Mr. Sun Peichen, 47, a teacher at Yinglan Middle School, Yilan County, Heilongjiang Province.

On May 26, 2004, Jia Lin, Qiao Lijun and others from the Dalianhe Town Public Security Sub-Bureau arrested Mr. Sun. On their way to Yilan Prison, Qiao Lijun beat him mercilessly . His nose and mouth bled, his chest, abdomen and forehead were seriously wounded and he passed out many times.

Later, he was sent to the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp for a three year of forced labor. He also lost his teaching position.

During his imprisonment in the forced labor camp, Chief Ji and Dong Hebin beat Mr. Sun many times. The methods they used to torture him include "pushing" and "separating." "Pushing" is where someone sits on the practitioner's back and pulls the arms up behind the back to the limit, which makes the joints crack. "Separating" is pulling the legs in opposite directions to the limit.

One morning in March 2005, Mr. Sun Peichen, along with other practitioners,Mr. Li Qingrong, Mr. Zhang Fengtian, and Mr. Xu Guoxiang shouted loudly, "Falun Gong is good." Zhao Shuang and other guards took Mr. Sun away and ordered him to strip off his clothes. Zhao Shuang grasped Mr. Sun’s testicles and crushed them hard. Another guard tortured him with an electric shock baton. When the guards became tired, they rested and then again shocked Mr. Sun’s testicles and other sensitive parts. After that, Zhao Shuang continued to apply the above mentioned torture of "pushing" and "separating" on Mr. Sun until Zhao Shuang was tired. The torture made Mr. Sun pass out several time. They also forced Mr. Sun naked and to stand in front of other practitioners and detainees.

On April 12, 2005, guard Zhao Shuang and others tortured Mr. Sun with electric batons continuously, stripped off his clothes, held him down on the ground and pounded his chest and back with their elbows.

Guards at the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp also forced Mr. Sun to work for long hours. He was only allowed to sleep for two to three hours each night. He had to get up for work at 5:00 am. and usually worked until after 9:00 or 10:00 pm. Sometimes, he worked until midnight or even all night.

The guard Zhao Shuang said, "It is alright as long as we do not kill them. Even if we kill them, we just have to fill out a form. We can report it as a normal death. Anyway, the forced labor camp has a death quota."

During the last two years, Mr. Sun was tortured in every possible inhuman way. Because of the beatings, he lost many of his teeth; he had difficulty breathing because of chest pain; he was painfully thin and had to stay in bed. On June 7, 2006, the forced labor camp hastily released him. Mr. Sun could not recovery from the torture and died twenty days later on July 3, 2006.

Previous Detentions:

On July 25, 1999, because Mr. Sun Peichen refused to give up his belief in Falun Gong, he was put into administrative detention for fifteen days. On January 16, 2000, he was imprisoned for another 100 days.

On May 21, 2001, the county police arrested Mr. Sun at his school. They imprisoned him in the Changlinzi Forced Labor Camp for a year. After being forced to live in a damp environment, his whole body was covered with scabies and he could not stand up or take care of himself. He went on a hunger strike to protest, and was barbarically force-fed and tortured many times.