Zhang Xiaochun 06.29.2002

ZHANG Xiaochun, male, 43 years old, lived in Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province.

ZHANG was tortured to death on June 29, 2002 in the Fuyu Labor Camp in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province.

On June 19, 2001, ZHANG was abducted to the Fuyu County Detention Center for a year of illegal detention.

On June 19, 2002, ZHANG went on a hunger strike to protest his prolonged illegal detention. He died 10 days later during force-feeding torture administered by the Detention Center head Cao Guolu and his cohorts.

His body was later secretly cremated.

Zheng Huabing 06.28.2000

ZHENG Huabing, male, 19 years old, was a native from Enping, Guangdong Province.

On June 28, 2000, ZHENG was going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. However, police captured him at the Guangzhou Railway Station. Since he refused to give his name and address, they sent ZHENG to a mental hospital in Zhengcheng, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, where he suffered all kinds of torture.

His only money, 500 Yuan RMB, was seized, and he was put in a room for TB patients. Later this mental hospital informed his family to bail him out. At that time, ZHENG was extremely weak and had edema all over his body. Shortly after returning home, he passed away, at the age of nineteen.

Zhengcheng mental hospital phone: (020) 82878303

Gong Baohua 06.27.2000

On June 17, 2000, Ms. GONG, female, 35 years old, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and was therefore intercepted by police, along with seven other Falun Gong practitioners, at the Dongzhimen Bus Station. After being taken to the local police station, six of them were brutally beaten by police.

Among them, Ms. GONG was beaten the worst. Afterwards, medical examination in the Yukou Clinic showed that the bridge of her nose had been broken. At that time her family members and local villagers requested that the police allow her to return home to recover. In order to cover up the brutality, the police instead sent Ms. GONG and the other practitioners to the county detention center.

At that time, she and other practitioners started a hunger strike, which was their only available means to defend their rights. Around 8pm of June 25, 2000, the guards force-fed her through her nose, disregarding the fact it was broken. When returning to the cell, Gong's face looked pale. She repeatedly said that her chest felt numb and she suspected that the guards had incorrectly inserted the feeding tube, entering her trachea during the force-feeding.

About 10 minutes later, she suddenly lost consciousness. Her cellmates called for the guards, but nobody answered. After a while, when she had already regained consciousness, the guards finally came over, and brought Ms. GONG out of the cell for emergency treatment. She was sent back in the morning. Because her health condition looked very poor, her cellmates asked the guards repeatedly for a medical examination.

She was then called out, but returned in the afternoon. That night there was no sign of improvement in her health. On the morning of June 27, 2000, the inmates urged the guards to give her another medical checkup, since her condition was quickly deteriorating.

Around 10am, the detention center clinicians agreed to send Ms. GONG to the hospital. At approx. 9pm that evening, GONG Baohua was pronounced dead.

Li Xiaojing 06.27.2002

LI Xiaojing, female, 33 years old, was a teacher at the University of Guangzhou, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.

On the night of June 27, 2002, Ms. LI was abducted and taken to the brainwashing class of Guangzhou City's Huangpu Drug Rehabilitation Center. She died the next day.

Half an hour after supper on the following day (around 6:00 p.m.), an ambulance suddenly came to the Drug Rehabilitation Center. Many police officers also arrived at the brainwashing class. They dispatched all Falun Gong practitioners to a meeting room in the brainwashing center to watch television there, forbidding anyone from leaving the room.

Next, they blocked the entrance to the room where LI Xiaojing was staying and took photos inside the room. The ambulance did not leave until after 7:00 p.m., and the police left after 11:00 p.m. A few days later, the head of the local 610 office told several practitioners that LI Xiaojing had died.

Zhang Zhenzhong ..2001

ZHANG Zhenzhong, male, 22, Xinxian County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province

Practitioner ZHANG Zhenzhong was an undergraduate student at the Business Administration School of the Shandong Industrial University. In school, he was an outstanding student.

On New Year’s Day, 2001, ZHANG and another practitioner went to Beijing and were arrested while unfolding a banner. In the police car he unfolded a banner with the three Chinese characters of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance”. When being taken to a police station ZHANG unfolded another smaller banner. The policemen tortured him for nearly 12 hours trying to force him to tell them the addresses and names of other practitioners.

ZHANG was shocked with eight electric batons and burnt with cigarette butts. However, he refused to cooperate with the police. The police had no choice but to transfer him from one sub-station to another, all together four in four days. At each sub-station he was brutally tortured until he was covered all over with cuts and bruises. However, he still refused to cooperate with the police, and finally he managed to walk out of the police sub-station.

ZHANG Zhenzhong and three other practitioners were arrested in Tangyin County on May 17, 2001 while handing out fact-finding material of the Tiananmen Square self immolation incident.

They were taken against their will to the Tangyin County Police Department. In Tangyin, ZHANG and the other practitioners refused to go inside the jail. They linked their arms together, and the policemen kicked, punched, and shocked them with electric batons in an attempt to separate them but failed. Then they called in a group of young armed policemen. The policemen beat them brutally for more than an hour. Zhang and the other practitioners were all beaten black and blue, and all had a bloody nose and mouth. Once they were separated, they were tied up with a rope before being sent to their jail cells.

The practitioners began a hunger strike. On the sixth day of their hunger strike the policemen ordered the inmates to force-feed the practitioners. A practitioner whose surname was Wang witnessed that ZHANG Zhenzhong was changed beyond recognition and looked extremely wan and sallow when he was dragged out.

However, the police still handcuffed him to a bench and brutally forced the feeding tube down his nose. The first four attempts failed and Zhang was critically injured on the fifth attempt. He gave a horrible shriek and began to shiver. As a result, a university student who was in his prime, died.

Shang Guangshen ..2002

SHANG Guangshen, male, lived in Zhaoyuan County, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

SHANG Guangshen died of torture in 2002 in his home. SHANG was abducted and sent to a brainwashing class in early 2002 by the Politics and Security Division of Zhaoyuan County Police Department. His health declined drastically there as a result of brutal torture.

He began to foam at the mouth and later, to spit blood. He was on the verge of death, yet the police still wouldn't release him. SHANG was not released until his work unit and people who accompanied him signed several forms guaranteeing that SHANG would not go to Beijing again to appeal.

Three days after he returned home, SHANG passed away.

Wu Yao 06.22.2003

Ms. WU Yao was female, 57 years old, Beijing, and a retired English teacher from the Affiliated Middle School of The Beijing Medical School.

On September 10, 2002, Ms. WU and her husband YANG Zhanming were arrested while clarifying the truth of Falun Gong to people. They were later detained at the Fengtai Detention Center, Beijing.

On June 11, 2003, she was sent to a forced labor camp, and was there tortured by police officers because she refused to go along with their requests. Her lower back was badly injured after police officers struck her there repeatedly with their elbows.

On June 22, 2003, the authorities told Ms. WU’s family that she had passed away, calling it a "sudden death".

Shang Guangshen ..2002

SHANG Guangshen, male, lived in Zhaoyuan County, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province.

SHANG Guangshen died of torture in 2002 in his home. SHANG was abducted and sent to a brainwashing class in early 2002 by the Politics and Security Division of Zhaoyuan County Police Department. His health declined drastically there as a result of brutal torture.

He began to foam at the mouth and later, to spit blood. He was on the verge of death, yet the police still wouldn't release him. SHANG was not released until his work unit and people who accompanied him signed several forms guaranteeing that SHANG would not go to Beijing again to appeal.

Three days after he returned home, SHANG passed away.

Qiu Zhiyan ..2000

QIU Zhiyan, male, age 35, was a resident of Benxi City, Liaoning Province. He was an employee of Benxi City General Steel and Iron Factory. He had a B.S. degree.

QIU went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong seven times. In September 1999, he was escorted back to Benxi and again unlawfully detained. He began practicing the Falun Gong exercises right after he was sent to the detention center. When a policeman named JING Shanhu found out about this, he hung QIU up in the "stretching room", a place where archaic torture methods are used. (The "stretching rooms" were built imitating an ancient, cruel torture in which the prisoner’s body was pulled and torn into pieces by five horses that went off in different directions.) QIU was "stretched" repeatedly, three times on each occasion, totaling 25 days. Most of QIU’s time in the detention center was spent enduring the agonizing torture of being stretched.

October 29, 1999, QIU was unlawfully sentenced to three years in Benxi City’s Weiningying Forced Labor Camp. He insisted on practicing Falun Gong in the labor camp. Political Secretary CHEN Zhongwei and Deputy Labor Camp Director WU Gang personally organized the torture of QIU. They took turns torturing QIU with the aid of more than ten other men. They tortured him in all kinds of cruel ways including beatings with electric batons and rubber clubs, tying him up with rope, and other means. They tortured QIU until he passed out and then threw him into a tiny, solitary cell. The police were unable to make him give up his belief, so they exhausted all means to torture him.

Since the winter temperature in northern China was lower than -30ºC (-22ºF), the lengthy working hours outside caused frostbite on QIU's hands. All of his fingers were swollen, black and blue and oozing pus.

To protest this cruel persecution at Weiningying Forced Labor Camp, QIU started a hunger strike. The police cuffed his hands and feet to the bed, hit him with seven to eight electric batons that were tied together in a bundle, and tortured him through brutal force-feeding. No matter how violent the police were, QIU's eyes were always slightly closed and he said nothing, from the beginning to the end. No matter how the policemen beat or tortured him, he never even moaned. Tired from the beating, the policemen panted and said, "This person is impervious to pain. Beating him does not work". In this way, QIU successfully protested for ten days with a hunger strike by sitting on his bed, not even making the slightest movement. On the last day, the police could not go on anymore and they completely collapsed. After obtaining approval from the higher authorities, the police falsely declared QIU as "psychotic" and then sent him to a mental hospital. At the mental hospital, QIU was injected with drugs, but this fact was concealed from people outside the hospital. QIU held another ten-day hunger strike. Finally in February 2000, he walked out of the mental hospital in a dignified manner.

After his incarceration in the labor camp, QIU went to Beijing for the eighth time. When he walked to Jinzhou City on foot, his elderly father took him back home, so this trip could not be completed.

In October 2000, because of his family’s unwillingness to help and the government’s curtailing of Falun Gong practitioners’ finances, QIU began his ninth trip to Beijing barefoot and with only 5 yuan (less than US$1.00] in his pocket. When he finally arrived at Xingcheng City (part of Beijing), the local police arrested him and tortured him to death.

Yang Yufang 06.16.2003

YANG Yufang, female, 47 years old was from Dongyaozi Village, Qiaoxi District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.

YANG was abducted by the police from a house in the vicinity of the Ningyuanbao area, Qiaodong District, Zhangjiakou City on May 17, 2003.

On June 16, 2003, she was tortured to death at the Shisanli Detention Center in Zhangjiakou City.

Wang Xiuxia 06.15.2003

WANG Xiuxia, female, 42 years old, Qingyuan County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province.

Around 10:00 a.m. on May 29, 2003, more than 20 officers from the Dongzhou Criminal Police Team, Xintun Police Station and Wanxin Police Station broke into a Falun Gong materials production site in Xintun. They arrested Falun Gong practitioners WANG Xiuxia, ZHANG Shouhui, KANG Xiaosheng without due cause.

When these practitioners firmly refused to give their names and addresses, the police beat them so hard they fell to the ground several times. The perpetrators brutally tortured the practitioners until 2:00 a.m. the next day.

WANG Xiuxia began a hunger strike as soon as she entered the detention center. She was shackled, handcuffed and force-fed by the guards several times. The most severe case of this was when she was handcuffed to a chair while in solitary confinement for a twenty-four hour period. Her hands and feet were bound tightly, and she was almost totally unable to move. All the female Falun Gong practitioners who were detained illegally at the detention center began a hunger strike together to resist the persecution of Xiuxia.

The police began the typical measures to stop Falun Gong practitioners who protested their cruelty, forcing other prisoners to torture Falun Gong practitioner Ms. QU Cailing even though she had a heart disease and hypertension. Ms. QU can no longer move her arms and has lost quite a few teeth.

On the evening of June 15, WANG’s health was in a critical condition and she looked pale and short of breath. But the police took no notice and failed to summon emergency treatment in a timely manner. In the end, WANG Xiuxia passed away while still in the detention center. On the evening of June 15, Fushun City Police Department authorities notified WANG Xiuxia’s family of her death.

When her family rushed to the police department, they saw that WANG Xiuxia’s body was in a freezer and was misshapen. The police refused to let the family take a close look at the body and didn't answer their inquiries about the cause of her death. On the morning of June 17, before her family could take a look at the body, the police hastily sealed it in a coffin.

Liu Mingke 06.15.2002

LIU Mingke, female, 45 years old, from Jilin City, died on June 15, 2002, as a result of being tortured.

Li Yanhua ..2001

LI Yanhua, female, 65 years old, Dongjiang Village, Nanlou Economical Development District, Dashiqiao City, Liaoning Province.

The local police from Nanlou Police Station, having been notified by informers about her distributing Falun Gong flyers, arrested her on February 19, 2001.

During an interrogation to find out the source of the flyers, the policemen actually beat this diminutive woman with billy clubs. The beatings continued until she became incontinent, losing control of her bowels and bladder. Beaten all over her body and bleeding from her eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, she finally stopped breathing and died.

When the policemen found her dead due to their brutal beating, they had no idea what to do. Then, the policemen dumped LI’s body into a mud hole near Xijiang Village and then put some corn stalks and dried leaves beside it, so as to make it look like the scene of a self-immolation.

Then they made LIU Sheng, the head of the village, state that she had been still alive when found. But even they knew no one would be convinced by such a deceptive frame-up, so they called in her husband, Feng Mingshen and told him that LI had died of diabetes. He was forced to admit that her death was due to "being obsessed with Falun Gong", and his statement was recorded.

Other Falun Gong practitioners felt that LI’s death was suspicious and went to the mortuary to check the condition of her body. That night, they saw the well-respected old lady, whose body, though it had been cleaned and treated very carefully, was full of visible wounds, which were horrible to look at: her right eye was sunken, with one eye open and another one closed, and big bloodstains still remained in her nostrils. Her right arm was black and blue. Her back, from her shoulder to her bottom, was full of the marks from brutal blows and looked almost completely purple.

Ding Gangzi 06.11.2001

DING Gangzi, male, 47 years old, lived on East Street of Chengguan Town, Zanhuang County, Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

On October 3rd, 2000, police arrested DING and detained him in the Zanhuang County Detention Center. This was the third time Ding had been arrested for petitioning to the government. While in detention, Ding’s hands were handcuffed behind his back, his feet were shackled, and he was not even provided with food.

Ding was also savagely beaten and shocked with an electric baton. The police left him in an inhumane condition and absolutely neglected him until his body started to decompose.

On June 11th, 2001, in order to escape responsibility, the police delivered Ding’s dead body — still in handcuffs — to the local hospital and forced doctor there to fake an emergency operation and rescue. Afterwards, the police issued a notice of death, claiming DING could not be cured. The location of DING’s torture and death was Zanhuang County Detention Center, Hebei Province, P.R. China.

Su Gang 06.10.2000

SU Gang, male, 32, Zibo City, was a software engineer at Qilu Petrochemical Company.

On May 23, 2000, the security officers in his workplace sent him to the Changle Mental Hospital without notifying his family members. SU was detained in the mental hospital for nine days, and was forcibly given mega doses of drugs everyday, which damaged his central nerve system.

Upon learning that Mr. SU was locked in a mental hospital, SU's uncle went on a hunger strike, and as a result, Mr. SU was released on May 31, 2000. When Mr. SU got home, he was slow, stiff, and extremely weak. He died on the morning of June 10, 2000.

Washington Post published an editorial on June 23, 2000 denouncing China's rulers for forcibly committing Falun Gong practitioners to psychiatric institutions to continue its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners.

The editorial also called on the democratic governments all over the world and the international human rights organizations to further expose this inhuman torture by the Chinese Communist Party

The Radio Free Asia and the Australia Broadcast Corporation reported the case on June 16, 2000; AAP, Reuters, and BBC on June 18, 2000, and the South China Morning Post on June 19, 2000.

Chen Duo 06.09.2003

CHEN Duo, male, 54, lived in Shantou City, Guangdong Province.

The officers from the Jinsha Police Station abducted CHEN on May 15, 2003. On May 26, he was sent to the Santou City Detention Center, where he was brutally beaten on numerous occasions.

CHEN went on a hunger strike to protest his
illegal detention, and the police reacted with even more brutal torture. He passed out three times from the vicious beating and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.

On June 5, realizing CHEN was dying, the police hurriedly asked his family to take him home. On June 9, CHEN passed away due to severe injuries.

Learning of his death, the police took away the body by force. After Minghui Net exposed the fact that Shantou Detention Center officers had beaten CHEN to death, officials from Shantou government threatened CHEN's family.

Li Xiumei ..

LI Xiumei, female, 58 years old, was illegally detained in the Yaojia Detention Center in Dalian City. She went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

She was hospitalized when she was already on the verge of death. She died after a failed medical emergency rescue.

LI was removed from her cell and force-fed two days before her death. She was exhausted upon her return. She said, "They pinched my nose and covered my mouth so that I couldn’t breathe. They tried to suffocate me".

She also said, "There was a mind-altering drug, in the substance that they force-fed into me".

The next day, LI Xiumei was pulled out of her cell once again. No one saw her after that. According to inside information, there were also other Falun Gong practitioners who were nearly tortured to death with her.

At that time the doctors said, "If she dies, we’ll say that she died of heart disease".

Wang Lanxiang 06.07.200x

WANG Lanxiang, female, over 60, Shouguang City, Shangdong Province

On the afternoon of June 7, practitioner WANG Lanxiang was repeatedly shocked with an electric baton throughout the entire afternoon.

When she refused to renounce her faith in Falun Gong, the guards lost their senses and decided to use a different baton. This baton was more lethal; it was as thick as a wrist and delivered a higher voltage so as to cause more damage to the victim. They then used this baton on the area of her heart. She died instantly.

After this incident police immediately took her body to be cremated despite protests from her son. On the day of her funeral, almost all police from Shouguang City came on duty to monitor the funeral process. Large and small police vehicles filled the streets of the entire village.

Li Yinping 06.06.2001

LI Yinping, female, 37 years old, was an employee of the Weifang Animal Husbandry Bureau.

On the morning of June 4, 2001, the police dragged 13 Falun Gong practitioners away while they were participating in a group Fa study (teachings of Falun Dafa) in Majia Village, Sunjiaji Township, Shouguang City. They were all sent to Shouguang Detention Center. In the afternoon of June 6 when Falun Gong practitioners reported to the authorities at the detention center that they had been detained for no reason and requested the info to be released, they were dragged into the corridor by the police and were kicked and punched. They were also badly beaten with rubber batons. After the beating, LI Yiping and five others were tied up to iron chairs, which was a very cruel torture instrument to deal with inmates.

In the evening, the policemen headed by the director of the detention center and the division leader, Wang inhumanly tortured the six practitioners while they were tied up. Five or six policemen armed with rubber or electric batons tortured one practitioner. They began with slapping the practitioners on their faces, and then one policeman twisted a practitioner’s arm to the back; some yanked the practitioners’ hair. The policemen took turns to beat the practitioners with the rubber batons. Three rubber batons were broken and the iron stick inside the baton came off. The policemen just changed rubber batons and continued to beat the practitioners. In addition, the policemen also used high-voltage electric batons to shock the practitioners. When the practitioners lost consciousness the policemen would pour cold water to bring them to, and then continued to beat them. The inhuman torture lasted for three or four hours.

One practitioner who was kept together with LI Yinping said, in the afternoon of June 5, LI Yinping began to spit blood. "I called the prison guards, but they turned a deaf ear. In the afternoon of June 6, we tried to hold a dialogue with the prison guards telling them we were not criminals; therefore, we should be released and go home. The prison guards still turned a deaf ear. We then knocked on the gates of the cells to voice our protest against the illegal detention. The prison guards separated us first and then whipped the practitioner who spat blood. At the time she had blood coming down from the corner of her mouth.

In the morning of June 7, practitioners WANG Guirong, LIU Aiqin and WANG Lanxiang who were tied up to the iron chairs as corporal punishment returned to their cells, but LI Yinping did not show up. I asked them, ‘What happened to LI Yinping?’ They said, ‘It was very vicious. We witnessed what we only heard of in the past. The evil perpetrators stripped off LI Yinping’s cloth and threaten to rape her. The diabolic police tortured her with an electric baton. The sadistic villains even inflicted electric shocks from the electric baton to her breasts and lower body region (implying her genitals). LI Yinping screamed for the whole night because of the pain. Other practitioners asked the prison guards to give her some water, but they said she would not die. When the dawn broke the prison guards planned to shock her with electric batons again and found she was dying. Then they hurriedly send her to the hospital.’" LI Yinping was tortured to death.

Li Shuqin ..2003

LI Shuqin, female, 54 years old, lived in Changchun City.

On March 20 2003, LI Shuqin was abducted by Changjiulu Police while visiting a fellow Falun Gong practitioner named ZHANG Hongyou. In the Third Detention Center of Changchun City, LI was illegally detained and tortured. She was handcuffed and chained to her feet for long periods of time.

Every time police interrogated her, they tortured her to the brink of death. In the detention center, she was force-fed with corn powder and chili powder mixed in water. She eventually died of the torture.

During a phone inquiry, a male police officer at the Changjiu Road Police Station (431-5919475) was not willing to verify whether LI had died. Another male officer at the No. 3 Detention Centre of Changchun (431-4162707) refused to verify her death, saying, "Don’t make it difficult for me".

Unknown 05..2001

In May 2001, someone detained in Guangzhou Baiyun Mental Rehabilitation Center witnessed a male practitioner doing the exercises and then getting beaten to death and being carried out of his cell. The hospital blocked all information and secretly treated the body in the mortuary.

According to internal information, Guangzhou Baiyun Mental Rehabilitation Center is a charity organization under the Guangzhou City government. Between 2000 and 2001, under the direct control of the 610 Office and the Security Bureau of Guangzhou City, Guangzhou Shahe Detention Center and Baiyun Mental Rehabilitation Center cooperated to torture hundreds illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners.

The head of rehabilitation center was ZHANG Dezhi originally came from Huangzhou, Hubei Province. He subcontracted the area of "unchecked flow of population" inside the rehabilitation center that was used to torture Falun Gong practitioners.

On May 4, 2001, ZHANG said to Falun Gong practitioners, "We kill people like we kill ants in this hospital. We have a mortuary here and nobody has ever investigated who went in there. I issue death certificates, and nobody will ever find out the real cause of the death."

On May 2, 2001, more than ten female practitioners were transferred from Shahe Detention Center to Baiyun Mental Rehabilitation Center. Because they refused to disclose their names, they were brutally beaten by a group of male drug addicts as ordered by ZHANG.

The drug addicts divided themselves into groups, with three male drug addicts beating one female practitioner with thick iron batons. They beat them with all their might until the practitioners lost consciousness.

The practitioners were so violently battered that they were covered with bruises and open wounds. A sixty-year-old female practitioner and a twenty-year-old female practitioner lay on the ground unconscious, their faces swollen and bruised. The perpetrators left the scene without turning back.