(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhang Wei from Donggang, Liaoning Province, was targeted for persecution by agents from the Liaoning 610 Office. In collaboration with the 610 Office of Dandong City Politics and Law Committee Officers, officers from Donggang Police Station were ordered to ransack several practitioners' homes on December 22, 2009. Fourteen practitioners and their families were arrested, including one child under ten years old. They confiscated approximately a million yuan worth of their personal belongings.
Wang Runlong from the Donggang Police Station arrested Ms. Zhang in December 2000, when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was arrested again in April 2002, and this time they arrested her and her husband, Sun Fengchang, who is not a practitioner. Ms. Zhang was sentenced to seven years in Shenyang Dabei Prison, which is now called Shenyang Women's Prison. She was in critical condition due to the severe mistreatment suffered there. This has been reported in the article "Ms. Zhang Wei from Donggang, Liaoning Province Brutally Tortured in Shenyang Women's Prison," on http://clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2009/7/16/109210.html.
Shenyang Women's prison is under direct control of the Liaoning 610 Office. Officers from prison tried to arrest Ms. Zhang at the end of 2008, because she personally delivered letters to the Liaoning Prison Department, Liaoning Procuratorate, Liaoning Judicial Department, Liaoning Municipal Bureau for Complaints, Liaoning Police Station, Liaoning government and Liaoning Political Consultative Conference exposing the crimes committed at the prison. She also left her phone number on the letters.
Practitioners' families from Donggang have hired nine lawyers from Beijing to help them since 2009. The authorities desperately wanted to know who was hiring the lawyers and ordered each of the lawyers to go to the Donggang Police Station for questioning. Officers even pretended to be practitioners themselves and tried to blackmail practitioners' family members, claiming the money for hiring lawyers was from them, and asked the families to return the money. The practitioners' family members exposed the situation and tried to call the police. The local authorities, police and 610 Office worked together to ensure that practitioners who hired the lawyers would receive lengthy sentences.
Officers from the Donggang Police Station went to Ms. Zhang's home to arrest her in December 2009, but she was not at home. More than a dozen officers severely beat her husband, and also broke things in Ms. Zhang's house. Relatives of Ms. Zhang exposed the incident online and sent information to the Clearwisdom website.
Agents from the Liaoning 610 Office went to Donggang to harass Ms. Zhang's family, and said they would arrest Ms. Zhang within a month. Officers from the Donggang Police Station listed the practitioners' names who were in contact with Ms. Zhang or Mr. Zou Jiling, and followed them. Mr. Zou was targeted because he lived in the same building complex as Ms. Zhang, and they had a lot of contact with each other. Mr. Zou and another practitioner, Teng Xiuling, were arrested as a result of the police surveillance.
When Mr. Zou was arrested on December 21, 2009, several police officers tortured him and forced him to sign a document which detailed a lot of fabricated evidence against Ms. Zhang, which would then be used to prosecute her. The police made a list of practitioners in the local area and asked Mr. Zou if he knew them or not, and then forced him to sign at the bottom of the list. When the practitioners on the list were arrested, the police showed the list to each practitioner, saying that Mr. Zou had provided their information to the police.
A trial was held at the Donggang Court for Mr. Zou on the morning of July 22, 2010. Mr. Zou denied the charges against him and told the court how the police had tortured him and forced him to sign documentation, which was fabricated by the police. He then lifted his shirt and showed everyone the wounds on his body. When his lawyer questioned the judge and public prosecutors, they said nothing. Mr. Zou was then given a ten-year sentence.
