Ms. Zhang is in Critical Condition at the Zengcheng City Detention in Guangdong Province

After being persecuted for close to nine months, Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Zhang Chunhe was secretly tried and sentenced to three years in prison on April 8th, 2009. When she appeared in court, she was in critical condition and in a lot of pain. Her Ms. Zhang appealed the unjust verdict and a new trial date was scheduled for May 15th, 2009.

Ms. Zhang used to work as an accountant as well as the head of Zengcheng Wuxie County's Financial Department. After she started practising Falun Gong in 1994, her body, mind, and character underwent huge changes. People that know her consider her a very good person.

On July 23rd, 2008, while Ms. Zhang was on her way to work, she was arrested by 610 Office¹ agents. Without telling her the reason for her arrest, the agents took her to the Guangzhou City Brainwashing Centre. After Ms. Zhang arrived, she was given a thorough physical exam. When a doctor discovered that she had numerous tumours in her body, the biggest being the size of an infant's head, the brainwashing centre refused to accept her.

Ms. Zhang's family was pressured into signing a form giving the brainwashing centre permission to take her to a hospital and have her tumours removed. Knowing that Falun Gong practitioners are often subjected to live organ harvesting, Ms. Zhang's family proposed that the Guangzhou City Brainwashing Centre release her on bail for medical treatment so that her family members could secure a surgeon themselves.

After the family's proposal was rejected, Ms. Zhang was handcuffed behind her back by officers from the Xiyuan Police Station and 610 Office agents. In addition, her feet were shackled, causing her to suffer severe oedema.

She was later taken to the Guangzhou City Police Hospital where she was strictly monitored for close to half a year. A few months ago, the hospital's head doctor repeatedly called the Zengcheng City Police Department, telling them that Ms. Zhang was in critical condition and that they should come pick her up.

In early April 2009, when Ms. Zhang was just about to leave the hospital, the doctor who had been assigned to her said, "You won't be dying today, right? I am in the middle of preparing the paperwork for your release."

Within a few months, three of her tumours had grown dangerously large. There was an obvious lump in her abdominal area and she was also passing blood. In addition, her heart beat was abnormally fast and she experienced profuse sweating as well as dizzy spells with pain in her abdomen.

After the trial, Ms. Zhang was transferred from the Guangzhou City Police Hospital to the Zengcheng City Detention Centre. During this time, she was in critical condition with severe abdominal pain. It was obvious that neither the 610 Office, Police Department, Judiciary Department, or the Procurator Department cared whether Ms. Zhang lived or died.

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/5/30/201904.html