The younger brother, Zhang Guangya began to practise Falun Gong in December 1998. Zhang went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in March 2000 because of the brutal persecution by the Jiang regime. However, policemen from the Hongqi Police Station took him back to his hometown. After Zhang came back, his workplace illegally fired him under pressure. He was also illegally detained for 15 days and was fined 2000 Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in China]. In October 2000, policemen from Liaoyang County Police Department arrested Zhang while he was driving his taxi and distributing flyers. On February 4, 2002, police again illegally arrested Zhang while he was printing flyers at a material production site. He was convicted and sentenced to eight years in jail. He is currently at the Wafangdian Prison in Liaoning Province.
His elder sister Zhang Guangyuan began to practise in 1997. After the July 20th crackdown, she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in January 2000. Policemen from her local Lingshan Police Station took her back and illegally detained her for 15 days. On the morning of September 17, 2001, a neighbourhood policeman named Yi, together with some other policemen, tried to take Zhang away. She didn't open the door so the police left. However, the neighbourhood committee personnel who stayed behind and hid caught her in her apartment building. She was illegally sent to a brainwashing centre where she started a hunger strike. Later she was released. In October 2001 neighbourhood policeman Yi took Zhang away again and put her into the Third Detention Centre. While detained, she went on a hunger strike again. This time for 15 days, and on the 17th day she was released. The third time Zhang was taken away by neighbourhood police was in November. On December 27, Zhang and 19 other Dafa practitioners escaped from the detention centre, and the police frantically tried to catch them. They searched the households of all the family members, relatives and friends. On February 4, 2002, Zhang Guangyuan and her brother Zhang Guangya were caught together at a material production site, and both were illegally sentenced. Zhang Guangyuan was sentenced to nine years in prison. She is currently being held in Dabei Women's Prison in Shengyang Province.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2003/4/26/49145
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