Victims:

1.      Yang Jingxin, female, 37, resident of Weiping Township, Xingcheng County, Liaoning Province

2.      Lu Guifang, female, 50, resident of Weiping Township, Xingcheng County, Liaoning Province

3.      Zhao Yuhua, female, 41, resident of Weiping Township, Xingcheng County, Liaoning Province

Location:

Tiananmen Square Police Station, Beijing

Perpetrator:

Director of the Tiananmen Square Police Station, Beijing

Description:

On April 24th, 2002, Falun Gong Practitioners Ms. Yang Jingxin, Ms. Lu Guifang and Ms. Zhao Yuhua went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop prosecuting Falun Gong. At 5 a.m. on April 25th, they were arrested at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing and detained at Tiananmen Square Police Station.

At the Tiananmen Square Police Station, Ms. Yang, Ms. Lu and Ms. Zhao were stripped down to their underwear and tortured. The policemen handcuffed their hands to their back and inserted chalks or chopsticks in between their fingers. The fingers were squeezed until the chalks were crushed or the chopsticks were broken. The torture caused their fingers to turn dark blue and severely swollen. The police also poured hot water on Ms. Yang. She was injured badly and her entire body was swollen. She lost consciousness twice during the five-hour torture.

On the same day of the torture, Ms. Yang, Ms. Lu and Ms. Zhao were sent to Masanjia Labor Camp, one of the most vicious labor camps in China. The labor camp refused to accept them because they had become so weak from the brutal tortures. Fortunately, they were sent back home. In May 2002, they were arrested again. This time, it is by Xingcheng County Police of Liaoning Province, the police from their own hometown. The ladies were sent to Masanjia Labor Camp.