At approximately 8 a.m. on September 21, 2001, the County police of Yishui County arrested and beat Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Yongdong. The police took Mr. Wang to his residence and ransacked it. Mr. Wang tried to question whether they had any legal grounds for their action. However, he only received more beatings. Around 10 a.m., after the beatings, Mr. Wang was pushed out of the fourth floor window of his apartment. Mr. Wang struggled to keep from being pushed out of the window, but he failed. He died from the impact.

Mr. Wang Yongdong's corpse

The High Court of Shandong Province, the Intermediate Court of Linyi City, and the Elementary Court of Yishui County performed a joint autopsy because of demands made by Mr. Wang's family and his fellow villagers. The autopsy showed that Mr. Wang's body was covered with dark blue bruises. His neck had finger marks showing he had been choked. His Adam's apple was sticking out abnormally and his collarbone was broken on both sides. Three left ribs and two right ribs were broken. His lower leg bone was fractured and had an obvious indentation in it. His upper leg bones were also fractured. However, Mr. Wang's family did not receive any formal documents from the court or from the local authorities regarding Mr. Wang's death.

Mr. Wang Huachen was arrested at 4 p.m. on November 7, 2000, for practicing Falun Gong. He was taken to the Political Security Unit of the Lianshan District Police Station, Huludao City where he was stripped and handcuffed to a heater pipe. Four policemen beat him with wooden clubs, cattle prods, and other weapons. They also shocked him with an electric baton. They tortured him for more than two hours until he lost consciousness. They poured cold water on his head to revive him. As soon as he regained consciousness, they continued beating him. After Mr. Wang regained consciousness from another round of beating, the police tortured him and then threw him out of a fourth floor window.

Mr. Wang lapsed into a coma. He remained unconscious on the ground for two and one half hours before he was taken to the Lianshan District Hospital emergency room at 9 p.m. At the hospital, medical personnel found that he had many bone fractures, many wounds from electric shocks, and that he had been beaten with blunt objects over his entire body. Mr. Wang passed away in the hospital on November 18, 2000.

A policeman pushes a practitioner against the wall.

On July 31, 2001, the Harbin City Public Security Bureau arrested Mr. Deng Weinan because he practiced Falun Gong. On August 2, 2001, the police handcuffed Mr. Deng to a heating pipe for the night. At around 8:15 a.m. on August 3, Mr. Deng was thrown from the 12th floor window, while he was still handcuffed. He died from the impact. Mr. Deng's family received a notice of his death that day.

When Mr. Deng's relatives came to see his remains, they discovered two bruises about 2-3 centimeters in diameter on his chest. There was also a deep indentation in the back of his skull. They requested an investigation of Mr. Deng's death, but the Harbin City Public Security Bureau turned down their request. On August 7, the police hastily cremated Mr. Deng's remains and gave his relatives 5,000 Yuan (about US$600) to close the case.

On September 14, 2001, police from the Longcheng District Police Station in Chaoyang City arrested Ms. Yu Xiuling for practicing Falun Gong. At 8 a.m. on September 19, 2001, Ms. Yu was taken for interrogation. Policemen beat Ms. Yu continuously from 8 a. m. until 9 p.m. They tried to force her to renounce Falun Gong. During the entire time, Ms. Yu was handcuffed to a heater and surrounded by policemen.

After 13 hours of torture, police officers Huang and Sun unhooked the handcuffs from the heater and threw Ms. Yu out of the fourth floor window while she was still alive. She died from the impact. Ms. Yu's husband found that her arms were broken and her buttocks were black and blue at the time of her death. Her body was hastily cremated at midnight on September 19, 2001, just three hours after her death.

Su Qionghua, female, 32, a resident of Suining City, Sichuan Province

At 11 a.m. on December 18, 2000, dozens of policemen from Suining City's National Security Squad and Chuanshan Village Police Station attempted to ransack Ms. Su Qionghua's apartment without a warrant. Ms. Su locked the door and refused to let the police in. The police then surrounded Ms. Su's apartment, cut off the water supply to her home and threatened to kill her.

Two days later, on December 20, at around 6 p. m., two policemen used ropes to lower themselves down from the roof to break into Ms. Su's apartment. At that time, Ms. Su was standing by a window. As a policeman lowered himself down from the roof, he fiercely kicked Ms. Su, causing her to fall from the sixth floor. Ms. Su died from the impact.