Zhao Guo'an and his wife Zhang Guirong, Falun Dafa practitioners from Zhaozhuang Village, Houji Township, Wuyang County, Leihe City, were abducted by officials from the Political Security Department of the Wuyang County Police Department on May 23, 2003. On August 7, they were illegally sent to a forced labor camp. Zhao was sent to Brigade No. 3 in the No. 3 Forced Labor Camp of Henan Province, which is located in a suburb southwest of Xuchang City. There, he was tortured to death on December 29, 2003.