Li Yinping, female, 37, an employee of Weifang Animal Husbandry Bureau, Weifang City, Shandong Province

On June 4, 2001, for merely visiting a Falun Gong practitioner's home in Majia Village, the police from the Shouguang Police Station of Weifang City, arrested and beat Ms. Li Yinping. Afterward, she was sent to the Shouguang Detention Center.

On the afternoon of June 6, 2001, when Ms. Li requested an unconditional release, the police stripped Ms. Li naked and beat her. After the beating, the police chained to an "Iron Chair." In the evening, the director of the detention center, team lead Wang, and other guards shocked Ms. Li's genitals with electric batons. Her body turned dark purple and black and she lost consciousness several times. Each time, the guards just revived her with cold water and shocked her again. One of the police officers threatened to rape and kill her. They continued to shock her with batons even after she began spitting up blood.

"Iron Chair"

 Ms. Li was left chained to the iron chair and kept vomiting all night.

By early next morning, June 7, 2001, Ms. Li had lost consciousness and no pulse could be detected; however, the police still would not take her to the hospital immediately. They eventually determined that she was near death. Then the plainclothes police took her to the People's Hospital at Shouguang where she died the same day.

Liu Yonglai, male, 36, resident of Dalian City, Liaoning Province

In March 2001, Mr. Liu Yonglai was arrested because he was distributing Falun Gong flyers. He was sentenced to 3 years in the Dalian Labor Camp, Dalian City, Liaoning Province.

The labor camp leaders and guards tortured Mr. Liu for seven hours straight on the second day of his detention. Everyone in the building heard his agonizing screams. He was tied to a "tiger bench" (A torture device on which a victim's legs are tied down and bricks are inserted underneath the feet, forcing the legs to bend unnaturally and causing excruciating pain). Mr. Liu was strapped with a rope around his mouth and neck. The police used eight electric batons, with 720 volts, to simultaneously shock all of the sensitive parts of his body.

"Tiger Bench"

Mr. Liu was eventually shocked to death. Witness reported that his mouth was split open about 2 inches on both sides. Wounds and burns caused by baton shocks were all over his body. At the time of his death, his wife, Ms. Wang Yongmei, was detained in the Yaojia Detention Center, leaving their fourteen-year old son alone at home.

In early October 2000, Mr. Xiao Jinsong went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. He was arrested and detained in the Huanxiling and Jiutai Yinmahe Labor Camps in Jilin Province. In the labor camps, Mr. Xiao was repeatedly tortured.

On January 8, 2002, more than 20 policemen sent Mr. Xiao to a hospital in Changchun City, and then transferred him to Jilin City Central Hospital. By that time Mr. Xiao was in narcosis and had become very emaciated, but his belly and thighs were terribly swollen. He told his sister that the labor camp was no place for a human being to stay, and that so many guards had shocked him together that he felt the electric batons falling on his body like rain drops. Mr. Xiao died on February 4, 2002 from the deadly torture he suffered in the labor camp.

Photos of Mr. Xiao's injuries before his death.

 

On June 4, 2001, Ms. Wang Lanxiang was arrested and beaten by policemen from the Shouguang Police Station, Weifang City, for merely gathering in a Falun Gong practitioner's home in Majia Village. She was sent to the Shouguang Detention Center.

On June 7, 2001, because Ms. Wang refused to renounce Falun Gong, she was repeatedly shocked with an electric baton for an entire afternoon. Afterwards, the guards switched to a more powerful baton that delivered a very high voltage of electricity. They used this baton to shock the area of her heart. She died instantly.

After she died, the police immediately took her body to the funeral parlor to be cremated. Ms. Wang's son was only allowed to view his mother's corpse from a distance. The police proceeded to cremate Ms. Wang's body even though her son did not agree to it.