Mr. Chen Jun, from Hunan Province, was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. He was beaten to death by Tilanqiao Prison staff in Shanghai City because he started practicing Falun Gong while he was serving his sentence.

When Chen Jun was serving his sentence at Tilanqiao Prison, he was transferred to a team where all the Falun Gong practitioners were held. In August 2004, Chen Jun was chosen to monitor Falun Gong practitioner Du Ting. Chen Jun had always been quite friendly to Falun Gong practitioners and always respected Falun Gong practitioners. Through his further contact with Falun Gong practitioners and after he read Master's new articles, he started to practice Falun Gong.

The police at Tilanqiao Prison flew into a rage from shame after discovering that Chen Jun started practicing Falun Gong. On January 18, 2006, they placed him in the confinement room of the 1st Squadron in the 2nd Ward, and started malicious physical torture and daily beatings. According to a witness, Chen Jun was punished with the "leather belt handcuff" [His hands were handcuffed at his waist, upper body kept straight, with hands and arms not allowed to move. The mouth was sealed with rubberized tape and he was beaten continuously]. It was also said that they transferred criminal inmates Cai and Qiu from the notorious Youth Experiment Team to beat Chen Jun in the confinement room.

After one week of continuous physical torture, Chen Jun's life was in danger. He was sent to the Shanghai Prison General Hospital. Not long after that, the prison sent Chen Jun, who was on his last breath, back to his old home in Hunan. A person who knew Mr. Chen said that Chen Jun passed away about a month after he arrived home.

Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai City, the so-called "civilized prison," by deceiving the international community, brutally persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. Falun Gong practitioner Du Ting is still being subjected to the physical torture of forced-feeding, and his body is extremely weak. Practitioner Chao Hongru (a senior engineer) was once tortured until his body was mishappen. Practitioner Zhou Bin suffered impaired hearing and eyesight due to physical torture and his body was covered with wounds. We hope that more of the world's people will pay attention and help rescue Falun Gong practitioners in Shanghai Tilanqian Prison and many other prisons and labor camps in China.

On March 21, 2005, Zhao Yingling, the dean of the Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison, and the deputy dean, Zhao Huihua, led more than ten policemen and over twenty inmates to gather six Falun Gong practitioners in the hallway in the name of using the toilets in groups. The officials played loud music in the background, which was an unusual phenomenon. They let loose several criminals who were often called heads of the criminals. The criminals did not give any explanation to Falun Gong practitioners as they dragged them out. Young Nie Xumei was first dragged out. When she was sent back, the blood vessels in her arms were swollen and bruised, and her face was also swollen.

Other practitioners on the spot demanded to know what was happening. The officials then instigated Zhao Xueling, Bai Lihua, Nie Qing and other criminals to intimidate these practitioners with violence. At that time, He Shuhua threw a 51-year-old Falun Gong practitioner to the ground. They dragged her to the office by her hair, kicked and beat her, stomped on her abdomen, and then attempted to draw blood from her arms and legs. However, led by Zhang Xiuli, the policemen shouted, "Let's not beat anyone!" to cover up their crimes, since they had just finished brutally beating this elderly woman. Prison guards assigned five criminals to monitor each practitioner. Falun Gong practitioners, including Deng Jianmei, were brutally beaten, dragged and had their blood drawn, which rendered them too weak to walk. They were dragged back to the cell. After having her blood drawn, practitioner Ms. Fu Lihua was taken away under the pretense of taking her to get medical care. She has been missing ever since.

This incident really makes people to think. Why did they forcibly draw blood? Why did they act in such a brutal way? Why did they take away Ms. Fu Lihua, a healthy practitioner, after drawing her blood? Why has she been missing since then? They claimed it was for medical care, but was it a normal method of medical care? Think about it, there must be a criminal purpose behind such an incident. In March 2006, the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal acts of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit and destroying their bodies to hide the crimes was exposed. We all are concerned for those Falun Gong practitioners who are taken for blood tests. If a practitioner's blood type was matched, he would be killed, right? Where is Fu Lihua now? This really concerns us.

Ms. Deng Jianmei had a heart attack from this torture. At that time, her body kept trembling. Now, she has heart attacks several times per day. She is very weak and lean, and cannot eat. Her body still trembles and she has difficulty walking. Sometimes, she can not move for several days. She is on the brink of death.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Bo, her father Wang Xinzhong, and her mother Liu Shuqin were subjected to an illegal trial recently. It happened a few minutes after 9:00 a.m. on November 10, 2006. The procedure was held on orders from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) court and Procurator's office in the Chang’an District, Shijiazhuang City. The practitioners were charged with "disrupting the enforcement of the law." Mr. Wang Xinzhong defended himself and his family in court, exposed the evil CCP's persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and firmly resisted the illegal trial.

The following is a summary of Mr. Wang Xinzhong's defense statement:

Falun Gong enables practitioners to gain good health and awakens people's kindness. The National People's Congress once conducted an investigation about Falun Gong, and the state also issued awards to Falun Gong. Since the dissemination of Falun Gong in 1992, to date, more than one hundred million people have taken up the practice of Falun Gong and have all benefited from the practice to various degrees. History has proven this fact. However, in 1999, Jiang Zemin unlawfully maligned of Falun Gong and labeled it as an illegal organization. He abused his position as General Secretary of the CCP and issued a public notice through the Ministry of Public Security. His conduct violated the legal procedures of the state, and was in total discord with the constitution and law.

1. The Constitution of the People's Republic of China stipulates that "People enjoy freedom of belief, freedom of appeal and freedom of expression." Myself and two of my family members have much benefited, both physically and spiritually, from practicing Falun Gong in the past few years, and many practitioners have experienced miraculous and positive changes. Falun Gong is practiced in about eighty countries and regions around the world, and over six hundred proclamations and letters have been issued to Falun Gong in various countries and areas [editor’s note: the actual number is more than twelve hundred]. This is a fact known to all. However, due to the persecution by the CCP and the enormous pressure imposed upon the people over the years, as well as the media's misleading propaganda, people cannot express their true thoughts. CCTV's "Focal Point" and mainstream newspapers have distorted the benefits our family has experienced from practicing Falun Gong. The CCTV programs such as "Focal Point" and the articles carried in the newspapers confused right and wrong and presented white as black. The facts that our family, through practicing Falun Gong, gained unity and harmony, and that we all benefited greatly, physically and mentally, from Falun Gong, were twisted around by the media. They reported that our family "fell into a miserable situation where the family broke up and was ruined as result of practicing Falun Gong." The fabricated stories misled the Chinese people and people around the world and caused us enormous psychological pain and suffering. Our personal rights and reputation were violated; all this cast a dark shadow on our hearts.

We openly clarified the truth about how "Focal Point" and the newspapers fabricated stories and twisted the facts about our family. This was done in line with the principle of freedom of expression which is stipulated in the constitution. Even so, it was impossible to completely clear away the negative influence of the misleading media propaganda. Our actions should be protected by the constitution and the law. However, we were unlawfully arrested and put on trial. The arrest and the trial are themselves violations of the law at the hands of the law enforcement agencies.

2. My daughter Ms. Wang Bo was still in unlawful detention after her release from forced labor in 2001. She was kept under strict watch during her three years of studies after she returned to the conservatory of music. She was compelled to live away from other students. She was accompanied by police day and night and forbidden to leave the conservatory on her own. During vacations she was taken back to Shijiazhuang and detained in the Hebei Legal Education Center (a brainwashing center). When she wanted to visit her grandma during holidays, she had to ask for permission and was followed by police. Her meeting with her grandma was limited to one hour only. She had no personal freedom. It was an unlawful detention and a serious violation of human rights, violating Article 37 of the constitution. All this severely damaged my daughter's physical and mental health and brought our family enormous misery.

3. It was our personal choice to live in Dalian. Our arrest is illegal. National Security Group personnel from the Chang’an Police Department in Shijiazhuang City broke into our residence and forcibly took away my wife and daughter who were wearing only shorts and slippers. They were taken away without being allowed to take any other clothes with them. To date, the police still have not returned our personal belongings, which includes three suitcases and seasonal clothing for the whole family, as well as the receipt for confiscating our belongings and over 40,000 yuan in cash. They promised at the time to return them to us. The procurator's office and the court in the Chang’an District also promised to return them to us, but to date, nothing has been returned. Such acts also violate our human rights. I hope the court will resolve the issue.

4. The same Chang’an police department agents from the National Security Group also used threats in their interrogation. They called the criminal team to bring a tiger bench and other torture tools to torture me. I was then suffering from a heart problem, with a blood pressure reading of 120/180. I told them that I had high blood pressure and felt dizzy. I told them I was concerned about my life and refused to be interrogated this way. They insisted that I had hung up a Falun Gong banner, because there was a photo of the banner in our digital camera. They used this as evidence to affirm that I was the one who had hung the banner. They threatened me and subjected me to physical punishment. They forced me to stand up, then sit down a number of times, pressuring and terrorizing me. Because my physical condition was rather fragile and I was feeling dizzy, I was terrified. This was also due to several severe beatings at the hands of the police in the past, and also for having been abused with electric batons and rubber clubs, causing spinal injuries and making my left eye bleed. I did not want to put my life in danger. They also lied to me by saying if I admitted that I had hung the banner, they would simply give me a bit of criticism and "education." Under their threats and deceit I lied, to try to stall them. The fact is I did not hang up the banner in question.

Also, the affidavit read out in court by Liu Xia, the prosecutor, contained confessions that were not mine. They were fabrications by the police, and the procurator's office did not check them with me, either. I have stated again and again that I did not hang up the banner, and I did not print that many [truth-clarification] materials, and I did not distribute fliers. Their handwriting was hasty and careless, and my eyesight was not good, so I could not read clearly what they had written. I signed the deposition in a hasty manner, under pressure.

We are innocent. I hope the court will release us according to law.

Note from editor: Ms. Wang Bo has suffered from persecution and forcible brainwashing at a young age for practicing Falun Gong. She was illegally arrested and sent to forced labor again and again, together with her parents, and her family suffered numerous separations. In April 2004, Wang Bo's family appeared in the CCTV program, "Focal Point," and was set up by the CCP as a "model" for "reformation through education." In 2005, the family broke away from the control of the 610 Office in Hebei and from the brainwashing center. They told the outside world how the CCTV tarnished Falun Gong by editing and distorting what they had said. Because they spoke the truth, they left their home and started a life in exile. They were arrested again on July 27, 2006, and were taken back to Shijiazhuang from Dalian and charged with fabricated accusations.