Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Shi Yinchang from Benxi City, Liaoning Province was sent to two years of forced labor under the CCP's persecution, which severely damaged his mind and body. He lost almost all of his eyesight in the Benxi City Labor Camp. He died on April 30, 2005, at the age of 57.

Mr. Shi Yinchang was an employee of the Power Plant of Benxi City Steel Company and lived on Yuming Street in Pingshan District, Benxi City. He had many diseases before practicing Falun Gong in 1995, but he recovered from all of them, as he benefited from the practice a great deal.

After the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, Mr. Shi Yinchang was harassed multiple times, and threatened by his employer and the Neighborhood Administration. On October 2, 2001, his employer and local 610 Office workers forced him to attend a brainwashing session located inside the Weining Labor Camp in Benxi City. Mr. Shi went on hunger strike to protest.

In July 2002, policemen from Gongren Station in Pingshan District arrested him at his home and sent him to two years of forced labor, which caused his mental and physical health to be damaged severely. He was bailed out on medical parole in October 2003, because he was dying. He had many illnesses, was very weak, and nearly blind in both eyes.

During the period of medical parole, Mr. Shi Yinchang was harassed multiple times and threatened by policemen and his employer. He died on April 30, 2005.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/4/13/125089.html

 The following is a translation of excerpts from a letter to the Minghui website by an anonymous person from mainland China believed to be a Falun Gong practitioner in Daqing City.

While illegally detained at the Daqing Longfeng Detention Center, I heard a lot of stories from an inmate, who is now serving his time at Daqing Prison, about how the police were dealing in organs of Falun Gong practitioners. At the time I didn't pay much attention, as I thought he was just trying to scare me. But now, when those stories are looked at in hindsight, I think they were not groundless. So here I am making the following disclosures based on my recollections.

1. Two dead bodies of Falun Gong practitioners lay buried near the chimney in the yard of Longfeng Detention Center. The two practitioners had no known family or friends to handle their bodies, and no one knew their names. Since they refused to give up their faith, they were tortured to near death. After their organs were harvested while they were still alive, they were buried near the chimney in the yard of Longfeng Detention Center. The bodies were allegedly dug up later and cremated in the boiler room.

2. The death toll of Falun Gong practitioners at the Longfeng Detention Center does not count in the death statistics. At the peak of the persecution against Falun Gong, those beaten to death were not reported to higher authorities. If no family members asked about them, their bodies would be left unattended or taken directly to the boiler room for cremation. If their family members did come for an explanation, the prison authorities would try to end the case by telling lies or bluffing. At best, they would offer money to settle it.

3. Falun Gong practitioners who refused to be brainwashed would be taken to the northwest of the country, where more prisons are being built and no one is able to escape, as the prison's location is completely isolated. Once there, practitioners won't be allowed to come out anymore even if they agreed to give up their belief. They would be kept there indefinitely.

4. Practitioners whose organs are to be removed are not shot dead. Instead, they are knocked out first and then taken into a vehicle standing by, where the still living victims are cut open for their organs. Sometimes victims were in such excruciating pain that they pleaded, "Hurry up. Please let me die first!"

This reminds me of Falun Gong practitioner Wang Bin, who was a computer engineer at the Daqing Institute of Oil Exploration and Development and a second prize winner of a national science award. On September 24, 2000, he was savagely beaten to death by police officer Feng Xi of the Daqing Labor Camp. His body, after the organs including the heart and brain were harvested, was placed in the morgue of the Daqing People's Hospital. The following photo shows Wang Bin's remains.

Falun Gong practitioner Wang Bin's remains

Wang Bin's case came to light only with the help of other Falun Gong practitioners and Wang Bin's family. Who knows how many more cases of practitioners who have been persecuted to death and whose organs have been taken - when they were still alive - still remain undiscovered and unknown?

Additionally, I heard that in order to persecute Falun Gong, Daqing City planned to build a secret prison somewhere between the Construction Tower and Daqing Detention Center. But because of a shortage of resources, among other things, the plan didn't go through.

The frenzy of the Daqing police in persecuting Falun Gong has so frightened the residents that they not only all installed gate guards, but also would bolt their doors when they are at home during the daytime. What they are guarding against are police rather than thieves. To date, there are 56 Daqing Falun Gong practitioners who have been confirmed dead due to persecution. There are countless more practitioners who have been illegally fired from their jobs, fined, tortured, extorted out of money, detained, forced to work at hard labor, and sentenced to prison. Nowadays people are avoiding the police like the plague. People used to say: the police and bandits are of the same family. But now whenever they are talking about the police, they'd say: Daqing police are even worse than bandits because at least bandits are still human, whereas Daqing police don't even have human feelings.

The Daqing police have become professional criminals. When they arrest Falun Gong practitioners, they don't produce any warrants or provide any grounds. They don't even notify practitioners' families. Judging from the wicked record of the Daqing police, it is not surprising if they are found to be involved in harvesting organs from living humans and selling them for profit.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/4/12/125059.html

 Ms. Song Zhezi is a 57-year-old retired employee of the eastern suburb Supply and Marketing Cooperative in Changde City, Hunan Province. Because she insists on practicing "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," she was secretly sentenced to four years imprisonment by the Wuling District Court in August 2004, and detained at Changsha Women's Prison in Hunan Province. The long-term persecution caused a mental collapse and seriously compromised her health. Her family went to visit her in February 2006, but was refused by the prison, which claimed that she did not obey the prison rules, so they cancelled her rights to be visited by family members.

Song Zhezi began to practice Falun Gong in late 1998, and obtained great physical and mental benefits. After Jiang Zemin's regime began persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, in order to validate the innocence of Falun Gong, she went to Beijing to appeal in April and October 2000. Only because she spoke the truth, refused to give up her belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," she was locked up for one and a half years. Upon release and return home she was twice detained in succession at the Changde City No. 2 Detention Center. On both occasions she was set free after six-day hunger strikes.

On July 12, 2002, she was arrested at home and later sent to a forced labor camp. She suffered all sorts of torture at the Zhuzhou Baimalong Women's Forced Labor Camp (the Minghui website reported her experience of persecution on December 20, 2004). She held a hunger strike for 86 days, which caused the forced labor camp officials to fear her imminent death. Consequently, they extorted over 8000 yuan from her family, and reluctantly sent her home on December 5, 2003.

At 9:00 a.m. on March 5, 2004, the Wuling District 610 Office, Residents' Committee, Chengdong Office and Chengdong local police station sent four police cars and over ten policemen to surround Song Zhezi's shop front, where she was working. Then and there, she and her youngest son-in-law were illegally arrested. What followed was a month-long detainment. On May 31, she asked a tradesman to install an iron gate in the home. Even so, more than 20 policemen suddenly rushed into her home that afternoon, rummaged through her chests and cupboards, and confiscated her family's property. She was then again taken to the Changde City No. 2 Detention Center.

In August 2004, Wuling District Court secretly sentenced Song Zhezi to four years in prison and forcibly sent her to Changsha Women's Prison. Because Song Zhezi refused to give up the practice, Changsha Women's Prison forced her to work long hours and frequently endeavored to indoctrinate her with a steady diet of hate speeches slandering Falun Gong. They even compelled her to wear a prison uniform and memorize prison rules. The long-term mental torture caused a mental collapse and seriously affected her health. Her family went to visit her in February 2006, but were refused by the prison on arbitrary grounds that she did not obey prison rules. Her rights to be visited by family members had been cancelled.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/3/7/122257.html

 After failing to convict practitioner Pan Jijun during his public trial in Court Room 2 of the Pudong District Court in Shanghai on March 3, the court secretly sentenced Pan Jijun to a seven-year term of imprisonment on March 10, 2006.

Practitioner Pan Jijun was born in Jiaozhou City, Shandong Province and earned a Master's degree at Shanghai Medical University. He is an employee of the Pudong Oriental Hospital in Shanghai. Because he practices Falun Gong, he was unlawfully imprisoned for two years in a forced labor camp. At around midnight on the evening of July 11, 2005, he was illegally arrested again from his residence by officers of the National Security Protection Department from the police branch at Pudong New District, and was detained for more than eight months in prison. Due to insufficient evidence the court was unable to proceed with a trial against Pan Jijun, although they tried several times. When they finally began his public trial on March 3, 2006, Pan Jijun's righteous appeal left the court staff speechless.

Opening his defense, Pan Jijun said, "Falun Gong has spread to almost eighty countries and territories around the world, and there have been no ill effects on any nation or society, only benefits. Practicing "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance" naturally leads people to higher levels of morality. Everyone benefits in both mind and body." Then he began to explain the truth about the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident, and he recommended that the judges go find copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to read, so they could learn how the Chinese people have been cheated and persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Hearing this, the judges became so alarmed that they tried to stop Pan Jijun from continuing, but they couldn't prevent him from adding, "I have one more thing to say, I haven't done anything harmful to the country or the people, I've committed no crime!"

The CCP's judges could find no cause to pronounce a sentence against Pan Jijun, so they scheduled the trial to resume at the end of March. Indeed, the evildoers pronounced Pan Jijun guilty on March 10.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/3/30/123995.html

Ms. Qu Liangrong, Missing since 2001

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Qu Liangrong, 59, lived in Xiangfan City, Hubei Province. She went out to validate Falun Gong in 2001, and her whereabouts remain unknown to this day.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Shi Jinlong, 47, lived in the Eighth Group on Gaozhong Street in Pingshan District, Benxi City, Liaoning Province. He went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in October 2003. He never returned, and there hasn't been any information regarding his whereabouts.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Tang Shufen, in her 40s, lived in Changyi City, Shandong Province. Around October 2005, she went to a nearby city to sell products for her employer, and contact with her was lost after three days. There hasn't been any information on her since.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xi Fenru from Gansu Province was arrested by policemen from the Xi'an Transportation University Station in the summer of 2005 in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province when she was passing out truth clarifying materials. She was working at that time in Xi'an City, but there is no further information about her.