(Clearwisdom.net) Ms. Zhang Weidi is a practitioner from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. On July 4, 2008, she was arrested in Fushun City and taken to a forced labor camp for two years. Ms. Zhang is currently being detained in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, one of the most brutal forced labor camps in China. At this time, the labor camp officials are refusing to allow her family to visit her.

Ms. Zhang Weidi

Ms. Zhang, 56 years old, used to work in the educational field in Shenyang City. Later she founded a school. Around 1995, she had three car accidents in Guangzhou City and Shenyang City. As a result, she was no longer able to walk by herself and developed a facial muscle cramp as well as memory loss. She had to rely on IV injections and acupuncture just to stay alive. In 1998, someone introduced her to Falun Gong. Ms. Zhang's health recovered very quickly after she began the practice.

In May 2008, Ms. Zhang was forced to stay away from her own home. Officers with the Fushun City Police Department National Security Division, along with Shenyang City police, were secretly following her. After more than a month, many policemen appeared and arrested Ms. Zhang at the Mingyang Motor Vehicle Repair Shop. They also stole her personal property, including a computer and supplies for it, truth-clarification materials, her bank book, cash totaling more than 7,000 yuan, and her car. Later, Ms. Zhang's family went to the Fushun City Police Department National Security Division many times to get her items back, but only some of them were returned.

Ms. Zhang was first detained in Fushun Detention Center. Then she was taken to Masanjia Forced Labor Camp in Shenyang, one of the most brutal and ruthless forced labor camps in China, for two years. Even though her family has tried to see her several times, the Masanjia Labor Camp officials keep refusing to allow them to visit her. The whole time that Ms. Zhang has been illegally detained, her mother, who is already over 80 years old, has been left on her own.

Before this, when Ms. Zhang and fellow practitioner Zhao Liping were distributing truth-clarification CDs at Nanta Electronic Market in 2004, they were arrested by two officers, Liu Guowei and Jin Yinde, from the Dongling District Industrial and Business Police Station: Ms. Zhang was then detained in Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. After being brutally tortured there, Ms. Zhang was in very poor physical condition when her family members were told to pick her up.

It is said that Masanjia Labor Camp is exhausting its resources to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. The authorities have recently refused to release any information about her. Her family and friends are all very worried.