Mr. Zhang Baiyong Persecuted to Death in Shandong Province

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 arrested¹." He was handcuffed and escorted back to Changyi City in the Weifang District, where he was detained for several months. He was brutally beaten in the Dongyuan Police Station in Changyi. The police fined him and extorted thousands of yuan² from him.

Mr. Zhang went to Beijing to tell the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda 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 boiling sun for seven to eight hours when the temperature was as high as 38ºC (100ºF).

Mr. Zhang Baiyong was arrested several times for distributing leaflets exposing the persecution. 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 boiling 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 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 17th, 2005.

Note

1. “Illegally arrested”: Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would like the world to believe, practising Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China. Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practicing the exercises or distributing flyers.

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/31/109505.html