Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Yu Zhenhua, about 60 years of age, was a resident of Mazhuang Village, Wucheng County, Shandong Province. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its persecution of Falun Gong, local CCP personnel turned Mr. Yu's life upside down. The Wucheng County Police arrested him, attempted to brainwash him, extorted a large amount of money from him, and sentenced him to forced labour. During the brainwashing and other persecution, Mr. Yu suffered a relapse of his previous illnesses and died in the spring of 2008.

Mr. Chen Guibin was severely beaten by four security guards of Yinhe Cotton Works. He passed away on February 7th, 2001. Police continued to persecute his wife, Ms. Zhou Haitao, after her husband was killed. Police sent Ms. Zhou to Shangdong Province Forced Labour Camp, where she endured brainwashing for five months. She was a capable person, yet the persecution led her to suffer a mental collapse, making her unable to take care of her young child.

On August 11th, 2008, police officers went to "visit" and threaten practitioners door-to-door. When they arrived at Ms. Dai Xiaoling's building, the police asked, "Why won't you let us in? Do you have anything you are scared to let us see?" An eyewitness said four officers were in her home at around 6:40 p.m. They had found Falun Gong books and DVDs exposing the persecution of Falun Gong and questioned Ms. Dai viciously. At around 7:20 p.m. Ms. Dai was seen plummeting from her balcony on the third floor, and landing on a steel manhole cover. She was severely injured. There was a big crowd of people surrounding her. Later, someone saw her foot dangling from the police vehicle. A witness said her last words were: "They forced me. I had no way out. I want to see my husband."

On the morning of August 18th, 2008, a group of police officers stormed in Ms. Yang Jingfen's home located at the Liaohe Petroleum Field in Liaoning Province. After about two hours, Ms. Yang fell from the sixth floor. The group of police officers made sure she was dead, then left together. Another group of police came, claimed that Ms. Yang committed suicide, and demanded that her family immediately cremate her body. When the police broke into her home, she was alone. The police wouldn't let her family in. In the two hours before her death, what exactly did they police do to her? Whether Ms. Yang committed suicide or not, the group of officers should be investigated and take responsibility.

Mr. Wen Jingsong was sentenced to a four-year jail term in 2005. He was jailed at Dabei Prison in Shenyang City and Xihu Prison in Benxi City, where he was tortured. In 2006, he was released on medical bail. Wen Jingsong was in constant fear and pain, and passed away on July 31st, 2008 at age 38. In April 2005, his family members asked the police to release him after he was arrested. As a result, his father and wife were detained and sent to forced labour camps.

Ms. Ge Yulan, 77, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Shandong Province. In June 2008, six to seven police officers made a repeat visit to Ms. Ge's home and attempted to arrest her oldest daughter Ms. Zhao Yuhong, who had suffered numerous severe tortures for years because she refused to renounce Falun Gong. Despite Ms. Zhao's absence, the officers ransacked Ms. Ge's home without showing any official documents. They took away Falun Gong books. Afterwards, the authorities stopped Ms. Ge's monthly army pension of two hundred yuan, thereby cutting off her living allowance. With so much worry, she developed a serious illness and died on August 3rd, 2008.

Mr. Wang Chongjun, 65, was a Falun Gong practitioner from Beijing. On June 20th, 2008, Mr. Wang's family received notices sent from Beijing Tuanhe Forced Labour Camp, saying Mr. Wang Chongjun had been sentenced to two years of forced labour. Guards in the camp injected Mr. Wang with an unknown drug that caused him to become emaciated. The camp authorities saw that he was dying and quickly released him. He skin had turned yellow from the drug. His family picked him up and took him to the hospital for an operation. Mr. Wang died on the afternoon of August 23rd, 2008. His wife was transferred to the Shanxi Province Forced Labour Camp right before the Olympics. She still does not know of her husband's death.

On August 19th, 2008, Ms. Wu Meiyan died after nine years of severe persecution. When she was jailed in Heilongjiang Province Women's Prison guards kicked practitioners in their faces, all over their bodies, and stomped on their feet while wearing high heels. Ms. Wu's 76-year-old mother is still detained for practising Falun Gong, and her husband, also a practitioner, has been locked up in Jiamusi City Prison for nearly seven years.

Ms. Yang Jizhi, 65, went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. She was subsequently detained in the Shuangcheng City Detention Centre, where guards forced her to kneel down while they whipped her. She was detained for a total of 11 months, and released in August 2000. Ever since then she was forced to live away from home to avoid being arrested. In 2005, she was arrested and detained in Daqing City. Her daughter Ms. Zhang Tieyan, also a practitioner, was tortured to death. The death of her daughter severely affected Ms. Yang's mental and physical health. She became very thin, and died far away from home on June 12th, 2006.

Mr. Liu Hongtao, 39, went to Beijing to appeal against the persecution of Falun Gong in 2000. After then he was persecuted severely. On February 22nd, 2003, Mr. Liu was arrested and detained in the Harbin City Second Detention Centre. He was tortured in all sorts of ways during his interrogation and injected with unknown substances. He was soon sentenced to three years in prison. When he was taken to Xinjian Prison, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis in both lungs, and prison officials refused to admit him. Mr. Liu never got better. His family tried to have him treated, but detention centre officials delayed treatment repeatedly. He was on February 21st, 2006, when his term ended. Because his treatment was severely delayed, Mr. Liu's condition did not improve after returning home, and he died on August 17th, 2008.

After suffering many years of persecution, Mr. Cai Pengshun, a 74-year-old practitioner from Menghai County, passed away in his home on March 5th, 2008. On February 12th, 2006, three groups of police officers were dispatched to harass Mr. Cai Pengshun and his family. They ransacked Mr. Cai Pengshun's home and took all the Falun Gong books and leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. A few days later, police used intimidation and coercion to put pressure on Mr. Cai and his wife while he was ill in bed, which made his condition worsen. Mr. Cai's wife Zhu Cai'e was imprisoned in a labour camp for two years.

On August 15th, 2007, Clearwisdom.net published a report on Shan Zhenchang, a older man in his sixties, who was severely beaten by city policeman Du Zhanyi, and was in critical condition. The authorities didn't want to bear the responsibility for his impending death, so they released him. The examining doctor found injuries to Mr. Shan's head, dangerously high blood pressure at levels over 200, injuries to his chest and blurred vision. In June 2008, Mr. Shan died as a result of the severe beating.

Mr. Tan Zhiyang was detained nine times after the persecution started in July 1999 and had to leave his job. On May 14th, 2004, the police arrested Mr. Tan and sentenced him to five years in prison. He was tortured until he was injured all over his body, his lower back showing an incision-like wound, and he almost died. On February 17th, 2008, the Prison Administration notified Mr. Tan's family to pick him up. Only two days later, on February 19th, 2008, he died at the young age of 36. His family visited him one month before his death. He told them his lower back felt very uncomfortable, and he had many injuries.

On September 12th, 2007, police arrested Ms. Su Changlan, 51, along with 20 other practitioners. Soon after, the Jining City Zhong District Police Department sentenced Ms. Su to three years of forced labour, and they planned to take her to the Jinan Women's Forced Labour Camp. Due to brutal mistreatment, Ms. Su became suddenly ill with hepatitis, and she was rejected by the labour camp. Despite Ms. Su's severe condition, police officers still came to her home to harass her, which caused huge mental pressure. She became worse and worse, and after being hospitalized for a month, she still had not recovered. She died in March 2008.

Mr. Zhao Peijie was from Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. He was detained in a mental hospital by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for two years and became mentally ill as a result. Moreover, he was forced to take some medicine which destroyed his central nervous system. Afterwards, he wandered around for several years. On June 28th, 2008, when his younger sister was getting married, he passed away in the wilderness at the age of 32.

Ms. Huo Yinggui, 53, went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong in October 1999, and was sent to a detention centre. She was later sentenced to one and a half years in a labour camp. Ms. Huo suffered brutal torture. When she was released home, she was continually harassed by local officials, and lived in constant fear. Since 2005, Ms. Huo had been homeless and destitute since then to avoid further persecution. She was traumatized to such an extent that the sight of a police car or sound of siren would fill her with fear. Under such pressure, she could not eat and began to lose weight. In 2007, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and died on July 8th, 2008.

Practitioner Huang Yongzhong wrote some good words about Falun Gong in his "thought reports in prison." Guards forced him to stand in the hot summer sun for a long time. The temperature reached over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the courtyard. Huang Yongzhong collapsed, and was subsequently beaten by a group of inmates. After they finished beating him and saw that he didn't wake up, they dragged him to the toilet and poured cold water on him. They dragged him outside to expose him to the sun again. Huang's buttocks were burned very badly and festered. After five days, when he was nearly dead, the prison officials sent Huang to the hospital. Huang was allowed to go home, but it was too late. He vomited blood continuously and died ten days later.

Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Zhang Wenya died as a result of persecution by the police from the Xian City Police Department in Shanxi Province on April 22nd, 2001. Mr. Zhang's family took his cremated remains back to Changchun City on June 24th, 2001. Police informed Mr. Zhang's family of his death two months after his actual death. When his family arrived at Xian City, they observed that his body was dark and without clothes. A police officer deceived his family by claiming that Mr. Zhang had jumped off a building and killed himself. The police played a videotape of it for his family.

Mr. Chen Yunchuan, 70, is a practitioner from Hebei Province. All six members of his family are practitioners, and four of them have died as a result of the persecution. Recently, Mr. Chen was arrested again at his home. The oldest son, Mr. Chen Aizhong, was sentenced to three years of forced labour and died at the Hehuakeng Forced Labour Camp in Tangshan City on September 20th, 2001. The youngest daughter, Ms. Chen Hongping, was sentenced to forced labour after both of her legs were broken during a beating. She died at the Gaoyang Forced Labour Camp on March 5th, 2003. The youngest son, Mr. Chen Aili, was tortured to the verge of death at the Jidong Prison in Tangshan City. He passed away on November 5th, 2004.

The horrifying discovery of organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners and the immediate cremation of their bodies to destroy evidence was first reported on March 4th, 2006. The Falun Dafa Association and Minghui website (the Chinese version of Clearwisdom) founded the "Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China" (CIPFG) on April 4th, 2006. CIPFG is collecting evidence of the crime of organ harvesting. The following are several investigation leads obtained recently. We hope that people will continue to help us expose how Falun Gong practitioners are brutally persecuted in re-education labour camps (also called forced labour camps), prisons, and hospitals in China, and help stop the persecution.

Falun Gong practitioner Liu Xiumei was taken away from her home on July 10th, 2008 by police from the Developing Zone Police Station. On July 27th, her family members learned that Liu Xiumei had died as a result of being severely tortured. During her detention, Liu Xiumei's husband Wang Qinglu and their son went to the police station numerous times to inquire about her situation. Later, an official promised them that he would release Liu Xiumei on July 21st, but it never happened. Liu Xiumei's husband has now engaged a lawyer to take legal action over her death, and the lawyer needs the diagnosis report as evidence. But the police station and the hospital are shifting the responsibility to each other, and both refuse to provide the report.

On March 18th, 2008, police arrested Mr. Hu Heping and took him to the Yueyang City First Detention Centre. Due to the torture that Mr. Hu endured while in police custody, his internal organs were injured, there was blood in his urine, and his legs and feet were swollen. He could not stop coughing. His weight dropped from 120 pounds to just 90 pounds. On June 16th, guards took him to the hospital and they found his internal organs were severely damaged. He never recovered from his injuries and died on the early morning of August 7th.

Mr. Sun Yuzhang, 76, went to Beijing twice July 20th, 1999 to explain the facts about Falun Gong with his personal experience. Police detained him for eight months in the Shenzhou City Detention Centre. In July 2008, for the sake of "Olympics security," police started another round of arresting, harassing, home-ransacking, and surveillance on all Falun Gong practitioners. They arrested 20 to 30 practitioners. On July 18th, police tried to arrest Mr. Sun's youngest daughter (a practitioner), but they did not succeed. Mr. Sun was deeply disturbed and worried about his daughter. He felt very upset on the evening of July 21st, and died on July 22nd, 2008.

Ms. Wu Minhua, 67, went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in December 1999, and was detained for 15 days upon returning home. She was then listed on the police department's "blacklist." In May 2004, Ms. Wu was forcibly taken to a brainwashing session held. She was locked in a 60 square-foot dark room for two months and tortured both mentally and physically. Police closely monitored her, and constantly harassed her. The huge pressure injured her mind and body, and she died on July 22nd, 2008.

Mr. Zhang Yanrong was from Gansu Province. He learned Falun Gong in 1997. After he started to practise Falun Gong, his health improved and he became known as a good person by everyone who knew him. After July 20th, 1999 when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong, he appealed for justice for Falun Gong. The Yongchang County Police Department arrested and tortured him many times. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison and transferred to the Lanzhou Prison, then Wuwei Third Prison and Jiuquan Prison. He was brutally tortured in prison which greatly endangered his life. He finally passed away on August 15th, 2007 at the age of 48.

After the persecution started in 1999, Party officials ransacked 58-year-old Ms. Li Shuzhen's home, extorted money from her, sent her to a forced labour camp, and brutally beat her multiple times. On January 30th, 2007, was falsely taken to the police department. Police searched her in a toilet. Ms. Li resisted, but she was not clear exactly what they did to her. After that incident, Ms. Li suffered incontinence, and she was bed-ridden and could not take care of herself. She died on March 7th, 2008. The police went to harass her family four days after she died.

Forty-eight-year-old practitioner, Ms. Chen Yumei left home at around 7:30 p.m. on July 3rd, 2008. She was arrested and violently beaten until she was unconscious. This arrest took place near Ms. Chen's own neighbourhood by the police from Changan Police Station, Shenyang City. At about 9:20 p.m., several officers from the Changan Police Station arrived at Ms. Chen's home, claiming that she had fainted and she was in an ambulance right outside. They requested her family's confirmation. Ms. Chen Yumei passed away on July 4th in the No. 463 Air Force Hospital.

Mr. Geng Jinzhu, a Falun Gong practitioner from Hebei Province, died on July 5th, 2008 after being tortured into disability and suffering years of harassment and extortion at the hands of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities. He was in his 40's. In September, 2001, he was detained and brutally tortured at a brainwashing centre. One time, several policemen from the brainwashing centre used rubber batons to beat him. The beating went on all night long until the policemen were so tired that they were out of breath. As a result of the severe beating, Geng Jinzhu's whole body turned black and blue. His flesh was separated from the bone and his body was so swollen that his clothes didn't fit any more.