Victim: Ms. Zhang Yulan, female, resident of Jiangyuan County, Baishan City, Jilin Province

In 2000, Ms. Zhang was arrest because she went to Beijing twice to appeal to the government to stop the persecution of Falun Gong. She was sentenced to a one and a half year term and sent to the Changchun Women's Labor Camp. There she was forced to do hard labor and was often required to work until midnight. She was shocked with electric batons and subjected to corporal punishment. Because she was not willing to give up her belief, her sentence was extended by seven and a half months. After her release, she was also dismissed from her job.

After that, the local authorities often detained Ms. Zhang. They even confiscated her personal saving. While at home, Ms. Zhang was threatened often and kept under close surveillance.

At about 11:00 a.m. on November 28, 2007, Sun Jinghui, team leader of the Jiangyuan District Domestic Security Brigade, led a group of police officers to Ms. Zhang's home. They arrested her, ransacked her home, and confiscated her personal belongings. Ms. Zhang has since disappeared. No one knows where she has been taken.

Originally, Ms. Zhang had a happy family. There were four members in the family and all practiced Falun Gong. In March 2002, her father, Mr. Zhang Quanfu, and her brother Zhang Qifa were sentenced and detained at the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp in Changchun City because they were not willing to give up their belief. They were tortured in the camp. In January 2003, they were tortured to death within 10 days of each other at the Chaoyanggou Labor Camp.

Her mom Ms. Jiao Yongzhi, 68 years old, had been sentenced and forced to do heavy labor in a labor camp. After Ms. Zhang was arrested on November 28, 2007, she was left home alone with no one to care for her.

Posted on August 2, 2008