(Clearwisdom.net) Fifty-seven-year-old Ms. Zhang Junying is a retired employee of Jiangbei Motor Parts Factory. She began the practice of Falun Gong in 1998 and ever since then, she has conducted herself according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. After practicing Falun Gong, her illnesses disappeared and her relationship with her husband became harmonious.
After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, Ms. Zhang grasped every opportunity to clarify the truth to people.
On December 12, 2000, Ms. Zhang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on Tiananmen Square. She unfurled a banner that read, "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance" and handed out several flyers before the police arrested her. The Jilin Province police stationed in Beijing escorted Ms. Zhang back to Jilin Province, where she was detained in the city's Third Detention Center.
Communist Party reporter Li Qiang, who interviewed Liu Siying in the falsified self-immolation incident on Tiananmen Square, followed Ms. Zhang from Beijing to Jilin Province. He planned on doing an untrue news piece on her and her practice of Falun Gong. One day Ms. Zhang was washing her hair when the police summoned her to the office where Li Qiang asked to interview her. She told him, "Only if you report the true situation of Falun Gong will I talk to you. Otherwise, I have nothing to say." When Ms. Zhang asked the police for a comb, Li Qiang asked, "Do you actually care about your appearance?" Ms. Zhang replied, "We practitioners are good people who act according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. Why shouldn't we pay attention to our appearance?" Li Qiang did not have anything further to say.
Prior to the 2001 Chinese Lunar New Year, Ms. Zhang was transferred to the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City, Jilin Province. However, the labor camp refused to accept her because she had a rapid heart beat and high blood pressure. Still, the Longtan Police Station did not completely release her and told her to report to the police station and cook for them daily. Ms. Zhang refused to cook for them and when she later told them that she would also not report to the police station, the police extorted 500 yuan from her.
On June 28, 2001, Ms. Zhang went back her hometown of Chaoyang Township, Shulan City. While she was clarifying the truth of Falun Gong to people, she was reported to the local police. As a result, she was arrested by the Chaoyang Township Police Station and detained in the Nanshan Detention Center of Shulan City. Her home was ransacked by the police who confiscated her Falun Gong books and tapes and over 4000 yuan in her purse.
When her family went to visit her at the Nanshan Detention Center, they were charged 100 yuan for some lunch boxes that were worth less than 10 yuan. Ms. Zhang never received the full amount of the 100 yuan that her family left for her. By the time it reached her hands, the detention center authorities had stolen 60 yuan and only gave her 40 yuan. She was also forced to do manual labor. After four months, Ms. Zhang was sentenced to two years of forced labor at the Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp of Changchun City.
The Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp inhumanly persecutes Falun Gong practitioners by using all kinds of cruel methods. They force practitioners to watch videos that slander Falun Gong and try to force practitioners to write the so-called "Five Statements" (similar to the Three Statements). Practitioners who refuse to write the statements are deprived of sleep and forced to stand near the wall and do manual labor. For practitioners who renounce their belief in Falun Gong, they are told to defame the practice and its founder. Ms. Zhang was tortured both mentally and physically until her vision became blurry.
After she returned home in 2003, the Shanqian Police Station and the Shanqian Neighborhood Committee continuously harassed her. They went to her home many times, called her on the phone, and sent agents to harass her at home.
On the afternoon of August 23, 2006, Police Chief Yan Jiafu, policeman Liu Yang, and others from Shanqian Police Station arrested Ms. Zhang while she was alone at home and sent her to the city's detention center. They also ransacked her home and confiscated a picture of the founder of Falun Gong, Falun Gong books and tapes, truth-clarifying materials, and a VCD and radio set.
At around 8:00 a.m. the next day, her relatives went to the Shanqian Police Station and demanded her immediate release. When her family asked the police why they had arrested her, policeman Liu Yang was arrogant and questioned their relationship with Ms. Zhang. He refused to answer the family's inquiries. The arrest warrant listed no name for the policeman in charge of her case.
After being detained at the detention center for a month, Ms. Zhang Junying was sentenced to one year of forced labor. She is currently in Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp in Changchun City. Ms. Zhang has been resisting the persecution and refusing to write the "Five Statements." On the contrary, she has been clarifying the truth to the authorities.