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Three Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured to Deathin Jiamusi Labor Camp

Three Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured to Deathin Jiamusi Labor Camp

Three Falun Dafa Practitioners Tortured to Deathin Jiamusi Labor Camp

While he was distributing Dafa materials, Wang Lixin was arrested and later sent to Jilin City No. 3 Detention Center. Since he refused to cooperate with the malevolent thugs in the detention center, he was brutally beaten. He went on a hunger strike as a means to appeal for his release. The guards force-fed him with salt water and handcuffed his four limbs together. On December 3, 2000, the 9^th day of his hunger strike, the debased police "officers", Zhang Guanjun and Yang Zhonghua and several criminal prisoners dragged Wang Lixin into a "watch room" and brutally beat him for about an hour. Other practitioners in the cells could hear his grievous screams. When he was sent back to the cell, his whole body was covered with wounds and his mouth was sealed with adhesive tape. On the next day, these two guards, Zhang Guanjun and Yang Zhonghua, brought him into the "watch room" once more and ordered the common, criminal prisoners named Lai Hongxiang and Feng Naiwu to ferociously beat him again. The guards even urged the abusers on, saying: "Beat him up! Beat him to death! We will take the responsibility if he dies!"

Ten minutes later, the painful screaming from Wang Lixin stopped. The guards discovered that his life was in danger. In panic, they sent him to the hospital. However, it was already too late. Wang Lixin had been beaten to death. To keep the information from being made public, the detention center sent all Dafa practitioners who witnessed the tragic incident to labor camps.

[Jilin City, Jilin Province] Dafa Practitioner Wang Lixin Died From Forcefeeding

Song Wanxue, male, 48 years old and already retired, was illegally interfered with. Last year, after he returned from Beijing for the second time with his wife, he was unlawfully arrested and abducted from his home by the police and guards from Security Section of Fengjiashan's Copper Mine Factory. On January 20, 2001, his family was crassly and bluntly informed that they would receive the urn containing his incinerated ashes.

Practitioner Li Mei Killed in Hefei [City, Anhui Province] Women's Labor Camp

[Minghui Net]

Hefei [City, Anhui Province] Dafa practitioner Li Mei, female, 28 years old. Due to her determination to practice Dafa, she was illegally sent to Hefei Women's Labor Camp. She insisted on practicing in the labor camp and suffered repeated mistreatment. In October 2000, she was transferred to strict supervision (the labor camp has three different levels, loose supervision, normal supervision and strict supervision). She was exposed to severe torture until she died.

On January 29(or 30), Li Mei's father was brought from his home village over 50 kilometers [about 30 miles] away. He was directly sent to the hostel of the workplace and someone was assigned to accompany him. The Political and Law-enforcement Committee brought her mother. The parents had been notified that Li Mei was in very critical condition. The family of Li Mei requested to see her . In the afternoon or evening of Jan. 31, 2001, they were instructed to go to No. 105 Military Hospital to visit their daughter. In the hospital, the family of Li Mei was surrounded and forbidden to approach her. Li Mei's body was covered with a quilt, only her head could be seen. Bloodstains were vaguely visible around her nose, corner of her mouth and her ears; there were black and blue wounds on her face and her neck was enclosed in gauze! According to the doctor, Li Mei's brain was no longer responding, and she only had a faint heartbeat! On February 1, 2001, Li Mei left this world.

Because of the tight control within the labor camp, details about what had happened are still not known.

While some people concocted the Tiananmen self-immolation incident and confounded the facts, this tragedy again shows everyone precisely who is responsible for persecuting innocent citizens and trampling human rights! We appeal to all governments of every country in the world, every international peace organization, and all people with the sense of justice to realize what is happening and show their concern for the practitioners of Falun Gong who are enduring such persecution!

Phone numbers of related parties:

The Public Security (Police) Bureau of Anhui Province:

Office: 011-86-551-2801201

011-86-551-2801299, 011-86-551-2801298

Hot lines: 86-551-2823110

Appealing Department: 011-86-551-2801215

Labor Re-education Bureau of Anhui Province:

Office: 011-86-551-2813594, 011-86-551-2846412

Management unit: 011-86-551-2812215

Anhui Province Women Labor Re-education Center:

Office: 011-86-551-5312701

Party secretary: 011-86-551-5315700

Chief officer: 011-86-551-5315739

Supervising office: 011-86-551-5313254

Team No. 1: 011-86-551-5310372

Team No. 2: 011-86-551-5310305

Team No. 3: 011-86-551-5315514

Team No. 4: 011-86-551-5310308

(Currently most Dafa practitioners are under supervision in team No. 2)

Anhui Province No. 105 Military Hospital, phone operator: 011-86-551-5141123

Practitioners in China

(Translated on Feb. 03, 2001 from http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/2/2/7570.html)

The Murder Of Dafa Practitioner Li Mei and Other Crimes Committed at Anhui Detention Center (04/20/01)

Wang Jijia, a 45-year-old man from Hengyang City, Hunan Province, began to practice Falun Dafa in 1995. At about 11:30pm on January 22, 2001, six policemen from the Huanchengnanlu police station of Hengyang public security bureau came to his house to arrest him. Wang refused to open the door so the policemen threatened to pry open the door. In order not to be taken away by the vicious police, Wang climbed up to the platform on the top of the building, but his way was blocked by some other policemen who had been there waiting to catch him. While being chased, Wang lost his balance and fell to the ground from the nine-story building. His head cracked open; the insides to leaked out all over the ground. The policemen in his house and Wang's wife didn't immediately realize what had happened. Later the policemen downstairs called and the policemen in Wang's house rushed downstairs. They cleaned up the blood and brains on the ground with water and took Wang's body to the crematory without his wife's knowledge. At 1 AM on January 23 they returned to Wang's home to find out if Wang's wife had realized what had actually happened. They tried to persuade and trick her. They repeatedly questioned her in order to be sure that she didn't know the truth about what had happened to her husband. When they were positive that she didn't know anything, they lied in order to escape responsibility and denied having any knowledge as to what had happened to him and where he was.

The next morning Wang's family went to the police station to look for him, but the reception desk refused to give them any information and they were ignored by the police. Later on, a peddler told them that someone had fallen from their building the night before. Wang's family immediately went to inquire about this at the police station. Realizing that the truth could no longer be concealed, the policemen became furious and called out the full-armed anti-violence squad. They forced Wang's relatives to promise not to utter a word about this and to not mourn the loss of their family member, as this would draw attention to them. Moreover, they even threatened Wang's elder daughter with her job as a temporary worker in the city's Public Security Bureau. Finally, they also viciously claimed that, "Instructions from the headquarters of the Communist Party state that no responsibility will be taken for Falun Dafa practitioners, no matter how they die."

A practitioner from Mainland China

February 1, 2001

(Translated on February 2, 2001 from http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/2/1/7534.html)

Sun Shaomei, female, 37 years of age, an employee of Supply and Marketing Cooperative in the town of Linglong, Zhaoyuan County, Shandong Province, was among the first bunch of Dafa practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal several times since July 20, 1999. She was illegally detained by the local police for about 8 months (I cannot remember the exact duration). The second day after she was released, Sun Shaomei went to Beijing again (around November 18, 2000) and was not heard from since. About mid December, we received a death announcement from Tuanhe Labor Camp, Daxing County, Beijing. We then knew that she was beaten to death.

A Falun Gong practitioner in China

(Translated on February 1, 2001 from the edited version of

http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/31/7491.html)

Falun Dafa Practitioner Sun Shaomei Persecuted to Death in Beijing (05/05/01)

137. Yu Wenjiang

Practitioner Yu Wenjiang Dies in Custody, Siping City, Jilin Province (02/10/01)

[Clearwisdom.net] Mr. Liu Chun, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shandong Province, went to Beijing to validate Falun Dafa together with his girlfriend and his mother before the New Year's Day. It is said that on his way back to Qingdao City, while being escorted by police, Mr. Liu Chun didn't want to be passively persecuted by the injustice of the government and died, unfortunately, when he tried to get away by jumping out of the train. His girl friend, Ms. Wang is being detained somewhere in northeast China and the whereabouts of his mother is still unknown.

Mr. Liu Chun was an honest and good-natured person when he was alive. In July 1999, in order to validate Falun Dafa, he went to Beijing together with his girl friend and stayed outdoors for dozens of days and then was taken back to his hometown by police. In the days that followed, he experienced all kinds of tests and was even driven out of his residence by local police and could only stay with his mother. Last November, he was arrested when he posted materials on the street to promote Falun Dafa, and was detained for over half a month. After he was released from the detention center, he set out again on his way to safeguard Falun Dafa and never returned this time. Only his face, smile and that sincere and pure heart stay with us forever.

Falun Dafa practitioners in Mainland China

January 29^th, 2001

(Translated on January 30^th, 2001 from

http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/29/7422.html)

The Picture of Dafa Practitioner Liu Chun Who Was Persecuted to Death (05/01/01)

135. Wang Yan, female, about 50-year old, Changchun City, Jilin Province

Practitioner Wang Yan, female, about 50-year old, Changchun City, was persecuted to death. We are looking into the details and will report them after investigating further.

(Translated on January 30, 2001 from http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2001/1/29/7426.html) 

[Clearwisdom.net] In early December of 2000, Ms. Liu Rongxiu, a Falun Dafa Practitioner from Qingyuan Section of Changan District in Shijiazhuang City, went to Beijing to appeal to the government together with another practitioner named Hu. They were taken back by the Yuhualu police sub-station of Changan branch, Shijiazhuang Police Station. These two nearly 50 year old ladies were initially sentenced to criminal detention and then to labor education. On January 14^th, 2001, having been detained for a month, this kind lady, Ms. Liu Rongxiu was persecuted to death. (According to her family, Ms. Liu was already dead when she was sent back.) Other the details are under investigation.

Some phone numbers:

"610" office of the Shijiazhuang Police Station: 86-311-7026911 Ext 3381;

Supervisory office: 86-311-7026911 and ask for supervisory office;

Legal institution office: 86-311-7026911 and ask for legal institution office;

Supervision department of Public Security Office of Hebei Province: 86-311-3033941 ext 2020;

"610" office of Public Security Office of Hebei Province: 86-311-3033941 and ask for 610 office;

The politics and security team of Changan branch, Shijiazhuang Police Station: 86-311-6677321 and ask for team leader Hu and Chai;

Legal institution section: 86-311-6677323;

Politics and law committee of Shijiazhuang City: 86-311-6686357;

Supervisor Jia of Yuhualu police sub-station in Shijiazhuang City: 86-311-6046975.

Falun Dafa practitioners in Mainland China

January 29^th, 2001

(Translated on January 30^th, 2001 from

http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/29/7421.html)

133. Liu Shuchun, male, 38-year old, Weifang City, Shandong Province

Another Dafa Practitioner (Liu Shuchun) from Weifang City is Beaten to Death

Dafa practitioners Xu Bing and Lou Aiqing were just tortured to death, and a few days later another Dafa practitioner was beaten to death in a detention center.

Liu Shuchun, male, 38 years old, was a resident of Songzhuang town in Changyi County of Weifang City.

At the end of 2000, Liu Shuchun was sentenced to a labor camp because he practiced Falun Gong. He was persecuted to death in Changle Labor Camp at the beginning of 2001. His whole body was deep black and blue with large-scale bruises. In order to cover up their crimes, the labor camp officials wrapped up Liu Shuchun's head so that no one could see the wounds on his face.

They notified his family of his death on January 3, but they did not tell his wife because she was sent to a labor camp as well. She is detained in Jinan Female Detention Center because of practicing Falun Gong. Now, only his elderly parents and a 7-year old daughter were left at home alone, and nobody can take care of them.

They forced a cremation and buried him. Liu Shuchun was the 18^th Dafa practitioner who was persecuted to death in Weifang city. All the good-hearted people in Weifang city are asking to sue Cao Xuecheng, Mayor of Weifang city. In this city, people will suffer all kinds of inhuman treatments and even lose their lives only because they speak from their hearts.

In the meantime, they are requesting to sue Wang Zhihua, the head of the police station in Weifang City. Under his direction, the policemen beat, fine, detain and send Dafa practitioners to labor camps at will. So many innocent Dafa practitioners have been injured by their police batons and fists! So many kind-hearted people have been persecuted to death by them! Children have lost their mothers and fathers; elderly people have lost their children. So many families are in a state of unease and suffering due to family break-ups.

Telephone number of City hall of Weifang city: 86-536-8789990

Telephone number of police station of Weifang city: 86-536-8783000

Telephone number of Changle detention center of Weifang city: 86-536-6221134.

Provided by practitioners from Mainland China

(Translated on January 28, 2001 from

http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/1/24/7171.html)

132. Sun Youfa, male, 24-year old, Lishu town, Lishu county, Jilin Province

Newly Born Baby's Father Dies from Police Brutality

Chinese Public Security arrested Sun Youfa at Tiananmen Square in the afternoon of 12/31/00 while he was unfurling a Falun Gong banner. Then on New Year's Eve they sent him to the Fengtai Retention Center.

On New Year's Day, during interrogation at the Retention Center, the policemen hit Mr. Sun severely as he refused to answer any of their questions as to his name or address. (He would not tell them his identity so that nobody could bother his family in his hometown.) They beat his head and his whole body with a police baton, also kicked his calves with their boots. His hands and legs were cuffed together so that Mr. Sun could not lie down or stand up but was bent over by the corner in his cell.

On 01/02/01 the Retention Center force-fed Mr. Sun, as he had been on hunger strike for two days. They squeezed his nose and hit his chest hard so as to force-feed the fluid (milk with lots of salt). Mr. Sun was tortured so much that he was having difficulty breathing. He received the force-feeding twice more on 01/03/01 but became weaker due to their brutality. On 01/04/01 they tried to give him an intravenous injection but Mr. Sun refused it and he removed the needle from his vein. They got mad and shaved his hair off completely as a punishment and then continued to force the "IV" in him the next day. As Mr. Sun appeared to be extremely exhausted, he was transferred to a hospital for a more gentle way of intravenous injection on 01/06/01. After the cardiac checkup, the doctor commented that Mr. Sun was unable to last long. Back from the hospital, listed as terminally ill, the Retention Center rushed Mr. Sun to the train station in order to let him die somewhere else. At seeing what a terrible condition Mr. Sun was in, the train conductor turned down the police's request to get the dying man on board the train. The escort had to take Mr. Sun back to the Retention Center to wait for the management's decision. Then they had two escorts to take Mr. Sun to the train station again. This time the two escorts abandoned Mr. Sun at the station as he was waiting for them to buy a train ticket for him. That was per the decision of the management.

From the very first day of the New Year to the 6^th day, a formerly healthy, energetic young man became feeble, skinny, and insensible because of police brutality. There were marks of handcuffs on his hands and legs as well as needle traces on his arms. He was terribly short of breath ... ... Then sadly on 01/13/01 this 24-year young Mr. Sun passed away due to suffocation.

Just one day before Mr. Sun left for his appeal in Beijing, his baby was born. Now this days-old baby was left with its young widowed mother. How are they going to face the tough future in life? ....

(Sun Youfa, male, Nationality: Han, born on 12/12/1977

Address: 2^nd group of Eastern Suburb Committee of Kangping, Lishu town, Lishu county, Jilin Province

ID number: 220302771212023)

By a Practitioner in Mainland China

(Translated on Jan. 25, 2001 from an edited version of

http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/24/7189.html)

131. Du Xu

130. Zhang Guiqin, female, 37, Hefei City, Anhui Province

Feidong County, Hefei City, Anhui Province: Dafa practitioner Zhang Guiqin, who was incarcerated by the Chinese public security departments, died at 1:03 PM on January 17, 2001 after 5 months of torture and suffering, at the age of 37.

Zhang Guiqin, because she persisted in the practice of Falun Dafa, was incarcerated three times by the Feidong public security bureau. The first time, on November 29, 1999, she was illegally detained for 15 days for persisting in her practice, of Falun Dafa, without repentance. The second time was on March 29, 2000, when she went to Beijing to appeal, and was detained for 24 days (9 days over the legal limit for detention). The third time was on July 24, 2000 when she was arrested for distributing teacher's articles and factual flyers about Falun Gong. Her arrest was approved on August 7. Each time when she was detained, she was tortured, at the detention centers, with beatings, forced feedings, shackles, electric shocks, etc. A healthy person was tortured until she was in critical condition.

On August 24, 2000, people at the detention center saw that Guiqin had been seriously tortured and in deplorable physical condition. Being afraid of the responsibility, they then contacted her family to take her home. At home, the security forces still kept up the pressure. The Feidong Procurator brought a suit against Zhang Guiqin. Due to her poor health, she could not be sent to the labor camp. They finally gave up. However, after 5 months of painful sufferings, Guiqin finally left us on the 17^th of January.

Several days before she passed away, her body was very weak. Her vocal cords were seriously damaged due to the force-feeding at the detention house. She could not use her voice. Her body was so weak that she needed help even for little things such as leaning against the bed. Her lung was also seriously damaged by the forced feeding tube. She was out of breath and every cough caused severe pains. She was emaciated and could only eat fluid foods. During these 5 months, she endured tremendous suffering and pain. Whoever saw her wept.

The day Guiqindied, she told her family she would leave that day. Her family asked her what she had in mind. She said: "I am very calm now. Do not be sad for me." She died quietly afterwards. Her eyes were wide open, as if she was looking at the world full of disasters and sufferings; her mouth was also open, as if she wanted to shout to give innocence back to Master and to Dafa.

Sorrowful Guiqin! Heroic Guiqin!

(She left two grieving daughters, one 12 years old, and one 9 years old.

Some of the wicked people involved in this atrocity:

Feidong County public security bureau, Hefei City, Anhui Province:

Gao Ligang (in Division 1, extremely cruel, actively persecutes and beats Dafa practitioners): 86-551-7711022.

Office number of the Head of the Public Security Bureau: 86-551-7711268

Wang Jianye(Head of Feidong House of Detention), Doctor Cai (Took part in force-feeding each time and beating Dafa practitioners): 86-551-7711348, 86-551-7730111

Feidong House of Procurator: 86-551-7712905

Feidong Court: 86551-7711478

Feidong Chengguan Local Police Station: 86-551-7711324

Organized by Mainland Practitioners

January 19, 2001

(Translated on January 20, 2001 from: http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/20/6993.html)

A Practitioner in Hebei Province Died due to Force-feeding (01/25/01)

Dafa Practitioner Yang Guibao, male, 56 years old, was a resident in Beixinbao [town], Huailai County in Hebei Province, died due to forced-feeding with a concentrated saline-solution.

According to information from practitioners who had been released from Huailai Detention Center, Yang Guibao was detained in Huailai Detention Center in early January of this year, because his firm belief in Falun Dafa, and for not cooperating with the preposterous demands by the authorities. After six days on a hunger strike, he died, as the result of being force-fed with a concentrated saline solution. A genuine medical expert identified the cause of death as suffocation, caused by the saline solution that had entered into and congested his bronchial tubes. Police in the detention center falsely alleged that the cause of death was starvation, because Yang Guibao refused food and water. His relatives were not informed of his death until after he was cremated. A practitioner who knew the real details of Yang Guibao's death was transferred to another labor camp, presumably to keep the truth from coming out. As there were 4 other people in Yang Guibao's family practicing Falun Gong, the police went to his home to try to arrest them. The family strongly resisted, so the police did not take them away in the end.

(Translated on January 20, 2001 from http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/1/19/6971.html)

Dafa Practitioner Yang Guibao: Another Unyielding Practitioner Who Was Beaten To Death for His Belief (03/01/01)

124. Li Jingchun

123. Zhang Maoxing

122. Zhang Zhibin, female, 34, Qinglong Man Nationality Autonomy County, Hebei Province

Zhang Zhibin, female, 34 years old, was a resident of Qinglong Man Nationality Autonomy County of Hebei Province and a sales clerk in a shopping center. She was sentenced to three years in a labor camp during July and August 2000, because she practiced Falun Gong. On December 18, 2000, while detained in Tangshan Kaiping Labor Camp of Hebei Province she, was beaten to death. Her family was informed on December 25. However, the police did not allow them to see the body because they did not want the "secret " of their vicious crime to be revealed. The family still does not know how the unscrupulous police dealt with this matter of hiding the true facts.

[Clearwisdom.net] Qiu Zhiyan, A Practitioner in Benxi City, Liaoning Province, was Persecuted to Death. Here is his story.

Qiu Zhiyan, a 35-year-old male Dafa practitioner from Benxi City of Liaoning Province, was persecuted to death.

Qiu Zhiyan was a former employee of No.1 Benxi City Steel Integration Company, was a Party member and had earned Bachelor’s degree. He was sentenced to three years in a labor camp because he appealed in Beijing in October 1999, and continued to practice Falun Gong at Benxi City Weining Detention Center. At the detention center, he was tortured and severely beaten, which caused him great physical and mental agony. At the time of his torture, the guards used an especially gruesome method, which causes excruciating pain. This despicable method, called "Stretch", is used on felonious criminals or criminals who have been sentenced to death. Here it was used on Qiu to force him give up practicing. Under usual circumstances, nobody can endure this excruciating abuse even for one day. However, the guards "stretched" Qiu Zhiyan for 4 days and nights. Despite their immense cruelties, Qui refused to give in. Then, in panic and vexation, they sent Qiu Zhiyan to a mental hospital. He was later bailed out by his relatives. When he was released, his body had been grotesquely deformed by the torture he had endured at the hands of those animals in human skin with minds of devils.

After that, in October 2000, Qiu Zhiyan, who was by now penniless, somehow bought a copy of Zhuan Falun and two hand-copied scriptures of Master Li’s, and went to appeal in Beijing again. In November, he was arrested by Xingcheng City police [Liaoning Province]. After again being beaten brutally, he was escorted back by the Benxi City police. According to policy, every practitioner who went to appeal and was escorted back should be sentenced to a labor camp. However, this time police released Qiu Zhiyan back home. After he got home, as a result of the injuries from the beatings, he had difficulties with urination. In addition, soon afterward he had blood in his stool and began to vomit blood. Sometimes he was absent-minded. Yet, whenever he was clear he would shout "Falun Dafa Is Good." Several days later, he passed away. Qiu Zhiyan validated Dafa with his life, which became a soul-stirring event to all his relatives, friends and fellow cultivators. On the night of his death, loud thunder rattled the heaven and earth. Perhaps the heaven was also moved.

(Translated on January 14, 2001 from http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/13/6725.html)

Liu Guimin was a female Dafa practitioner from Jugezhuang Town of Dougezhuang Village in Miyun County. On December 31, 2000 she went to appeal and validate Falun Dafa at Tiananmen Square and was detained in a detention center (The details are still unknown). She went on a hunger strike and was soon force-fed. Because of her terrible condition, police feared that her life was in danger, and on January 5, 2001, they sent her back home. On the second day after her release, January 7, she passed away, after an unsuccessful attempt in the hospital to save her life. She was only 30 years old. She vomited a great amount of blood right before her death, which was probably present in her lungs due to the severe trauma caused by the crude and vicious force-feeding.

This is another blood debt that the Evil Jiang Zemin and his followers owe and need to pay. Hereby, we, Dafa practitioners in Miyun County, call on the world community and all kind-hearted people everywhere to support Dafa practitioners’ peaceful, global appeal. Stop the inhumane and violent persecution in China!!!

(Translated on January 14, 2001 from http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/13/6725.html)

Three Falun Dafa Practitioners Die of Persecutio (01/14/01)

Yu Lianchun was a 49-year-old retired employee from the Huaneng Electricity Works in the City of Dezhou (Shandong Province). Due to her continual strong commitment to Falun Dafa, she was forcibly sent to the Shangdong Province Women's Second Labour Camp for 3 years. All this occurred just before the Chinese Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) 2000, under the scheming plot of the Electricity Works' Director, Mr Guo (also holding the position of the Works' Party Committee Secretary) and Vice Secretary, Mr Gao, along with a few members of the police department.

On 22 December 2000, the labor camp notified Yu Lianchun's family of her death. (Actually, she had already been tortured to death on 18 December 2000).

Yu Lianchun was a kind-hearted person who always found pleasure in helping others. Everyone who knew her said that she had the utmost good character. She was perfectly healthy, yet in not more than a year, she had died in the labor camp after undergoing severe torture.

Yu Lianchun started to practice Falun Dafa in May 1998. After practicing, she benefited enormously in both mind and body. Ever since 22 July 1999, after Jiang Zeming's brutal repression and persecution of Falun Dafa, she put much effort into clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa to others. In October 1999 she went to Beijing along with her daughter to protest against the ban on Falun Dafa. On the 26^th of October she was arrested and brought back to Shandong. Both she and her daughter were detained by Yu Lianchun's factory; their actions were monitored for almost a month and it was only following their persistent requests that they were allowed to go home.

For three months, police were posted in front of Yu Lianchun's home. She was forbidden to leave her house, or allowed to have any visitors. During this period, Guo and Gao persistently tried to send her away to labor camps. They achieved this with the assistance of a few officers from the police department. Just before the Chinese Spring Festival in Yr 2000, Yu Lianchun was sent to the Labor Camp in Jinan City (Shandong Province) for 3 years on the grounds that she was "disturbing social order". Her daughter was left alone at home. The labor camp forbade her to see her mother and it was only allowed after strong requests from her relative. Within the whole year, mother and daughter only saw each other twice and exchanges were not allowed. When Yu Lianchun's daughter visited her at the beginning of November 2000, she witnessed clearly the changes in her mother resulting from the inhumane torment of the labor camp. Yu Lianchun had become so skinny that she looked emaciated; her speech was not clear and she could not fully extend her fingers. She could barely lift her arms and was limping; it took her great effort to walk.

The torture that Yu Lianchun went through were cruel and heartbreaking. During mid-December her daughter decided to go to Beijing once more by herself to tell the government the truth about Falun Dafa, and hope that justice would finally triumph and that the rule of law would be restored. Her silent protest incited a torrent of blows from the police; her cotton-padded clothes were torn to pieces and her shoes were missing. She was dragged back to the City of Dezhou and put into a Detention Centre.

Inside the Detention Centre, she neither had any warm clothes nor blankets. It was the middle of winter so practitioners who knew about her arrest rushed over, bringing clothes and cotton blankets. Although the Detention Centre knew about the tragic death of her mother, they still heartlessly transferred her to the Detention Centre in Wang Village (City of De) on 23 December 2000. Until today, she still has no knowledge of her mother's passing.

The Jinan Labour Camp claims that relatives can only see Yu's body. However, to this date her relatives have not yet seen the body. The head of the Electricity Works is also deceiving the public, withholding the information about Yu Lianchun's death and the suffering that she went through.

Yu Lianchun used her own life to awaken the conscience of the people. She died for justice and for upholding the truth. Although she has left us, her strength and integrity will shine forever in our hearts. Justice will finally be restored.

Mr. Guo and Mr. Gao of the Electricity Works are the main reason for Yu's tragic death; the hatchet men in the labor camp are the executors.

We feel pain in losing a practitioner who was fearless in the face of immoral torture, but we also feel proud of her unyielding strength and bravery.

Falun Dafa Practitioners in China

(Translated on 1 February 2001 from the edited version of:

http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/24/7188.html)

Three Falun Dafa Practitioners Die of Persecution (01/14/01)

Three Falun Dafa Practitioners Die of Persecutio (01/14/01)

114. Practitioner 2, female, about 30

Falun Dafa Practitioner Killed on Tiananmen Square

113. Wang Hanchong, male, 40+, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province

112. Chu Congrui, female, 19, Shulan City, Jilin Province

Chu Congrui, a 19-year-old-girl, from Xujia Village of Shunantiande City of Jilin Province went to Beijing on December 1^st, 2000, and was arrested in Tiananmen Square. She died in Haidian jail in Beijing around December 13^th. According to the police, she died because of fasting. But the doctor disagreed, because her nose was broken, her face was deformed and her body was bloody all over and didn't look normal. She was cremated on December 18^th at Changping County.

Upon learning of Chu Congrui's death, the residents in her hometown were extremely shocked and outraged. How could a kind-hearted and lovely girl be tortured to death? She was only 19-year-old!

Chu Congrui's parents are experiencing enormous sorrow and grief. Her father's eyes became dry from continuous crying and her mother is sedated daily because she can not handle the pain. This is the real story of the human rights situation in China under the rule of Jiang Zemin.

January 8, 2001

(Translated on January 10, 2001 from http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/9/6602.html)

Falun Dafa Practitioner Chu Congrui Dies in Custody (01/09/01)

A 19-Year-Old Practitioner Dies in Custody (01/13/01)

News from China on [02/25/01]

111. Yang Qingmin, 33, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province

[Taiyuan, Shanxi] Dafa practitioner Yang Qingmin, male, about 40 years old, was a coal miner from Taiyuan city, Shanxi province. He is from Zhujiayu village of Quyang County, Baoding city, Hebei province. He was beaten to death around December 20, 2000. His parents and sisters have already left home for Taiyuan to take care of his funeral affairs. According to the villagers from his hometown, he left his home together with his wife and child, but never returned home. The police had let his wife identify his body at a mortuary, but they only allowed her to see Yang Qingmin's head. There was a hole in Yang's head. Yang's body was wrapped in a white sheet, and it was hard to tell whether there were wounds on Yang's body. Yang's wife is detained in Taiyuan at present. We hope Falun Dafa practitioners who are concerned with this case can help collect the details of Yang Qingmin's death.

A Dafa practitioner in Mainland China

December 31, 2000

(Translated on January 4, 2001 from http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/4/6432.html)

Falun Dafa Practitioner Yang Qingmin Persecuted to Death: The Real Story from Taiyuan City (01/07/01)

Dafa practitioner Xia Shucai, a 63-year-old man, was a resident of Dongdagezhuang village, Zhongjing town, Laiyang city, Shandong province. On December 9, 2000, he was captured at Laixi Rail Station on his way to Beijing to appeal and he was taken back to Zhongjing. The town government forced his family to pay a fine of 2,000 yuan (roughly 4 months' income of an average worker in China) and asked him to write a statement renouncing his practice of Falun Gong. Xia Shucai went on a hunger strike to protest against the illegal detention and beating. He was tortured many times during the hunger strike and he passed away on the night of December 22, 2000. According to an eyewitness account, at the time of his death, Xia Shucai was skinny; his eyes were still open; the cuts and wounds on his face had turned into scars; the flesh and skin on his right hand were torn apart; there were bloodstains on his stomach and thighs; bruises could be seen on his collar bone. The bloodstains were wiped off before his family members came to take a look at his body.

In fear that its evil deeds may be exposed, the Zhongjing town government transferred Xia Shucai's body to Laiyang police station. Moreover, it sent the three Dafa practitioners who were jailed together with Xia Shucai to a place no one else knows. In order to cover up its crime, the town government lied to the public saying that Xia Shucai died of a fall. The medical expert who colluded with the government dared to claim that Xia's death is normal and the blocked blood underneath the skin is very common for elderly people. The town government also told Xia's family members, "You can go ahead and sue us. However, it's no use!" The secretary of the Zhongjing Town Communist Party Committee, Li Min, a 38-year-old woman, is directly responsible for Xia's death and she is now too scared to show up in the public. However, she, along with other responsible parties, cannot escape the trial of history!

Phone numbers of perpetrators:

Li Min (Secretary of the Zhongjing Town Communist Party Committee): (86) 535-7560012
Dai Fengzhang (Secretary of Zhongjing Town Political Department): (86) 535-7560079
Xu Xijun (director of Zhongjing Town Police Station): (86) 535-7560025, 7560369;
Liu Jingcai (a policeman of Zhongjing Town Police Station): (86) 535-7560369
Laiyang Police Station: (86) 535-7212790
Laiyang Political Department: (86) 535-7264655
Laiyang Political and Security Department: (86) 535-7264667
Dongdagezhuang Village Committee of Zhongjing Town: (86) 535-7561244

January 3, 2001

(Translated on January 5, 2001 from http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2001/1/4/6429.html)

BBC: Falun Gong members 'die after beating' [01/02/01]

Reuters: China Torture, Persecution Kill 4 Falun Gong Members [01/02/01]

Two More Young Female Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Weifang City, Shandong Province (01/07/01)

108. Xu Bing, female, 33, Weifang City, Shandong Province

BBC: Falun Gong members 'die after beating' [01/02/01]

Reuters: China Torture, Persecution Kill 4 Falun Gong Members [01/02/01]

Two More Young Female Practitioners Persecuted to Death in Weifang City, Shandong Province (01/07/01)

A Letter Left Behind By Xu Bing (04/12/01)

107. Yi Yongjiang, male, 37, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province

[Clear Wisdom Report] Dafa practitioner Yi Yongjiang, 37, male, from Lanzhou City in Gansu province is also known as Yang Shan (meaning promoting benevolence to others). Since July 1999, wicked people have slandered Teacher, attacked Dafa, and persecuted Dafa practitioners. Yang Shan has been detained illegally many times. He was wanted and pursued by police for a long time. He once protected Dafa books with his life and shocked the policemen into giving up their attempt to take them. In order to clarify the truth to the masses, he traveled everywhere and worked diligently. Sometimes he went to another county alone and distributed leaflets, covering the whole town in one day. Later on, he worked on printing. The number of leaflets produced by him was enough for every resident in Lanzhou City, Gansu province.

Entering into this December, he was enlightened to the fact that we definitely should not allow the evil's slanders on Teacher to enter the new century and new epoch. On December 26^th, he and several fellow practitioners took the train to Beijing. On the train, he told the others: "I will condense my life to a sentence and write it on the banner with my blood, then I will stand on your shoulder to open the banner and let people read it. It will say "Restore Teacher's Reputation."

However, because of evil's long-term persecution and torture, Yang Shan was on the brink of death. On December 27, he began to spit out blood, almost one liter by 10:00 in the morning. We all tried to persuade him to go back to his home, but he insisted that he did not want to go anywhere. He said: I would rather die on Tiananmen Square validating the Fa if I must die. After he spit out a second liter of blood, he said: as long as I still have one breath and one drop of blood, I will hold out the banner at Tiananmen and shout: "Restore Teacher's Reputation". By the time he spit out a third liter of blood, we could only roughly hear one word: "Teacher".

On the evening of December 27, at 10:30, he exhausted all of his energy and blood, and departed from the world forever.

He had not gone to Tiananmen. He had not fulfilled his wish before he passed away.

On that night, fellow practitioners sent his body to Tiananmen. In his pocket he carried a banner that read "Falun Dafa is good". As he had wished, his entire life and all of his blood were condensed into this final statement, a bold effort to "Restore Teacher's Reputation"

Yang Shan, please go home at ease, you have been to Tiananmen.

Yang Shan, please go home at ease, even though you did not spread out the banner by yourself, someone will do it for you.

Yang Shan, please go home at ease, even though life stops, rectifying Fa has not finished yet. One rock-solid promise is able to split the mountain and fill up the sea, thousands of them will shake all beings in the Universe.

Yang Shan, please go home at ease, we will not allow the evils to enter the new epoch either.

Fellow practitioners in Beijing, fellow practitioners in China, and fellow practitioners all over the world, let us suffocate the evil together, embrace the dawn of the new epoch with our pure hearts.

Yang Shan still worried about two things before he passed away: one is that some fellow practitioners have not stepped out yet; the other is that he had not done many works for Dafa.

Dafa practitioner in China

December 28, 2000

(Translated on December 31, 2000 from http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2000/12/30/6180.html)

Recently, thirty-year old Dafa practitioner Su Qionghua from Suining City, Sichuan Province was persecuted to death.

At 11:00AM, December 18, dozens of police from the Chuanshan Village Station of Suining City tried to forcibly ransack Dafa practitioner Su Qionghua's home without just cause. She rejected their unreasonable demands and refused to open the door. The police then cut off the water supply to her home until December 20. During that period, Su Qionghua often stood in front of her window telling the truth about Dafa to the police and to people who came to question the police about the unreasonable ransacking of her home. She lives at the top floor of the building (the sixth floor). At 6:30PM , December 20, two policemen jumped in from the top of the building and broke a window to enter her home. They began beating Su Qionghua as soon as they broke in, and in the process either pushed her or caused her to fall out of the sixth floor window.

Su Qionghua fell to the ground and died on the spot. Since this scene was witnessed by many people surrounding the building, any attempts to deny the facts and cover the truth will be in vain.

Su Qionghua left a 12-year-old daughter behind with no one to take care of her.

Phone numbers:

Suining City Government: 86-825-2310655
Public Security of Suining City: 86-825-2224933
Chuanshan Villiage Government of Suining City: 86-825-2223987
Chuanshan Villiage Police Station of Suining City: 86-825-2623782

(Translated on December 29, 2000 from http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2000/12/27/6039.html)

Hu Mingquan, male, 63 years old, was a retiree from Chongqing Jiangbei District Third Steel Plant.

He went to Beijing to appeal to the central government on December 1, 2000. On the 7^th, the Hebei Province police notified his family that they should claim his body at the Huaide County Hospital of Hebei Province. When Hu's son asked about the cause of death, the doctor claimed it was high blood pressure. The son told the doctor that his father had never had any illness. Later, someone who had inside information told the son that Hu died from suffocation when the police force-fed him through the nose.

The home address of Hu Mingquan is 156 Jiangxin Cun, #1-2, Jiangbei District, Chongqing City, Sichuan Province, China

(Translated on November 26, 2000 from the edited version of: http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2000/12/24/5889.html)

104. Wang Wuke, male, over 20 (? - October 2000), Weifang City, Shandong Province

Dafa practitioner, Wang Wuke, over 20 years old, resident of Gaomi, Weifang City, Shandong Province. He went to Beijing to validate Dafa on October 1, 2000 and was escorted back by the local police, together with about 100 other Dafa practitioners. Wang Wuke did not want to be taken away by the evil forces. Therefore, he jumped out of the bus. He lost consciousness and later died in the hospital. Another practitioner who also jumped out from the same bus hurt his leg and recovered after many days.

(Translated on December 26, 2000 from http://minghui.cc/mh/articles/2000/12/25/5892.html)

103. Huang Yaoying, female, 68, Gaozhou, Guangdong Province

Huang Yaoying is a 68-year-old female practitioner from Gaochengxin Street, Gaozhou (city), Guangdong Province, and is a retired weaving company employee.  She began to practice Falun Dafa in July 1996.  At that time, she was in very poor health with several ailments.  Her health had been greatly improved and her mind had become pure through practicing Falun Dafa.  On February 27, 2000, she and several other Dafa practitioners from Gaozhou went to Beijing to appeal and were arrested by Beijing Police.  She was escorted back to Gaozhou Police Station and detained there for 15 days.
 
After she was released, the Chengnan Police Station arrested her again only because she could not afford the exorbitant 3,000 Yuan fine assessed by the police station. On the morning of March 25, she was found dead by the policeman on duty, who said he saw her going to the lavatory before dawn.  But the autopsy by the legal medical expert indicated that she died at 1:00 AM.  When her relatives and friends saw the corpse, she still wore handcuffs. The police station didn't allow her family to reveal any information to the outside. They paid 5,000 Yuan to the family to end the case and destroyed all records relating to Huang's case. It remains unknown how she died. 

(Translated on December 22, 2000 from an edited version
http://minghui.cc/gb/0001/Dec/21/5726.html)
 

102. He Jun, Female, Acheng City, Helongjiang Province

Dafa Practitioner He Jun from Harbin (city) died of persecution.

He Jun, female, was an employee of Harbin Railroad Bureau Branch Hospital. She was a resident of A'cheng City. In the white terror created by several vile persons in China and under the pressure of the local government, she was not afraid of the evil persecution. She described the brutal persecution in her will.

This incident will, again, awaken the conscience of people in the world. Please stop being apathetic and stop these tragedies from continuing in the human world. Those practitioners, who have not come out, please do your best from your heart to "suffocate the evil" and position yourselves.

For detailed information please call:

Branch Hospital

Director: 86- 451-6462217 (Work), 86-451-6432967 (Home)

Deputy Director A: 86-451-6463217 (Work), 86-451-6431727 (Home)

Deputy Director B: 86-451-6463237 (Work), 86-451-6464168 (Home)

Secretary of Party Committee: 86-451-6462297 (Work)

Chairman of Labor Union: 86-451-6462567 (Work), 86-451-6433269 (Home)

The Committee of Communist Youth League: 86-451-6433269 (Work)

Political Affairs: 86-451-6463517 (Work)

(Translated on Dec. 21, 2000 from

http://minghui.cc/gb/0001/Dec/20/news_china_122000_shishi.html)

101. Practitioner 1, male, (December 8, 2000), Beijing

On December 8, 2000, the local police station sent a person named "Falun Gong" to the emergency unit of Mentougou district hospital in Beijing. The person did not give his name and address. He was clear-headed at that time. However, he passed away the next day. According to an eyewitness, he was a man in his twenties, about 1.7 meters high, thin and bare-foot. His ears were frostbitten.  His thighs were swollen.  There were old wounds all over his body. The external injuries were not very clear.  There were scars on his ten fingers from clips. His belly was shriveled and his esophagus was empty. It was supposed that he had been on a hunger strike for several days. After his death, the No. 7 Unit of the Beijing Public Security Bureau came for a postmortem exam and took pictures.  During this time, they had an argument with the attending doctor. The officials from the No. 7 Unit said if no one claimed the body within one month, it would be cremated. Now the body is in the mortuary. The person was supposed to be a Falun Gong practitioner from outside Beijing, who came to Beijing to appeal on behalf of Falun Gong.

(Translated on December 19, 2000 from 
http://minghui.cc/gb/0001/Dec/18/news_china_121800_shishi.html)
 

100. Zhao Qiying, female, about 30 (? - May 2000), Panzhihuan, Sichuan Province

Zhao Qiying, female, over 30 years old, from Panzhihuan city of Sichuan province. She made a living in Lanzhou (city) (Gansu Province). At the end of April, she went to Xinjiang Province to spread Dafa and clarify the truth. She died in late May in the custody of the Xinjiang Police.  Due to the fear of the police, her family dared not tell the truth. They claimed Zhao Qiying died from  "septicemia" (blood poisoning). 

(Translated on December 19, 2000 from 
http://minghui.cc/gb/0001/Dec/18/news_china_121800_shishi.html)
 
 

99. Liu Junming, male, 32, Longxi County, Gansu Province

Liu Junming, male, 32 years old, was an employee in Longxi County Metallurgy Factory of Gansu Province. He went to appeal in Beijing last January and was arrested. Two policemen from Longxi County went to take him back. On their way back, to go sightseeing in Beijing, the policemen locked Liu Junmin alone in a building. When Liu Junmin tried to escape, he unfortunately fell from the building and was found dead. Longxi police department cannot shirk their responsibility for this.  In order to cover up the truth, they blocked the information. Liu Junmin's family leads a very difficult life. His wife and child are now in a very bad situation. We hope the public can show their concern about this. 

Phone number of the police department of Longxi County: 86-932-6622128
 

(Translated on December 19, 2000 from 
http://minghui.cc/gb/0001/Dec/18/news_china_121800_shishi.html)
 

98. Tian Baozhen, Female, 40, Dies Shortly After Her Return from Police Detention in Beijing

Tian Baozhen, female, 40 years old, lived in the residential area of the Hubei Textile Design Institute  at Yuejiazui in Wuchang District of Wuhan City. 

In November of this year, together with several other practitioners, she went to Tiananmen Square to  protect Dafa and to call for redress of a wrong. But she was detained without cause by the Tiananmen  Police Substation. 

Tian Baozhen refused to tell her address, and was beaten up by the police. She then went on hunger  strike for her freedom and was subsequently interrogated, beaten up again, and force-fed. Ten days  later, Tian Baozhen told the Beijing police that she was from Henan Province. Then she was brought  back by the Henan police. After arriving in Henan Province, Ms. Tian told the police she was not from  Henan Province. 

At the sight of her extreme physical weakness due to her hunger strike and the brutal abuse she had  suffered, the Henan police released her. With her great fortitude, Tian Baozhen got on the train heading  for Wuhan City in Hebei Province. After she arrived at the Wuhan railway station, she was too feeble  to even move, so she made a phone call home. Her husband brought her back in a taxi and carried her  on his shoulders to their home on the fifth floor. After several days' rest at home, Tian Baozhen passed  away on December 11, 2000. The dark bruises on her arms due to the police's beating and kicking are  still shocking to see.

On December 13, those practitioners who had heard about Ms. Tian's death attended her funeral.  Practitioners sent her a verse:

"The Pure Plum Flower is the First to Bloom in the Cold Winter;  The Righteous and Expansive Heart is to Encourage Fellow Practitioners"

to express their deep respects for a woman who gave up her own life to protect Dafa. They believe  that the evil will be eliminated and that a bright future is drawing near.

Tian Baozhen was kindhearted and always ready to help others. She was widely recognized as a good  person in the neighborhood. In addition, she did a lot of work for the sake of Dafa. Following in her  footsteps, the practitioners in Wuhan City will go on protecting Dafa and promoting Dafa and suffocate  the evil.

(Translated on December 17, 2000 from
http://minghui.cc/gb/0001/Dec/16/news_china_121600_shishi.html)
 

97. Sun Ruijian, male, 29 years old, Ninde City, Fujian Province

My husband Sun Ruijian was 29 years old and lived on Zhangwan Shang Street North #48, Ninde City, Fujian Province.  He left home on November 7th, 2000 to appeal for Falun Gong and arrived in Beijing the next day.  At midnight, he was arrested by the Beijing police while on his way to the hotel, and disappeared without a trace.  On December 1st, we received notice from the Politics and Law Commission of the Ninde City, advising us to go to the city of Nanping to bring him home.  We met with the local officials around 10pm that evening and were told that my husband had passed away.  They claimed that two Fujian police were sent to bring him back from Beijing, and that he died after jumping out of the train at 4pm on November 29th someplace between the cities of Shunchang and Xiayang.  After repeated requests from us, the police showed us a portion of their so-called evidence, which they said supported the claim that he had jumped out of the train on his own.

The next day, when we asked to see the body, the police made an outrageous request – they said that the only way for us to see the body was to sign a form agreeing to cremate him immediately.  After our refusal, they relented and said that we could see the body first, but then we would have to sign the form agreeing to cremation right away. The local officials tried to talk to me and pressure me (into going along with their plans of cremating the body right away). I began to grow more and more suspicious over the actual cause of my husband's death, and I saw a number of red flags.   The way that the authorities tried to get the family to agree to cremation right away without letting us know more about how he really died is very troubling.  Something else suspicious is that normally an autopsy would only be performed after getting the permission from the family first, but when we saw his body, a thorough autopsy had already been performed without our knowledge.  Because of these troubling signs, I cannot accept the explanation that the local police has given for the cause of Sun Ruijian's death.

A person's life is a very precious gift, and a person's death is a very serious matter.  I strongly demand a full investigation to be conducted into the death of my husband, and sincerely hope that the local authorities and government officials will agree to the investigation.

Contact Person: Zhang Hui (the wife of Sun Ruijian), phone number is 
86-591-23594132358583.

December 15th, 2000

Note:
(1) A number of local practitioners, including Lin Ru and Wang Yi, were arrested and held along with Sun Ruijian.  Probably because the police are afraid of their evil deeds being exposed, all their whereabouts are unknown right now.
(2) When his wife saw his remains, an autopsy had already been performed.  His eyes were strikingly protruded, which strongly indicates that he had been brutally beaten right before his death. 

(Translated on December 18th from an edited version of http://minghui.cc/gb/0001/Dec/16/sun_ruijian_121600_shishi.html)
 

96. Zhao Xin, female, 32 years old, Beijing

[Beijing, China] December 13, 2000. Wednesday.

At 2:30PM, the funeral for Falun Dafa practitioner Zhao Xin, a 32-year-old female teacher of Beijing University of Business and Industry, was held in the 3rd condolence room at the Babaoshan Cemetery in Beijing.

Because of her persistence in cultivating Falun Gong, Zhao Xin was brutally beaten by the police at the Haidian Police Substation in Beijing, resulting in the fracture of her neck vertebrae. Despite severe bodily injury, Zhao Xin persisted in her belief in Falun Dafa. By struggling with extreme pain and suffering, she lived six months, a long time in terms of her suffering. Her splendid deeds, in which she refused to yield to evil, won admiration and concern from people all over the world. Her dedication and firmness in Falun Dafa and her early death have shocked many people.

The following are photos of Zhao Xin's funeral ceremony.
 
 

1. Zhao Xin's portrait before her death	2. The remains of Zhao Xin
3. Zhao Xin's students approach her remains for a farewell	4. Many fellow practitioners waiting outside the farewell room
5. Zhao Xin's sister making a memorial speech at the funeral	6. Zhao Xin's relatives coming to mourn for her
7. Many practitioners blocked outside the cemetery by police	8. People present flowers to Zhao Xin

(Translated on December 17, 2000 from http://minghui.cc/gb/0001/Dec/16/zhaoxin_zhuidaohui_121600_shishi.html)
 

95. Liu Lianyi, male, 54 years old, Jing County, Hebei Province

I was arrested and detained on Oct. 31, 1999 in the Jing County detention center. I was detained in the same cell as a Dafa practitioner named Liu Lianyi, who was tortured to death. The facts described below are absolutely true and were witness by my own eyes.

Liu Lianyi, male, was approximately 54 years old, and slim. He was brought to the detention center a few days before me. He was often brutally beaten by prisoners. However, no matter how hard these prisoners beat him, how hard they forced him to quit practicing, he never uttered the word "No" when being asked if he would still practice. On Nov. 1, the second day, I was sent to the detention center where the prisoners harshly beat Liu Lianyi because he couldn't recite the prison rules. From then on, the elderly man often pressed his hands over his stomach and sat in the corner, leaning against the brick bed. Even in this state, the prisoners still harshly beat him on and off. A few days later, when Liu Lianyi returned after being interrogated, he covered his stomach with his hands and sat next to the brick bed again like a few days before. Prisoner Zhu Yongshan came over and shouted at him, "Liu Lianyi, do you still practice or not?" Liu Lianyi said: "I just feel it's good. For so many years, no matter how much medicine I had taken, my stomach problem could not be healed; after I started practicing Falun Gong, it recovered completely." Zhu asked again: "I only asked if you would still practice or not?" Liu answered: "I will." After hearing this, prisoner Zhu stomped Liu Lianyi to the floor with one kick. Liu Lianyi pressed his chest (the kicked part) with his hands, slowly stood up against the edge of the brick bed. Before standing up, he was again knocked to the floor by Zhu Yongshan's second kick. Zhu screamed: "Do you still practice or not?" Liu slowly stood up again and said: "I will!" Right after the words came out of his mouth, Zhu knocked him to the floor again. I couldn't remember how many times Liu Lianyi was knocked to the floor like this. Prisoner Zhu finally stopped when he was too tired to hit Liu further.