Appendix I: Cases of petitioners violently beaten and tortured

1. Chen Zhengzhong (陈正钟) 
 
Male, born January 15, 1960

Address: 36 Futang Village, Junxi Township, Datian County, Fujian Province.  

Chen became a petitioner because he believed that Junxi Township police station under Datian County PSB had failed to resolve fairly a dispute he had with local villagers. Chen has been beaten and detained for his petitioning by government agencies such as Datian County PSB.  

On September 2, 1997, under the orders of the head of Junxi Township PSB, Qiu Daoquan, police officers, Lin Lianzhang and Xiao Yongzi, struck Chen with an electric cattle prod. During the beating, Chen was warned, “If you complain to the others again, we will imprison you.” 
 
Chen continued to complain. On November 30, 1998, officers from Datian County PSB, such as officer Fan Lijiang, broke into and searched Chen’s home without warrant. They took Chen to Junxi Township police station. After hanging Chen up by handcuffing his hands on the iron railings of the window, Fan started to kick Chen, beat his lips and genitals with an electric cattle prod, and stab him all over with sewing needles (there were seven punctures on Chen’s penis alone). Chen fainted during the torture.  
 
On June 29, 2001, while Chen was at the Datian County Letters and Visits Office, Yan Changzhi, an officer from the Datian County PSB, forcibly took him away from the Office. On June 30, while detained at the Datian County Detention Center, Chen was beaten by Yan in the interrogation room. Chen was first beaten on his head, chest and arms. Blood streamed down from his arms and the corners of his eyes and his shirt was soaked in blood. Yan proceeded to stomp on Chen’s throat and kicked his chest, waist, back and buttocks. After the beating, Chen was hung from a railing for a long period of time, nearly dead. The beating caused permanent injuries to Chen’s legs and he could no longer stand up.  

2. Li Guirong (李桂荣) 

Female, born April 5, 1957, worker in an electrical machinery factory at Liaoyuan Mining Affairs Bureau, Jilin Province

Address: Group 6, Committee 3, Dongxu Community, Dongshan Street, Xian District, Liaoyuan City, Jilin Province 

To complain to higher authorities about the corruption of Jilin Province National People’s Congress representative and  Liaoyuan Mining Affairs Bureau chief, Zhang Yi, and his associates, Li petitioned the central government in Beijing 84 times (as of May 9, 2007). During her petitioning, she was forcibly sent back to Liaoyuan more than 30 times, sent to Re-education through Labor twice, sent to psychiatric institutions twice and administratively detained twice. She was also tortured repeatedly. 
 
On December 29, 2001, together with her 5-year-old daughter, Li travelled home to Liaoyuan after petitioning in Beijing. At the train station, Zhang Yi’s younger brother, Zhang Jie, who is also the assistant chief of Liaoyuan City PSB, ordered more than 20 officers to kidnap Li’s daughter and beat and kick Li.  They handcuffed her and took her away for detention at Liaoyuan City Detention Center. In the Detention Center, the officers confiscated her identification card and all the evidence Li brought with her to petition in Beijing. The officers then beat her multiple times. Li was stripped and strapped to a “Tiger Bench”-- the torture victim is made to sit upright on a long bench, her hands tied behind her back. Her thighs are fastened with a rope to the bench while her feet are raised off the floor by bricks placed under her feet. This puts extreme strain on the knees and is an extremely painful form of torture, especially for an extended period of time. About six to seven policemen took turns guarding Li. Li’s kidnapped daughter was forcibly sent to a welfare home where she has been detained ever since.  

On June 9, 2004, Li was searched at the entrance of an underground tunnel at the east side of Tiananmen Square, Beijing and taken away by police on patrol from the Beijing Municipal PSB Tiananmen District sub-division. She was being held at the police station when five officers from Liaoyuan City PSB came for her. They put Li in handcuffs and beat and kicked her. The Beijing police pretended they could not hear Li’s cries for help. The Liaoyuan police dragged Li out the door while beating her, threw her into a car and continued to beat her until she fainted. On June 11, Li woke up and found herself lying on a concrete floor, her clothes in shreds, and realized she was being held at the Jilin Province RTL Camp for Women. Apparently, she had been sent to RTL for three years.  

At the camp, on June 15, Li was tortured using a method called “Death Bed”. The RTL camp director, Li, led more than 10 police officers and strapped her onto an iron bed.  They handcuffed her arms to one end of the bed and fastened her foot to the other end with a belt. They shoved a hard tube through her nose to her stomach. Li bled profusely and fainted.  Three days later, Li was removed from the “Death Bed”.  By then, she was unable to stand up or walk. She could only crawl on the floor. She lay unconscious or slept on the floor for 15 hours a day.  

On July 11, the RTL camp police once again strapped her onto the “Death Bed”. They pricked Li’s legs for more than an hour using 30 electric needles charged with high voltage. When Li vomited foam and blood, the police slapped her and increased the voltage until she fainted. On July 13, Li fell severely ill. She was sent to the emergency room at the RTL hospital. The hospital twice classified her condition as “critical”. On July 22, at around 2 a.m., when Li was receiving emergency treatment, with IV dips, a urine tube and oxygen mask attached, the RTL camp police forced her oldest daughter and her sister to wrap her in a duvet and remove her from the hospital. On the way, Li’s condition became worse and she was sent to No. 1 People’s Hospital of Liaoyuan City for emergency care. However, Li had to leave the hospital due to lack of funds on July 25. Li was later treated with traditional methods and survived. 

3. Liu Jie (刘杰) 

Female, born January 3, 1952

Address: Xunke Farm Resident Group 26, Beian Military Farm Bureau, Xunke County, Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province 

Liu rented a dairy farm from the state-run Xunke farm, part of a military agricultural brigade, in Heilongjiang Province. On December 19, 1996, the Military Farm Bureau broke the contract and organized a group of police officers and other government officials to raid the farm. Liu started to petition.  

At noon on June 13, 2001, in the backyard of the Letters and Visits Office at the Supreme People’s Procuratorate in Beijing, Liu Jie was violently beaten by the Office’s officials until she bled from her mouth and nose, soaking her clothes in blood. She fainted and remained unconscious for an hour. Interceptors from the Supreme Procuratorate then hung her onto an electricity pole using handcuffs, and let her bake in the sun for two hours. Then the same Letters and Visits staff sent Liu to the Chang Ping Custody Center⁴⁵. In the car, one of the Letters and Visits staff members pointed a gun at Liu’s head and threatened to kill her. Another officer in the same car intervened. At the Custody Center, upon seeing her injuries, those at the Center refused to take in Liu. The Letters and Visits officers then openly discussed taking her to a Beijing suburb, killing her and burying her there. Liu was terrified. She kneeled and pleaded to those in the Custody Center, who eventually agreed to take her in. The next day, interceptors from Heilongjiang Province picked Liu up and sent her to the Heilongjiang Provincial Custody Center, where she was imprisoned for ten days. She received no medical treatment and was only released after a friend came and posted bail.  

On March 7, 2002, Liu was violently beaten at the Supreme People’s Court by interceptors from the Military Farm Bureau, Heilongjiang Provincial government and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee. She was violently kicked, dragged on the ground for more than 200 meters, and sent to room 201 at the Military Farm Bureau Beijing Liaison Office. Early the next morning, four interceptors entered the room and punched Liu until she fainted. They then sent her to the Heilongjiang Provincial Custody Center. When she woke up and refused to be detained, Liu was once more beaten by interceptors from the Military Farm Bureau until she passed out and remained unconscious for another two days. When she woke up, she discovered that the interceptors were preparing to send her to the crematorium. She pleaded with a kitchen worker at the Custody Center to send a message to a friend of hers. The interceptors, now fearing exposure, did not send her to the crematorium. A month later, Liu was released from the Custody Center. Liu went to a hospital for a physical examination, which confirmed that Liu’s right arm was dislocated, her eyes were so severely injured that her vision drastically worsened, and she had sustained several bruises on her thighs.  

In November 2003, Liu was at the State Council’s Letters and Visits Office when she was attacked by interceptors from the Military Farm Bureau. She was detained for fourteen days. In October 2004, Liu was again captured in front of the State Council’s Letters and Visits Office and forcibly returned to the Beian Military Farm Bureau where she was incarcerated in a secret “black jail” for seven days.  

On October 11, 2007, after releasing an open letter signed by 12,150 petitioners demanding political and legal reforms, Liu was seized in Beijing by Beijing police. She was sent back to Beian City Military Farm Bureau Detention Center and formally detained on suspicion of “gathering crowds to create trouble” on October 13. The charge was dropped and Liu was not prosecuted due to insufficient evidence. On November 12, 2007, without charge or trial, Liu was sent to 18 months of RTL.  

4. Yuan Jie (苑杰) 

Female, born May 1, 1942

Address: 27-2, Sifangtai District, Shuangyashan City, Heilongjiang Province 

On October 13, 1977, Yuan’s neighbor, Wang, took a Swiss wristwatch from Yuan’s elder brother. The siblings reported the robbery to Shuanyashan City PSB. The PSB investigated the case perfunctorily and determined that Wang was innocent. 

Yuan was dissatisfied with the PSB’s conclusion, and in November, she started to petition higher authorities in Shuanyashan City, Harbin City (capital of Heilongjiang Province) and Beijing.  

For her petitioning activities, Yuan has been repeatedly detained, including administrative detention for 15 days starting on December 28, 1979; being placed under the Custody and Repatriation program for 45 days starting on September 10, 1982; arrest by Sifangtai District police on August 13, 1984 and later being sent to Qiqihaer RTL camp for three years on August 25.  

In July 1987, the Shuanyashan City PSB reconsidered the case and found Wang guilty of theft. On February 3, 1988, the PSB formally revoked charges and earlier punishments against Yuan and gave her RMB 4920 for compensation. Yuan found the compensation insufficient and she was also dissatisfied that officials responsible for wronging her had not been held accountable. She continued to petition.  

On February 18, 2005, without presenting any warrants, the head of the Letters and Visits Office at Shuanyashan City PSB, Li Baocai, arrested Yuan at her home. Yuan was detained at the Shuanyashan City Detention Center. While in detention, she was repeatedly beaten by Li and others. She was also deprived of sleep for seven consecutive days and subjected to torture for 16 days.⁴⁶ As a result of the torture, her arms and feet were severely swollen. While Yuan was delirious, Li and two police officers forced Yuan to put her fingerprints on the interrogation records indicating confession.  

On January 10, 2006, Yuan was sent to three years of RTL by the Shuanyashan City RTL Management Committee. On April 4, 2006, Yuan was permitted to fulfill the sentence outside of the RTL camp. 

5. Sun Wenyuan (孙文远) 

Male, born May 10, 1973

Residence: 8-1, Jiguan District, Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province 

In 2003, Sun’s left leg was amputated after an industrial accident. Sun repeatedly applied for disability compensation, but his applications were denied. In order to receive compensation, Sun has repeatedly petitioned authorities in Harbin City, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, and Beijing, for which activity he has been beaten and detained.  

On December 9, 2004, at the registration lobby of the Heilongjiang Provincial High People’s Court in Harbin, four Court employees broke Sun’s glasses and beat him so badly that he was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. The hospital told Sun to stay for inpatient care but he was unable to afford it and was discharged. 

On November 10, 2005, Sun was petitioning in Beijing.  While he rested outside the State Grid Corporation at No. 86 West Changan Avenue, Feng Xiangling (female, 54 at the time, police number 024101), an officer of West Changan Avenue police station of the Beijing PSB West City sub-division, directed a group to beat Sun. Feng said, “Beat him to death.  If he dies, I take the responsibility.”  

After the initial beating, the group dragged Sun through Xianxiaoli Alley, then turned right into Xirongxian Alley where they continued to beat Sun. They also broke his crutches. While beating him, the group said, “If you come here again, we will break your other leg,” and, “If you keep petitioning to the [central government] Organizing Department, forty of us will be fired. We’re only in our 20s, we can’t lose our jobs, so we must torment you to death.” After a while, the group dragged Sun some 200 meters and left him at a construction site in Sijiulianzi Alley. Two hours later, Sun was discovered by local police patrols and was sent to the Beijing No. 2 Hospital. After the police found out that Sun was a petitioner from Heilongjiang Province, they informed the Heilongjiang Province Beijing Liaison Office. Employees of the liaison office came to the hospital, confirmed Sun’s identity and took no further action. Sun remained unattended in the hospital lobby. Later that day, Sun’s mother arrived at the hospital and demanded that her son receive medical treatment. Doctors confirmed that Sun suffered multiple injuries. 

The beating did not intimidate Sun and he continued to petition. On December 16, 2005, while petitioning at the Letters and Visits Office of the Heilongjiang Provincial High People’s Court in Harbin, Sun and his mother were ridiculed by Chen Wenting, a judge at the Court. Chen pounded on a desk, angrily stared at Sun’s mother and shouted loud admonishments. Sun got angry and broke one of the Office’s windows with a garbage can. The court police immediately put Sun in handcuffs, confiscated his crutches, and sent him to the Harbin Railway Detention Centre, where he was detained for 15 days.   

While petitioning at the Letters and Visits Office at the National People’s Congress in Beijing in March 2006, Sun was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed by police officer, Li Yancheng (also known as Li Liangcheng), a court policeman from the Heilongjiang Provincial High People’s Court.  

Months later, on January 5, 2007, when Sun was petitioning the Heilongjiang Provincial High People’s Court again, he was beaten by the same officer and other security personnel. The beating was ordered by Yin Juming, a judge at the Court.

On March 5, 2007, while petitioning in Beijing, Sun was intercepted by staff from the Jixi City Letters and Visits Office. Sun was detained at a black jail run by Jixi City located in the basement of a Mongolian inn at the back of the Beijing Arts Museum. He was searched to make sure he did not have a lighter or cell phone. He managed to hide his phone, however, and called the police. Twice the local police came, but after speaking with the guards and the innkeeper the police left.  Sun spent the night shouting for help but nobody came to his aid. He was detained together with four other individuals under degrading and inhumane circumstances: they had no water unless they drank from the toilet cistern and were fed only two or three plain steamed buns every day. He was released after four days of detention. After his release, he reported his detention to the police, but the latter refused to record his report.  

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