Liaoning Man Given Second 4-Year Prison Term for His Faith in Falun Gong

(Minghui.org) A Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province resident was recently sentenced to four years with an 8,000-yuan fine for his faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.

Mr. Wang Lin was arrested on March 22, 2023, by agents from the Hi-Tech Industry Development Zone Domestic Security Office in Jinzhou City. He was indicted by the Linghai City Procuratorate on May 8 and tried by the Linghai City Court on June 5.

Linghai City is under the administration of Jinzhou City. Both the Linghai City Procuratorate and the Linghai City Court have been designated to handle Falun Gong cases in the region.

Judge Huang Yanchun announced the prison sentence against Mr. Wang on June 25. He has filed an appeal at the time of writing.

Mr. Wang Lin

Mr. Wang took up Falun Gong in March 1999, after witnessing how the practice had improved his father’s health. His own illnesses soon disappeared too. Known to his family and friends as a spoiled brat, Mr. Wang turned into a considerate and kind person as he strove to live by Falun Gong’s principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. He quit gambling and other bad habits as well.

Because of his positive experience with Falun Gong, Mr. Wang never wavered in his faith after the persecution began in July 1999. He was arrested numerous times in the past 24 years for upholding his faith. In particular, he was given one year of forced labor in 2004 and sentenced to four years in prison in 2014.

Three Arrests Between 1999 and 2002

Mr. Wang was arrested in August 1999 while doing Falun Gong exercises in a park. He was detained for 15 days.

The Kangning Police Station agents arrested Mr. Wang and his wife Ms. Dai Lili, also a Falun Gong practitioner, on July 13, 2001, while the couple were putting up Falun Gong informational materials. They were held at the Jinzhou City Second Detention Center for more than 20 days and extorted 30,000 yuan.

Mr. Wang distributed Falun Gong informational materials in April 2002. After finding out about it, Jiang Haiqun, head of security at Mr. Wang’s workplace, Jiutai Pharmaceutical Industry Co., reported him to the police. He was soon arrested and brutally beaten by police. He was detained for 26 days and forced to pay a 30,000 yuan fine. His employer terminated him after he was released.

One Year of Forced Labor from 2004 to 2005

Mr. Wang was talking to a vegetable vendor about Falun Gong on August 9, 2004, when he was spotted by plainclothes officer Wang Min of the Hi-Tech Industry Development Zone Criminal Police Division. She called chief Li Baocun of the Lingnan Police Station, and the latter soon arrived to arrest Mr. Wang.

Chief Li gave Mr. Wang one year of forced labor two days later and transferred him to the Jinzhou Labor Camp on August 12, 2004.

Mr. Wang was initially held at the newcomers’ team, where he was subjected to various forms of abuse, including savage beating and solitary confinement. The guards once restricted Mr. Wang in a metal chair for 24 hours, during which time they kept a helmet on his head and punched the helmet from time to time. Mr. Wang said the punching sound rang in his head and he felt dizzy.

Torture instrument: metal chair

The next morning, he was released from the metal chair, only to have his hands cuffed to a ring anchored to the floor. He had to sleep on the floor at night, with one of his hands still cuffed to the floor.

Mr. Wang was later assigned to the Second Brigade, where he was held alone in a cell. Guards Li Songtao and Zhang Chunfeng ordered inmates to tie his legs up with bedsheets for three straight hours. His legs were then untied, only to be tied up again later. Sometimes the tying torture would be repeated three times a day. While his legs were tied, inmate Zhang Tiejun stomped on his legs with leather shoes. Mr. Wang was unable to walk for the next three months.

Inmate Wang Zhi once urinated in a container and then poured the urine into Mr. Wang’s mouth together with inmate Zhang. They wiped Mr. Wang’s legs with paper smeared with stool and stuffed his mouth with a rag before putting in a snaffle bit. The guards then shocked him with several electric batons simultaneously.

Another time Mr. Wang was taken to the basement of a newly built building to be put on what was dubbed “ball torture.” The guards tied his legs and neck up such that he curled up like a ball.

Torture reenactment: “Ball torture”

Mr. Wang was later transferred to the Benxi Forced Labor Camp to finish his term.

Two More Arrests in 2008 and 2012

Office Sun Zhian showed up at Mr. Wang’s home in May 2008 and used an electric saw to cut open his door. He was detained for more than twenty days and extorted 30,000 yuan.

On the evening of June 5, 2012, Mr. Wang drove to Cuiyan Township, Linghai City to distribute Falun Gong informational materials. He was arrested on the way back, by officers of the Cuiyan Township Police Station. They took him to the Linghai Lockup the next day and he was released thirteen days later.

Four-year Prison Term After an Arrest in 2013

Mr. Wang was arrested by the Jingye Police Station officers on the evening of October 18, 2013, while he was distributing Falun Gong informational materials. They took him to the Jinzhou Detention Center. Guard Wang Hong shocked him with an electric baton the next day before ordering inmates to beat him. He was beaten so hard that he passed out. After he came to, guard Wang cuffed him in the corridor.

For four straight months, Mr. Wang was restricted in a bed in a spread-eagle position without being allowed to shower, brush his teeth, or use the restroom.

Torture illustration: restricted in a bed in a spread-eagle position

Mr. Wang was later forced to make handicrafts for export.

The Guta District Court of Jinzhou City sentenced Mr. Wang to four years on July 9, 2014 and he was soon transferred to the Shenyang No. 1 Prison.

The prison guards imposed various forms of torture on Mr. Wang and other jailed Falun Gong practitioners.

One form of torture was “stretching and sleep deprivation.” The victim was placed between two beds about five feet apart. His one hand was cuffed to the lower bunk of a bed and another hand to the upper bunk of another bed, with his stretched arms forming a 45-degree angle from the ground. The victim could not stand up straight. He was also forced to wear boxing headgear and not allowed to sleep. Many victims reported suffering from ringing ears, blurred vision, and pulsing pain in their head and ears.

Torture illustration: stretching and sleep deprivation

Other forms of torture included: injecting the victim with toxic drugs that damage the central nervous system, forcing him to wear headphones and playing propaganda slandering Falun Gong at high volume, hanging him up, cuffing his four limbs to the ground, shining bright light into the eyes, using toothpicks to pry open the eyelids, spraying chili water into the eyes, using Q-tips to poke the ears and nostrils, scalding with boiling water, shocking the whole body (including genitals) with multiple electric batons simultaneously, and using ice packs to freeze the testicles.

Mr. Wang was released on October 18, 2017.

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