In May 2001, Ms. Mo Shuijin was arrested for being a Falun Gong practitioner. She was sentenced to two years of forced labor at the Chongqing Female Labor Camp in Chongqing City. The camp guards routinely beat Ms. Mo for refusing to renounce Falun Gong. She was forced to stand under the scorching sun or in the pouring rain for several hours at a time. Despite her advanced age, she was forced to do hard labor for ten to fourteen hours a day. Ms. Mo was very healthy before her detention, but the torture and hard labor caused her health to quickly deteriorate. She began to cough up blood after fifty days in the camp.

Handcuffed behind the back

To further torture Ms. Mo, the camp guards sealed her mouth with tape and locked her up in a "small cell." The small cell was very damp and without sunlight. There was no bed and no toilet in the "small cell." Victims locked in a "small cell" have to sleep, urinate and defecate on the same floor. Only half of a regular meal was served to "small cell." At night, rats run through the cells. The stench was so bad that it was difficult to breath. The guards handcuffed Ms. Mo's hands behind her back, and shackled her feet in an agonizing way so that she could neither move nor lie down. As a result, Ms. Mo was unable to sleep at night. During the day, the police instigated other prisoners to beat her.

Feet shackled

After months of torture, she was near death. The local 610 Office (A government agency formed specifically for the purpose of eradicating Falun Gong) had her transferred to the Changan Company Hospital. The 610 Office arranged to have female police officers dress up as medical staff, and on October 30, 2001, they injected a euthanasia chemical into Ms. Mo. She died from the lethal injection.

On December 18, 2000, Mr. Yu Wenjiang was arrested and beaten by local police. On December 19, 2000, he was transferred to the Siping Detention Center. He went on a hunger strike to protest the arbitrary detention. On December 23, the guards forcefed him with milk with over-saturated salt. The torturous force-feeding had traumatized Mr. Yu, and he had since refused to cooperate and resisted the torture.

On December 29, 2000, to make Mr. Yu to cooperate, the police let Mr. Yu's wife and daughters visit and persuade him. This was the last time that his family saw him alive. Later, in yet another force-feeding, the police gave Mr. Yu and injection, claiming that the drug would tame his resistance. Soon after that, he was rushed to a hospital, and he died at 2 a.m. January 2, 2001.

Ju Yajun, male, 33, farmer from Yuquan Town, Acheng City, Heilongjiang Province

In January 2001, Mr. Ju Yajun was arrested in Acheng City because he refused to renounce Falun Gong. On July 5, 2001, he was sent to the Wanjia Labor Camp in Harbin City. Eight days later he was transferred to the Changlinzi Labor Camp.

On October 8, 2001, Mr. Ju and other Falun Gong practitioners at Team 1 went on their third hunger strike to protest the illegal detention and inhuman treatment. On the 8th day of their hunger strike, the camp guards ordered several criminal prisoners to force-feed Mr. Ju. Their incompetence in forcing a tube into him caused internal injuries. After the forcefeeding, Mr. Ju went into a semi-comatose state. Nevertheless, the guards continued to have the prisoners force-feed him twice a day.

On the afternoon of October 21, 2001, Mr. Ju was injected with an unknown substance. This caused Mr. Ju's neck to become stiff and he lapsed into a coma. By next morning, he breathed heavily and was unable to recognize anybody. On October 24, 2001, the camp officials told Mr. Ju's family to pick him up. Mr. Ju's family sent him immediately to the Harbin City Medical College's 2nd Hospital for emergency treatment, but Mr. Ju did not recover and died at 4:18 a.m. on October 26, 2001.

On March 8, 2000, Mr. Li Shouqiang was arrested for appealing to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. He was sent to the Changping Detention Center in Beijing, where he was tortured. Police added large doses of drugs to Mr. Li's drink. The drugs seriously damaged his central nervous system.

On the evening of March 18, 2000, the Panjiayuan Branch Police Station called Mr. Li's family and asked them to pick him up. Mr. Li was confined in an iron cage when his brother and mother saw him. On the way home, Mr. Li was unable to speak clearly. He told them disjointedly that the police had put drugs in his drink and forced him to drink it. He was not allowed to spit it out or drink water. The police declared that the drug would make him die in two days. After he returned home, Mr. Li looked dazed and could not think normally. There were wounds on the back of his neck, lower back and on both sides of his thighs. On the morning of March 20, 2000, just as the police predicted, Mr. Li died.