Name: Zhang Shoufen (張守芬)
Gender: Female
Address: Jiansanjiang, Heilongjiang Province
Occupation: Employed at a middle school
Date of Most Recent Arrest: October 16, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Qixing Farm Public Security Bureau (七星農場公安局)
Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Detention, brainwashing, threats, interrogation

Key Persecutors: Guo Yuzhong (郭玉忠), Wang Jialin (王甲林), Hou Jiting (侯吉亭), Zhang Defu (張德富), Li Chunyao (李春耀), Li Xudong (李旭東), Han Kuikui (韓奎奎)

(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent in Heilongjiang Province) Ms. Zhang Shoufen, a Falun Gong practitioner from the Agricultural Development Jiansanjiang Branch, Heilongjiang Province, was carried out of a brainwashing center on the evening of November 17, 2009. She had been severely persecuted in the center. Those responsible gave no details of her mistreatment.

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Practitioner Ms. Zhang Shoufen

On October 16 at 4:30 p.m., policemen from Qixing Farm Security Office illegally arrested Ms. Zhang while she was talking to people about Falun Gong at the Jiansanjiang Train Station. She was taken to the Jiansanjiang Civil Education Center, which is actually a brainwashing center.

Guo Yuzhong, the Qixing Farm Public Security Office Guidance Counselor, is one of the people involved in the persecution of Ms. Zhang. Guo interrogated Ms. Zhang several times at the brainwashing center. Her family requested her release but there were ignored. On November 17, Ms. Zhang's family was instructed to go to the center to pick her up. When they arrived at the center, they noted that her behavior was strange. She sat on a table and would not come down. She whispered to her family when they approached her, "They want to harm me." The family noted that Ms. Zhang was behaving abnormally and told Li Xudong that the Qixing Public Security staff was responsible for her mental condition. He had no response. Her family called some relatives for a car to take Ms. Zhang home.

Zhang Shoufen behaved in a very disturbed manner upon her return home. She threw her cell phone and small electrical appliances around. She blocked the door of her room, dumped rice on the ground and scattered her clothes on the ground. She repeatedly said, "There are monitoring devices in the house. The police are coming to arrest me and cut my head off." When no one was watching her, she would leave the house and her family would have to search for her. This was was very emotionally draining on her family.

On November 18, 2009, Ms. Zhang's family went to Guo, the person in charge of the persecution in their area, to demand an explanation. Guo said that Ms. Zhang had been fine while in his custody. According to reliable sources, the guards at the brainwashing center were very violent towards practitioners. In fact, on November 12, during the interrogation, they threatened Ms. Zhang with serious bodily harm. The next day her mental state had clearly changed and she had become disoriented. On November 17, her family took her home.

Ms. Zhang, 56, worked in the Third Middle School of the Qixing Farm. She became a kind and considerate person after she started practicing Falun Dafa. She was known as a dependable and good person. However, since July 20, 1999, when the persecution of Falun Gong began, she and her family have not enjoyed a day of peace. She was taken to the Qixing Detention Center and brainwashing centers many times. The local 610 Office illegally sentenced Ms. Zhang to forced labor camp for two years. On October 2, 2002, the 610 Office transferred her from the forced labor camp to the brainwashing center at Qixing Farm until her release in September 2004. After four years of unjust imprisonment, she was released for only two months and was then returned to the brainwashing center in December 2004.

Mr. She Huaizhong, Ms. Zhang's husband, was the head of the Qixing Farm Armed Forces Department. In late 1999, he was fired because of his steadfast belief in the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. On January 25, 2000, he was sentenced to one year in a forced labor camp, and the sentence was extended for another six months. At the end of his labor camp confinement, Mr. She was taken to a detention center at a remote farm. In February 2002, he was again illegally sentenced to three years in a forced labor camp in Suihua City, Heilongjiang Province. Mr. She currently stays at home, caring for his mentally injured wife. They are suffering dire financial difficulties.

We urge all people and human rights organizations around the world to pay special attention to the injustice that continues in China.

Wang Jialin, secretary of the Jiansanjiang Political and Judicial Committee: 86-454-5790335 (Office), 86-13763633399 (Cell), 86-454-5802881 (Home)
Hou Jiting, secretary of the local Political and Judicial Committee: 86-454-5790507 (Office), 86-13836636699 (Cell), 86-454-5727577 (Home)
Li Chunyao, head of the 610 Office: 86-454-5725790 (Home)
Zhang Defu, director of the Political Security Division: 86-454-5794878 (Office), 86-13329550077 (Cell), 86-15331967999 (Cell), 86-454-5730567 (Home)
Guo Yuzhong, guidance counselor (in charge of the persecution): 86-454-5715761 (Office), 86-13803675568 (Cell), 86-454-5788007
Han Kuikui, brainwashing center director: 86-454-5794924 (Office), 86-13101656567 (Cell), 86-454-5715550 (Home)

November 22, 2009