Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Yong is a teacher in the Panlong District First Middle School in Kunming City, Yunnan Province. On June 24th, 2009, while fleeing from unjust arrest, Ms. Wang fell from the fifth floor, which left her in critical condition. She suffered three broken ribs, broken sternum, and a fracture in her right arm. Her left side was heavily bruised. She was unable to move and speaking took tremendous effort. Her family was not informed until the day after. Officers threatened her family not to disclose her situation; otherwise, her husband's job, her family's safety and her child's college enrolment would be at stake.

Mr. Fan Yichang, 69, suffered a stroke in the past, but all of his ailments disappeared after he started to practise Falun Gong. He was a kind and honest person, and even officer Chen Yamin, who mistreated him, had to say that Mr. Fan was a good person. In April 2009, police arrested Mr. Fan. He was sentenced to prison during his detention in the Da'an City Detention Centre. Before being sent to prison, he died on July 22nd, 2009, and his body was cremated against the family's will.

Mr. Lu Zhen, 33, died in the Shandong Province First Prison on June 22nd, 2009. His neck, hips, stomach, and legs were covered with bruises, and there were whip marks on his body. His family did not believe the prison administration when they told them that he died of sudden heart failure and that it was a natural death. They requested an autopsy on the morning of June 30th, and the results showed that he had suffered severe physical trauma prior to his death. It is highly likely that a beating was the cause of death.

Mr. Ma Chunwang, 82, lived in Urumqi City, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. He was arrested many times after the persecution began in 1999. On September 6th, 2008, he was arrested along with fellow practitioners Mr. Cao Hongqi and Mr. Zou Kewen, and about a dozen practitioners then later bailed him out. On May 6th, 2009, the Middle Court of Urumqi City held trials for Mr. Cao Hongqi, Mr. Zou Kewen, Mr. Zhu Kui, and Mr. Ma Chunwang. Mr. Ma returned home after the trials. On July 12th, 2009, Mr. Ma was found dead by his neighbour in his home. His Falun Gong books, personal ID, and MP3 player had been taken away from his home.

The first thing a new arrival in Wangcun Women's Forced Labour Camp encounters is several "reform" strategies. These include having to read documents or watch DVDs that slander Falun Gong, writing statements to give up the Falun Gong practice and defame it, standing for a long time, being handcuffed and hung up, being deprived of sleep and water and food, being deprived of toilet use, and being forced to take drugs. Ms. Lu Xiumin was forced to sit on a small stool for two days and nights, but she refused to "reform." A guard shouted at inmates, "If she [Ms. Lu] does not 'reform' today, beat her today! If she does not 'reform' tomorrow, beat her tomorrow! Beat her till she 'reforms.'"

Ms. Cui Wenxia, a chemistry teacher, was arrested in May 2005 and tortured at a local detention centre. She was later sentenced to the Jiamusi City Forced Labour Camp and tortured there, too. As a result of torture Ms. Cui had heart, liver, and other organ failures. Going through the experience of being detained at the police department, detention centre, forced labour camp, and witnessing all kinds of torture and abuse, left very deep, emotional scars. Whenever she hears someone talk in a loud voice, she trembles in fear. To date, four years later, she has not yet fully recovered from being brutally persecuted.

Ms. Li Xiuzhen is in her 50s. Persistent in her belief in Falun Gong, refusing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) demands to renounce her faith, she has been arrested nineteen times. She has been sentenced to 7 years of imprisonment, cruelly force-fed over 600 times, and tortured and humiliated with a dozen of different torture devices, including sleep deprivation and being beaten. On June 13th, 2009, Ms. Li Xiuzhen was once again arrested by police.

Terms of imprisonment imposed on numerous Falun Gong practitioners held at the Hebei Province Women's Labour Camp have recently expired, but the authorities refused to release the practitioners and refused to provide an explanation. Guards had told practitioners to fill out and sign release forms but did not disclose the date of release. Practitioners Wei Guoxuan and Chen Junsu are being held beyond their terms, which expired on July 2nd and July 3rd, 2009, respectively. Wei Guoxuan's family visited the labour camp twice and demanded her release, but the guards were ambiguous and denied that her sentence had expired.

Bo Xilai, secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee, is also former deputy secretary of the Liaoning Province Party Committee and former governor of Liaoning, former secretary of the Dalian Municipal Party Committee and former mayor of Dalian. Since July 20th, 1999, when Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime started to persecute Falun Gong, Bo Xilai has directly controlled and directed the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Dalian City as well as Liaoning Province. Practitioners in this area have been persecuted brutally and inhumanly, and more intensely than in many other areas of China.

In 2001, Mr. Wang Hongbin was arrested by police and was later sentenced to three years of forced labour. He was forced to watch as guards tortured his fellow practitioners. In order to "transform" Mr. Wang as quickly as possible, the guards tortured him with sleep deprivation, hung him up by handcuffs, and used matches to severely burn his hands, nearly burning off his fingernails. At the end of 2003, Mr. Wang was finally released back home. However, due to the brutal torture he was subjected to in the labour camp, he passed away at the early age of 39. On May 16th, 2009, Mr. Wang's wife, Ms. Feng Xiaomei, was sentenced to one and a half years at the Hebei Province Women's Forced Labour Camp.

Mr. Pan Benyu has been savagely tortured in Tailai Prison. As a result, he suffers from a heart condition and liver ascites, and has been vomiting blood. He has swelling in his brain and other areas of his body. In addition, he has many blood scabs in his nose and has great difficulty eating, sleeping, and breathing. His health is extremely poor and he is at risk of dying. The prison guards threatened Mr. Pan that if he did not renounce Falun Gong, the prison would not allow him to leave on medical bail. On May 22nd, 2009, not wanting to take responsibility for his death, the prison and the 610 Office notified Mr. Pan's family to take him home.

Falun Gong practitioner Dr. Shen Yueping passed away on July 16th, 2009. She was only 49 years old. Ms. Shen had been sentenced to a five-year prison term and suffered maltreatment in the Second Women's Prison in Yunnan Province because she refused to be "transformed". Practitioners had to face brainwashing from the guards every day. They were frequently beaten, pinched, or stabbed with needles, and sometimes nerve-damaging drugs were added to their food. In June 2009, her family received a notification of Ms. Shen's Release on Medical Parole." By that time, she was already dying.

Mr. Zhao Chunhua, 43, was arrested by police, beaten and shocked with electric batons in 2005 for distributing Falun Gong materials. He served a one-year term in a forced labour camp and was tortured. In August 2008, the police arrested Mr. Zhao again and sentenced him to two additional years of forced labour at a camp in Shijiazhuang City. Although his family tried very hard, they were unable to locate him. They were finally notified of his additional two-year sentence after the Olympics were over in late September.

Mr. Sun Xiaojun, 32, was tortured to the point of death by the Zhejiang Province Police Department and the Fourth Prison of Linping City. On May 14th, 2008, Mr. Sun was sent to the Fourth Prison of Linping City, where he was tortured for more than a year. He had been detained in the prison hospital and injected with unknown drugs. He weighed about 143 pounds before being incarcerated, but as a result of persecution, he became emaciated and his weight fell to 80 pounds. Since being released on June 30th, 2009, he had not been able to eat. He vomited even drinking water and was bedridden even while relieving himself. He was delirious and experienced continual cramping in his body. On July 15th, 2009, he passed away.

Mr. Yang Guiquan, 45, was distributing leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong in a shopping mall when he was reportedly arrested by police on June 20th, 2009. The police locked him up in the Xindi Detention Centre. His family went to request his release but the police refused their request. Mr. Yang began a hunger strike when he entered the detention centre, and was brutally force-fed by the guards. On July 5th, Mr. Yang appeared to be very ill, and was taken for emergency treatment to the Fuxin City Mining General Hospital, where he died at 3:00 p.m. on the same day. His family was notified that his "death was due to a heart attack".

Because he refused to give up Falun Gong, Mr. Zheng Zhi, who used to live in Liaoning Province in China, was placed on the "Wanted Criminals" list by the regime. He was forced to leave his new-born child as well as his wife, who had given birth just 20 days before. He received United Nations refugee status in Thailand and was given permission to move to Canada. He said, "I still vividly recall the way I felt when I was forced to leave my family behind. I didn't know if I would ever see them again. Because I refused to give up practising Falun Gong, all my family members were punished because of their association with me. The cruellest persecution is the abuse of one's soul."

The police department, the local procuratorial system, and the local court system in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province conspired to prevent Falun Gong practitioner Li Zhigang's defence lawyer from mounting a legal defence to prove his innocence. Li's legal counsel is a conscientious lawyer from Beijing. He received a notice from a so-called prosecutor named Song Chengzhang of the Nangang District Court on June 17th, 2009. According to the notice, the court was going to conduct the trial for Li Zhigang's case at 9:00 a.m. on June 22nd. The lawyer then travelled from Beijing to Harbin and appeared at the Nangang District Court on June 22nd. On that day, Song told the lawyer, "The city sent out an ad-doc notice. It said that this case is a special case and the trial will not take place today after all.

I was shocked to hear that fellow practitioner Mr. Lu Zhen had been tortured to death, I was speechless and choked up. How can this be possible? Mr. Lu Zhen, that young, healthy, talented man who nobly spoke out for justice for Falun Gong--how could he have "become mentally disordered and died?" Unless he had been overworked in a forced labour camp and tortured physically and mentally, what else could be the reason? In present day China, those that have participated in persecuting practitioners must know how ridiculous, unreasonable, and miserable this persecution is. What a bitter tragedy!

Ms Tian Yunrong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Changchun City, Jilin Province, has been imprisoned in the Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp in Jilin Province since August 26th, 2008. She has been horribly mistreated. Between February 13th and 17th, 2009, Ms. Tian was forced to work beyond her physical endurance making various products. The most difficult work, which nobody liked to do, was to colour a kind of butterfly. She was forced to do it. In the end, she was not even able to raise her arms. She reported this to the authorities quite a few times and requested to be released unconditionally, but her requests were rejected time and again.

The guards in the Second Forced Labour Camp, Shandong Province, have tortured Falun Gong practitioners for a time. On May 4th, 2008, prisoners Gao Wei and Yang Bo were supposed to be released. Guard Sun Fengjun told Gao and Yang to help "transform" Mr. Sun Yugen, a Falun Gong practitioner, who was taken to the camp not long ago. Gao and Yang beat and kicked Mr. Sun until he was on the ground, moaning in pain. The two threatened Mr. Sun that they would beat him like that every day if he continued to refuse to "transform." Mr. Sun was beaten so badly that he had difficulty breathing and eating. He then signed the three statements denouncing Falun Gong against his will.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Teng Wenzhi, 60, was arrested by the Chinese Communist regime's police, and she was sentenced to three years in prison. During the time Ms. Teng was held in prison, police, along with 610 Office personnel, tried to locate and arrest her husband as well. During the long-term persecution by the Chinese Communist regime, Ms. Teng's husband's health deteriorated, and he passed away on December 24th, 2007. The couple did not get to see each other before he died.

Mr. Li Hongkui remained steadfast in practising Falun Gong and suffered brutal persecution in jail for the past seven years. In May 2004, Mr. Li Hongkui put up some Falun Gong banners in a park and was kidnapped by police. They handcuffed Mr. Li Hongkui's hands to a steam-heating pipe and shocked him with electric batons repeatedly. Three men beat him madly from 10 p.m. until noon the next day. His face and eyes turned black and his body was covered in black and blue. He sustained several fractures to his ribs. He felt great pain whenever he breathed. He suffered pain all over his body and his clothes were torn apart.

Falun Gong practitioners from Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province, Ms. Yao Rongzhen, her blind son Wang Chao and daughter-in-law Xie Hongmei were severely persecuted by the local 610 Office, a gestapo-like agency set up specifically to carry out the persecution of Falun Gong. Police interrogated Yao Rongzhen and Xie Hongmei in turn. Yao Rongzhen didn't cooperate with them and policeman Zhou hit her face several times. Her mouth bled and six of her teeth were loosened. A 610 Officer repeatedly hit Xie Hongmei's face and damaged two of her teeth. Police handcuffed her hands behind her back and lifted them upwards. This torture method is called "Airplane Flying." They threatened her and tried to force her to sign a confession made up by police.

In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to brutally persecute Falun Gong. Ms. Guo Henghong went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong a few times and was arrested, detained, brainwashed, tortured, and beaten by the police. Guo Henghong went on hunger strike many times in the detention centre to protest the persecution and demand the restoration of Falun Gong practitioners' good reputation. Her longest hunger strike lasted for nine days without eating and drinking anything, but the police from the 610 Office, the national security team, and the detention centre not only did not release her, but tied her to the long bench, fixed her hands and feet, and force-fed her food through a thick, long rubber tube. The brutal persecution caused her death in July 2002 at the age of 36.

Ms. Li Mengshu, 70, went to a small town to distribute leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong, and was reported and arrested by police. She was detained in the Jianyang City Detention Centre. Her family went to request her release, but Domestic Security refused them. Ms. Li's husband could not take the stress. He got sick and died on April 22nd, 2007. On June 8th, 2007, Ms. Li was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and sent secretly to the Chengdu City Women Prison. The guards did not allow her to practise Falun Gong and brutally tortured her until her life was in danger several times. The prison had to take her home in January 2009. She died on April 21st.

In May 2009, Ms. Chen Hongyu and her husband were arrested for practising Falun Gong. Ms. Chen was sentenced to two years in a forced labour camp and is being detained in the Six Division of Heizuizi Women's Forced Labour Camp. She has been subjected to severe abuse and torture in detention. After Ms. Chen was sent to the forced labour camp, she firmly resisted the persecution and refused to write a "guarantee letter" to renounce Falun Gong, do forced labour, or wear the prison uniform. The two guards used two electric batons to shock her neck. Later, guards ordered prisoners to hang Ms. Chen by the arms from a bunk bed, with her two arms pulled straight and only her toes touching the ground. She was kept in this position from 6:30 a.m. to 12 midnight, the intense pain making Ms. Chen sweat profusely.

Since July 20th, 1999, when the persecution of Falun Gong began, Li Ziran has been arrested six times by the 610 Office, the National Security Bureau, and the Public Security Bureau. On four separate occasions, he suffered such torture and mistreatment in detention that his life was in danger. He has also been placed under house arrest. In Wanglin Prison, his health continued to deteriorate and he became very weak in 2007. The guards still forced him to do intensive labour such as stringing light bulbs and sweeping the floor. Li Ziran went on a hunger strike for four days. A guard kicked Mr. Li to the floor and ordered three or four inmates to brutally force-feed him. Using a hard plastic tube, they forcefully pried open his mouth and force-fed him.

Since Jiang Zemin's, [former leader of China and instigator of the persecution] regime started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999, Liang Keming has been arrested and detained by the police many times. In February 2001, the police broke into his home and detained him in the Loudi City Detention Centre. Later he was sentenced to seven years in prison and finally released in February 2008. However, Mr. Liang is again subjected to persecution by police and was arrested again on June 25th, 2009. Now he is detained in the First Detention Centre of Loudi City.

Hou Jingtao, a Falun Gong practitioner from Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, was sent to Jixi Forced Labour Camp and tortured to the point of mental collapse. He was forced to go through brainwashing sessions and sit on a narrow bench for eight hours each day, with only a few minutes allowed for toilet necessities.
In a so-called "physical examination," Hou Jingtao was secretly injected with nerve-damaging drugs. Soon after that, he started to appear to be mentally disordered.

In order to resist the detention, in December 2001, many practitioners held hunger strikes. The guards ordered prisoners to "force-feed" practitioners. Some forced open practitioners' mouths with spoons and some of them pinched practitioners' noses so that they had to open their mouths. Several people pushed me down on the ground, some of them pinched my nose, and others pinched my cheeks, held down my arms and legs, and used spoons to force open my mouth to force feed me. They did not care if I swallowed the food, they just kept going through the motions, dumping one spoon after another into my mouth. Sometimes I was not able to breathe.

Over the past 10 years Lili has been cruelly persecuted. She was forced into homelessness for three years in total and suffered great economic losses since the extortion money that she paid to authorities amounted to nearly 20,000 yuan. She has been detained seven times--four and a half years in all--and cruelly tortured. Her elderly father died as a result of police harassment and intimidation, and her mother was imprisoned for eight months because of her efforts to seek justice for her daughter. Lili is still being held in the First Detention Centre of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province.

More than ten police officers from the Hengshan District in Jixi City rushed into the home of senior citizen Mr. Xiang Hongfu on May 14th, 2009, at 4:00 a.m. Mr. Xiang is a Falun Gong practitioner who lives with his wife in the Dahengshan residential area. The police ransacked his home, making a mess, and arrested him; his wife, Yu Shuqin; son, Xiang Bin; and daughter-in-law, Huang Yingjie. The police also confiscated a number of family possessions. The four adults are being held at the Jixi Detention Centre. Mr. Xiang's young grandson, with no one at home to take care of him, became homeless.

On June 28th, 2009, Mr. Pan Feng was spotted while he was distributing Falun Gong DVDs in the student dormitory of Lideyuan in Binwen Higher Education Park, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. The Puyan Police Station dispatched two vehicles and seven or eight policemen to arrest Mr. Pan. The police forced him to take off his shoes and confiscated his credit card, MP3 player, Falun Gong books, and other items. Mr. Pan was detained in the Puyan Police Station. Pan Feng has been transferred the Hangzhou Detention Centre. His wife is close to giving birth.

Mudanjiang Prison in Heilongjiang Province has 22 wards, and imprisons over 100 practitioners. Aside from forcing the practitioners to work overtime at hard labour, the prison openly tortures practitioners in order to improve the "transformation" rate. They subject practitioners to a variety of torture methods, including electrical baton shocks, beatings, force-feeding, hanging, tying, freezing, stabbing with awls, solitary confinement, and coercing other inmates to beat them. Many practitioners have been disabled or killed by the torture. The number known to have been killed is over ten.

Practitioner Mr. Lu Zhen died due to persecution in the First Prison of Shandong Province on June 22nd, 2009. His family was told that he died from a heart attack. His body is stored at the Shandong University Medical School Hospital. It was reported that his neck and hips were covered with bruises. Mr. Lu had excellent health, and no one in his family had any history of heart disease. Not long ago, the 610 Office in Linyi, Mengyin spread the rumour that he was insane. His family was not notified of anything until the day they were told that he had died. Mr. Lu had been seriously persecuted in Shandong Prison. The possibility that he might have died as a result of electric baton shocks or psychiatric drug injections cannot be ruled out.

Ms. Wu Xin was repeatedly deprived of her right to visit her imprisoned mother at the Dashan Detention Centre in Qingdao City. Only recently was she granted permission to meet with her. When she first saw her mother, she could hardly believe her eyes, "Is this old, haggard, and skinny lady my once-beautiful mother whom I've longed to see?!" Ms. Wu Xiuxin, a physician, was arrested because she practised Falun Gong. After a short while at the detention centre, she was reduced to skin and bones, and it was hard to recognize her. This was due in part to the guards injecting her with and force-feeding her toxic drugs. Often times the drugs were mixed directly into the practitioner's food. In addition, she was regularly tortured both physically and mentally.

On December 8th, 2000 Ms. Liu Hongmei, 42, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested and detained and hung up with her hands cuffed to the wall. Ms. Liu was sentenced to a one-year term at the Wanjia Forced Labour Camp where she was forced to work, sit straight on a small bench for long periods of time and read articles and watch videos slandering Falun Gong. Because she remained steadfast in her belief in Falun Gong she was isolated and mistreated in a dark and humid cell for long periods of time. As a result she developed scabies all over her body and became unable to look after herself. Being afraid that she might die, the labour camp released her. Officials at her workplace confiscated over 6,000 yuan from her husband's salary.

There are approximately 200 Falun Gong practitioners detained at Henan Province Women's Prison (also known as the Xinxiang Women's Prison). In 2005, it was recognized as a "model" ministerial-level prison because of the way the guards there viciously tortured practitioners. The majority of the practitioners are elderly women, the oldest being over 70 years old. The guards force them to string pearls together, the smallest pearl being the size of a grain of rice and the largest one being the size of a soybean. Because the holes in the pearls are so tiny, the women have to wear high-powered reading glasses when stringing them together. After bending over a work table for long periods of time, many practitioners could not endure it and started to experience symptoms of high blood pressure, with some even becoming bedridden.

Mr. Bai Erhong and his wife Ms. Luo Shengqiao were persecuted by the authorities in 2005 and 2008 for steadfastly practising Falun Gong. Mr. Bai and his wife went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. They were arrested on separate occasions and were detained in the Pingshan Police Station. Once, when the police forced Ms. Luo to stand for a long period of time, Ms. Luo said, "Since you don't let me sit, I'll just practise the exercises." The police then violently hit her arms and hands with a broom and ordered her to sit down. They also took away some cash Ms. Luo had with her at the time. They did not let her eat anything while she was detained in a detention centre for two days. The couple had to pay 700 yuan before they were released.

In 2000 at the Hengyang Post Office, CCP Deputy Secretary Zhou Kun assembled employees for a meeting. Zhou said, "This is the third investigation of Falun Gong. If that retired worker was fined 3,000 yuan last time, this time fine him 5,000 yuan again. Let's destroy them financially, let him have no money for food, and see if he still appeals. Retired people who practise Falun Gong must report to the Office of Retirement Administration and not be allowed to leave Hengyang."

On June 12th, Li Ruyao, who was in her ninth month of pregnancy, was descended upon by more than twenty people from Guancheng Township government. They forcibly dragged her to the Maternal and Paediatric Health Centre for a forced abortion. Six men held her down on a bed and injected the medicine for induction. Li Ruyao attempted with all her might to break loose but to no avail. One hour later, both mother and the unborn infant were killed. More than a dozen of reporters from different TV stations and newspapers went to report on the tragic scene. Police officers were ordered to arrest anyone who dared any attempt to speak to reporters.

Li Zhigang from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province was arrested on February 28th 2009. He suffered severe torture, causing him to have a high fever, which later caused him to develop tuberculosis. The Nangang District Police Department has refused to release him as of now. They even referred the case to a higher department, and attempted to sentence him in court. On April 14th, the Nangang Procurator withdrew Li Zhigang's case on the basis of insufficient evidence. However, the Nangang District Police Department still continue to submit fabricated evidence, attempting to sentence Li Zhigang. The case has now been sent to the Nangang Court.

There are eight regular wards in the Beijing Women's Forced Labour Camp and one training ward, and in total they hold more than eight hundred people, 80 per cent of whom are Falun Gong practitioners. Among these practitioners, more than 70 per cent are senior practitioners aged 50-70 years old. They are forced daily to do slave labour for nearly 10 hours, and this time does not include the weed-pulling they do before breakfast or after dinner. Prisoners are used as torturers; they are given special privileges to beat or curse practitioners at will, steal practitioners' belongings, and force practitioners to watch slanderous DVDs or read slanderous materials.

Ms. Jiang Fengying has been victimized several times since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999. In Jiangxi Provincial Woman's Forced Labour Camp prisoners beat and scolded Ms. Jiang and forced her to do slave labour. She protested with a hunger strike. But the police beat her with a rope and refused to release her even after her sentence was complete. On July 17th, 2002, police officers in the Donghu Branch of Nanchang City Public Security Bureau chained and tortured Ms. Jiang, when she was on her 6th day of a hunger strike. The policemen tore her hair, beat her mouth and her body, stomped on her big toe with the heel of a shoe, hit her head against a steel pillar, and beat her legs using iron bars.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. He Zhiwei was brutally tortured by the guards at the Zhanjiang City Brainwashing Centre leaving her with a protruding disc, severe headaches, and dizziness. The guards use people as instruments of torture. The gang torture method works as follows: A practitioner is taken to a room where they are surrounded by a group of people who force the practitioner to stand up. Some people strike the practitioner's head while others attack the practitioner's body. When hitting the practitioner's head, some guards push the practitioner with an open palm, others punch with their fists. At the same time they constantly curse and bully the practitioner with vicious words.

Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Wang Chengtao has been relentlessly harassed, tortured, monitored, fined, and detained. In April of 2003, homeless and trying to avoid further persecution, Mr. Wang was taken by the police. He was later sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. He is currently being tortured in Shenyang City's Second Prison. As a result, he is now skin and bones and mentally disoriented Mr. Wang's father was in perfect health until he learned about his son's prison sentence. His father passed away on February 17th, 2009. The father and son did not have a chance to see each other one last time.

On June 1st, 2009, Ms. Yang Wenjie was about to leave her home and had just walked down the stairs when she was arrested by over twenty police from the Zhaoyuan Police Department. As soon as they saw Ms. Yang, they surrounded her, beat and kicked her to the ground, grabbed her arms, stole her house key, and handcuffed her hands behind her back before dragging her into a car. They ransacked her home and confiscated Ms. Yang's friend's computer, printer and various Falun Gong books.

Ms. Guan Hongfen, in her forties, was reported while she was telling people the facts about Falun Gong in a certain village in An'ning City in early 2009. Luckily, she escaped. In March she was arrested by 610 Office personnel and national security police in the An'ning City Police Department, sentenced to two years of forced labour, and taken to the Dabanqiao (also known as the "ten-thousand-people pit"). Another practitioner, who had gone along with Ms. Guan to inform people about the persecution of Falun Gong was also arrested. Her situation is not clear.

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Tan Deyi lived in Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province. At a forced labour camp, Mr. Tan was forced to make toothpicks. If he could not complete the daily work quota, he was not allowed to eat or sleep and had to work overtime. Mr. Tan resisted, so the guards tortured him by piercing his fingertips with sharp bamboo sticks, hanging him up, and other methods. As a result of gross abuse he suffered from recurring abdominal pain and was unable to do heavy work. Mr. Tan He died at home on June 25th, 2009, at the age of 59.

Mr. Zhu Mingchun, a physician, was sentenced to eight years in prison. Because he escaped on the way to the prison and later was arrested again, his prison term was lengthened by one and a half years by the judge and judicial officers at the Miyi County Court on April 6th, 2004. His total prison term is nine and a half years. He is now in Wumaping Prison, Muchuan County. He has also became disabled due to persecution in prison.