1. Peng Min, male, 27, resident of Wuhan City, Hubei Province
2. Li Yingxiu, female, mother of Mr. Peng Min

In December 2000, Mr. Peng Min was arrested for appealing to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners and was escorted back to Wuhan City. He was detained at the Qingling Detention Center in Wuchang City.

On January 9, 2001, the police severely beat Mr. Peng, causing a compound fracture of his cervical bones and a crushed fifth thoracic bone, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. As the police refused to give him any medical treatment, Mr. Peng's mother, Ms. Li Yingxiu, brought him home to recover. Afraid of the public exposure of Mr. Peng's torture, over thirty policemen from the City Public Security Bureau came to his home and took him away by force. The police and the local "610 Office" then isolated him in a small room in the orthopedics department of the No. 7 Hospital in Wuhan City, but did not give him any medical attention. When Mr. Peng's mother and brother, Mr. Peng Liang, came to the hospital to take care of him, they were completely prohibited from any contact with the outside. The hospital, acting under the instructions of the "610 Office" withheld all medical care from Mr. Peng. His mother and brother were cut off from any outside resources. They could only watch Mr. Peng's overall condition deteriorate, which included a growing festering wound on his back. When they repeatedly pleaded with the authorities to release Mr. Peng and let him get some medicine from the outside, they were told that only when Mr. Peng died would they be allowed to leave the hospital.

On March 9, 2001, a group from the state-run China Central Television (CCTV) and Wuhan TV Station came to the hospital to produce a false report of Mr. Peng's medical care. Mr. Peng and his family protested and attempted to tell about the torture he had been subjected to, but they were ignored. At around 6 p.m. on April 6, 2001, Mr. Peng died in the hospital. At around 10 a.m. on April 7, 2001, his body was secretly cremated.

Right after her son's death, Ms. Li Yingxiu and her other son Mr. Peng Liang were transferred and detained at the anti-Falun Gong brainwashing class in the Qingling area of Wuchang District. Because they refused to renounce Falun Gong, they were severely beaten. Ms. Li's skull was fractured. On April 12, 2001, after the sixth day of detention, Ms. Li was sent to No. 7 Hospital because her condition was critical. The police ordered a doctor to give Ms. Li injections of Aminophylline, an antiinflammatory drug. On April 18, 2001, the police wanted to inject her with increasing amounts of Aminophylline. She refused because of the painful side effects. Several policemen dragged her out of bed, threw her to the ground, and hit her head, face and body repeatedly until she lost consciousness. The doctors gave her another injection of Aminophylline. The doctor told the police, "Aminophylline has toxic side effects. It can enlarge the blood vessels and excite the brain. It cannot be used outside the hospital. The patient has to be hospitalized for observation." However, the police refused to let Ms. Li stay in the hospital. On April 24, 2001, the police sent Ms. Li back to No. 7 Hospital to be injected yet another time with Aminophylline. Later, Ms. Li felt excruciating pain in her head.

In May 2001, Ms. Li died in the No. 7 Hospital in Wuchang District, the same hospital where her son, Mr. Peng, had died. Her husband, Mr. Peng Weisheng, came to the hospital and saw the bloodstains on her head, as well as countless scars all over her body. The police then threatened him, saying that the reason for Ms. Li's death was that she "talked too much" about how the police murdered her son, Mr. Peng. They warned him not to have the same "ending."

In May 2000, Ms. Li Mei was arrested and sentenced to one and a half years in the Women's Labor Camp of Hefei City, Anhui Province for appealing for Falun Gong in Beijing. One night in June 2000, at around 11 p.m. a guard named Lin detained Ms. Li and handcuffed her to the window of a small room, leaving her arms and legs exposed to mosquitoes and bugs. One day, a guard found Ms. Li doing the Falun Gong exercises, and proceeded to beat her. He battered and kicked her, then slammed her head against the wall. The guard tied her up in a position that was so contorted that it caused her extreme pain, and seriously injured her body.

On January 29, 2001, Ms. Li's parents were notified to go to a hospital to see Ms. Li Mei. When they arrived at the hospital, however, they were only allowed to see from a distance. Ms. Li's body was covered with a quilt. Only her head could be seen. Bloodstains were vaguely visible around her nose, the corner of her mouth, and her ears. There were black and blue wounds on her face, and her neck was wrapped with gauze. According to the doctor, Ms. Li's brain was no longer responding, and she had a very weak heartbeat.

On February 1, 2001, Ms. Li was declared dead, and was sent to the cremation station. Her body was cremated under police supervision, and no pictures were allowed to be taken. Her family was threatened not to expose her death to the public. Her brother-inlaw was fired several days after her death because of his effort to seek justice for Ms. Li.

In October 2001, Ms. Li Mei's sister, Ms. Li Jun, traveled to Shanghai and was arrested in there. Soon, her family received news came that Ms. Li Jun had been hospitalized because she had a serious liver disease. Anyone who met Ms. Li Jun, especially her family knew that she had been in very good heath, and did not have any diseases. While her family was en route to visit Ms. Li Jun, they received the news that she was in "critical condition" and had been transferred to Hefei City Infectious Disease Hospital. When they finally arrived at the hospital, she was on the verge of death. She passed away in early December 2001.

On October 21, 2000, on the way to Beijing to appeal to the central government to end the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Wang Lixuan and her eight-month-old son, Meng Hao, were arrested and detained at the Tuanhe Labor Camp, Beijing.

On November 7, 2000, Ms. Wang and her son were tortured to death at the labor camp. Her family received the death notice, arrived in Beijing, and were shown the frozen corpses of Ms. Wang and her son. According to the coroner's examination: her neck and knuckles were broken, her skull was sunken and there was a needle stuck in her waist. There were two deep bruises on her son's ankles. There were two black and blue spots on his head and blood in his nose. The bruises may have been caused when the guards of the labor camp shackled little Meng Hao's ankles and hung him upside down.

Family members of Ms. Wang have also been persecuted. Her sister, Ms. Wang Lihui, was sent to a labor camp because she practiced Falun Gong at Yantai University. Her brother was also sent to a labor camp for practicing Falun Gong at Jinan Industrial College. Her father, Mr. Wang Guihai, 53 years old, was arrested during the night on November 2, 2000. He was sent to the Wangcun Labor Camp. Her mother, Li Xiuxiang, 51 years old, was detained several times because she had appealed to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong.