Zhengding city. Despite the fact that police left Zhao in very bad physical condition, the authorities placed him on house arrest. On May 5th, 2001, Zhao disappeared from his house.

On May 11th, 2001, a body was excavated near the Beijing-Guangzhou railroad. A forensic examination indicated that the body had been buried for two days. The facial features and the body were also indistinct. The only noticeable features were two swollen black and purple lumps on the back of the shoulders and abdomen. ZHAO's family identified the clothes of the deceased person as those of Zhao Fengnian. The body, however, was cremated quickly by the authorities.

Throughout the incident, the Shijiazhuang city "610" office (an office created for the persecution of Falun Gong) sent many people to threaten ZHAO's family. The location of ZHAO’s torture and death was Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, P.R. China

Guo Meisong 05.08.2003

GUO Meisong, female, 38 years old, lived in Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province. GUO died of torture suffered in Division Nine of the Harbin Women's Prison on May 8, 2003.

While detained in Harbin Women's Prison, GUO was repeatedly tortured and force-fed until her whole body was swollen and her lungs became badly bruised and abraded.

The prison released GUO on March 6, 2003 to shirk responsibility for her failing health, and she died on May 8.

Wang Kemin 05.07.2003

WANG Kemin, male, 38-year old, was a teacher in Daqing No. 65 Middle School, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. Since the Jiang regime started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, WANG suffered severe persecution from his work unit, the Education and Training Center, the police in Babaishang Police Station and the "6/10 Office". He was detained several times and went through brutal tortures.

On November 27th, 2002, WANG was arrested while he was distributing Falun Gong truth-clarifying material. They forced him to sit in a metal chair, cuffed his hands, shackled his feet, put a plastic bag onto his head to suffocate him, splashed water with hot pepper flakes into his eyes, choked him with a folding chair, stomped on his handcuffs, etc. In the end, they broke and deformed the bridge of his nose. The police used all sorts of torture on him for six nights and days.

Later, through the help of other practitioners, WANG successfully escaped. The police had planned to try WANG on January 27, 2003, but the plot was foiled when he ran away. They sent people to wait for him everywhere, claiming that they would "kill WANG Kemin when they catch him. They can kill him before they report".

On May 7, 2003, the police abducted WANG and murdered him by torture that same night. On May 11, his body was cremated.

Yu Lixin 05.05.2002

YU Lixin, femal, 36 years old, was a cadre at Jilin City Workers’ Union [a government department] in Jilin Province.

YU started practicing Falun Gong in 1997, and soon the nine various medical conditions she suffered from all disappeared. After the persecution started on July 20, 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal, wanting to let the government know about the physical and the mental benefits she received from practicing Falun Gong. However, she was arrested, escorted back to Jilin by the Jilin City police, and illegally sentenced to five years in the Jilin Province Female Prison.

YU protested her treatment and tried to appeal, but no lawyer dared defend Falun Gong. She had no choice but to go on a hunger strike without water. The police subsequently tied her to a bed and tortured her for four months.

She was released in October 2001 because she was on the verge of death. After she returned home, the local police often went to her home to harass her. To escape further persecution, YU was forced to leave home.

On March 5, 2002, the police found her staying in a rented home and arrested her. Police at Jilin City’s Zhihe Police Station exhausted every means to torture her, subjecting her to such devices as the "Tiger Bench". [Practitioners are forced to sit on a small iron bench that is approximately 20 cm (6 inches) tall. Their 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.]

YU neared death several times as a result of the police’s torture, but on March 8, 2002, they returned her to Jilin Province Female Prison. In prison, she began another hunger strike without water and was later sent to the Jilin Province Police Hospital. Despite the fact that her blood pressure could not be detected, she was injected with neurotoxic drugs.

On April 5, YU fell into a coma and developed convulsions. She died on May 5, 2002. And even on the day she died, the official(s) at Changchun City's Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp still refused to let her husband, LIU Hongwei, who was himself sentenced illegally to two years of forced labor for practicing Falun Gong, see her for the last time. She left behind her 70-year-old mother-in-law and 8-year-old daughter.

Guo Yaling 05.05.2003

GUO Yaling, female, 49 years old, lived on Xinyuan Street in Kouqian Village, Yongji County, Jilin City.

On September 9, 1999, GUO and a number of her fellow Falun Gong practitioners went to Tiananmen Square to publicly say, "Falun Dafa is good". She was illegally detained for more than fifty days at a detention center where she was mentally and physically tortured.

In February of 2002, GUO went to the Jilin City Committee to appeal and was illegally detained at the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun for more than three hundred days.

On November 26, 2002, the police illegally arrested GUO for distributing Falun Gong materials and sentenced her to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp for two years. In the camp, she was subjected to savage torture, including being shocked with electric batons, and she was forced to do excessive heavy labor for fifteen to sixteen hours per day. She had to sleep on the ice-cold bare planks of her bed, and the only food she was given was soup made from moldy corn noodles and salt water. All she could see around her were iron barred windows, high walls, and electrified wire fencing. The sounds of handcuffs and shackles echoed through the cells. GUO Yaling became very weak.

On May 5, 2003, police informed GUO’s family that she had died. Her body was cremated in Changchun.

Yang Cheng 04..2001

YANG Cheng, male, lived in Maoming City, Guangdong Province.

YANG was beaten to death in April 2001 by a police officer named LIANG Zheng, at the Meihua Police Station in Maoming City.

An official from the Maoming 610 Office (0668-295-1539) didn't deny YANG's death. He said that YANG had been a farmer but declined to answer other questions with the excuse, "I can not remember because it happened a long time ago."

Niu Huaiyi 04..2001

NIU Huaiyi, male, was an employee of the 6th Plant of the Daqing City Oil Extraction Factory, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

He was detained in the Daqing Forced Labor Camp starting in August of 2000 without any due process of law. He suffered immensely while in detention from torture and forced labor and his health deteriorated quickly.

By April 2001, he was dying. Fearful of taking on responsibility for his death, the Daqing Forced Labor Camp sent him home. He passed away within a month of returning home.

Zheng Wei 04..2001

ZHENG Wei, male, who was handicapped by a severe hunchback condition, had been illegally detained at Dalian Labor Camp for re-education through labor because of his firm belief in Falun Gong.

During the detention period, the labor camp did not show any sympathy for his condition. Instead, they tortured him, treated him inhumanely, humiliated him and made fun of him. He died shortly after his release in April of 2001. Because information was blocked, the reporter did not receive details of his death until one year later.

Both Dalian Labor Camp and the Dalian Judicial Bureau have refused to answer questions concerning Falun Gong practitioners. Officials in charge are afraid to take phone calls from reporters. The Law Department of Dalian Judicial Bureau told the reporter that due to some unknown reasons, they did not handle Falun Gong cases nor had they accepted these cases.

Shen Jianli 04..2002

SHEN Jianli, female, 34 years old, was a teacher in the Department of Applied Mathematics of Jilin University’s Nanling Campus, Changchun City.

SHEN Jianli went to Beijing five times to appeal, was arrested three times, and was sent back to Changchun for a total of 30 days of detention. On March 2, 2001, Jilin University authorities called her and her four-year-old daughter to the university and then forcibly sent them to a brainwashing class in the Nanguan District.

SHEN’s husband, ZHENG Weidong, also a Falun Gong practitioner, was a teacher at Jilin Electronic Information Advanced Technical School. He was arrested for producing Falun Gong materials and detained at No. 3 Detention Center in Changchun. On March 6, 2002, per order of the "610 Office", the Changchun Nanguan Court put ZHENG and thirteen other Falun Gong practitioners on trial for the second time.

During the trial, the police arrested many of the practitioners who went to observe the trial, and beat practitioners who defended themselves legally in court. SHEN was arrested at this time even though, according to Chinese law, she had the right to attend the trial as a family member.

In late April, she was tortured to death by police, less than two months after her arrest. Her husband, ZHENG Weidong, is still being detained. Their daughter is being taken care of by friends.

The Jilin University’s "610 Office" has verified the name of SHEN Jianli, indicating that they were in charge of her case.