IN MEMORY

Deng Xiangyun 08.02.2002

2008-08-02T07:08:00.000-07:00

DENG Xiangyun, female, 39 years old, lived in Gongnong District, Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province.

DENG died on August 2, 2002 from torture suffered in Hegang City’s Second Detention Center.

In February 2001, DENG was abducted and detained by the local police. In October 2001, she had become blind in both eyes and fell into a coma. DENG was diagnosed with encephaloma and was released on medical parole. On April 20, 2002, the Hegang City police arrested DENG and detained her in the Second Detention Center.

In detention, her encephaloma recurred and she was taken to the hospital but refused treatment. Her health rapidly deteriorated and her blindness recurred. On August 1, the police sent DENG home and she passed away the next day, leaving behind a 10-year-old son and her husband.

Zhang Tao 07.31.2002

2008-07-30T07:43:00.000-07:00

ZHANG Tao, male, 53 years old, lived in Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. ZHANG was tortured to death on July 31, 2002 in Changlinzi Labor Camp, Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province.

Between July 22, 1999 and March 2002, ZHANG was illegally arrested and detained six times because he peacefully sought an end to the persecution against Falun Dafa. During this time, he was beaten intensely and made to do hard labor and undergo brainwashing. During his detention in the Harbin Police Station during November 2001, ZHANG was extorted 3,400 Yuan as well as tortured on a metal chair for 12 days straight, until his buttocks became raw and his legs and feet were swollen. He was later sentenced to three years of forced labor camp.

In March 2002, ZHANG was transferred to the Changlinzi Labor Camp in Harbin. Due to the prolonged persecution, ZHANG displayed abnormal physical symptoms - he was unable to walk and sleep, and suffered unbearable pain in his internal organs. In late July, ZHANG went on a hunger strike to protest. Prison guards locked him in a small confinement cell where he was hung by handcuffs and force-fed.

Before July 31, ZHANG Died of torture. On examination, ZHANG’s neck was heavily bruised and swollen, and one of his shoulders was obviously fractured and disfigured.

Jin Junjie 07..1999

2008-07-29T22:33:00.000-07:00

JIN Junjie, 29 years old, was a Falun Gong practitioner in Changchun City and was illegally sentenced to “re-education” through forced labor after the persecution started in July 1999.

JIN died of torture in the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp. The whereabouts of the body was not known when the death was reported.

Zhi Guixiang 07.27.2002

2008-07-28T23:33:00.000-07:00

ZHI Guixiang, female, 31 years old, was a native of Daling Town, Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province. On July 19, 2002, police illegally arrested ZHI Guixiang on the street and sent her to the Luyuan Police Branch’s Zhengyang Police Station in Changchun City.

A fellow practitioner saw her at the police station on July 20. She could barely talk. Her entire body was covered with wounds that were rubbed with salt. She told her fellow practitioner that she felt her internal organs were damaged from beating.

While in detention, she went on a hunger strike without water to protest the persecution. The police sent her to Sheling Hospital to be force-fed. She refused to cooperate, so on the second day, the police handcuffed her feet. On the third day, she was shaking from being forced to sit on a torture board.

On the fourth day, the head of her cell ordered inmates to cover her mouth with a towel and hold her down to make her sit on the board. Later, after they took her to a small cell and removed the towel, they found the towel was saturated with blood. Despite her condition, they put her on a torture tool where they handcuffed her hands and feet so that she could only sit with her body in a bent position and her head down. She had to be fed and carried to the toilet. On July 25, 2002, ZHI’s condition became critical. She died on July 27.

ZHU Zhishan and the other police officers at the Luyuan Police Branch are responsible for ZHI’s death. However, ZHU openly lied about the cause of her death, claiming that she died in the hospital as a result of her hunger strike. ZHI’s family later went to the hospital but could not find her medical record.

On July 31, without informing ZHI’s family, the police secretly cremated her body at the Shuangfeng Crematory. ZHU Zhishan’s name was on the cremation document as having “power of attorney.”

Wu Lingxia 07.27.2002

2008-07-28T23:31:00.000-07:00

WU Lingxia, female, 37 years old, lived in Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province.

WU passed away on July 27, 2002 due to torture suffered in Xigemu Labor Center in Jiamusi City.

In May of 2001, local police arrested WU while she was visiting a fellow practitioner. She was arrested and sent to Shuangyashan Detention Center, where she was illegally detained for a month.

On July 2, 2001 she was transferred to the Xigemu Labor Center in Jiamusi City, where she was severely tortured for long periods of time and given no medical attention when her condition worsened. This resulted in hepatocirrhosis and ascites. She was sent home after a yearlong detention, and passed away on July 27, 2002. Her body had festered scars and severe edema in her abdomen. She leaves behind her teenage son and parents in their 70's.

Li Baoshui 07.26.1999

2008-07-26T05:35:00.000-07:00

LI Baoshui, male, 39, was a human resources manager at the Bureau of Labor in Daqing City, Helongjiang Province.

LI was a party member and a model worker for many years. Without a warrant or any other documents and under no lawful procedures, LI was arrested and held in the Daqing Detention Center on July 22, 1999.

He was persecuted to death on July 26, 1999.

Liu Yufeng 07.23.2000

2008-07-23T01:38:00.000-07:00

LIU Yufeng, male, 64 years old, was a retired worker at Wendeng City. Liu Yufeng was an honest and upright man. He was openhearted and publicly recognized as a good person. After practicing Falun Dafa, his diseased body regained health.

On the morning of July 18, 2000, LIU was arrested and detained at the Wendeng Detention Center because he took part in a group Falun Dafa practice at Huilong Mountain. On July 19, the detention center called LIU's daughter telling her to bring 200-300 Yuan for her father's medical treatment.

On July 22, the Wendeng Detention Center called his daughter again, and told her to take LIU home. When his son-in-law carried out LIU, LIU could neither move nor speak. He was in a coma. Around 10:00 a.m. on July 22, LIU was taken home; at 7:00 a.m. on July 23, 2000, he died.

Autopsy by legal medical experts showed that, extravagated blood was discovered in his right eye-lid. There were cuts and bruises on his face, and black and blue marks left by electric shocks on his throat, chest, and legs. The skin had begun to separate from the body, and the soft tissue below the skin was damaged. It was discovered that the second, third, and forth ribs on both the right and left sides were fractured. The upper one-third of the sternum was broken. His whole body was covered with bruises and injuries.

Tian Xiangcui 07.22.2000

2008-07-22T03:07:00.000-07:00

TIAN Xiangcui, female, 61, Qujiagou, Fengyi Town, Longkou City, Shandong Province

TIAN Xiangcui was a Falun Gong practitioner and was detained at the Fengyi town government facility on July 12 or 13, 2000, for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. Lead by Cao Chengxu, the staff at the Fengyi town government persecuted 17 Falun Gong practitioners, including TIAN Xiangcui. The practitioners were forced to stand still for the whole day under the burning sun, facing east in the morning and west in the afternoon. Oftentimes, four or five people surrounded and beat one practitioner.

Because TIAN Xiangcui had a Falun Dafa banner in her bag, she was beaten the most. The staff beat her at noon when it was the hottest time during the summer months. They not only beat her with their hands and kicked her, but also used an electric baton on her. Due to the heat in the summer and the severe beating, TIAN was not able to eat anything and coughed badly while she was detained in the town government. Her phlegm also smelled bad.

On July 17, TIAN and other practitioners were jailed in the Zhangjia Gou detention center. TIAN slipped into a coma.

Three days later, on July 20, TIAN's family members were told to take her home so they could shift the burden of her death. TIAN remained in a coma after returning home. On July 22, TIAN was sent to the hospital.

She never regained consciousness and passed away.

Liu Yan 07.21.2002

2008-07-21T04:34:00.000-07:00

LIU Yan, male, 33 years old, lived in Qing'an County, Heilongjiang Province.

LIU was arrested and detained on multiple occasions in 1999 and 2000 for peacefully appealing for Falun Dafa. In detention, LIU suffered whippings with bamboo sticks and force-feedings with high-density brine, causing him to spit blood and pass bloody stool. He was also tied with thin ropes and hung up.

In protest, LIU staged several hunger strikes; one was 21 days long. His health deteriorated – he became emaciated, his feet and lungs became swollen, and he had a fever, cough, and spit blood.

He was released and his family sent him to a hospital, costing them thousands of Yuan in medical expenses. LIU was unable to recover, and passed away on July 21, 2002.

Chen Chengyong 07.21.2001

2008-07-21T04:31:00.000-07:00

CHEN Chengyong, male, 35 years old, was an electrical technician in Guangzhou Paper Factory, Guangzhou.

Mr. CHEN lost his job because he went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. In January 2000, he was detained for fifteen days for practicing Falun Gong in public.

In July 2000, he was detained for three weeks. He was arrested in Beijing for displaying a Falun Gong banner in Tiananmen Square. Because he refused to give up Falun Gong, he was forcibly taken to the Guangzhou brainwashing center, where he was tortured.

A report on July 21, 2001 indicated that CHEN Chengyong passed away in a shed on the outskirts of Guangzhou city. When his sister identified the body, the corpse was already decomposing. It was estimated that he had been dead for quite sometime before the family was notified.

Chengyong's elder sister was sent to the brainwashing center after she identified the body. She was illegally sentenced to a labor camp for two years.

Chengyong's father passed away after suffering a fatal heart attack because of the tragic death of his son and the imprisonment of his daughter.

Dai Zhizheng, CHEN Chengyong’s wife, an Australia citizen, tried to go to China to bring back her husband’s ashes. The Chinese Consulate in Sydney refused to give her a visa. Eight months later, with the help of the Australia government, CHEN Chengyong’s ashes were shipped to Australia.

Bai Xiaojun 07.18.2003

2008-07-18T02:57:00.000-07:00

Bai Xiaojun, male, 35 years old, Changchun City.

BAI Xiaojun held a Master’s degree in philosophy and was a lecturer at the Northeastern Normal University in Jilin Province.

In July 2000, BAI was sentenced to one year of "re-education" through forced labor because he went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong.

In January 2002, after BAI’s term was extended for an additional seven months, he was sent to Division Four of the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun. During this illegal detention, he was beaten and was severely injured as a result. BAI was sent to the police hospital and on July 18, 2003, died of torture.

During a telephone inquiry, WANG Xiaoming, the director of the Changchun City Weizigou Labor Camp (Tel: 0431-519-5959), did not deny the fact that BAI had been tortured to death.

BAI Shaohua, younger brother of BAI Xiaojun, graduated with a Bachlor's degree from the People’s University of China. He has been illegally imprisoned and viciously tortured.

Their mother is also Falun Gong practitioner and was beaten when she went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution. She was forced to leave home and her whereabouts is unknown.

Yuan Hezhen 07..2003

2008-07-16T02:46:00.000-07:00

YUAN Hezhen, female, 42 years old, lived in Huanan County, Heilongjiang Province, YUAN died of torture in July 2003. She was an employee of Hua-Nan Forest Bureau, a branch of Heilongjiang Forestry.

In May 2000, YUAN was arrested in Beijing and sent to a detention center where she went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal treatment. For this, she was brutally beaten, handcuffed in a painful posture and forced-fed. YUAN was tortured until she vomited blood, had bloody stools, and became extremely weak.

She was eventually released but was forced into homelessness to avoid further persecution. She died in July 2003.

Her husband, Sun Jihong, was arrested on September 25, 2002, and was beaten to death four days later.

Wang Yan ..2002

2008-07-14T23:18:00.000-07:00

WANG Yan, female, 55 years old, lived on Hongqi Street in Changchun City.

She later moved because police continually harassed her. Her address was not known. Around the time of the Spring Festival, she went to appeal in Beijing on behalf of Falun Gong but died in a prison in Beijing.

The exact cause of her death is unknown.
The police notified her family that she died after jumping out of a vehicle.

Han Chunyuan 07..2002

2008-07-13T06:54:00.000-07:00

HAN Chunyuan, female, was a Falun Gong practitioner in Changchun City who was illegally sentenced to four years in prison.

In July 2002, a guard named JIANG repeatedly shocked her with an electric baton until she died.

Wang Peisheng 07.12.2000

2008-07-12T00:38:00.000-07:00

WANG Peisheng, male, 68, was a retired official of Weifang Hardware Store. WANG started to practice late in life. Because he was a former contact person of the Falun Gong assistance center in Weifang, he had been under surveillance since July 20, 1999.

In March 2000, he was detained for writing to the National People's Congress about Falun Gong issues. While incustody, he was detained in a hot and humid cell 24 hours a day and had been deprived of the right to go out of the cell for exercises.

On June 27, 2000 he went to Beijing to appeal and was escorted back to Weifang where he was again detained. The detention center forced his family members to pay a living expense of 40 yuan a day, however the food in the detention center was very bad. He had to drink contaminated water, eat pickles and perform manual labor (digging and unloading trucks). At 2:00 a.m. on July 12, he left this world.

His wife did not receive the notice of his death until 1:00 p.m. that afternoon. In order to cover up the truth, the police forced his family to have his body cremated before the cause of his death was identified.

Reuters, AFP, and the Central News Agency reported the news on July 17, 2000.

Fan Yaxiong 07..2000

2008-07-09T02:38:00.000-07:00

FAN Yaxiong, female, 42 years old, was a teacher at the No. 15 Middle School in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. She lived in the Erzhong area of Qiaoxi District. Before 1990, FAN was the provost of a middle school.
Before July 20, 1999, she was appointed as vice principal of the school and was a well-respected teacher.

On July 20, 1999, right after Falun Gong was banned in China, FAN went to make a petition to the central government of PRC in Beijing, but she was captured by policemen on the way. The Zhangjiakou City Police Department, Mingdenan Police Station, and the Education Committee took turns to press her to give up practice of Falun Gong. Later she was put under house arrest.

On January 24, 2000, FAN went to Beijing again to tell people the truth about Falun Gong and officers from the Police Station in Tiananmen, Beijing, arrested her again. She was then transferred to the Qiaoxi Police Station, and later sent to Xuanhua Detention Center. In the Detention Center she went on a hunger strike to protest the inhuman treatment she suffered. Four policemen pushed her to the ground and tortured her. She was tortured to a critical condition, the police had to release her in the end of February of 2000.

In early March 2000, FAN went to Beijing again to make petition for Falun Gong even though she was penniless at that time. After arriving in Beijing, she was arrested by the police and brutally beaten up. Later on, she was incarcerated at the Xuanhua Detention Center where she was again subjected to brutal torture. The director of the Detention Center Sun led a group of police to beat FAN until she was near death. They stuffed her into a hemp sack and threw it into the prison cell. Other Falun Gong practitioners detained in the same cell opened the sack and found that her lower back had been severely injured, that her lower body couldn't move, and that she was in a coma. They immediately called for help. Seeing that she was near death, the police released her.

In May of 2000, FAN was arrested a fourth time. The "610 Office" (an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Communist Party and all other political and judiciary systems) in Zhangjiakou City sent her to the Shalinzi Mental Hospital. They tied her up in a bed, and forcibly injected her with nerve-damaging drugs. During the period when she was detained, the police extorted over 20,000 Yuan from her using various excuses.

In June 2000, FAN was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor "education." While she was detained in Tanshan Labor Camp, the police beat, kicked, and cursed her every day. She went through all kinds of physical and mental torments. Two days after she was released from the labor camp, she passed away.

Li Zaiji 07.07.2000

2008-07-07T22:24:00.000-07:00

LI Zaiji, male, 48 years old, lived in Chengxiang Building 10 on Qingdao Street in Jilin City. He was sentenced to one year of forced labor for appealing on behalf of Falun Gong in October of 1999.

On July 7, 2000, Jilin City police informed LI’s family that they should visit him in the hospital. Upon arriving at the hospital, LI’s mother found that he had died. One of his eyes was still open, and his body was covered with wounds.

LI’s body was cremated at 9 a.m. on July 14 under the tight surveillance of more than 200 police officers.

Tong Zhentian 07.04.2001

2008-07-04T02:06:00.000-07:00

TONG Zhentian, male, 22 years old, was a resident of Nancheng Street in Shulan City.

On January 1, 2000, he went to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong and was taken to the Shulan City Detention Center. The police stripped him, poured more than a hundred buckets of cold water on him, and viciously beat him. They illegally sentenced him to one year in the Jilin City Forced Labor Camp where he was tortured for refusing to renounce Falun Gong.

At 2 a.m. on April 21, 2001, when TONG’s condition became critical, camp officials sent him home to avoid responsibility. The camp police continued to harass TONG at home, however, in an attempt to force him into renouncing Falun Gong. TONG died on July 4, 2001.

Li Yuling 07.04.2003

2008-07-04T01:59:00.000-07:00

At 5:00 a.m. on July 4, 2003, Beijing Dafa practitioner LI Yuling, female, was tortured to death by Dongcheng District police officials in Beijing.

This came briefly after her unjust and illegal arrest on June 25, 2003. Ms. LI Yuling left home at approx. 3:00 p.m. on June 25. Dongcheng District police officials arrested her while she was distributing truth-clarifying material. Later, they transferred her to the Heping Hotel under the guise of "helping her to reform." The police tried to coerce her into revealing the source of the materials, and the names of other Falun Gong practitioners, but she firmly refused to cooperate.

The police then brutally beat Ms. LI and tortured her around the clock. LI Yuling didn't show any fear when faced with brutal torture. During the nine days of detention, she held a hunger strike to protest. She resisted the illegal detention and brutal torture with dignity. The policemen flew into a rage and tortured her relentlessly. At 5:00 a.m. on July 4, LI Yuling died.

When Ms. LI’s family received the death notice from the police, they went to the Longfusi Hospital, where her body was being held. They saw that the left half of the face was swollen and bruised. Her ribs along the sides were black and blue. The police didn't allow her family to take a careful look at the body. Furthermore, they threatened, "No picture taking! No videotaping! Don't touch the body!" They said that those were orders from "higher up."

Huang Ke 07.03.2003

2008-07-03T07:26:00.000-07:00

HUANG Ke, male, 31 years old, was an employee at the No. 10 Research Lab, Fushun Research Institute for Petroleum and Petrochemicals, an affiliate of the Petroleum Chemical Company of China.

HUANG Ke, from Wanghua District, Fushun City, Liaoning Province was arrested in late June 2003. The perpetrators were police from the Guangming Police Station in Wanghua District. He was detained at the Fushun First Detention Center, and was tortured to death on July 3, only ten days after his arrest.

In March 2003, he was abducted and was sent to the Fushun First Detention Center. He refused to give up his personal belief in Falun Gong (Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance). To protest the unlawful treatment, he went on a hunger strike. Then, he was sent to a hospital where he was force-fed, but with no success due to his resistance. After about ten days, seeing that he was on the verge of dying, the police let him go home.

In June 2003, HUANG was arrested and put in the Fushun First Detention Center again, where he went on a hunger strike to protest. He was force fed many times. At 6:00 a.m. on July 3, he passed away in the detention center.

In October 1999, HUANG’s wife ZHONG Yunxiu was also tortured to death for being firm in practicing Falun Gong. At that time, their daughter was not yet two years old. After HUANG Ke’s death, his elderly parents and his daughter, who is not yet six years old, will be left uncared for. The former Xinmin Police Station has merged with the Guangming Police Station, under the name Guangming Police Station.

An employee in HUANG Ke’s work unit, Fushun Research Institute of Petroleum and Petrochemicals (Office: 86-413-6428144), confirmed that HUANG died in the detention center. As to HUANG’s case, the receptionist at the Fushun First Detention Center (86-413-7702472), sometimes said, "There was no such person", while other times said, "I don’t know". When the reporter called Guangming Police Station in Wangjiang District (86-413-6429829), to ask for the cause of HUANG’s death, a policeman answered that he couldn’t talk about the death case over the phone.

Sun Yanqing ..2000

2008-07-01T07:47:00.000-07:00

SUN, female, in her 40’s, from Zhangjiakou City, died of forced feeding three years ago in the Xuanhua District Hospital.

She was in her 40's and worked at the Mechanical Maintenance Facility of the Xuanhua District Steel Works in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. SUN was abducted by policemen when she went to Beijing to make an appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong.

During detention, she went on a weeklong hunger strike to protest; however the policemen tortured her by force-feeding. SUN died a few days later after she was sent back to Xuanhua and hospitalized. Her son, less than ten years old, was left unattended.

A co-worker in Zhangjiakou City confirmed that SUN was a Falun Gong practitioner and that she died more than three years ago.

Zhang Xiaochun 06.29.2002

2008-06-29T00:34:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-28T00:15:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-27T14:17:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-27T02:30:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-24T13:55:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-23T14:13:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-22T10:51:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-20T23:02:00.000-07:00

Qiu Zhiyan ..2000

2008-06-18T06:51:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-16T15:55:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-15T07:19:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-15T07:09:00.000-07:00

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

Li Yanhua ..2001

2008-06-14T10:46:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-11T23:27:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-10T02:35:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-09T23:54:00.000-07:00

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 ..

2008-06-08T08:22:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-07T11:06:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-05T21:51:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-03T13:23:00.000-07:00

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

2008-06-01T09:44:00.000-07:00

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.

Huang Weijun 05..2002

2008-05-31T11:51:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-30T13:16:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-28T23:37:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-28T23:35:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-26T11:30:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-25T23:00:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-24T10:44:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-23T04:12:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-22T04:18:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-21T21:52:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-20T21:46:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-17T13:26:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-15T01:15:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-14T11:49:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-11T00:29:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-10T00:26:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-09T00:23:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-08T23:35:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-07T11:48:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-06T14:03:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-05T02:31:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-05T02:28:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-03T23:39:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-02T23:23:00.000-07:00

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

2008-05-01T09:38:00.000-07:00

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.

Liu Xiaoling 04..2001

2008-04-30T08:47:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-28T03:19:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-25T02:24:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-24T04:52:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-22T23:06:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-21T03:59:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-20T07:38:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-18T03:49:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-17T00:05:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-15T12:32:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-13T23:52:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-12T22:59:00.000-07:00

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..

2008-04-10T22:42:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-09T13:26:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-06T23:59:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-05T06:58:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-03T23:46:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-02T03:40:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-01T05:20:00.000-07:00

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.

Hou Xiuping ..2000

2008-03-29T23:58:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-28T23:50:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-27T09:40:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-26T08:32:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-25T02:46:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-23T23:04:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-22T22:18:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-21T12:48:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-20T04:30:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-17T23:21:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-17T00:54:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-14T01:16:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-10T23:35:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-10T13:15:00.000-07:00

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.