(Clearwisdom.net) According to Clearwisdom.net, in May, many new death cases of Falun Gong practitioners due to torture were reported from China, which increased the total number of confirmed deaths to 958. On the evening of May 10, Falun Gong practitioners in Northern California gathered outside the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco and held a sit-in appeal activity to call for the end of the persecution and for bringing Jiang Zemin to justice.

Falun Gong practitioners call for bringing Jiang to justice in front of the Chinese Consulate

Appealing in front of the Chinese Consulate

Sending forth righteous thoughts in front of the consulate

A Stanford graduate, now an engineer at a semi-conductor company in the southern bay area, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yang Liping said that in May alone, ten more death cases of Falun Gong practitioners due to police torture were reported. They include a young man in his 20's as well as people in their 60's and 70's.

According to the reports, 35-year-old Mr. Zheng Fuxiang from Yushu City, Jilin Province suffered devastating torture both physically and mentally by the labor camp police for speaking the truth. Mr. Zheng Fuxiang held a hunger strike during his detention to protest the persecution, and the guards force-fed him. They inserted a finger-thick rubber tube into his stomach through his nose and fed him concentrated saline solution. When Mr. Zheng refused to give up practicing Falun Dafa, the guards and the inmates punched and kicked various parts of his body and stripped him naked; they whipped his body with belts until his skin was lacerated and deep muscle tissue was exposed. Then they rubbed salt into the fresh wounds, which caused excruciating pain. Mr. Zheng Fuxiang sustained severe internal injuries from the torture. He was coughing constantly and extremely weak. Despite his condition, he was made to do hard labor. Prior to his death, Mr. Zheng was constantly vomiting blood. He passed away at 4:00 am on April 7, 2004.

Another 48-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Zhang Yuzhen from Zhangjiako City, Hebei Province had been diagnosed with late stage lymphoid cancer and was on the verge of death. But after she took up the practice of Falun Gong, she miraculously recovered and resumed her work. She worked diligently and her boss praised her: "If everyone worked as diligently as Zhang Yuzhen, the factory would have been in good shape a long time ago." But since July 20, 1999, when Jiang's group started persecuting Falun Gong out of Jiang's personal jealousy, Ms. Zhang Yuzhen has suffered brutal persecution many times, until she was tortured to death on May 4, 2004.

Mr. Yang Liping expressed that many of the police have already lost their humanity, and their torture methods are extremely cruel. Practitioners are demanding that the criminal persecutors be punished and that Jiang Zemin be brought to justice; at the same time they are calling for people of justice and conscience to help end the persecution.