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Murder and Execution

Beaten to Death for Belief in Falun Gong

Chen Zixiu,

1-11

female, 59, a villager of Xujia Small Village,

Beiguan Street, Weicheng District, Weifang City, Shandong

Province.

On February 4, 2000, Ms. Chen Zixiu

went to Beijing to appeal to the govern-

ment to stop persecuting Falun Gong and

was arrested just for peacefully demon-

strating. On February 17, she was escort-

ed back to the Falun Gong Detention and

Transformation Center of Chengguan

Street in Weifang City, Shandong

Province. Ms. Chen was badly beaten and

tortured at the Center. Her screams of

anguish could be heard all night through-

out the building. Officials from the

Chengguan Street Committee beat her calves, feet, and lower

back with plastic truncheons and shocked her head and neck

with a cattle prod, according to witnesses. According to her cell-

mates, they shouted at Ms. Chen repeatedly to renounce Falun

Gong. Each time, Ms. Chen refused firmly.

On February 20, the officials again demanded that she

renounce her faith. Barely conscious after repeated jolts from

a cattle prod, Ms. Chen stubbornly shook her head. Enraged,

they ordered Ms. Chen to run barefoot in the snow. Two days of

torture had left her legs bruised and her short black hair mat-

ted with pus and blood, said cell mates and other prisoners

who witnessed the incident. She crawled outside, vomited, and

collapsed. She never regained consciousness and died on Feb.

21. The local party secretary told Ms. Zhang Xueling, Ms.

Chen's 32-year-old daughter, and Zhang's brother that Ms.

Chen had died of a heart attack, but the officials wouldn't allow

them to see her body at first. Only on the second day were they

allowed to go to the hospital to see Ms. Chen's body. In a bag

tossed in the corner of the room, Ms. Zhang spotted her moth-

er's torn and bloodied clothes, the underwear badly soiled. The

evidence of brutal torture was clear; her calves were black. Six-

inch welts streaked along her back. Her teeth were broken. Her

ear was swollen and blue. Ms. Zhang and her brother tried fil-

ing a lawsuit, but no lawyer would accept the case. After she

disclosed the truth of her mother's death to western media,

Ms. Zhang was herself arrested and jailed, and her husband

was not allowed to visit her.

A Young Mother Died from Torture

Wu Jingxia, female, 29, resident of Gejia Village, Fangzi

District, Weifang City, Shandong Province.

On January 6, 2002, the police arrested Ms. Wu Jingxia

because she distributed Falun Gong flyers. Ms. Wu was sent to

a brainwashing class on January 18, and tortured to death

around 5:00 p.m. on January 19. A death notice was sent to

her family one day later. Many police officers monitored her

family members and relatives who came to pay their last

respects. Ms. Wu Jingxia's family members and relatives wit-

nessed the cuts and bruises that were visible all over her body.

They also noticed four or five deep depressions in her chest,

which were caused by electric batons. Ms. Wu's lower back and

thighs were beaten so severely that dark bruises covered

them, and one of her thighbones was fractured. With her face

covered in blood, it was difficult to recognize her. Ms. Wu left a

15-month-old baby behind.

After Ms. Wu's death, offi-

cials from the Fenghuang Street

Administrative Office and Fangzi

District Police Department

placed her mother, her husband,

and all of her other relatives

under house arrest, and illegally

set surveillance systems to mon-

itor them around the clock.

Furthermore, the authorities

prohibited anyone from visiting

them. Nearby villages were also

warned not to talk about Ms.

Wu's death.

Ms. Chen Zixiu

Ms. Wu Jingxia

Ms. Wu and her son

The Wall Street Journal: May 8, 2000, Ian Johnson, "China Tells U.N. It Did No Wrong in Death of Falun Gong Member".

The Wall Street Journal: April 20, 2000, Ian Johnson, Staff Reporter, "Practicing Falun Gong Was a Right, Ms. Chen Said, up to Her Last Day"

Asia Wall Street Journal: April 23, 2000, Matt Forney, "China Detains Daughter Of Dead Falun Gong Follower"

The Wall Street Journal: April 26, 2000, "Falun Dafa Heroes"

The Boston Globe: May 22, 2000, Jeff Jacoby, Globe Staff, "Nothing Normal About China"

Jewish World Review: May 15, 2000, Nat Hentoff, "The China that tourists don't see"

China Reform Monitor: No. 301, April 25, 2000, Al Santoli, Editor, "Jiang's Anti-Western Campaign vs. Intellectuals Detailed; Torture-Death of 58 Year-Old Falun Gong Member

Described".

Human Rights in China: "Torture in China -UN Committee highlights gap between law and practice."

The Washington Post: April 26, 2002, "China's Rules"

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Mobile Register: April 26, 2002, "China's government still brutalizes its own people."

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Amnesty International Annual Report 2001.

Two Mothers Tortured to Death within Three Days

at the Kuiwen District Detention Center

1. Lou Aiqing,

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female, 34, employee of the Bureau for

Rural Business and Enterprise of Weifang City, Shandong

Province.

2. Xu Bing,

12-20

female, 33, employee of the Residential

Registration Office of the Public Security Bureau of Kuiwen

District, Weifang City, Shandong Province. She lived in the

west building of the Residential Hall for city employees on

Shengli Street.

Ms. Lou and Ms. Xu had been

detained several times and dismissed

from work for practicing Falun Gong. At

approximately 7:00 p.m. on December

20, 2000, they were arrested while

posting self-adhesive Falun Gong

posters in Qingdao City. The police tor-

tured them to find out the source of the

materials. Later, the two were escorted

from Qingdao City back to Weifang City

and detained in the Kuiwen District

Detention Center.

At approximately 5:00 p.m. on December 25, the deten-

tion center informed Ms. Lou's family that she had died 36

hours earlier from a heart attack. When called to identify the

body, Ms. Lou's family noticed that there were several layers of

make-up on her face and that her body was covered with

wounds and bruises. Although her family took pictures of her

body, the police confiscated the film and forced Ms. Lou's fam-

ily to agree to cremate the body

immediately. Ms. Lou left an 11-

year-old daughter behind.

Within days, Ms. Xu was

also tortured to death at the

Kuiwen District Detention

Center. As with Ms. Lou's family,

the police forced Ms. Xu's family

to agree to cremate the body as

soon as possible; she was cre-

mated on Dec. 28, 2000. Ms. Xu

left an 8-year-old son behind.

Guo Ping Died from Force-FFeeding

Guo Ping, female, 27, resident of Huangjiazhuang Village,

Weizhou Road, Kuiwen District, Weifang City, Shandong

Province.

On December 29, 2001, several policemen from the

Ershilipu Police Station of Kuiwen District broke into Ms. Guo

Ping's home and arrested her and her husband, Mr. Liu

Peidong. The police confiscated all of their belongings and

jailed them at the Kuiwen Detention Center of Weifang City. Ms.

Guo went on a hunger strike to protest her abduction and ille-

gal detention; consequently, she was force-fed by incompetent

guards, which resulted in her suffering from a ruptured stom-

ach and severe internal bleeding.

On May 15, 2002, when she had been tortured to the

point of being near death, she was sent to the internal medi-

cine department of the No. 2 People's Hospital of Weifang City

for emergency rescue. She was handcuffed even during the

emergency rescue proceedings while several policemen guard-

ed the room. With blood coming from her mouth, her eyes star-

ing blankly, and with her hands, feet, and face swollen, she

eventually lost consciousness. She passed away at 9:00 p.m.

on the evening of May 17, 2002. There were 8 to 9 plainclothes

policemen inside the hospital gate at 10 p.m. that night, and

the courtyard was filled with police cars. Ms. Guo's husband

witnessed his wife's swollen hands and feet. After he was sent

back to the detention center, he also started a hunger strike to

protest the police's inhumane, brutal torture.

Murder and Execution

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World Journal: January 2, 2001, "Four Falun Gong Practitioners Beaten to Death in Shandong Province and Sichuan Province"

13.

Guardian Unlimited: January 3, 2001, "Four more Falun Gong Practitioners Died in Custody in China"

14.

Voice of America: January 2, 2001, "More Falun Gong Followers Die in Detention"

15.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: January 2, 2001, "Four Falun Gong Practitioners Died in Custody in China"

16.

Washington Post: January 2, 2001, "China Torture, Persecution Kill 4 Falun Gong Members"

17.

BBC: January 2, 2001, "Falun Gong members die after beating"

18.

Central News Agency: January 2, 2001, "Four Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured to Death"

19.

Radio Free Asia: January 2, 2001, "Four Falun Gong Practitioners Died in Shandong Province and Sichuan Province"

20.

Reuters: January 2, 2001, "China Torture, Persecution Kill 4 Falun Gong Members"

Ms. Lou Aiqing

Ms. Xu Bing

Ms. Guo Ping

A Young Mother Died from Year-L

Long Torture

Wu Lingxia, female, 37, resident of Shuangyashan City,

Heilongjiang Province.

Ms. Wu Lingxia went to Beijing twice to appeal for an end

to the persecution of Falun Gong. That gave the local police of

Changchun City, Jilin Province the official excuse to arrest her

and extort money from her family. Although they kept Ms. Wu

in custody, the police often went to her home to harass her

family. Unable to withstand the policemen's constant hound-

ing, Ms. Wu's husband divorced her. When Ms. Wu was finally

released, she returned to her hometown of Shuangyashan City.

However, when the local Shuangyashan City police were

informed of her return, they began to harass her. They repeat-

edly detained, interrogated, and extorted money from her

because of her refusal to give up practicing Falun Gong.

In May 2001, some police arrested Ms. Wu while she was

visiting a fellow practitioner. They sent her to the

Shuangyashan Detention Center. 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. When her

condition worsened,

she was given no

medical attention. As

a result, she contract-

ed hepatocirrhosis

and ascites. She was

sent home dying in

July 2002; that year of

torture had physically

destroyed her.

When Ms. Wu

passed away on July

27, 2002, festering

scars covered her

body, and there was

severe edema in her

abdomen. She left

behind a teenage son

and aged parents.

Tortured to Death and Cremated

without Family Consent

Zhi Guixiang, female, 31, resident of Daling Town, Gongzhuling

City, Jilin Province.

On the morning of July 19, 2002, police arrested Ms. Zhi

Guixiang while she was taking a walk. At the Zhengyang Police

Station the police tortured her, trying to force her to disclose

information about other Falun Gong practitioners. On July 20,

some people who were visiting the police station noticed that

she was in poor physical condition and hardly had the strength

to talk. She told them that she had suffered internal injuries

from being beaten. On July 25, Ms. Zhi's condition had deteri-

orated until she was on the verge of death. That afternoon, Zhu

Zhishan, the policeman who handled Ms. Zhi's case, went to

her parents' home in Daling Town of Gongzhuling City, and told

them about Ms. Zhi's arrest, but did not mention her condition.

Ms. Zhi's mother requested to see her daughter. Zhu Zhishan

replied, "That is not going to happen. You are not allowed to

see her."

On July 27, Ms. Zhi died from the brutal torture. Later, Zhu

Zhishan claimed that she died due to being on a hunger strike

at the China and Japan Fellowship Hospital. When Ms. Zhi's

family went to the hospital, however, no one could find her

medical records. On July 31, without the knowledge or consent

of her family, Zhu Zhishan had Ms. Zhi's body secretly cremat-

ed at the Shuangfeng Crematory, and Zhu signed the crema-

tion certificate as a trustee. Ms. Zhi's family was not made

aware of any of these circumstances at that time. On August

13th and 14th, Ms. Zhi's parents went to see Zhu Zhishan

twice and demanded information about their daughter's

whereabouts. Zhu blatantly lied and claimed, "Ms. Zhi ran

away."

On August 15, Ms. Zhi's family discovered Zhu Zhishan's

signature on the cremation certificate form at the Shuangfeng

Crematory and he finally admitted to the facts, but he said, "Go

ahead and sue me whenever you want. I'm not afraid! The gov-

ernment made me do this."

Murder and Execution

Wu Lingxia after her release from the

Shuangyashen Detention Center

Ms. Wu Lingxia and her son

Ms. Zhi Guixiang

Dead after Three Years of Physical and

Psychological Torture

Zou Guirong, female, 36, a worker at Xinbin County's Public

Highway System in Fushun City, Liaoning Province.

Because Ms. Zou Guirong went to Beijing in 1999 to

appeal to the central government to stop persecuting Falun

Gong, she was sentenced to one and a half years of forced

labor at Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp in Fushun City. Guard

Jiang Yongfeng beat her. She was later transferred to Masanjia

Forced Labor Camp, where she suffered more torture and

abuse. After that, she was sent to Zhangshi Forced Labor

Camp, where Deputy Director Chen, together with other

guards, tortured her around the clock. They took turns beating

Ms. Zou and didn't allow her to sleep for several days and

nights.

Later, Ms. Zou was transferred to Shenxin Forced Labor

Camp, where she protested her illegal detention with a hunger

strike. By this time her original sentence had long expired. In

May 2001, Ms. Zou was sent to Shenyang City's Dabei

Underground Prison Hospital, where she was again brutally tor-

tured. On August 10, 2001, when Ms. Zou was on the verge of

death, her family was allowed to take her home. However, Song

Junlin, the Political and Legal Committee Secretary of Xinbin

County, instigated the local police to break into Ms. Zou's home

and take her away by force. She was then secretly transferred

to Fushun City's Wujiabao Forced Labor Camp again. Led by

Police Division Chief Wu Wei, the guards used many kinds of

brutal physical and psychological torture in an attempt to break

Ms. Zou so that she would renounce Falun Gong. Ms. Zou even-

tually succumbed to the continuous torture. She died in early

April of 2002.

Que Fazhi Died from Torture

Que Fazhi, female, 49, resident of Shuitang Village, Panlian

Town, Miyi County in Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province.

On June 1, 2002, Ms.

Que Fazhi went to Beijing to

appeal to the government to

stop persecuting Falun

Gong. The Beijing police

arrested her on June 3. The

police took Ms. Que to a

basement and tortured her

savagely for the next twelve

days. Only when she was on

the verge of

death did the

police send

her back to

the Miyi

County Police

Department.

By the

time she was

sent back to

the local police department, in the middle of June, she had lost

the ability to take care of herself. When she was sent back

home on June 28, her whole body was swollen, she had diffi-

culty breathing, and she could not sleep. She remained in

extreme pain until she passed away on October 30, 2002.

Tortured to Death by Punitive Force-FFeeding

Liu Guimin

, female, 35, resident of Dougezhuang Village,

Jugezhuang Town, Miyun County, Beijing

On December 31, 2000, Ms. Liu Guimin went to

Tiananmen Square to appeal to the Chinese government to

stop persecuting Falun Gong. She was arrested and detained

at the Haidian Detention Center, Beijing.

She went on a hunger strike to protest her detention. The

police brutally force-fed her, inflicting severe trauma, which

resulted in internal bleeding. Because of her critical condition,

police feared that she would die at the detention center, so on

January 5, 2001, they took her back home. In an attempt to

save her, her family brought her to the hospital. However, the

rescue effort was unsuccessful, and on January 7, 2000, she

passed away. Right before she died, she vomited a great

amount of blood, which had accumulated in her lungs due to

the extreme damage caused by the punitive force-feeding at

the detention center.

Ms. Que's swollen leg and arm due to torture

Murder and Execution

Ms. Que Fazhi before her death.

Ms. Zou Guirong

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AFP: January 11, 2000, "Chinese Police Blamed for Deaths of Three Falun Gong Women"

Beaten to Death: the First Published Death Case

Zhao Jinhua,

22-28

female, 42, a farmer from Zhaojia Village,

Zhangxing Town, Zhaoyuan City, Shandong Province.

On September 29, 1999, Ms. Zhao Jinhua was arrested

while working in her fields, because the police had found out

that she was a Falun Gong practitioner. The police officers

detained and tortured her.

On October 1, 1999, a group of policemen, led by Assistant

Chief Sun Shixun from the Zhangxing Town Police Station,

Zhaoyuan City, burst into the cell Ms. Zhao shared with other

practitioners, beat them with their fists and rubber clubs,

kicked them, and shocked them with electric batons. During

the torture, Ms. Zhao lost consciousness three times, but they

revived her so they could continue the beating. Finally she col-

lapsed. She was taken to the hospital, given some injections,

and then returned to the detention center.

Ms. Zhao had blood in her urine and her whole body was

in constant pain. Her body was covered with bruises from the

neck down. She had difficulty breathing and could not eat. The

whole right side of her body was numb, and she could not walk.

On October 7, she collapsed again, and died shortly after she

was sent to the emergency room.

An autopsy, carried out on October 8 by medical experts

from Zhaoyuan City and Yantai City in Shandong Province,

found that Ms. Zhao had wounds and bruises on many parts of

her body. The autopsy report indicated that her death had

been caused by beatings with blunt instruments. The police

had her body cremated before her family members could

retrieve it from the detention center.

Mortally Injured with Force-FFeeding Tube

Mei Yulan,

23-24

female, 44, resident of Chaoyang District,

Beijing.

On May 13, 2000, Ms. Mei Yulan was arrested and arbi-

trarily detained in Nutong Cell #607, Chaoyang District

Detention Center, Beijing, merely because she did the Falun

Gong exercises in front of her home. Ms. Mei, along with sever-

al other detained Falun Gong practitioners, started a hunger

strike in order to obtain their unconditional release and the

right to practice Falun Gong. To torture them, the guards of the

Chaoyang District Detention Center started force-feeding these

practitioners with over-saturated salt water and soymilk.

Instead of having an experienced person perform the force-

feedings, the guards ordered the criminals in custody to do it,

which resulted in severe internal damage to the practitioners.

On the morning of May 17, 2000, the guards once again

dragged Ms. Mei out of her cell and force-fed her. Her scream-

ing could be heard in the surrounding cells. On the night of May

18, 2000, she developed a severe headache and began to suf-

focate. Gradually her hands and feet became cold and her eyes

stopped moving. Later, Ms. Mei was taken to the emergency

room of the Civil Aviation Hospital.

On May 22, 2000, two practitioners went to visit Ms. Mei

in the hospital and found her eyes were covered with white

tape. They called her name three times but there was no

response. Her chest heaved up and down with the assistance

of a machine. When the visitors inquired about Ms. Mei's situ-

ation, the doctor only said that Ms. Mei was a "special" patient

and all information was to remain confidential by order of the

authorities.

At 4:10 p.m., on May 23, 2000, Ms. Mei passed away in

the hospital as a direct result of the force-feeding.

Murder and Execution

22.

AP: December 29, 1999, "China Sends Falun Gong Members to Labor Camps"

23.

AP: May 03, 2000, "China Ignoring Jail Torture"

24.

AFP: April 20, 2000, "Three more Falun Gong followers die in police custody

25.

AFP: April 25, 2000, "Another Falun Gong Member Beaten to Death"

26.

M2 Presswire: May 5, 2000, China -- "Torture in China under the spotlight at the UN"

27.

Amnesty International, Public document, AI Index: ASA 17/54/99,October 22, 1999: "People's Republic of China reports of torture and ill treatment of followers of Falun

Gong"

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"Violence against Women in China's Crackdown on Falun Gong Practitioners", presented by Freedom House in 56th Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights

Two Practitioners Killed Via Lethal Drugs at

Maojiashan Female Forced Labor Camp

Zhou Chengyu, female, 55, was the manager of the Yuzhou

University Library in Chongqing City, Sichuan Province.

Near the end of November 2000,

Ms. Zhou Chengyu was arrested in the

Chongqing Train Station on her way to

Beijing to appeal to the central govern-

ment to stop the persecution of Falun

Gong. She was sent directly to the

Chongqing Shapingba Public Security

Sub-Bureau and forced to attend an

anti-Falun Gong brainwashing class.

On February 9, 2001, because

Ms. Zhou refused to write a statement

renouncing Falun Gong, she was sen-

tenced to two years of forced labor and

sent to the Maojiashan Women's Labor Camp in the Jiangbei

District of Chongqing City. There, she was deprived of sleep

from August 24 to 28, 2001, and was forcibly injected with

unknown drugs. At around 1:00 a.m. on September 29, the

labor camp notified Ms. Zhou's family that she had been sent

to the hospital for emergency treatment.

When her family arrived at the hospital, they saw her vom-

iting blood and gradually losing consciousness. At 6:20 a.m.

on September 29, 2001, Ms. Zhou died in the hospital. The

labor camp officials did not provide an autopsy report or any

explanation of Ms. Zhou's sudden and untimely death.

Wang Jiqin, female, 29, resident of Chongqing City, was

arrested by the Chongqing City Police because she refused to

renounce Falun Gong. On July 29, 2000, she was unlawfully

taken to the Chongqing City

Maojiashan Female Forced Labor

Camp and sentenced to two years of

hard labor. There, she was subjected to

the cruelest mental and physical tor-

tures. As a result, her health deteriorat-

ed daily, her weight dropped, and she

could no longer look after herself. In

the name of treating her "illnesses,"

the camp police ordered 7 or 8

inmates who were drug addicts to

force-feed her with an unknown drug,

which caused her to lapse into a coma.

Seeing that Ms. Wang was near death, the labor camp

sent her home in order to avoid responsibility. After returning

home, Ms. Wang remained in critical condition, spitting up

blood and passing blood in her stool. Her limbs became

extremely weak. She also had difficulty breathing, coughed,

vomited, and had diarrhea. She felt sharp pains in her

abdomen due to ascites (accumulation of serous fluid in the

abdomen), and she could not sleep at night. On September

23, 2002, Ms. Wang died.

Died from Injuries to Internal Organs

Zheng Fangying,

female, 54, resident of Beiwei Village,

Weifang City, Shandong Province.

On December 2, 2001, Ms. Zheng Fangying traveled to

Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong, and was

arrested in Tiananmen Square. In the Square, the police

knocked Ms. Zheng down and beat her severely. They took her

to a police station, where they repeatedly beat and shocked

her with a high-voltage electric baton. The cruel torture result-

ed in severe injuries to her internal organs. Later, she was

locked in a small, solitary cell. Ms. Zheng then went on hunger

strike for eighteen days to protest the torture. The police beat

Ms. Zheng so frequently that she could not walk or relieve her-

self when she was conscious. She was in critical condition due

to such abuse.

Aware that they had mortally injured Ms. Zheng, the police

put her onto a train to Jinan City to avoid the responsibility of

having her die at the police station. After arriving at the Jinan

Railway Station, Ms. Zheng painstakingly got out the train, but

was too weak to move on. A kind-hearted young man helped

her to her home.

Upon her arrival at home, Ms. Zheng's family members

found that two of her teeth that had been knocked out were

still hanging in her mouth by her gum flesh. Her whole

abdomen area was dark brown, and there were bruises all over

her body. When they tried to help her onto a bed, they could

even hear the sound of broken pieces of her internal organs

moving against each other. Three days after her return, Ms.

Zheng died with her eyes and mouth open.

Murder and Execution

Ms. Zheng Fangying

Ms. Zhou Chengyu

Ms. Wang Jiqin

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PRIMA NEWS AGENCY: January 21, 2002, "Believers killed in China"

Died after Six Months of Suffering with Broken Neck

Zhao Xin,

30-37

female, 32, resident of Beijing, teacher at the

Beijing University of Business and Industry.

On June 19, 2001, Ms. Zhao Xin practiced Falun Gong

excercises in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing.

She was arrested by the park police

merely for practicing the exercises. She

was sent to the Zizhuyuan Police Station

in Beijing and then taken by police

escort to the Qinghe Detention Center of

the Haidian Police Department in

Beijing.

In the detention center, the officers,

led by Officer Bai Gang, severely beat

and tortured her because she refused to

renounce her practice of Falun Gong.

They kicked her body and punched her face violently, inflicting

injuries to her head and left eye and causing her to suffer great

pain. Ms. Zhao went on a hunger strike to protest the maltreat-

ment. However, the officers caused her further anguish and

physical trauma by force-feeding her, and beating her with a

heavy object. The brutal beating resulted in the fracture of

three of her neck vertebrae.

She was rushed to the

Haidian Hospital in critical

condition, still in shackles

and handcuffs. The police

made the hospital perform

surgery on her without

informing her family. After

the surgery, she was para-

lyzed from the neck down.

After having caused such a

massively crippling injury,

the Haidian Police

Department released Ms.

Zhao to her family. Despite

the efforts to save Ms. Zhao,

she died from injuries sus-

tained while in custody. She

struggled with extreme pain

and suffering for six months before passing away on December

12, 2001.

A High School Teacher Tortured to Death

Sun Hongyan,

female, teacher of the Second High School in

Liaozhong County, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.

In July 1999, Ms. Sun Hongyan went to appeal to the cen-

tral government to stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.

Consequently, she was removed from her teaching position by

the school authorities.

On August 1, 2000, Ms. Sun Hongyan was sent to the

Longshan Labor Camp in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province.

While she was in detention, Ba Qijin, the principal of her

school, led some school employees to ransack Ms. Sun's

home. They confiscated Falun Gong materials, along with

3,000 Yuan. In addition, labor camp authorities fined her

13,000 Yuan. Ms. Sun went on a hunger strike twice to protest

the maltreatment. In response, labor camp guards beat and

force-fed her. Since Ms. Sun refused to denounce Falun Gong,

in November 2000, she was placed in solitary confinement.

In February 2001, the authorities sent her to the No. 463

Hospital in Shenyang City. In late February 2001, Ms. Sun was

transferred to Shenyang Dabei Jail Hospital, where she was

locked in the basement and frequently beaten. She was also

injected with unknown drugs. As a result of this torture, she

could not sit up by herself and lost control of her bowels. Two

weeks later, she was released, at which time she was covered

with open wounds and barely conscious. She died in April

2001.

Murder and Execution

Ms. Sun Hongyan

30.

AP: April 13, 2001, "Falun Gong Says More Followers Die"

31.

BBC News: December 13, 2000, "Falun Gong member dies after beating"

32.

Dallas News: "[group] member's death mourned in China"

33.

AFP: December 12, 2000, "Falungong woman dies six months after Chinese police beating"

34.

San Jose Mercury News: December 21, 2000, L.A. CHUNG, Staff Columnist, "Falun Gong devotees stay visible with vigil at Chinese consulate"

35.

AP: December 13, 2000, Christopher Bodeen, "Hundreds attend funeral of banned Chinese [group] member"

36.

Boston Globe: December 17, 2000, David Abel, Globe Staff, "Falun Gong members rally in Boston"

37.

The Metro: Jason Loftus, "Fears Unfounded About Falun Gong"

Ms. Zhao Xin

Zhao Xin was hospitalized

Li Jiju Beaten to Death During Interrogation

Li Jiju,

female, 37, resident of Xifan Village, Macheng City,

Hubei Province.

At noon on May 15, 2002,

Macheng City police broke into Ms. Li

Jiju's home by climbing over a wall.

When Ms. Li protested the unlawful

break-in, over ten policemen brutally

beat her, breaking one of her ribs. The

policemen then dragged Ms. Li to the

Macheng No. 2 Detention Center,

where they continued their beating.

At the Macheng No.2 Detention

Center, Ms. Li went on a hunger strike to

protest her illegal detention. On May 20,

the Macheng City Disciplinary Committee Secretary, Li

Shengguo, the Macheng Police Department Section 1 Chief,

Yang Gandun, and Yan Wenshan secretly took Ms. Li to the

Longchi Police Station to interrogate her. During the interroga-

tion, the police beat her until she stopped breathing. Ms. Li's

eyes were wide open when she died. There were bruises all

over her body, many of her bones were fractured, and signs of

strangulation were visible on her neck.

To deceive the public, the Macheng City authorities

claimed that Ms. Li had committed suicide by jumping out of a

building. Moreover, they sent policemen to intimidate Ms. Li's

relatives and friends, threatening them with arrest if they

asked questions or spoke out. At the same time, many Falun

Gong practitioners' homes in Macheng City were under surveil-

lance and they were warned not to get in touch with each other.

On the day that Ms. Li's body was placed in the crematory,

the police department drove all of the crematory staff mem-

bers out of the building, replacing them with dozens of police-

men who were stationed there to guard Ms. Li's body. The

police would not allow Ms. Li's family members or friends to get

near the crematory. Someone tried to take pictures of the body,

but was then viciously beaten, and the film was destroyed.

The following day, the police department dispatched sever-

al hundred policemen to the crematory. Over two hundred

policemen, including plainclothes officers, were positioned

along the way leading from Ms. Li's home to the crematory.

Later, Ms. Li's family members and relatives were put under

house arrest; they were not allowed to talk to anyone. The

police said they would appoint a medical examiner to investi-

gate the cause of Ms. Li's death. However, none of the medical

examiners from Macheng City or Ms. Li's residential area wrote

a report about Ms. Li's death after they examined the body. In

the end, the police department cremated Ms. Li's body. They

gave Ms. Li's family members 32,000 Yuan to buy their silence

about the truth of her death.

Tortured to Death while in Police Custody

Liu Zhi, female, 61 years old, resident of Jinzhou City, Liaoning

Province, address: Building 67-73, Jintie Street, Linghe District,

Jinzhou City.

After Falun Gong was banned on July 20, 1999, Ms. Liu Zhi

went to Beijing three times to appeal to the government to stop

persecuting Falun Gong. Simply because of these peaceful

appeals, in May 2000, she was sentenced to one year of forced

labor at the Masanjia Labor Camp. She was released the day

before New Year's Eve, 2001.

However, in May 2002, five policemen from the Jinzhou

City Police Department arrested her. They beat and interrogat-

ed her for an entire day. They released her only after extorting

2,000 Yuan from her husband. On the morning of August 20,

2002, policeman Li Changmin and five others from the Jintie

Police Station broke into Ms. Liu's home and arrested her, not

even allowing her to put on her shoes and coat.

On August 25, 2002, Jinzhou City "610 Office" Director Liu

and personnel from the Local Residential Committee notified

Ms. Liu's family that she had died in police custody. The police

refused to allow Ms. Liu's family members to do any sort of

investigation. Deputy police department Chief Zhang Yinggen

ordered Ms. Liu's cremation without obtaining her family mem-

bers' signature or consent. Ms. Liu's ashes were not even

returned to her family.

Murder and Execution

Ms. Li Jiju

38.

PRIMA NEWS AGENCY: June 10, 2002, Chinese police killed "[members]"

Ms. Liu Zhi

Force-FFed, Injected With Harmful Drug,

Then Tortured to Death

Zhang Dezhen, female, 38, single, a teacher at Mengyin

County No. 6 Middle School, a resident of Xiezhuang Village,

Jiuzhai Township, Mengyin County, Shandong Province.

Ms. Zhang Dezhen had been arrested several times for

going to Beijing to appeal for an end to the persecution of

Falun Gong. In January 2000, Mengyin County Police detained

her for more than two months. During the detention, she was

severely beaten, and was forced to sit in the snow while she

was menstruating. Starting at the end of December 2000, Ms.

Zhang was detained for over four months, first in a brainwash-

ing class and then at the Mengyin County Detention Center.

In April 2001, she was illegally sentenced to four years of

forced labor at Jinan Female Forced Labor Camp. Thirteen days

later, having failed a physical examination, she was sent back

home. After she returned home, the principal of the Mengyin

County No. 6 Middle School continued to harass her. Ten days

later, Ms. Zhang left home; she became destitute and home-

less in order to avoid illegal arrest and torture.

In October 2001, Ms. Zhang was illegally arrested by secu-

rity guards in Xintaixie Village Mine. She was then detained in

a brainwashing class in Mengyin County for over three months,

where she was frequently beaten and tortured severely and not

permitted to bathe or meet with her relatives. Her sister tried

to visit her there once, and the "610 Office" then detained her

as well for over one month.

Ms. Zhang went on a hunger strikes three times to protest

her illegal detention, and the guards ordered that she be force-

fed by the Mengyin County Traditional Medicine Hospital. The

feeding tube punched through her throat, causing her condi-

tion to weaken and endangering her life. Afraid that Ms. Zhang

could die, the "610 Office" asked her family to take her home.

After Ms. Zhang recovered she left home again, attempting

to escape imminent re-arrest by the local "610 Office." On

September 19, 2002 the Mengyin County "610 Office" and

Mengyin County Police arrested her again. She was sent to the

"610 Office" brainwashing center, and then to the Mengyin

Detention Center. During this detention, Ms. Zhang again went

on hunger strikes to protest the illegal detention. She was

force-fed many times at the Mengyin County Traditional

Medicine Hospital. On January 31, 2003, Ms. Zhang was inject-

ed with a drug that makes one feel hot and dry. Taking small

doses of this drug makes one feel hungry and thirsty, while

large doses of the drug cause heart failure and difficulty in

breathing. Ms. Zhang eventually passed away.

On the same day, Ms. Zhang's family members were

instructed to meet with "610 Office" representatives. Her

brother, Mr. Zhang Dewen, and her nephew were taken direct-

ly to the funeral home. At this time, rigor mortis had already set

in, indicating that she had died some time before. Ms. Zhang's

body was very emaciated and curled up, with wounds on top of

wounds all over her body. The Mengyin County "610 Office"

attempted to force Mr. Zhang to sign a slip releasing the body

for cremation, but he refused. As a result, Mr. Zhang was beat-

en brutally. He yielded and tearfully signed the slip.

After Ms. Zhang's death, no court-appointed doctor per-

formed an autopsy and no family member was allowed to

attend the cremation. To cover up their act of murder, the

police spread lies that Ms. Zhang had died of a heart attack.

Hung up for Half a Month, Causing

Paralysis and Death

Xing Xiuqin, female, 61, teacher, resident of Beima Village,

Songlindian Town, Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province.

Ms. Xing Xiuqin had been a teacher for over 30 years.

Because she would not give up practicing Falun Gong, she was

constantly monitored and had no freedom for three years. Her

pension was stopped, and she was fined and detained many

times.

At around 8:00 p.m. on September 15, 2002, Ms. Xing was

forcibly taken from her home and sent to Songlindian Police

Station for brainwashing. Because she refused to give up her

belief in Falun Gong, she was handcuffed to a tree for three

days and nights. Afterwards, she was hung with her feet off the

ground for half a month, and as a result, she became paralyzed

in her lower body. While in detention, she was denied family

visitation. At about 4:00 p.m. on November 16, 2002, the

police asked her family members to pick her up and take her

home. When they arrived, she was already cold all over her

body. She died at around 4:00 a.m. the next morning. When

her family members went to the town government to find out

the reason for her death, the officials refused to meet with

them.

Murder and Execution

Ms. Zhang Dezhen

Ribs Broken, Force-FFed, and Killed

Liao Zhaoqi, female, 57, former Party Secretary at the Institute

of Women and Children's Health of Qionglai City, Sichuan

Province.

After July 20, 1999, the police and higher authorities

harassed Ms. Liao Zhaoqi almost daily, placing her under sur-

veillance and trying to force her to write a letter renouncing

Falun Gong. In June 2000, she went to the appeals office of

the State Department to appeal and to clarify the facts about

Falun Gong. She also went to Tiananmen Square. As a result,

she was illegally detained for over 40 days and expelled from

the Communist Party. Late in 2000, to prevent her from clari-

fying the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong, the

authorities attempted to arrest her, stopped her pay, and dis-

missed her from her job. She had to leave her home and go

from place to place in order to avoid illegal arrest and torture.

At about 5 a.m. on September 25, 2002, the police from

the Dayi Police Department broke into the home of Ms. Chen

Guiying (female, over 60 years old) on Xiaoxi Street of Jinyuan

Town and forcibly arrested Ms. Chen Guiying, Ms. Liao Zhaoqi,

Ms. Dong Yuying, and two male practitioners (both in their

20s), who were doing the Falun Gong exercises. They confis-

cated all of the Falun Gong books, pictures, VCDs, 3,500 Yuan

of personal savings, and other personal belongings of Ms.

Chen Guiying.

The police then tried to force Ms. Liao Zhaoqi to tell them

the source of the Falun Gong materials. Ms. Liao started a

hunger strike to protest her illegal arrest. As a result, the police

force-fed her. They pried her teeth open, causing necrosis

inside her mouth during the forced-feeding. To leave no obvi-

ous marks of injury, the police beat her brutally on the chest,

which resulted in broken ribs and other internal injuries. The

police also forcibly injected her with harmful drugs. Ms. Liao's

body and mind suffered tremendously. According to the police,

on the evening of October 3, 2002, she started to exhibit a

state of shock. She died in the emergency room after rescue

attempts failed. Police then tried to conceal the murder and

the details of her death.

When Ms. Liao's family members hurried to the Dayi

County Police Department and requested to see Ms. Liao's

body, the chief of Section 1 told them that she was already out

of the hospital and had been sent to a crematory a long time

ago. The director of the Dayi Police Department, the

Procurator, the chief of Section 1, and the medical examiner,

Sun Dahong of the Chengdu Police Department, meticulously

covered up the murder. They unreasonably requested that her

family members not take pictures of her body and not hold a

memorial service. If the family did not comply with this

request, they would not be allowed to see her body.

After much effort, her family members were finally allowed

to see her frozen body in the funeral parlor. Her face was pur-

plish blue, her eyeballs were protruding from her face, there

were clear handcuff marks on both of her hands, the inner sur-

face of her right hand was mangled, there were clear bruise

marks on her cheek close to her right ear, and some other

places had purplish-blue needle-pierced holes. Medical exam-

iner Sun Dahong did a surface check of the body while other

people took pictures and made written records.

When her family members saw the blood marks around

her mouth and requested a re-examination, the medical exam-

iner found many excuses to turn down the request, attempting

to end the process without a careful re-examination. Because

of the persistent request of her family members, the medical

examiner cut open her chest and found that many of her ribs

were broken. Sun, the medical examiner, tried very hard to

cover it up. In particular, Sun lied about the 5th to 7th right

ribs, which were clearly broken. He depicted the problem as

"ossification." Her family members requested a written report

on the medical examination. Not only their request refused,

but Ms. Liao's son was also forced to sign on a document waiv-

ing further medical examination so that they could avoid any

responsibility.

Force-FFed Mustard Oil and Suffocated to Death

Li Hongmin, female, 60, resident of Mudanjiang City,

Heilongjiang Province.

On the morning of September 16, 2002, Ms. Li was arrest-

ed while she was distributing Falun Gong materials. She was

detained at the Mudanjiang City Police Bureau and tortured to

death the following day. On September 18, Ms. Li's family and

workplace were informed of her death. Her body was cremat-

ed on September 19.

According to people who knew the details of Ms. Li's

death, Ms. Li was force-fed a bottle of mustard oil. Right after

the force-feeding, her head was covered with plastic bags that

were tightly closed around her neck, causing Ms. Li to suffo-

cate to death. In order to hide their responsibility, the police

threw her corpse off of a building, and then claimed that she

had committed suicide. Afterwards, the police department

threatened her family, asked them not to reveal the news of

her death, but rather to claim that Ms. Li went on a trip to visit

relatives, and that she was not dead.

Murder and Execution

Ms. Li Hongmin