3. Liu Aiqing, female, 25, employee of the Shouguang Phosphate Fertilizer Factory, resident of Sunjiaji Town, Shouguang City, Shandong Province.

On June 4, 2001, Ms. Liu Aiqing was arrested in Majia Village of Sunjiaji Town. She was forced to stand outside in the scorching sun. The police grabbed Ms. Liu by her shoulders and arms, punched her fore-head, and slapped her face repeatedly. As a result, Ms. Liu was covered with bruises, and her forehead, face, and lips became swollen.

Photos of the injury to Liu Aiqing's leg

One female practitioner was slapped 16 times when she refused to renounce Falun Gong. One of the hoodlums took a birch tree branch to beat her buttocks and kicked her private parts. The hoodlum also grabbed and squeezed her breasts and verbally abused her with filthy obscenities. He then shoved his hands inside her clothes to grab her breasts; he even stripped off her skirt and underwear, claiming he wanted to examine the bruises on her buttocks.

On the evening of June 6, six drunken policemen dragged three Falun Gong practitioners, including Ms. Liu, to a room and started another round of savage beating. The policemen grabbed the practitioners' hair and took turns beating the them on the torso or the legs with metal batons. They also used high-voltage electric batons. During the torture, a group of policemen beat Ms. Liu with leather belts, "Billy Clubs" (an iron or lead bar covered by rubber), and electric batons. When she passed out as a result of the extreme pain, the police poured cold water on her to re-vive her, and then resumed beating her. The torture continued for several hours.

The next day, Ms. Liu was near death and was sent to the hospital. A medical examination revealed many serious injuries including hematuria, hypotension, and dehydration. Many blood clots were pumped out of her swollen legs. Several days’ later, surgical drainage was performed leaving her right leg with two large holes.

One morning at the hospital, Ms. Liu was forcibly given an injection. Shortly afterwards, she lost consciousness When she awoke at around 4 p.m., she noticed that plastic surgery had been performed to re-place the damaged skin on her legs. This surgery was performed to cover up the evidence of the extreme torture Ms. Liu had endured.

Bruises still strongly visible even eight days after Zhang Pinghua was beaten

4. Zhang Pinghua, female, 38, Weicheng District, Weifang City, Shandong Province

On July 21, 2000, Ms. Zhang Pinghua went to Beijing to appeal to the government for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong. She was sent to the Qingdao Administrative Office. As soon as she arrived, three men began beating her with their fists, and stomping her with the hard heels of their shoes. They beat her face, head, chin, chest, shoulders and neck. Whenever Ms. Zhang fell down, they pulled her up and continued beating her. One man grabbed her hair and slammed her head against the wall. Then he pushed her down onto the floor and stepped on her head. The other two men kicked her face with their shoes. Ms. Zhang's face became swollen immediately. After this torture, Ms. Zhang felt pain everywhere. There were black and blue marks and swollen wounds all over her body.

Scars on Cao Zhenqi's head

Cao Zhenqi, male, 36, a farmer from Dongmawan Village, Taerfu County, Changyi, Shandong Province

Mr. Cao Zhenqi had been detained several times. On February 15, 2000, Mr. Cao Zhenqi went to Beijing to appeal to the government for Falun Gong. On February 18, he was arrested and taken to the Taerfu County Police Station. The director of the police station, Shao Mingyi, beat Mr. Cao's face and ribs with a baton. One day in July 2000, when Mr. Cao was doing farm work, the county police came and arrested him again and took him to the police station. There he was interrogated. Because he refused to renounce Falun Gong, policemen Zhang Zaicheng, Han Yuncheng, and Yu Puchang beat him until he lost consciousness. They then turned Mr. Cao over to his relatives and left, as they did not want the responsibility for his possible death. His family sent him to Zhangling Hospital. Mr. Cao did not regain consciousness until the morning of August 1, 2000.

1. Shi Yingchun, Han Guiyan, Li Xiuzhen, Zheng Sufen, female, residents of Liaoning Province

In October 2000, Ms. Shi Yingchun, Ms. Han Guiyan, Ms. Zheng Sufen, Ms. Li Xiuzhen and her husband were arrested and detained at the Huludao Detention Center of Liaoning Province. Ms. Shi and Ms. Han were beaten on their buttocks everyday by guard Li and guard Zhou using steel-cored plastic clubs. Their buttocks were lacerated and bleeding during and after the beatings. Once Ms. Zheng missed a few words in reciting the jail rules. Guard Li and Guard Zhou beat her buttocks more than one hundred times with steel-cored plastic clubs. She almost passed out. Since Ms. Li and her husband refused to renounce Falun Gong, the guards beat them with the clubs. Both Ms. Li and her husband were knocked down to the concrete floor and they were continuously beaten. Their buttocks were bruised and the skin severely lacerated. As result of the beating, Ms. Li had a heart at-tack and her husband had so much pain in his ribs that he had difficulty breathing.

2. Hou Zhanhai, Li Qiang, Li Qingru, Niu Junhui, Ji Wentao, Fu Hongwei, Guo Zhende, male, residents of Jilin Province

On March 13, 2001, Falun Gong practitioners went on a hunger strike to protest the inhuman treatment at the Jilin Labor Camp. More than twenty camp guards used electric batons to shock the practitioners. They stripped off the practitioners' pants and beat their buttocks with steel-cored plastic clubs. Four guards beat Mr. Niu Junhui on his chest and back with the clubs. The beating was so severe that Mr. Niu had to be sent to a hospital for emergency treatment. Mr. Li Qiang was beaten until he lost conscious-ness. Mr. Li Qingru and Mr. Guo Zhende were beaten until they almost lost consciousness. The practitioners' buttocks were full of bruises after the beatings. Mr. Hou was not able to sit for more than ten days.

3. Luo Xiaoyu, female, 40s, resident of Sichuan Province

In the summer of 2000, Ms. Luo Xiaoyu was detained at the Nanmusi Women's Labor Camp. To force her to renounce Falun Gong, the camp guards frequently beat Ms. Luo with spiked clubs. Several times Ms. Luo lost consciousness from the violent beatings. Ms. Luo's whole body was swollen. The flesh on her buttocks was torn and bleeding, and pus kept running down her legs.

Live Hemp is a perennial plant. Its stems and leaves are covered with fine hairs and sharp thorns, which are poisonous. After contact with the hemp plant, the skin immediately becomes inflamed, in-tensely itchy and painful. According to some victims, it is even more painful than being needled in the fingers.

1. Ye Xinghua, male, resident of Sichuan Province

On July 25, 2000, Shen Xingfa, the director of the police station of Jiulong Town ordered the police to use wire and hemp stalks to whip Falun Gong practitioners. Fourteen Falun Gong practitioners detained at the Jiulong Town government building were tortured. Many practitioners fainted from the whipping and the hemp poison. The police poured cold water on the practitioners to revive them, so that they could suffer further torture. Mr. Ye Xinghua was stripped down to his underwear and whipped with hemp stalks. Mr. Ye fainted many times from the whipping and hemp poison. He was revived with cold water and whipped again. His whole body became swollen. This torture did not stop until the police were too tired to continue. While Mr. Ye was still unconscious, he was handcuffed to a tree for four hours in the hot sun. He was only taken down because the police saw that he had been unconscious for a long time, and realized that he was near death.

2. Huang Tianming, male, resident of Liulin Village, Jinma Town, Wenjiang County, Sichuan Province

On June 29, 2000, Mr. Huang Tianming was arrested because he was a Falun Gong practitioner. At about 8 p.m., the village officials took Mr. Huang to the conference room of the village government building and handcuffed him to a chair. They brought a supply of poisonous fresh hemp and wrapped Mr. Huang's face and upper body with the plants. They then beat Mr. Huang's face and body with a foot-long bamboo stick for over two hours until the fresh hemp on Mr. Huang's body was shredded into small pieces. Mr. Huang's eyes were swollen and his face was de-formed. There were bruises and blood all over his body.

3. Zhang Qingshu, male, resident of Wenjiang County, Sichuan Province

4. Zhong Sufang, female, resident of Wenjiang County, Sichuan Province

On June 29, 2000, Mr. Zhang Qingshu and Ms. Zhong Sufang were arrested for practicing Falun Gong and detained at a police station in Wenjiang County. The police handcuffed Mr. Zhang and hung him up by his wrists until his toes barely touched the ground. He was then beaten with batons and wooden clubs, and was whipped with poisonous hemp until he fainted. He was left hanging until the next day. Ms. Zhong was tortured in a similar way. She was beaten with wooden sticks and whipped with the hemp. Ms. Zhong was also forced to take off her socks and stand on hemp leaves in her bare feet.

Lu Changjun, male, from Shuihua City, Heilongjiang Province

Beijing Tuanhe Labor Camp is notorious for hideous torture of Falun Gong practitioners. In February 2001, the labor camp forced practitioners to participate in an anti-Falun Gong brainwashing class. When practitioners refused to cooperate, the guards incited other inmates to beat them severely. Mr. Lu Changjun was tied to a bed and beaten until his spinal cord was fractured. As a result, Mr. Lu was paralyzed. To cover up this crime, the associate director of the labor camp, Zhuang Xuhong, the lead of 2nd team, Jiang, and the assistant leader of the 2nd team, Ni, coerced others inmates into saying that Mr. Lu broke his back falling down while he was mopping the floor.