On the morning of July 18, 2000, Mr. Liu Yufeng was arrested by the police and detained in the Wendeng Detention Center because he practiced Falun Gong exercises on Huilong Mountain. On July 19, the Wendeng Detention Center called Mr. Liu's daughter and asked her to pay 200 to 300 Yuan for her father's medical treatment. On July 22, 2000, the detention center called his daughter again, and told her to take Mr. Liu home. When his son-in-law carried Mr. Liu out, he was already in a coma. Mr. Liu was taken home around 10 a.m. on July 22, 2000, and died the next morning at 7 a.m.

The autopsy by the coroner revealed a mass of blood in Mr. Liu's right eye-rim, cuts and bruises on his face, and black and blue marks left by electric shocks on his throat, chest, and legs. His skin had begun to separate from his body, and the soft tissue below the skin was damaged. It was discovered that the second, third, and forth ribs on both the right and left sides were fractured. The upper one-third of the sternum [The bone running from the neck to the stomach; the breastbone] was broken. His whole body was covered with bruises and injuries.

Mr. Liu's corpse

After Mr. Liu's death, his family hired a lawyer to seek justice. The police then detained Mr. Liu's wife, put his family members under close surveillance, and forced the attorney to drop the case.

On December 1, 2000, Ms. Chu Congrui went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop persecuting Falun Gong. She was arrested and detained at the Haidian District Police Substation. She died at the substation on December 13, 2000.

On December 17, 2000, the Haidian District Police notified Ms. Chu's family to come and claim her body. The police claimed that Ms. Chu died from fasting, but a doctor disagreed. The doctor told Ms. Chu's family that her nose was broken, her face and lips were severely swollen, her body was bloody all over, and both ears were plugged with blood-soaked cotton swabs. These signs indicated that Ms. Chu had suffered horrific physical pain and mental anguish while being violently beaten before she died. On December 18, 2000, she was cremated in Changping County in Beijing.

Ms. Chu's parents have suffered enormous sorrow and grief. When Ms. Chu's fiancé and her mother returned to Shulan City from Beijing, the local policeman tried to arrest them simply because they knew the truth of Ms. Chu's death. In order to avoid arrest by the local police, they have both been forced to flee their homes and go into hiding.

 Du Xu, male, 35, former employee of the Nanyang Meat Processing Factory, junior college graduate, resident of Nanyang City, Henan Province

Mr. Du Xu appealed to the central government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. He was subsequently arrested on November 15, 2000, detained in the Wancheng Police Station, and severely tortured by police. At around 1 p.m. on November 28, 2000, Mr. Du was sent to the First People's Hospital for emergency treatment. The police did not notify Mr. Du's family until after 7 p.m. By the time his family arrived at the hospital, he was already in a coma.

A medical examination revealed trauma to a large area of Mr. Du's brain, and bleeding inside his skull. His left leg was broken, and his legs and feet were black and swollen. He had wounds all over his body, including black eyes.

Doctors operated on Mr. Du's injured brain but told his family that he could lose his life at any minute. Mr. Du never fully regained consciousness during his entire 43-day stay in the hospital. He gained some awareness in early January, but was not able to speak. Mr. Du passed away at 5:30 a.m. on January 10, 2001.

On November 22, 2000, Ms. Zhao Jing traveled to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. The next day, the police of the Yutian County Public Security Bureau in Hebei Province arrested her and detained her in the Public Security Bureau Detention Center in Yutian County.

The police officers at the detention center beat and tortured Ms. Zhao savagely. Inmates said they could hear horrifying screams from Ms. Zhao. One witness confirmed that Ms. Zhao was severely beaten by the police. She died on the third night after she was in custody.

The police cremated Ms. Zhao's body before her family had an opportunity to see it.

On December 1, 2000, Ms. Wang Hong went to Beijing to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. She was arrested and escorted back to Longshan Labor Camp in Shenyang City. The guards in the labor camp tortured her ruthlessly and frequently. They shocked her with electric batons, poured icy water over her, poured boiling water on her back and her genital area, and even repeatedly forced a plastic bottle into her vagina.

Police then transferred Ms. Wang to the Zhangshi Labor Camp where the guards attempted to "transform" her by using various types of torture. The guards tied her up with rope, stuffed her mouth with towels and beat her for several hours with wooden boards. She was beaten on her head, face, and other parts of her body while a male prisoner sat on top of her.

The guards in Zhangshi Labor Camp eventually gave up, and sent Ms. Wang back to the Longshan Labor Camp. The guards proceeded to torture her further. They forcibly pushed her head down to between her legs, tied her legs together to hold her head in between, and then tied her hands behind her back. She was then forced to stand in this agonizing position for more than 20 hours, and she was savagely beaten whenever she fell. They then forced her down to the ground with her legs extended in front of her, forced bend her head to one of her legs, tied her head to her leg, tied her hands behind her back, and forced her to "sit" in that position for another 20 hours. In the process, the camp supervisor incited prisoners to grab her by the neck, almost choking her to death.

The continuous torture caused serious injuries to Ms. Wang, including kidney failure. However, the authorities at the labor camp refused to let her family take her home. When she was finally brought home on August 22, 2001, Ms. Wang was on the verge of death. She died on August 31, 2001, shortly after her release.

Photos of Ms. Wang before her death

At the end of May 2000, Mr. Wang Bin went to Beijing to appeal to the central government for the right to practice Falun Gong. He was arrested and taken to the Dongfeng Xinchun Labor Camp.

On the night of September 27, 2000, the guards at the labor camp ordered five prisoners to beat Mr. Wang. The guards told the five prisoners that they would be given reduced sentences if they beat Mr. Wang hard enough, or they would be punished for disobeying the order.
 

Photos of Ms. Wang before her death

The ensuing savage beating caused the artery in Mr. Wang's neck and major blood vessels to break. As a result, his tonsils were injured, his lymph nodes were crushed and several bones were fractured. He had cigarette burns on the back of his hands and inside his nostrils. There were bruises all over his body. His appearance was grotesque. Even though he was already close to death, he was tortured again later that night. He finally lost consciousness.

When someone reported Mr. Wang's condition to a camp guard and asked him to take Mr. Wang to the hospital, the guard heartlessly said that there was no problem and that he would wake up in a while. Mr. Wang remained unconscious through the next day. When he was finally taken to the hospital, the doctor said it was too late. On the night of October 4, 2000, Mr. Wang died from the severe injuries.

Ms. Li's corpse

On February 19, 2001, the police arrested Ms. Li Yanhua for distributing Falun Gong flyers and sent her to the Nanlou Economic Development District Police Station, Dashiqiao City. Several policemen beat this elderly woman with batons until she lost control of her bowels and bladder. The beating left wounds covering every inch of her body. Blood gushed from her nose, mouth, and ears, her right eye was sunken, with one eye open, and the other one closed. Her right arm was black and blue. Her back, from her shoulders to her buttocks, was full of marks from the blows and was almost completely purple. Ms. Li died at the scene.

Zeng Xianmei, female, 63, a resident of Lushunkou District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province

On the morning of August 9, 2001, several policemen from the Xigang Police Station arrested Ms. Zeng Xianmei while she was doing housework.

On the afternoon of August 14, 2001, Ms. Zeng's family was notified of her death. Though Ms. Zeng's head was wrapped in gauze, a bloodstain the size of a fist was visible near her cerebellum, indicating an injury there. Protruding black bruises covered her right eye. In addition, there was a round, black and blue injury about 1 to 2 cm in diameter under her lower jaw, and another one about 2 or 3 cm inside the middle of her lip. A large area of Ms. Zeng's right shoulder was covered with bruises and some of her skin had been scraped off there. There were also bruises and injuries on her right costal (rib) area, as well as on the left side of her waist and on her right hip. Her hands were badly swollen. Her lower left leg was covered with gauze and blood. Her feet were also swollen and covered with cuts.

Zhang Zigen, female, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province.

In March 2000, Ms. Zhang Zigen was arrested and detained at the Xuanhua Detention Center of Zhangjiakou City. At the detention center, the police beat and tortured her savagely, causing her to be paralyzed from the waist down. The officials at the detention center, however, ignored her severe condition and refused to give her any medical treatment. The police released her only when she was in critical condition. Her family then managed to send her to a hospital for emergency treatment. However, one of her legs was already necrotic and had to be amputated.

On October 7, 2000, the police arrested Ms. Zhang again and sent her to the Xuanhua Detention Center. Ms. Zhang was beaten and tortured at the detention center. Five or six days later, Ms. Zhang's physical condition deteriorated severely and she was sent home. She died February 25, 2001.