(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Hongwei from Tonghua, Jilin province has been recently tortured brutally by the Jilin Province Jail. He was hospitalized for a week, beginning on April 9, 2009. Doctors said that he had gastric erosion and duodenal ulcers. Currently, Mr. Zhang cannot eat or drink anything, as he vomits anything that he ingests. Mr. Zhang is now extremely skinny and when his family came to see him, he could not stand by himself and had to be supported by two people. The jail refused to release Mr. Zhang on bail for medical treatment. Mr. Zhang is now in critical condition.
Mr. Zhang was arrested by the Fangshan District Police Station in Beijing for making truth-clarifying materials. He was sentenced to 13 years in jail by the Beijing City Court and Procuratorate. On November 9, 2001, Mr. Zhang was transferred from the Fangchan Detention Center to Tiebei Jail in Changchun City, Jilin province. He resisted the persecution with a hunger strike for 53 days. In March of 2002, Mr. Zhang was sent to the Jilin Province Jail and repeatedly tortured. He was put into solitary detention in a small cell for over two years. He has also been tortured on the death bed and the "stretching bed," hung up in the air, and brutally beaten. For a long time, the jail refused to let Mr. Zhang's family visit him. His family went to the Procuratorate to appeal. Mr. Zhang was finally let out of solitary detention in August of 2004.
In the beginning of 2005, Mr. Zhang shouted at guards beating practitioners. He also shouted "Falun Dafa is good!" Mr. Zhang was then forced into solitary detention in a small cell for another three months as punishment. Mr. Zhang's health was devastated with all kinds of inhumane torture.
In the beginning of 2006, Mr. Zhang was coughing every day. A medical check-up showed that he had pulmonary tuberculosis and abdominal dropsy. In March, his situation was getting worse and he was also getting pleurisy, high blood pressure, and heart disease. He was becoming extremely weak and was hospitalized in the jail hospital. A check-up showed that he had pulmonary tuberculosis in both lungs (type III). However, the jail's administration refused to release Mr. Zhang on bail for medical treatment and only allowed his family a period of 3 months to be able to visit him.
His family had nowhere to appeal. In February of 2009, Mr. Zhang was vomiting everything he ate. In the beginning of March, he was beaten by criminal prisoners from the 10th Prison Division. On March 25, 2009, Mr. Zhang resisted the persecution with a hunger strike and the jail is torturing him and again putting him into solitary detention.
