Name: Zhang Liansheng (张连生)
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Mudanjiang
Occupation: Employee of the Equipment Workshop of Mudanjiang Railway Maintenance Section

Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 7, 2010
Most Recent Place of Detention: Aihe Forced Labor Camp, Mudanjiang (牡丹江爱河劳教所)
City: Mudanjiang

Province: Heilongjiang
Persecution Suffered: Detention, sentencing, brainwashing, home ransacked

(Clearwisdom.net) The Mudanjiang Railway Transportation Court recently sentenced Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Liansheng to five years in prison, without any legal grounds. The court deliberately did not notify Mr. Zhang's family.

Mr. Zhang was arrested at work on the morning of December 7, 2010 by the police from the National Security Team of the Mudanjiang Railway Police Department. He was detained at the Aihe Forced Labor Camp in Mudanjiang.

On the morning of the December 29, 2010, the Mudanjiang Railway Transportation Court held a trial for Mr. Zhang. Two attorneys from Beijing, hired by Mr. Zhang's family, came to the court to defend him, exonerate him, and request that he be released immediately.

However, under the control of the Chinese Communist Party's 610 Office, the court still sentenced Mr. Zhang to five years in prison though they had no legal grounds. The court deliberately did not notify Mr. Zhang's family of the sentencing. When his family made inquiries, neither the court nor the procurator gave them an answer. When his family heard about Mr. Zhang's sentence they came back to the court again, and then the court staff acknowledged it. But they claimed that, “it's OK not to inform the family.”

Mr. Zhang had been persecuted multiple times before. On August 8, 2004, he was arrested and taken to the Suihua City Brainwashing Center in Heilongjiang Province by staff of the Yimianpo Railway Bureau. On June 12, 2008, he was arrested and his home was ransacked by staff from the Mudanjiang Railway Maintenance Section and police from the Mudanjiang Railway Police Department. He was imprisoned at the Mudanjiang Detention Center.

People involved in the persecution:

Ma Xuebin, Public Prosecutor of the Mudanjiang Railway Procuratorate: 86-453-8826933
Wang Jinlong, Judge of the Mudanjiang Railway Court: 86-13796693706 (Cell), 86-453-8822048 (Office)