Name: Zhang Qingjun (张庆君)
Gender: Male
Age: 61
Address: Shixian Town, Tumen City, Jilin Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: October 30, 2010
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 10, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai (九台饮马河劳教所)
City: Tumen
Province: Jilin
The Persecution Suffered: Electric shocking, forced labor, brainwashing, beatings, imprisonment, torture, physical restraint, home ransacked, interrogation, detention
(Clearwisdom.net) Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Qingjun was subjected to one year of forced labor at the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp in Jiutai as of October 22, 2010. Eight days later, Mr. Zhang's family received a phone call from the labor camp, the morning of October 30, informing them that Mr. Zhang had died from a heart attack. Mr. Zhang's family then went to the labor camp.
Mr. Zhang was arrested at home on September 10, 2010 and was immediately taken to a brainwashing facility. He was sent to the Anshan Detention Center on September 19 and given a one-year forced labor sentence. The persecutors sent him to the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp on October 22. He died within eight days.
Mr. Zhang and his wife Ms. Zhang Shuhua had suffered from many illnesses and were unable to work. They fortunately started practicing Falun Gong and strictly conducted themselves according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
Since the onset of the Chinese Communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, the couple was frequently subjected to arrest and detention. They were each subjected to forced labor in 2001 and 2005, and were physically abused and tortured. Since their release from the labor camp, they were subjected to many more arrests, home ransackings, and incarceration at brainwashing facilities.
Officer Jin Minghe from the Shixian Town Police Station led a neighborhood police officer and a female officer to Mr. Zhang's home on April 23, 2008 and demanded to speak with the couple, duping them "to have a meeting." They took Mr. Zhang and his wife to the Shixian Town Police Station. Officer Jin Minghe and two others returned to Mr. Zhang's home at 6:00 p.m. and ransacked it. They found an MP3 player and returned to the police station, demanding to know where Mr. Zhang had obtained it.
Tumen City Domestic Security Division agents Wang Yuancheng, Quan Yongzhe and others happened to be in the police station. Quan Yongzhe slapped Mr. Zhang's face and kicked him and other arrested elderly practitioners for more than an hour, until he exhausted himself. Quan then continued to verbally abuse them.
Mr. Zhang and his wife were then taken to the Anshan Detention Center and held for 15 days. The couple was released on May 9, 2008.
The morning of September 10, 2010 Mr. Zhang was ready to go to work. Two officers from the Shixian Town Police Station deceived him into going to his wife Ms. Zhang's place of employment. Once there, the persecutors took both of them to a brainwashing facility, located at the Songlin Nursing Home. Dozens of agents from Tumen City 610 Office, from the Domestic Security Division, from the Political and Judiciary Committee and the police station and Neighborhood Committee unsuccessfully attempted to force Mr. Zhang to give up his belief. Ten days later they took Mr. Zhang to the Anshan Detention Center. The officials there forbade Mr. Zhang's family to visit him.
Category: Deaths
