Location of Torture and Death:

1.      Tangyin City Public Security Bureau, Tangyin City, Henan Province

2.      Chenggang Village Police Station, Tangyin City, Henan Province

3.      Beijing Police Station, Beijing

Perpetrators:

1.      Head and staff of Shandong Industrial University, Jinan City, Shandong Province

2.      The Director of Tangyin City Public Security Bureau, Tangyin City, Henan Province

3.      The Head of Chenggang Village Police Station, Tangyin City, Henan Province

4.      The Director of Beijing Police Station, Beijing

A Brief Report of the Incident:

Mr. Zhang Zhenzhong had suffered repeated detention and torture for his faith and practice of Falun Gong. In 1999 Mr. Zhang's school, Shandong Industrial University, detained him for going to Beijing to appeal to the central government against the persecution of Falun Gong, and eventually he was expelled.

On January 1, 2001, Mr. Zhang was arrested in Beijing and detained in Beijing Police Station for unfurling a Falun Gong banner in Tiananmen Square. In the police station, the police hit him with eight electric batons simultaneously and burned him with cigarette butts. This went on for almost twelve hours. In a span of four days, Mr. Zhang was transferred to four different police stations. In each police station, he was tortured and sustained extensive injuries all over his body.

On May 17, 2001, Mr. Zhang and three other practitioners were arrested in Chenggang Village, Tangyin City, Henan Province for passing out Falun Gong flyers, and were sent to the local police station. In the police station, the policemen conducted body searches, confiscated all of their money, and beat them. The police then transferred Mr. Zhang and other practitioners to Tangyin City Public Security Bureau.

Once they were escorted to the Tangyin City Public Security Bureau, the policemen used their fists and electric batons to hit sensitive areas on the four practitioners' bodies and kicked them repeatedly. More than an hour later, the practitioners were beaten so badly that they began to vomit blood and their noses were bloody. The policemen tied the practitioners up with ropes and sent them to separate jail cells. All four practitioners began hunger strikes to protest the maltreatment. On the sixth day, the policemen ordered the inmates to force-feed the practitioners. Mr. Zhang was dragged out for the force-feeding. At that point, he had been tortured so badly that other people could hardly recognize him. He was extremely fragile and weak, yet the policemen still handcuffed him to a chair and repeatedly tried to insert the feeding tube into his nose. On the fifth try, Mr. Zhang lost consciousness and later died from the force-feeding.