Chinese name:
张凤云
Gender:
Female
Age:
65
City:
Jinzhou City
Province:
Liaoning
Occupation:
Date of Death:
2006-01-28
Date of Most Recent Arrest:
Most recent place of detention:
Jinzhou City Detention Center
Case Description:

Ms. Zhang Fengyun, 65, lived in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province. She started cultivating Falun Dafa in October 1996. Ms. Zhang used to have arthritis, heart disease, hepatomegaly, and other physical problems. Due to financial difficulties, she could not afford to see doctors, and she suffered excruciating pain. Ever since she started cultivating Falun Dafa, all her sicknesses disappeared, and she felt light, without any ailments.

After July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, Ms. Zhang went to Beijing to appeal and speak out for Falun Dafa,. She was arrested when unfurling a banner on Tiananmen Square. She was detained in the Seventh Branch of Beijing Police Department for four months. After being taken back to Jinzhou City by police officers from the Bao'an Station, Ms. Zhang was detained for another 15 days in the Jinzhou City Detention Center.

Ms. Zhang was deeply hurt when her son, also a practitioner, was sentenced to forced labor and detained in the Jinzhou City Labor Camp. The local policemen from Bao'an Station kept harassing her and threatening her at home. Ms. Zhang could not bear the terror tactics and missed her son terribly. She died on January 28, 2006.