Mr. Li Wensheng and his father, Mr. Li Hai, are from Haogezhuang Town, Zhucheng City, Shandong Province. They were both tortured by Wang Xinjun, secretary of the Politics and Law Committee, Li Fengchun, director of the police station, Zhao Xinjun, section head of the police substation; a person known only as Zhu (last name); and Guo Fangming, secretary of the village. Mr. Li Hai died on December 23, 2002, as a result of the torture he received. Following are the details of the persecution he and his son underwent.

On July 20, 1999, Mr. Li Wensheng wanted to travel to Beijing to explain the facts about Falun Gong to the government, but someone reported him to police before he arrived in Beijing. On July 21, the authorities arrested him in Weifang City and brought him to Xiling, Haogezhuang Town (the detention site was formerly a high school). More than a dozen people monitored him, not allowing him to sleep for several days and nights in a row; forcing him to stand under the burning summer sun for prolonged periods and forcing Li Wensheng to hold a position of a military parade step. To hold this position, Mr. Li was required to keep one foot on the ground and lift the other foot forward at a 45-degree angle. Then a brick was placed on his lifted foot's toes and he had to endure while standing in this pose for extended periods. If he lowered his foot, the guards watching him would beat him. As soon as he could not hold the pose and lowered his foot, Policeman Wang Hua used the brick to smash his foot and beat his legs with a wooden club. As a result, his toes were injured and bleeding, his foot swelled up, and walking became extremely painful for him.

On December 22, 1999, Mr. Li Wensheng traveled to the town government to explain the facts about Falun Gong. The next morning, he was detained again as policemen Li Fengchun, Wang Hua and Zhou Jianbo dragged him by the hair from his home and took him to the police station without any proper legal procedure.  Inside the vehicle, policeman Li Fengchun cursed him and at the same time struck his face with a car brush. Once at the station, the policemen forced him to remove his clothes and then blindfolded him. He was forced to the ground and 4 or 5 policemen stood on his arms and legs to keep him down. Policeman Li Fengchun used two electric batons to shock him for a long time. The policeman shocked his back, neck, and head. After he finished, policeman Li Fengchun poured cold water onto Li Wensheng's neck to revive him and cuffed his hands onto the cement pole in the yard. Li Wensheng only wore thin undergarments and was forced to remain outside in the freezing weather for 5-6 hours until the morning.

On December 24, 1999, these policemen shocked Mr. Li Wensheng again with electric batons and beat him using rubber clubs. In the afternoon, the policemen forced him to run laps in the courtyard of the police station. Because the policemen had beaten his feet and legs, it was already very difficult for him to walk, but policeman Wei Lihua used the rubber club to beat him in order to make him run faster. The beating he received resulted in bruises covering his body.

In the summer of 2000, policemen Li Fengchun and Zhou Jianbo again detained Mr. Li Wensheng because he declared to the town government officials that he would continue to practice Falun Gong. The policemen forced him to take off his shirt and pants, leaving him with only his underwear. With four or five policemen standing on his arms and legs to keep him down, Li Fengchun and Wei Lihua shocked him with the electric batons for a long time. After being tortured in this manner, Wei Lihua, Zhang Chongguang, Zhou Jianbo, Zheng Deming and other policemen took turns beating him for more than one hour, causing his body to turn discolored and purple.

Police detained Li Wensheng in Xiaozhuanggou Village for more than ten days. He was forced to walk many miles to the police station wearing handcuffs. He had to keep moving in 30 C (86 F) temperatures and was not allowed to rest. Sometimes he was forced to stand with his hands cuffed to the steam heating pipes in the on-duty room of the police station.

During this ten-day illegal incarceration, one day at noon, policemen Zhang Tonguing and Weir Lihue took turns beating him, and they did not stop until Li Wensheng began to vomit blood. Another day, Zhu and policeman Zhen Deming forced him to stand facing the wall and took turns beating him. There were several nights when Guo Fangming, secretary of the village, cuffed him to the bed and did not allow him to sleep. One night, Guo Fangming and Guo Fangxue cuffed him to a tree. Then they stripped off his shirt and unbuttoned his pants so the swarms of mosquitoes could bite him. They even forced him to give them grain and cattle from his farm.

Later, police transferred Li Wensheng to Hanjiagou Village and detained him in a school for more than ten days. Every day, the policemen monitored him, followed him and deprived him of sleep. When he did sleep, it was on the cement floor. During that time, policemen Wei Lihua, Zheng Deming and Zhu, abused, intimidated, threatened and beat him.

After this mistreatment, Li Wensheng was again moved. Police detained him in the compound of the Dechuan Brigade for more than ten days. During the daytime, he wore handcuffs and was forced to walk many miles to the police station to work. At noontime he was forced to stand still. Policeman Wei Lihua often beat and shocked him using electric batons. At night, he was cuffed either to the wall or to a chair at the entrance of the on-duty room. Sometimes, he was cuffed near the ground outside the entrance to the restroom. The policeman on duty declared, "The town officials demand that we only use violence."

In October 2000, Li Wensheng went to Beijing to appeal and was arrested by policemen Wang Xinjun, Guo Fangxue, Zhou Jianbo and Wang Hua in Tiananmen Square. He was brought to the Weifang City Liaison Office in Beijing. In front of the office building, policeman Wang Hua beat him up with a one-meter-long wooden club that broke during the beating because the policeman hit him with such force. On the same day, policemen Zhou Jianbo and Guo Fangxue handcuffed him and detained him in Haogezhuang Town police station. Li Wensheng was cuffed in a room behind the police station that night. The next day, policeman Li Chunfeng had policemen Zhang Chongguang and Guo Fangming handcuff Li Wensheng, and they took turns beating him with rubber clubs for a long time. This time, his whole body turned purple-black from the beating, his hips were swollen and he could not sit or stand for more than ten days. In the afternoon of the same day, he was brought to the Politics and Security Brigade of Zhucheng City Public Security Bureau. Policeman Cao Jinhui slapped his face very hard several times and then detained him for one month.

After the term expired, Mr. Li Wensheng was brought to a room in the Haogezhuang police station and was detained there. Every village took turns sending people to watch him. After one month of detention, he was sentenced to 3 years of forced labor and was detained in Changle Forced Labor Camp in Weifang City.

On December 5, 2000, policeman Han Huiyue, head of the No.2 Squad of the No.2 Brigade, organized the prisoners to persecute all “determined” Falun Gong practitioners. In the most severe winter weather, seventeen prisoners, including Liu Chunxiang and Xu Wenzi, stripped off Li Wensheng's clothing. In the restroom, two prisoners took turns continuously spraying and pouring water over his head, mouth and nostrils for a long time, causing him to have difficulty breathing and almost suffocating him.

After torturing him using water, the prisoners forced him to lie on the ground, and then lifted his shirt and took off his pants so that his back and upper legs were exposed. Several prisoners stood on his arms and legs to keep him down. Zhang Jintao used a leather whip and beat him viciously from his lower back to his lower legs until the skin was lacerated and bleeding. After the beating, they forced him to go into the restroom, take off his clothes, and take a cold shower. At that time the forced labor camp was processing garlic, so the prisoners took water from the vat that was used to soak garlic and poured it over his head and used water hoses to spray water into his mouth and nose.

In a room of the No.2 Subdivision of No.2 Brigade, these prisoners took turns beating Li Wensheng. Most of them grabbed his shoulders and jammed their knees into his chest. They beat him until he was near death. At that time, he could not even speak clearly and when he used the restroom, his stool and urine contained blood. After this beating he felt extreme pain all over his body.

At night when the prisoners went to sleep, they forced Li Wensheng to sleep in the upper level of the bunk bed. Due to his injuries, he could not climb to the upper bed. The prisoners then beat his lower back and hips with a small chair until he climbed up. The resulting cuts on his hips bled for a long time.

While police persecuted Li Wensheng, his father, Li Hai, also suffered both mentally and physically.  Under the orders of Wang Xinjun from Haoge Town, policemen Li Fengchun, Wang Hua, Zhang Chongguang, Wei Lihua, Zhao (section head of the police substation), Guo Fangming from Jixiaozhuanggou Village and Guo Fangxue tried to force Mr. Li Hai to renounce his belief in Falun Gong. On July 22, 1999, they arrested him and took him to Jiaojiazhuangzi Village. There they viciously beat and abused him. They also forced him to criticize himself and defame Falun Gong on TV. This devastated him both physically and mentally.

In the summer of 2000, because his son Li Wensheng went to the town government to clarify the facts about Falun Gong and was subsequently detained for more than 40 days, Mr. Li Hai had to travel back and forth for dozens of miles every day to bring food to his son. He also had to do his farm work. During that time, the authorities also threatened and abused him. Under this physical abuse and mental trauma, he became exhausted. One day, he was not paying attention and he was hit by a carriage while traveling to bring food to his son. His legs were seriously injured; his knees bled and he could not walk for more than ten days. Even so, the authorities still did not leave him alone. Wang Xinjun had Zhu, Guo Fangxue and Guo Fangming forcedhim to give them money for the release of his son. To do this, he had to borrow money from multiple people. With the help of kindhearted people, he scraped together 1,400 Yuan.

In October 2000, Mr. Li Hai’s son and his wife went to Beijing to appeal and both of them were detained. Because of this, Wang Xinjun and others persecuted Mr. Li Hai even more unscrupulously. Zhao, Zhu, Guo Fangxue, Guo Fangming and others went to his home every day to ask for money, threatening him to pay it. Sometimes, they took him to the police station to beat him. They also sent people specifically to watch him, follow him, and also try to drive him away from his home. The authorities stole all of his yearly income, which was a total of about 4,000 yuan. After his son had been home for a while, Wang Xinjun and others detained his son again for more than 40 days. He then had to bring food to his son again.

Under such cruel persecution, Mr. Li Hai often became disoriented, irrational and even wanted to commit suicide. But the authorities still would not let him alone. One time, under orders from Guo Fangming and Guo Fangxue, policeman Li Fengchun used an iron pot to hit his head. After this, Mr. Li Hai became even more absentminded and was unable take good care of himself. He had no strength to work and was scared when he saw policeman or police vehicles. His legs atrophied, and his health worsened. A bump often appeared on the injured part of his legs that was more than 20-cm long. He felt excruciating pain in his upper body and he would occasionally spit up blood. Sometimes the pain was so great that he would fall to the ground, unable to get up. He died on December 23, 2002 after two extremely painful years of trying to endure the persecution.