(Clearwisdom.net) Note: The following is a shortened version of a longer and more detailed article that appeared on the Minghui.org website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net).

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Zhang Jingqi lives in Babaishang Neighborhood, Honggang District, Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province. He is a physical education teacher employed by the Daqing City 65th Middle School. At around 2:00 p.m. on March 24, 2006, police from the Babaishang Department arrested him at his workplace and ransacked his office and home.

Mr. Zhang Jingqi was tortured at the Babaishang Police Department by being burned with cigarettes, suffocated with cigarette smoke, being stripped of clothes then having cold water poured on his body and left outside in the snow to freeze, being deprived of sleep for four days, choking/burning from having chili oil or mustard oil poured on a mask that he was forced to breath through, being suffocated with a plastic bag repeatedly, having his back scalded with boiling water, etc. On March 28, 2006, he was taken to Longfeng Detention Center. On August 31, 2006, the Honggang District Court sentenced him to three years in prison, and Mr. Zhang Jingqi was taken to Hulan Prison on October 13, 2006, where he was tortured by prisoner Li Maojin (male) and others on October 14, 2006. On October 31, 2006, he was taken to the Dispatch Ward in the Daqing City Prison.