Name: Zhang Guiyun(张桂云)
Gender: Female
Age: 59
Address: Dormitory of the Oceanographic Institute on Baiti Road, Nankai District, Tianjin
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Tianjin Women’s Prison (天津市女子监狱)
City: Tianjin
Persecution Suffered: Detention, forced labor, solitary confinement, slapped in the face, illegal trial, imprisonment
(Clearwisdom.net) In June 2009, Ms. Zhang Guiyun was framed by Xin Weidong, a security guard at Nankai University, for using a bank note with a truth-clarifying message written on it. Ms. Zhang was detained in the Nankai District Detention Center for five months before she was tried in November 2009. On the day of the trial her family members met with her. They saw that Ms. Zhang, who previously weighed over 65kg, had become skin and bones because of severe weight-loss.
Ms. Zhang is now incarcerated Tianjin Women’s Prison, Section 3. She has been tortured and abused simply because she will not give up her belief. In August 2011 the prison suddenly refused to let her family visit her. In September she was still not allowed to have visitors. Her family members went to argue with the head of the prison and the head of the section Ms. Zhang was in. The prison feared that the situation would get out of hand, so they let her meet with her family. Her family saw signs of severe torture and that she was disfigured due to severe weight-loss. Ms. Zhang cried to her family, saying, “I really hope I get out of here alive.” When they asked her what was hurting her, the phone line was immediately cut off by the monitoring policewoman. Her family believes that she is being abused.
In 2000 Ms. Zhang went to Beijing to appeal to the central government, hoping that Falun Dafa would be treated fairly. She was then sent to a forced labor camp for one year and was inhumanely tortured, forced to do hard labor in Tianjin Banqiao Women’s Forced Labor Camp. Since she refused to give up her faith, the sentence was extended for another year, then extended two more times. During those five years Ms. Zhang suffered from cruel torture such as solitary confinement, being slapped on the face with a shoe, made to do forced labor for extended periods of time, etc.
Tianjin Women’s Prison: +86-22-26226262
Section 3：+86-22-23072073
For more names and phone numbers of those involved in persecuting Ms. Zhang, please refer to the original article in Chinese.
