Name: Zhang Chunfeng (张春峰)
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Address: Unknown
Occupation: Employee of the Xiuning Life Insurance Company
Date of Death: January 29, 2003
Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 2001
Most Recent Place of Detention: Nanhu Forced Labor Camp (安徽省南湖劳教所)
City: Huangshan
Province: Anhui
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, torture, force-feedings, extortion, home ransacked, detention
(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Zhang Chunfeng was subjected to many torture methods and died nine years ago at the age of 40.
Mr. Zhang was an employee of the Xiuning County Life Insurance Company. He began practicing Falun Gong in 1997 and made fundamental changes to his life. He amended his bad habits, including smoking, drinking, fighting and gambling, and followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. He and his family regained happiness.
However, the Jiang regime and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to suppress Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. In December 1999, Mr. Zhang went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong and was arrested. He was taken back and held in the Xiuning County Detention Center for six months. Under the order of local police, his supervisor deducted 1,500 yuan from his salary to pay for the officers' travel expenses to escort him back. Mr. Zhang was later sentenced to one year of forced labor because he refused to renounce Falun Gong.
Between September and October in 2001, Mr. Zhang was arrested again for distributing Falun Dafa lectures to other practitioners. He was held at the Xiuning County Detention Center. His home was ransacked twice. Several officers, led by Chief Cao Chengchao, broke into Mr. Zhang's home and confiscated Falun Gong books, photos of Master Li Hongzhi, Falun Gong video tapes, and exercise clothes. Mr. Zhang went on a hunger strike to protest the illegal detention and was force-fed. He was later sentenced to two years of forced labor and taken to the Ninth Ward of the Nanhu Forced Labor Camp.
Torture re-enactment: Shocked with electric batons
During the incarceration, Mr. Zhang was tortured as he refused to give up his belief and went on hunger strike. The camp guards continually shocked his face, neck and other body parts with electric batons. The guards didn't stop until Mr. Zhang's nose was disfigured and it produced a burnt taste. The inmates beat Mr. Zhang, poked his body numerous times with needles, and burned him with cigarette butts. Mr. Zhang went on hunger strike nine times and was force-fed. He was forced to do hard labor for long periods of time. He was also indoctrinated by people who had "enlightened" along an evil path in an attempt to transform him.
Torture re-enactment: Burned with cigarette butts
Mr. Zhang didn't give in to the physical and mental abuses. However, under that severe environment, his physical body was greatly damaged. He succumbed to advanced tuberculosis and both his lungs were rotting away.
Mr. Zhang was released on medical parole in May 2002. His family carried him home on a stretcher. He was very weak and vomited blood many times. He died in the Xiuning County People's Hospital on January 29, 2003.
His once happy family was destroyed. He left behind his elder mother and young child.
