Name: Zhang Fengqian (张丰乾)
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University
Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Sanshui Brainwashing Center (广东省三水洗脑班)
City: Guangzhou
Province: Guangdong
Persecution Suffered: Brainwashing, torture

(Clearwisdom.net) Professor Zhang Fengqian from the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University in Guangzhou City lost his ability to think coherently as a result of physical abuse and brainwashing at the Sanshui Brainwashing Center (http://www.clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2011/5/25/125514.html).

A practitioner who was incarcerated at the same facility between May and August 2010, witnessed how Professor Zhang was persecuted, including more than twenty people taking turns monitoring him, tying his limbs to the four corner of a bed for the entire night, and placing him under intensified brainwashing all day long.

Professor Zhang Fengqian

The following is the account from that practitioner:

I'm a practitioner from Guangdong Province. I was arrested and taken to the Sanshui Brainwashing Center on April 23, 2010. Mr. Zhang Fengqian was taken to the brainwashing center at around 6:00 p.m. on May 23, 2010.

I heard that he was held in a detention center for a month following his arrest, during which time he was beaten. When he first arrived at the Sanshui Brainwashing Center, I could see wounds on his body, his swollen feet, and that his mind was a bit unclear. In the first month, more than twenty people took turns monitoring him every day, and during the night they tied his arms and feet to the four corners of a bed. I often saw those “helpers” shove him. He wasn't allowed to leave his room. My room faced his, so I could clearly see what happened inside his room.

Torture re-enactment: Death bed

Mr. Zhang was held in Division No. 2. All guards, helpers, and heads of the brainwashing center took turns brainwashing him. From morning to evening, they made him watch a large number of VCDs and read books that slandered Dafa, in attempts to destroy his will.

Mr. Zhang kept clarifying the truth to them prior to my release from the center on August 27, 2010.

During two months time, I met him when I fetched meals. Sometimes we could talk for a while. I remember he told me that he was determined not to write the so-called “five statements,” (similar to the three statements). He said he had just studied the Fa for several months and still didn't know how to do the exercises. He was arrested at a hotel as he was speaking with people about Falun Gong. I was really impressed, and hoped that he could break through with his righteous thoughts.

Guards in Division No. 2 who participate in the persecution of Mr. Zhang Fengqian:

Yin, male, division head
Zheng, in his 30s, deputy head, from Meizhou City
Zhang, female, 41, follows Mr. Zhang Fengqian
Huang, in her 40s, a vicious inmate
Chen Ruixiong, 45, guard, from Zijin County, Heyuan
Zheng, female, 29, from Meizhou
Xu, in his 30s, guard