(Minghui.org) Mr. Wang Zebin, 53, from Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province, was sentenced to three and a half years on August 13, 2025 because he practices Falun Gong. He filed an appeal one week later.
Mr. Wang, a former employee of the Harbin Bearing Factory, was arrested at home by officers from the Tongxiang Street Police Station. His Falun Gong books, photo of Falun Gong’s founder, computer and printer were confiscated. He was first taken to the police station and then transferred to the Daoli District Second Detention Center that day for a 15-day administrative detention. He was put in criminal detention and taken to the Xiangfang District Detention Center on January 3, 2025.
Mr. Wang started a hunger strike the day he was arrested. On the seventh day, the police took him to the Xiangfang District Hospital to be force-fed. The nurse failed to insert the tube into his stomach and yanked it out violently, causing him excruciating pain.
Mr. Wang started another hunger strike on January 28, 2025 after the detention center forbade him from doing the Falun Gong exercises. He began to experience pain a few days later. A guard took him to the Xingguang Hospital for a physical exam. He was found to have kidney stones and was operated on. He was taken back to the Xiangfang District Detention Center after being discharged.
The Daowai District Procuratorate indicted Mr. Wang on May 2, 2025. The police went to the detention center on May 16 to collect his DNA and blood samples. He stood trial at the Daowai District Court on July 4 and was sentenced to three and a half years on August 13.
Mr. Wang filed an appeal with the Harbin City Intermediate Court on August 20. Judge Wang Gang and his assistant Tian Yinong were assigned to the appeals case.