/* IN MEMORY: Zhang Zhenzhong ..2001 */

Zhang Zhenzhong ..2001

ZHANG Zhenzhong, male, 22, Xinxian County, Liaocheng City, Shandong Province

Practitioner ZHANG Zhenzhong was an undergraduate student at the Business Administration School of the Shandong Industrial University. In school, he was an outstanding student.

On New Year’s Day, 2001, ZHANG and another practitioner went to Beijing and were arrested while unfolding a banner. In the police car he unfolded a banner with the three Chinese characters of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance”. When being taken to a police station ZHANG unfolded another smaller banner. The policemen tortured him for nearly 12 hours trying to force him to tell them the addresses and names of other practitioners.

ZHANG was shocked with eight electric batons and burnt with cigarette butts. However, he refused to cooperate with the police. The police had no choice but to transfer him from one sub-station to another, all together four in four days. At each sub-station he was brutally tortured until he was covered all over with cuts and bruises. However, he still refused to cooperate with the police, and finally he managed to walk out of the police sub-station.

ZHANG Zhenzhong and three other practitioners were arrested in Tangyin County on May 17, 2001 while handing out fact-finding material of the Tiananmen Square self immolation incident.

They were taken against their will to the Tangyin County Police Department. In Tangyin, ZHANG and the other practitioners refused to go inside the jail. They linked their arms together, and the policemen kicked, punched, and shocked them with electric batons in an attempt to separate them but failed. Then they called in a group of young armed policemen. The policemen beat them brutally for more than an hour. Zhang and the other practitioners were all beaten black and blue, and all had a bloody nose and mouth. Once they were separated, they were tied up with a rope before being sent to their jail cells.

The practitioners began a hunger strike. On the sixth day of their hunger strike the policemen ordered the inmates to force-feed the practitioners. A practitioner whose surname was Wang witnessed that ZHANG Zhenzhong was changed beyond recognition and looked extremely wan and sallow when he was dragged out.

However, the police still handcuffed him to a bench and brutally forced the feeding tube down his nose. The first four attempts failed and Zhang was critically injured on the fifth attempt. He gave a horrible shriek and began to shiver. As a result, a university student who was in his prime, died.


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