(Minghui.org) Twenty-eight Falun Gong practitioners from Huainan City, Anhui Province were arrested on July 21, 2015, for jointly filing a lawsuit against Jiang Zemin earlier that month. Jiang, the former head of the Communist regime, initiated the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.

Of the 28 practitioners, 27 were released after each of their families paid more than 10,000 yuan in ransom. In total, the police reaped approximately 400,000 yuan from the 27 families.

Ms. Zhao Shunu's family has not paid any money to the police. She has been held and tortured at the Huainan City Detention Center. She was shackled to a torture device known as a tiger bench. The officials interrogated her several times about the content of her lawsuit.

Torture Illustration: Beaten while on a tiger bench

Zhang Dongming, head of the Huainan City Police Department, gave orders to the police to carry out the arrests, extortion, and torture. Zhang had received his orders from Li Jianzhong, head of the Anhui Province Police Department.

Zhang Dongming (张东明), head of Huainan City Police Department: +86-554-6611411 (police department main phone line)