Name: Wang Sulan (王素兰)
Gender: Female
Age: 50
Address: Tangshan City, Hebei Province
Occupation: Employee at the Qianjiaying Mine Service Corporation in Fengnan District, Tangshan City
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 6, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Hebei Province Women's Prison (河北女子监狱)
City: Shijiazhuang
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, sleep deprivation, forced labor, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, imprisonment, torture, extortion, physical restraint, detention.

(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wang Sulan from Tangshan City, who was illegally sentenced to nine years of imprisonment in 2009, was tortured to critical condition in the Hebei Province Women's Prison. She became extremely ill due to the severe torture, and underwent surgery to remove her uterus. Her blood pressure shot up to 200 and she developed prolapse of the lumbar intervertebrae. However, the request for her medical parole was denied by the Lunan Justice Bureau in Tangshan City.

Ms. Wang Sulan

Ms. Wang was transferred to the Hebei Province Women's Prison in 2010. She was healthy prior to being incarcerated, however after being imprisoned, she suddenly suffered from a serious illness. The prison hospital diagnosed it as a uterine tumor and performed two surgeries. Ms. Wang is currently undergoing chemotherapy. She has developed dropsy and has severe back pain, resulting in her being unable to stand up or work.

Prison authorities extorted 16,000 yuan from her family, and later asked for more money several times, using the excuse of Ms. Wang's medical expenses. Her family was unable to pay, so prison hospital officials stopped her chemotherapy and submitted a medical parole request to the Lunan Justice Bureau. However, the Lunan Justice Bureau, the Qianyinggongfang District Police Station, and the local neighborhood committee disregarded her critical condition and denied the request.

Ms. Wang is 50 years old this year. She worked for the Qianjiaying Mine Service Corporation in Fengnan District, Tangshan City. Before she began practicing Falun Gong in 1996, she had many diseases, including myocardial ischemia, myocarditis, antral gastritis, and a slipped disc. These conditions immobilized her and caused her to be unable to work. All of her illnesses disappeared after she began practicing Falun Gong. Not only did she and her family save a great amount of money because she no longer needed medical treatments, but she could also do housework and take on paid jobs.

Because of her spiritual belief however, she has been arrested, detained, and tortured many times since the communist regime launched the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999. Ms. Wang was respectively arrested and incarcerated at the Tangshan Second Detention Center and the Fangzhi University Brainwashing Center from 1999 to 2003, and was subjected to severe torture, including beatings, electric shock, sleep deprivation, and being restrained in an iron chair.

On February 6, 2009, she was arrested along with eight other practitioners in Beijing by Wang Degang and Ji Bao from the Qinghe Police Department, and was secretly sentenced to nine years of imprisonment by the Xuanwu District Court in late 2009.

Ms. Wang's current physical condition is very serious. Her family is very angry with the authorities and how they have abused her. Her mother-in-law, who is in her seventies, said to the guards, "You have extorted all of our savings. My daughter-in-law was healthy before she was illegally imprisoned! It is you who caused her to suffer from illnesses. You should release her immediately!" Finding that Ms. Wang was unable to do forced labor, and that her family had no more money, the prison officials finally agreed to her medical parole.

However, the submitted medical parole request was held by officials from the Lunan Justice Bureau, the Qianyinggongfang District Police Station, and the local neighborhood committee. They disregarded Ms. Wang's critical condition and denied the request without giving a reason.

Perpetrators:
Li Xiaodong, head of the Fengnan Domestic Security Division: 86-315-8169799, 86-13832984429
610 Office: 86-315-8111756
Hao Lianxing, head of the 610 Office: 86-315-8189897, 86-315-8298829, 86-15081988829
For more information on perpetrators, please refer to the original Chinese article.

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