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Mr. Zhang Baiyong Persecuted to Death in Changyi City, Shandong Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Zhang Baiyong was born in 1965. He lived in a
residential building of Changyi City Mills Factory in the Weifang District,
Shandong Province. His wife worked in the City Embroidering Factory. They had a
13-year-old son. Mr. Zhang started to cultivate Falun Dafa in 1997. He went to
Beijing to appeal for Dafa in October 1999 and was "illegally
arrested." He was handcuffed and escorted back to Changyi City in the
Weifang District, where he was illegally detained for several months. He was
brutally beaten in the Dongyuan Police Station in Changyi. The police fined him
and extorted thousands of yuan from him. Mr. Zhang went to Beijing to "clarify truth" for the second time in
July 2000 and was arrested. Police from the Changyi Police Department escorted
him from Beijing and detained him in the Dongyuan Police Station. They
handcuffed him to a tree and exposed him to the broiling sun for seven to eight
hours when the temperature was as high as 38ºC (100ºF). Mr. Zhang Baiyong was arrested several times for distributing
truth-clarification materials. During his detention, he suffered all kinds of
torture. In the winter, the police handcuffed him outdoors and poured cold water
on him. In the summer, the police put him in a public marketplace and exposed
him to the hot sun. The police hired a local vagabond to beat him mercilessly
with a two-inch thick club until the club broke. When he was illegally detained
in Weifang, he personally witnessed the police beat a young male practitioner to
death. After Mr. Zhang was arrested the last time in 2003, he held a hunger strike
for nine days before he was released. After he returned home in 2003, he felt
alarmed and anxious because of the persecution. He dared not stay at home and
was forced to live like a nomad to avoid being re-arrested. In 2004, he had the
symptoms of black adenoma cancer. He died at Changyi City Hospital on March 17,
2005. August 30, 2005 |