(Minghui.org) Mr. Wang Zhong, 72, from Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County, Hebei Province was sent to the Tangshan Prison on February 3, 2024 to serve a 3.5-year term for his faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Mr. Wang was arrested on May 4, 2023 after being reported for talking to two students about Falun Gong. Captain Li Lin (+86-13785384466) of the Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County Domestic Security Office led three officers to raid Mr. Wang’s home. They confiscated his computer, printer, and other valuables. One month later, they also had the local social security office suspend his pension.
The Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County sentenced Mr. Wang to three and a half years at an unknown date. He was transferred from the Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County Detention Center to the Tangshan Prison on February 3, 2024.
This is not the first time Mr. Wang has been targeted for his faith, which he credits for curing his rheumatic skin diseases and tachycardia (fast heart rate). He was previously arrested numerous times and brutally tortured each time.
While he was serving a three-year forced labor term from October 2004 to October 2007, he was once force fed unknown drugs. Another time he was stripped of his clothing and shocked with electric batons on sensitive body parts. The guards also used cigarette butts to burn his face and neck, and beat him with multiple spiked rubber batons until he lost conscious. He became deaf in both ears and lost feeling in his legs below his knees. His vision acuity dropped from 20/13 to 20/200. He still has not recovered from some of the torture-induced damage to his health.
Mr. Wang was given one year of forced labor following yet another arrest on May 13, 2011, but he was denied admission to the local labor camp due to his poor health. He was then ordered to serve time outside of the labor camp. His employer, the People’s Bank of China, suspended his pay during that one year term.
For details of Mr. Wang’s past persecution, see the related report below.
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