Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Ren Shujie (from Shenyang Province) suffered long-term inhuman torture for persisting in her belief and clarifying the truth to people. By the time she was released from Masanjia Forced Labor Camp on December 24, 2004, she was extremely weak and emaciated. At 11:15 PM on September 1, 2005. Ms. Ren passed away.

Practitioner Ms. Ren Shujie

Ms. Ren Shujie, who was emaciated and extremely weak before passing away

Ms. Ren Shujie, 42, was a practitioner from the Tiexi District of Shenyang in Liaoning Province. She was the owner of a fabric shop in the Donghu Market, Hong District. Ms. Ren began to practice Falun Gong in 1998 and benefited mentally and physically. After she became a Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Ren became honest and kind and enjoyed helping others. Her customers and the other shop owners regarded her as a good person.

In 2001, the police arrested Ms. Ren for distributing truth-clarifying materials. Around October 2001, because she went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, the persecutors sent her to the Dabei Prison hospital in Shenyang City. On November 16, she left the prison hospital using righteous thoughts. On May 21, 2002, officers from the Zhonggong Police Station, under the Tiexi District Police Department in Shenyang, abducted Ms. Ren Shujie. The persecutors handcuffed her hands behind her back and slapped her face. They hit the back of her legs with large sticks and forced her to squat on the ground. Later on the persecutors sent her to three years of forced labor. She was detained in Longshan Forced Labor Camp, where officials deprived her of sleep for seven consecutive nights, and police staff Tang Yubao used two electric batons and shocked her for thirty minutes.

During her detention in the forced labor camp, Ms. Ren had to do slave labor. They forced her to do extremely heavy manual labor. During that time, she began a hunger strike that lasted 64 days. In mid-June 2003, Ms. Ren told Tang Yubao to treat older practitioners kindly. Tang shocked her with an electric baton and kicked her. Ms. Ren's mouth was swollen, her eye sockets were bruised and swollen, her eyes were bloodshot, her face was disfigured, and her body was covered with bruises.

In March 22, 2004, Longshan Forced Labor Camp authorities sent Ms. Ren Shujie to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. She was ordered to sleep on the cold floor for three months. Ms. Ren Shujie's face became swollen, and her legs showed signs of severe edema. Each time a spot was pressed, an indentation would remain. Ms. Ren also went on a hunger strike at that time. Since Ms. Ren could not eat well, she was extremely weak at the time of her release from the labor camp. She was released on December 24, 2004. Because she still had problems with her esophagus, Ms. Ren was not able to eat normally on her returning home. She grew increasingly weaker, and passed away on September 1, 2005 at 11:15 p.m.

For details of the persecution suffered by Ms. Ren, see the following article and video recordings from Clearwisdom.net:

Practitioner Ms. Ren Shujie from Shenyang, Liaoning Province Is at the Brink of Death from Torture (Photo)

Video Recordings of Practitioners Ren Shujie and Gao Rongrong's Personal Account of the Persecution they Suffered at the Longshan Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Zhang Fengyun from Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, was tortured to death on August 11, 2001 by the Lanzhou City No. 1 Custodial Center (also known as the Xiguoyuan Custodial Center) for her determination in practicing Falun Gong. Her son Xing Jun was only 14 years old at that time. He was forced to drop out of school and is now earning only 100 yuan a month, which is barely enough to survive on.

Xing Jun was born on September 30, 1987. He lives in an apartment in the family compound of his father's work unit, the Gansu Province Construction and Engineering Bureau. The family compound is located at Xiliu Gou of Xigu District, Lanzhou City.

Xing Jun's father, Xing Shuzhou , 49 years of age, worked at the Lumber Mill under the Gansu Province Construction and Engineering Bureau until 2001 when he was laid off. He gets only 160 yuan a month for living expenses from the factory. He is now working far away from his son.

After he graduated from the Junior Middle School, Xing Jun studied at the Electric Power and Electric Engineering School in Lanzhou City. However he had to stop school because the family could not afford the school fee. He then stayed at home for more than a year. Recently, Xing Jun started to work in a small private woodworking plant and makes only 100 yuan per month. He and his father have to depend on each other for their survival.

Jun's mother, Zhang Fengyun, was a 42-year-old staff member at the Gansu Province Construction and Engineering Bureau Lumber Mill. She was very ill before she started to practice Falun Gong in 1996. Soon after, she was in perfect health and was extremely grateful for her practice of Falun Gong.

After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, Ms. Zhang went to Beijing four times to peacefully appeal for the rights of Falun Gong practitioners. On July 23, 2001, she went to the Hekou area of Xigu District to distribute truth-clarification materials but was reported to the police. The police officials from the Hekou Police Station abducted her and sent her to Lanzhou City No. 1 Custodial Center.

During her detention, Zhang Fengyun went on a hunger strike with other practitioners to protest their persecution and demanded that they be released unconditionally. The prison wardens and several other vicious convicts were instructed by the local police to brutally beat and force-feed the practitioners.

On the fifteenth day on her hunger strike, the perpetrators threw Zhang Fengyun, who was in an extremely fragile condition because of the torture she had endured, onto a garbage platform. It was a stormy and rainy night with thunder and lightening. She was left to endure the elements outside. The other practitioners demanded that she be picked up and taken to the labor camp hospital in Dashaping. But it was too late. Ms. Zhang passed away at midnight on August 11, 2001.

Mr. Sun is about 70 years old and lives in Yantai city, Shandong province. 

On December 27, 2000, Mr. Sun and his wife went to Beijing to appeal and were arrested in Tiananmen Square. Sun and another couple of practitioners were put into a car and sent to an unknown police station. In order to protest the illegal arrest, they all refused to say their names. In order to force them to expose their identities, the policemen applied brutal and inhumane tortures to them. The most typical torture used was "ice freezing."

First, the policemen stripped off the practitioners' clothes, except for a shirt, and then forced them to stand or to sit on the snow. If the practitioners still did not give up after they were frozen for a while, the policemen stripped off the last shirt on their body, and then splashed cold water on them and continued to do so, drenching them and eventually encasing them in a sheet of ice.

Although Mr. Sun was nearly 70 years old, he was still subjected to this torture. In the freezing cold winter, the policemen forced him to stand in the snow with only a shirt on him from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. In the afternoon, the policemen stripped off his shirt and a couple of people took turns splashing cold water on him. After a short time, Mr. Sun was covered in ice from head to toe. He fainted. The policemen then dragged him inside the room to warm him up. After he woke up, they dragged him outside and splashed water on him again. On that day, Sun fainted 7 or 8 times, until it was midnight. When the policemen broke the ice off his body for the last time, a young policeman told him with regret, "We don't want to do this. It's an order from Jiang Zemin."

Later, the policemen finally found out Sun's identity. When he left Beijing, a policeman said, "If you die from being frozen, you die for nothing. Your body will be thrown away after you die. Nobody takes care of it. We have thrown away several bodies already."

After Mr. Sun was taken back to the local office, he continued to be persecuted. He was detained in the detention center and the Communist Party School [a school set up by the CCP to educate cadres on ideology] for three months. They released him after extorting from him over 10,000 yuan. From that time on, his salary certificate was illegally detained by the head of the Communist Party in his company. They withheld his salary for two years and have, to this date, still refused to give him back the money.

On July 10, 2005, Ma Yongyue, a Falun Gong practitioner from Hepingzhuang Village, Baigutun Township, Wuqing District, Tianjin City, was illegally sentenced to three years in prison by a local court. Ma Yongyue didn't accept the verdict of the court and filed an appeal to a higher court to request unconditional release.

On the evening of June 2, 2005 Ma Yongyue was arrested by officers of the Baigutun Township, Wuqing District Police Station. After 10 pm that evening, led by the staff commissioner of the Baigutun Township Police Station, a team of eight or nine policemen went to the Chengguan Town's market. There they found Falun Gong practitioner Ma Yongyue. They asked him to follow them, but Ma Yongyue refused to cooperate. They handcuffed Ma Yongyue, arrested him, and took him to the Detention Center of Wuqing District.

Ma Yongyue was physically abused. With the authorities' permission, prisoner Li Xinglong (from Taiziwu Village, Wuqing District, Tianjin City) spat in his face, beat him with shoes, and covered his mouth while his was sleeping. During one beating, Ma's front teeth were knocked out

On July 10, 2005, the local court sentenced Ma Yongyue to three years in prison, and his family didn't receive any notification regarding the trial. Ma Yongyue appealed to a higher court and requested unconditional release.

After Ma Yongyue was detained, the Detention Center of Wuqing District never allowed his family members to come and visit him. After Ma was sentenced, he was transferred to the Dabianzhuang Detention Center of Xiqing District, Tianjin City on July 16, 2005. He has been there for 40 days.

On July 29, 2005, Ma Yongyue's family members went once again to the Detention Center of Wuqing District, requesting to visit Ma Yongyue. They brought 100 yuan and a pair of shorts. The authorities of the Detention Center of the Wuqing District took the pair of shorts and the money, but did not tell them that Ma Yongyue was imprisoned at the Dabianzhuang Detention Center of Xiqing District, Tianjin City.

Ma Yongyue had been repeatedly and illegally detained by local police in the past. On November 29, 2004, after 8 pm, Ma Yongyue was riding a bicycle on the road of Baigutun Village. He was stopped by a police officer named Zhen Ruitao, from Baigutun Police station, and was forcibly taken to the police station. Zhen Ruitao then went to Ma Yongyue's home to ransack it. During the following days, Ma Yongyue was detained at the Detention Center of Wuqing District. After he protested the illegal detention for 5 days, he was sent home due to illness. At around 3 pm on January 28, 2005, police officer Zhen Ruitao from Baigutun Village Police Station led a team of policemen to Ma Yongyue's house and deceived Ma Yongyue into visiting the police station. He did, and was detained at the Detention Center of Wuqing District.

1. [Suining City, Sichuan Province] Ms. Lu Yanfei Tortured to Near Death at the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Lu Yanfei, 45, was the Director of the Chuanshan County Women's Committee in Suining City. In 2000, she went to Beijing to clarify the truth about Falun Gong and was arrested. She was sent to the Suining Public Security Bureau and sentenced to four years in prison. She was released in April 2004. She persisted in cultivation of Falun Gong, so the 610 Office arrested her again. They sentenced her to serve another three years of hard labor. She is now at the Nanmusi Women's Forced Labor Camp in Sichuan Province. Her life is in grave danger.

2. [Heilongjiang Province] Mr. Qui Jianbin Suffers Long-term Torture in Tailai Prison

Mr. Qui Jianbin has been imprisoned in the fourth unit of the fifth battalion at Tailai Prison. He has become very thin from the inhuman torture he has endured. His life is in grave danger. Policeman Zhang Weijia tortures Mr. Qui all the time without reason. He ties him to a board during the day and hangs him suspended in the air night.

3. [Jinan City, Shandong Province] Ms. Sun Chongzhen is Imprisoned in the Strict Discipline Section of the Jinan Women's Forced Labor Camp

Ms. Sun Chongzhen, 41, is from Shigougong Village in Dadian Township of Junan County, Shandong Province. On July 11, 2003, she was clarifying the truth to people about Falun Gong. She was arrested and sent to the Junan Detention Center for one month. Later, she was imprisoned at the Jinan Women's Forced Labor Camp for three years. She was severely tortured because of her persistence in Falun Gong cultivation. She has been in a confinement cell four times. The confinement cell was once completely filled with Falun Gong practitioners. They were also imprisoned in the nauseous smelling restroom. In June 2005, Ms. Sun was moved to the strict discipline section.

4. [Zhangjiachuan County, Gansu Province] Mr. Zhao Weijun Arrested and Detained

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhao Weijun from Zhangjiachuan County once served two years of hard labor and suffered inhuman torture. On February 10, 2005, the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, a group of policemen from the Zhangjiachuan Public Security Bureau arrested Mr. Zhao and took him to prison. The county procurator brought a suit against him in July 2005. On August 18, 2005, he and 27 criminal prisoners were tied together and taken to Longshan Square. There they were put on display in a public parade. Later they were displayed at Zhangjiachuan as well.

Zhao Weijun has been imprisoned at the Zhangjiachuan Prison for more than 7 months now. The county prosecutor has brought a suit against him and he is awaiting trial.

The people involved are:

Yang Rendai, Deputy Secretary in charge of political and legal affairs in Zhangjiachuan County, 86-13309383013 (Cell)
Ma Qingyuan, Deputy Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, 86-13893825161 (Cell)
Han Daicheng, Secretary of the Tiansui City Political and Legal Committee
Xiao Yong, Chief of the Zhangjiachuan County Public Security Bureau
Ma Xiaowu, Head of the Political and Legal section in Zhangjiachuan County
Wang Tao and Yan Shijie, policemen, Political and Legal section in Zhangjiachuan County
Li Mingzhu, Secretary of the Zhangjiachuan County Political and Legal Committee

5. [Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province] Ms. Zhang Xiuying Sent to a Forced Labor Camp

On July 1, 2005, the Jiankuang Police Station, Wanbolin Section Public Security Branch Bureau in Taiyuan City of Shanxi Province sent Ms. Zhang Xiuying to a forced labor camp because they found Falun Gong books and truth clarification materials in her home.

Wu Zhaohui, Head of the Jiankuang Police Station, 86-351-6123378
Wang Yazhi, Instructor, Jiankuang Police Station
Phone number of duty office: 86-351-6217110

6. [Huaihai, Hunan Province] Ms. Wang Yujia Arrested for Clarifying the Truth

Someone reported Ms. Wang Yujia, a Falun Gong practitioner from Huaihai City, in order to receive a 500 yuan reward. The charge was clarifying the truth to people, for which, she was arrested and detained at the Hecheng Detention Center in Huaihai City.

7. [Zhaoyang City, Liaoning Province] Ms. Feng Li Sent to a Forced Labor Camp

The Songshan Police Station Branch in Chifeng City continued to detain Ms Feng Li even after she was infected with a contagious, epidemic type disease. She was sentenced to serve hard labor and secretly sent to a forced labor camp, without her family being notified.

Ms. Feng was beaten severely while in detention. She is now being detained in the Mengwulanhaote Tumuji Education Center in Xingan, Inner Mongolia and is in isolation.

Phone number of the Mengwulanhaote Tumuji Education Center: 86-482-6710765

8. [Nanjiang, Jiangsu Province] Ms. Zhang Aidong Sentenced to 3 Years of Forced Labor

Ms. Zhang Aidong, about 50, is a retiree of the Nanjiang Electronic Research Institute. In July 2005, she was sentenced to 3 years of forced labor. She is now being detained in the Zhenjiang Judong Forced Labor Camp.

9. [Guangan, Sichuan Province] Ms. Wang Yunhui Sentenced to One Year in Prison for Urging People to Resign from the Communist Party

In April 2005, when returning home to Huaying City from their business trip, Guangan Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yunhui and her husband Mr. Lao Lei were arrested for urging people to resign from the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. Mr. Lao was released through the help of friends and relatives, but Ms. Wang was sentenced to one year in prison.

10. [Hebei Province] Mr. Ma Benshun and Ms. Fan Xiuqin Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison

Mr. Ma Benshun from Chengde City, Hebei Province was sentenced to 5 years in prison and is being detained at the Baoding City Prison. His wife, Fan Xiuqin, was also sentenced to 5 years and is being detained at the Shijiazhuang Women's Prison. Their daughter, Ma Zhaoming, was born on May 1, 1996. Her grandfather, Ma Congbin and grandmother, Xie Yuzhen are now taking care of her.

11. [Chongqing City] The Police Arrested Ms. Duan Zaiying at the Train Station for Clarifying the Truth

Ms. Duan Zaiying is a Falun Gong practitioner from Wangjiaba, Huaxi Township, Banan Section, Chongqing City and is about 50 years old. In August 2005, the police arrested her at the Chongqing City Caiyuanba Train Station because she was clarifying the truth there.

12. [Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Mr. Zhang Yinlong Arrested for Clarifying the Truth

Mr. Zhang Yinlong, about 63, is a Falun Gong practitioner from Chengdu City. In late May 2005, he went to Bazhong to clarify the truth. Public security officers arrested him when he was returning to Chengdu. According to a reliable source, he will be tried in court soon. The police tried to extort money from his family, telling them that he would receive and easier sentence if they would pay 65,000 yuan.

13. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Ms. Han Yufang Arrested and Sent to the Wuhan Yangyuan Brainwashing Center

At about 4 p.m. on August 25, 2005, Ms. Han Yufang, over 60, was arrested and sent to the Wuhan City Yangyuan Brainwashing Center.

Her son, also a Falun Gong practitioner, had just returned home from the U.S. about a month earlier. He was arrested at their home in Shanghai.

14. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] The Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp Intends to Extend Mr. Wang Huilian's Term by Two Months

Mr. Wang Huilian is a Falun Gong practitioner and a teacher at the Changchun Northwestern Normal University. He was arrested in March 2004 and sentenced to one and a half years

of forced labor. His term is to end on September 8, 2005. On April 21, 2005, Mr. Wang went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution. The police intend to use the hunger strike as the excuse to extend his term for two extra months.

Phone numbers:

Mr. Wang Huilian: 86-417-2819966
The Fourth Group, Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp: 86-431-5384312 ext. 6104
Captains: Quan Wei and Zhang Guimei

15. [Baicheng, Jilin Province] Mr. Shen Lixin Detained in Siping Prison

Mr. Shen Lixin is from Baicheng, Jilin Province and was on the teaching staff at Zhenjia Prison. He persists in Falun Gong cultivation and is unwilling to renounce Falun Gong. On August 31, 2004, the police arrested him in Zuojia Township of Jilin City. He was detained in the Jilin City Third Detention Center for one day and then sent back to Zhenjai. He asked to see his family. When his father-in-law went to see him, he was tied on a tiger bench and couldn't move. Mr. Shen is now detained in the Siping Prison.

16. [Wuhan City, Hubei Province] Ms. Han Yufang Arrested and Sent to the Wuhan Yangyuan Brainwashing Center

17. [Changchun City, Jilin Province] Mr. Yang Xuncheng Sent to the Guanghan Brainwashing Center

At about 10 a.m. on August 2, 2005, the 610 Office in Mianzhu City of Sichuan Province arrested Mr. Yang Xuncheng at his work unit in the Mianzhu City Electric Company. They sent him to the Guanghan Brainwashing Center. On the way to the Guanghan, Peng Yuanfu, Deputy Secretary of the Mianzhu City Political and Legal Committee, beat Mr. Yang until the blood from his mouth and nose soaked his clothing. There is still a clearly visible mark on his left cheek even after twenty days.

His 80 years old parents went to the unit to ask for his release, but were told he will be released only when he stops practicing Falun Gong.

The people directly involved:

Peng Yuanfu, Deputy Secretary of the Mianzhu City CCP Political and Legal Committee, 86-838-6200810 (Office), 86-13908103321 (Cell), 86-838-6209218 (Home)

610 Office: 86-838-6207480, 86-838-6213087 (Fax)

Weifang City 610 Office Head Violated the Law without Restraint

On the evening of May 10, 2005, Weifang City 610 Office workers stormed into the home of Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Sun Zhonghua and ransacked it without showing any documents. They stole his computer, his father's bankbook, 400 yuan in cash and some computer CDs before arresting him and taking him to the Fangzi District Detention Center. Because the family pressured them, the police released him after 28 days. However one day before the release, Li Chao (male) from the 610 Office extorted 5000 yuan in cash from Mr Sun's older sister without giving her a receipt. His wife asked the police to return their possessions and pointed out that it was illegal to ransack their home without going through the appropriate legal procedures. One 610 Office Head told her with a contemptuous look, "I am violating the law as a law enforcer. So what? I am unreasonable. What can you do to me?"
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/30/109424.html

2. Several Falun Gong Practitioners in Laiyang City, Hunan Province Arrested

Laiyang City state security agents or police officers arrested several Falun Gong practitioners in Laiyang City, Hunan Province. On the morning of August 22, 2005, Mr. Xie Tingyi, 76 years old, and Mr. Wang Zichun, 73 years old, were both arrested, and sent to the Laiyang City State Security Division. They are now detained in the Laiyang City Detention Center. Right after that, state security agents arrested Mr. Zeng Xinman, in his 50s. On the morning of August 24, 2005, they also arrested Mr. Liao Gaoping, 41 years old, from his workplace, the Laiyang First High School, and ransacked his home.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/30/109470.html

3. Crimes Committed by the Police from Changsheng Station in the Dongfeng District, Jiamusi City

Since July 20, 1999, police from the Changsheng Station in the Dongfeng District, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province have arrested Falun Gong practitioners many times. Aunt Zhu, a practitioner over 70 years old, was arrested in the middle of the night and sent to a forced labor camp. The police totally ignored her family situation and left her paralyzed husband lying in bed without anyone to take care of him. The police also constantly harassed another female practitioner at her home. During 2002 and 2003, they pressured the practitioner and her husband and tried to force them to move. Because of this pressure, the practitioner's husband almost suffered a nervous breakdown, lost his rationality and often beat his wife.
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/30/109427.html