On May 25, 2003, Mr. Liu Dejun, from Panjin City, Liaoning Province, was illegally arrested by police for practicing Falun Gong. On the morning of July 12, 2005, the police notified his family that he had died in the Panjin Detention Center. The deputy director of the Liaohe Oil Field Police Station and a national security officer from the Panjin Police Station proposed an autopsy and pressured his family to cremate the body.

The death of Mr. Liu Dejun is very suspicious. Below is a summary of the persecution he had to endure.

Mr. Liu Dejun, 51, of Han origin, was a retired worker from the Xinlongtai Pump Guest House in Liaohe Oil Field in Panjin city. Because he practiced Falun Gong, he was persecuted many times.

On May 30, 2001, Wang Yuoshan, the director of the 610 Office of Liaohe Oil Field Prospecting Bureau, led several police officers to arrest Mr. Liu and took him to the Panjin Re-education Camp. They also ransacked his home.

At 8:00 a.m. in May 2002, Wang Youshan brought several police officers to Mr. Liu's home. They claimed that they were looking for someone, and tried to ransack the house without permission. At first, they tried to pry the door open but failed. Then they came down from a helicopter, broke into the house through a window, and ransacked it.

At 4:00 p.m. on July 30, 2002, Wang Youshan led more than 10 policemen in four police vehicles to try to arrest Mr. Liu. After several failed attempts to pry the door open, they surrounded and watched the building until 8:00 a.m. of July 31. Early in the morning, Mr. Liu escaped with the help of righteous thoughts. Afterwards, he was forced to become homeless to avoid arrest. That evening, the police officers took his new Nanfang 125 paddle style motorcycle, valued at 5,000 yuan, that was locked outside of the building.

Since September 2002, Liu Dejun's retirement annuity had been suspended. Later, the gas and electricity in his home were also disconnected. His wife and children could not continue to live at home, nor could she sell the house.

When the police found out that Mr. Liu was renting a house elsewhere, they arrested him on May 25, 2005. On the morning of July 12, police notified Liu Dejun's family that he had died in the Panjin Detention Center. His family had no idea when and how he had died. It was confirmed that Mr. Liu Dejun was still alive on July 11. He was taken away from the Panjin Detention Center at around 9:00 a.m. in a car from the national security team. Mr. Liu was able to walk that day, but his family was informed of his death the following morning. The police officers' contradictory statements on where Mr. Liu had died made his death even more suspicious.

After Mr. Liu Dejun was persecuted to death, Wei Guobao, deputy director of the Liaohe Oil Field Police Station, Kuang Yemao, deputy director of Liaohe Oil Field Police Station National Security, and Zhou Laixin, national security officer from Panjin City Police Station, pressured Mr. Liu's family to cremate his body. They also proposed an autopsy and said that they would appoint a lawyer. They promised Liu Dejun's family, "If you agree to cremate the body, we will settle the resident registration for your two children."

Mr. Liu's family members were not allowed to be present during the autopsy. Later, the doctor mentioned that the membrane of Mr. Liu's stomach was quite thin and that he suffered from severe starvation and also at least five different ailments, including stomach bleeding. The police threatened, intimidated, and pressured his family to cremate his body. His wife, Ji Hong, was devastated. Her two children had become fatherless. She had nowhere to appeal. Ji Hong's father did not agree to have the body cremated, but the police cremated Liu Dejun's body without his family's consent. After Liu Dejun was persecuted to death, his wife lived a very difficult life with two young children and her elderly father.

Three Female Practitioners Missing after July 20, 1999

Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Lu Yanju (39, from Shenjiawan Village), Ms. Wang Zhenyun (52, from Liu Jiatai Village), and Ms. Wang Aiyun (56, from Chuanmaqiao Village) all were missing after they went out after the persecution started on July 20, 1999 from Chuanhan City, Hubei Province. No one knows where they are.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Yu Xinyu, around 35 years old, lived near Xi'ertiao Street or Xisantiao Street in Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. She used to work at the Admission Office of Yangguang Foreign Languages Institute in Mudanjiang City.

She has been missing since the fall of 2004, and one of her friends said that she was arrested when clarifying the truth.

On March 16, 2006, the Clearwisdom website reported how guard Liu Junling and others from the 402 Middle Team in Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp persecuted and humiliated a practitioner named Ms. Wang between December 1, 2004, and May 1, 2005 (/emh/articles/2006/3/28/71283.html). The 402 Middle Team of the Fourth Group is specifically designed to persecute female practitioners and they are continuing to do these evil things.

In June 2003, Qiao Xiaoxia was the captain of the Second Middle Team of the Fourth Group (she is now the captain of the Fifth Group), Liu Xiumin was an instructor in brainwashing, and Liu Junling was a sub-team captain. These women conspired together to make a personal profit. They used various base means, especially toward steadfast practitioners, to "transform" and persecute practitioners in order to make money in rewards and bonuses.

Ms. Qi Hongjin was a Falun Gong practitioner who was highly educated. She went on a hunger strike in protest after she was sent to the camp. The above-mentioned female staff members (Qiao Xiaoxia, Liu Xiumin and Liu Junling) handcuffed Ms. Qi to a bed and told her they could "heal hunger strikes." They would not allow her to go to the toilet so she was forced to relieve herself in the bed. They scolded and humiliated her and wouldn't allow her to sleep. They ordered collaborators to talk continuously to Ms. Qi. Later, they brought in her 70-year-old father to try to talk her into giving up Falun Gong. The guards in the camp obtained information about her personal life prior to her arrest and used this to try to accuse and humiliate her.

Ms. Qi ended her hunger strike and began to eat. Sometime later, Liu Junling had a conflict with her, and this prompted the female staff members to handcuff Ms. Qi to two separate beds. Liu slapped Ms. Qi until her mouth bled and her face swelled. When the camp staff beat practitioners, the guards usually would try to hide it from the other practitioners by ordering them to sing and study in the yard outside. When Ms. Qi attempted to report the beating, Liu then brought some clothes from home and gave them to Ms. Qi to appease her. Covertly, however, Liu intensified her efforts to "transform" practitioners.

Li Yong, captain of the Fourth Group, and Qiao Xiaoxia plotted to have collaborators talk Ms. Qi into giving up Falun Gong. Burly drug offenders were ordered to watch her and to beat her whenever they felt like it. Liu Junling slapped her many times. They forced Ms. Qi to squat on the ground within a small circle and wouldn't allow her to go to the toilet. The staff harassed her by writing Teacher's name under her feet and forcing her to step on it, writing words slandering Falun Gong on her body, forcing her to make marks on Teacher's pictures, and writing slanderous words against Falun Gong everywhere in the room. Ms. Qi was forced to squat for six hours and could not avoid relieving herself in her pants and on the ground. This happened in the presence of many people and the staff wouldn't let her change clothes or wash. She smelled terrible.

The above were base persecution means used by the Fourth Group. They were humiliating and terrible violations of human rights. Ms. Qi struggled and still persisted in her belief under such torture. The camp staff, Liu Junling and Liu Xiumin, tried to force Ms. Qi to write words on a piece of paper denouncing Falun Gong and Teacher. When she refused, these people held her hand down and tried to force her to write.

Later, Hebei Province put all Falun Gong practitioners into Shijiazhuang Forced Labor Camp to "transform" them. Practitioner Ms. Cui Yanqiu was transferred to Shijiazhuang from the Kaiping Forced Labor Camp in Tangshan. Qiao Xiaoxia took Ms. Cui to the Fourth Group. Initially Qiao tried to talk her into giving up Falun Gong, but Ms. Cui wouldn't cooperate with their plans. Qiao, in order to get rewarded for "transforming practitioners," pushed Ms. Cui onto a bed and beat her on the back with a club. Ms. Cui's back and buttocks were bruised. Liu Junling also slapped her numerous times. Ms. Cui had graduated from the Hebei Normal University and was a very quiet girl. Later, the staff tried to make her crack by having her mother come and talk to her. Ms. Cui refused to renounce Falun Gong, and the staff verbally abused her. The staff made her squat inside a small circle for a long time. She was not allowed to sleep on her bed. She often slept while she stood. Her legs were swollen and her feet no longer fit into her shoes. Ms. Cui was not allowed to use the toilet and had to relieve herself in her room. The staff exhausted every tactic to try to "transform" Ms. Cui, but they ultimately failed.

The living conditions in the Fourth Group were awful, and meals were nothing but food boiled in water. The staff made special meals and sold them for high prices to make a profit. During the New Year in 2003, there was an inspection. The staff had practitioners change the bed sheets, provided new shower buckets, and hid the practitioners who refused to "transform" in a corner with someone watching them. After the inspectors left, everything went back to the way it was.

Guards in the Fourth Group played evil tricks, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) always does. They would use despicable means against practitioners and at the same time they would tell the practitioners it was being done for their own good. Many practitioners who were forced to "transform" later developed various diseases. For example, Ms. Han Cuimiao from Xiong County developed a skin disease with purulent draining sores all over her body. She passed away in 2005, as reported on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website. In the summer of 2003, a 40-year-old practitioner from Handan was "transformed" and renounced Falun Gong. Her lips turned purple and her legs swelled and she may have developed a heart condition. There wasn't anything in the camp that could treat her condition. One hot summer day, she felt chest pain and couldn't catch her breath and by afternoon, she had fainted and her heart stopped beating. It was then that the camp finally contacted emergency services. As soon as she was placed on a stretcher, she stopped breathing. In the evening, guards came back from the hospital and didn't mention anything about her. It was assumed that she had died. She left three children at home.

Qiao Xiaoxia brainwashed practitioners by ordering them to memorize three CCP articles written by former party chairman Mao Zedong. Qiao often ridiculed and humiliated practitioners while playing tapes that attempted to slander Falun Gong and deceived unsuspecting practitioners into renouncing their belief in Falun Gong. Some practitioners fell for it and renounced Falun Gong. In 2003, Qiao began to have trouble at home. She often had headaches and couldn't sleep very well. One day while sitting in the duty office the ceiling fan fell and hit her on the back of the head. She later recovered but still wouldn't give up persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.

Liu Junling had high blood pressure, dizziness, and arthritis in her knees. She thought she was very good at "transforming" Falun Gong practitioners and many times participated in the persecution against practitioners in other places such as Luquan City and Zhao County. Liu has committed a lot of crimes.

Captain Zhao, Captain Wang, Ma Liqin, and other officers from the Second Middle Team of the Fourth Group were all responsible for persecuting practitioners.

The crimes committed at the Masanjia Concentration Camp and the Hulan County Prison in Helongjiang Province have been exposed on the Clearwisdom website many times. Below are accounts of recent crimes committed inside these facilities according to eyewitnesses.

The Masanjia Women's Correction Center uses inmates to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Since the inmates are afraid that their sentences will be extended if they do not comply, they carry out orders given by the police and guards. Wang Yanping, the team leader of the 2th Group, in particular always instigates the inmates to beat and curse Falun Gong practitioners. In February, one guard ordered an inmate to drag a Falun Gong practitioner out in the snow and stuff snow into her clothes, while the guard was watching.

On March 23, 2006, on the way out to work, several inmates dragged Falun Gong practitioner Jiang Chunxia; her hands were handcuffed behind her back; her mouth was covered with layers of plastic tape. The 2nd Group leader Wang Yanping just watched everything. A fellow practitioner witnessed the evil behavior and pointed it out. Wang Yanping threatened her: "We are evil--so what? I will move you to our battalion tomorrow."

In the No. 2 Battalion, the inmates beat Falun Gong practitioner Xin Shuhua frequently until her face was covered with blood. On March 22, 2006, in order to force Xin Shuhua to wear the prison uniform, the guards striped off her clothes, leaving only her underpants on and locked her up in a dark restroom. On March 26, several inmates physically forced her to go to work half naked while a group of inmates watched. She was locked up in the restroom inside the factory with only her underpants on; her body was covered with bruises.

In middle of March 2006, when Falun Gong practitioner Qu Shuxia called out, "Falun Dafa is good!" guard Zhang Jun ordered inmates to drag her into the office and handcuffed her. Another guard named Sun Mei grabbed her by the hair and fiercely banged her head on the floor. Zhang Jun was fiercely cursing Falun Gong's founder and asked another guard to write his words down on a piece of paper and to stuff it into Qu Shuxia's mouth. After Qu Shuxia was handcuffed for one day, she had seizures. The perpetrators were scared, so they took her to the hospital twice. The hospital ruled out any heart problems. When Qu Shuxia was having a seizure and her arms became stiff, the guards pulled her arms and handcuffed her on the windowsill. That made her unable to stand straight, and her arms became numb after a while. Four inmates surrounded her whenever she yelled. They covered her mouth with dirty rags and they even tore her mouth. Four inmates carried Ms. Qu back to the factory and handcuffed her there for a long time. Qu Shuxia began a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

In 2003, fifty-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zong was brutally persecuted by the guards because she refused to renounce Falun Gong. The guards pushed a bench strut into her vagina.

Crimes committed by the Hulan County Prison in Helongjiang Province:

There were one hundred Falun Gong practitioners illegally detained in the Hulan County Prison. The most steadfast Falun Gong practitioners are severely persecuted. On March 18, 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Tang Jinghui from the Ninth District was brutally beaten by four guards because he was doing the Falun Gong exercises. When Mr. Tang refused to work the next day, guard Nie Xianzhong ordered several inmates to drag him to work. On the way to work, other groups of inmates witnessed the scene and declared that the guards had no humanity.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Shumin was sent to the Heilongjiang Women's Prison in 2002. Before that, she was mentally healthy. During the period she was detained, Ms. Wang was injected with an unknown drug. She was released in 2005 after finishing the jail term. Her family found that Ms. Wang had suffered a mental collapse. She cries and laughs at random and her mind is unstable.

Due to forced feeding, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Cao Baoyu lost bowel control. He was not allowed family visits and was force-fed every day. Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Jianpo was also force-fed every day. Now both of them have gastro-intestinal bleeding. Their families questioned Director Liu of the Guangyang District government office: "Who is going to take responsibility for the problems caused by your force feeding?" Government officials are shirking their responsibilities by pointing at each other.

On April 7, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Li Shengjun, Ms. Li Shujie, Ms. Li Yufen and Ms. Wang Xiaoyan were arrested. Among these four people, some have been secretly transferred to labor camps in Hohhot City.

Mr. Meng Fanquan is a teacher at the Light Technology College of the Hebei University of Technology. He started practicing Falun Gong in December 1994, when he was 45 years old. Meng Fanquan is well recognized as a very good person at his workplace.

The first time he went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong was September 1999. He was illegally detained for nearly four months. He suffered persecution such as being doused with dozens of buckets of cold water, being handcuffed with jail locks, being poorly fed, not being allowed to go to restroom, and being subjected to brainwashing.

The second time Mr. Meng went to Beijing to appeal was October 2000. He was illegally detained again and sentenced to labor camp for one year. He was detained in Hehuakeng Labor Camp in Tangshan. Mr. Meng suffered from persecution including brainwashing and long-term forced sitting on small stools.

Meng Fanquan went to Beijing to appeal a third time in July 2002. His workplace forced him to undergo brainwashing in Tangshan Weaving University. He suffered brainwashing for 18 months.

The fourth time Mr. Meng was arrested was the afternoon of April 18, 2006. He was arrested by the Lubei police station and sent to the Tangshan First Detention Center. Previously, in August 2005, Meng Fanquan was reported to the police for clarifying the truth. His home was illegally ransacked and personal belongings such as computers, which cost 5,000 - 6,000 yuan, were stolen from his home.

Ms. Liu Xinhua, 52 years old, is from Quandengjia Village in Boyu Town, Weihai City. On April 5, 2006, she was arrested by six or seven people from Weihai City's Jinqu police station, Boyu Town police station and Public Security Director Deng Renwu from Quandengjia Village. Liu Xinhua's current whereabouts is unknown.

Ms. Jin Guifang from Yuncheng College was implicated because of the illegal arrest of multiple practitioners in Linyi County of Shanxi Province. On around April 9, 2006, police stations from Taiyuan, Linyi Yuncheng Salt Lake District each sent out two people to ransack Jin Guifang's home. They did not find any Falun Gong materials.

At around 9:00 p.m. on April 19, 2006, police from the national security office and county police station from Linshui County in Guangan city, Sichuan Province suddenly broke into and ransacked the homes of Falun Gong practitioners in the county. The focus was to look for copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and truth clarifying material, as well as Falun Gong books. At the home of Falun Gong practitioner Bao Shuihe, they found several copies of the Nine Commentaries some truth clarifying materials, the "Minghui Weekly" newsletter and a picture of Master Li Hongzhi. Bao Shuihe was then arrested. Currently, Bao has been illegally sent to the Linshui County Detention Center and is under persecution there.

In the morning of April 20, 2006, at around 5:00 a.m., seven or eight people in police uniforms from the Luzhen police station in Luquan City, Shijiazhuang broke into Mr. Wang Jianhui's home without showing any documentation or reason. They arrested him and took away Master's articles, some other materials and a copy machine.

In mid-April, 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Liu Minying (in her 60's), from Nanwan in Fengtai District in Beijing, was illegally arrested. Liu Minying is currently on a hunger strike to protest the persecution against her.

In March 2000, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Qin Yuchun was illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor for appealing in Beijing. At noon on April 17, 2006, he was arrested and taken to the Liangshan County Detention Center by policemen.

Mr. Qin's daughter is set to take the college entrance exam. His 80-year-old mother has been sick in bed because she has been worried about her son since he was arrested. Nobody is taking care of his mother currently.

In the evening of June 26, 2005, policeman Zhou Xianjun and others from the National Security Team of the Xisaishan District Police Department,  Huangshi City, Hubei Province arrested Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Chen Songkui and sentenced him to two years of forced labor. In April 2006, they arrested Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cai Guixiang, Mr. Chen Songkui's wife. She had been homeless in order to avoid arrest and persecution. Ms. Cai Guixiang is currently being jailed in the First Detention Center of Huangshi City.

In the morning of April 18, 2006, policemen from the Linjiang Street Police Station of Huangshi City broke into 45-year-old Ms. Wang Yuemei's home and detained her at the Hubei Province Law Center.

In late March 2006, Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Li Longying and Ms. Li Faju from Anshun were illegally arrested in Zhijin County. They have been jailed and subjected to persecution.

At the end of September, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhou and Mr. Tu from Wuhou District of Chengdu City were arrested at home by the 610 Office and special agents from National Security Bureau. They are being illegally jailed in the Chengdu Detention Center. On March 22, 2006, the Wuhou District Court illegally put them on trial. Their family members were not allowed to attend the proceedings.

Because of the lack of evidence, the court did not announce any sentences. However, the practitioners are still being held in jail.

In the evening of April 14, 2005, Shen Jianzhong, a policeman of  Ningjin County Police Department in Hebei Province, hired a group of thugs to kidnap Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lu Xinjie. He then sent Mr. Lu to the Xingtai Brainwashing Center to carry out more brutal persecution.

Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Zhao Guocun and Mr. Liu Zhecun from Laishui were recently arrested. Zhao Guocun is being jailed in Zhuzhou. Liu Zhecun has been jailed in the Laishui County Detention Center for more than 20 days, and his family has not been allowed to visit him.

In the evening of April 20, 2006, three policemen broke into Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Li Guirong's home to harass her. They found and took away her copy of Zhuan Falun and other Falun Gong books.

At noon on April 21, 2006, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xing Wenyan was arrested. In the afternoon of April 22, Ms. Liu Zhiqin was arrested.

In March 2006, eight Falun Gong practitioners from Wuning Town of Moping District in Yantai City were arrested. These eight practitioners were all illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor. Three practitioners, including Ms. Zhou Shurong, temporarily served their terms under house arrest and the other five were sent to Wangcun Forced Labor Camp in Zibo City.

Another female Falun Gong practitioner's home was ransacked by the Wuning Police Station. She was fined a sum of 30,000 yuan. She was told that if she could not pay the charge, she would be sentenced to forced labor.

Ms. Wang Qicai, a Falun Gong practitioner from Weifang City in Shandong Province, has been missing for almost ten days. In 2004, her husband was arrested but walked out of detention with the power of righteous thoughts. Since then, he has been homeless. Her son is in high school and living in the school dormitory. One day when he went home, he could not find his mother anymore.

In the morning of April 21, 2006, Liang Hongbin, secretariat of the National Security 610 Office, Yangliu Police Station and Yangliu Village CCP Committee, and Tian Shufen, secretariat of the Yangliu Women's Committee, illegally arrested Mr. Tan Suming (a disabled person who does not practice Falun Gong), his 80-year old mother and Ms. Shang Zhenyue. They also ransacked Mr. Tan's home. The intruders took pictures of Falun Gong books they found to be used as "evidence" to support the accusation of "illegal" activities. At around 6:00 p.m., Tan Suming's mother was released. The authorities wanted to take away Mr. Tan's wife but failed to do so due to protests from many of Tan's neighbors. Tan Suming is being illegally jailed in the Wutong Detention Center.

Since the beginning of 2006, the Second Forced Labor Camp of Shandong Province (originally named Wangcun Forced Labor Camp) has brutally persecuted steadfast Falun Gong practitioners. The practitioners were not allowed to go to bed until 4:30 a.m. and had to get up at 5:00 a.m. They were allowed only forty minutes of sleep. The practitioners were forced to sit on a hard stool for twenty hours each day. Sometimes, Falun Gong practitioners were forced to stand outside in the freezing winter without their cotton-padded jackets. The practitioners were only given one steamed bun per meal, and their imprisonment terms were extended.