(Minghui.org) A Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, resident, who is serving a four-year term for practicing Falun Gong, has been held in solitary confinement since August 2024.
Mr. Wang Lin
According to Mr. Wang’s family, when they went to the Shenyang City First Prison on April 18, 2024, the guards denied their request to visit him, with the excuse that he was under strict management. The family was allowed to visit Mr. Wang once after that, but not since August 2024, when Mr. Wang was placed in solitary confinement.
The Shenyang City First Prison is notorious for torturing Falun Gong practitioners who refuse to renounce their faith. Those who are held in solitary confinement are often handcuffed and shackled around the clock, not allowed to wash themselves, given meager food, and forced to watch propaganda videos smearing Falun Gong during the day.
The prison spent over 30 million yuan building a high security division in 2010. After the construction was finished in 2012, the former warden Wang Bin urged the Liaoning Province Prison Administration Bureau, Justice Bureau and 610 Office to have other prisons in the province transfer all Falun Gong practitioners who refused to renounce their faith to the Shenyang City First Prison, and he guaranteed a 100% transformation rate of the practitioners. As a result, many practitioners were transferred there from prisons across the province.
Mr. Wang’s family said they didn’t know why he was put in a solitary confinement cell. They suspected that the guards denied their visits in order to cover up the torture of their loved one.
Mr. Wang was arrested on March 22, 2023 and sentenced to four years with an 8,000-yuan fine on June 25, 2023. He appealed with the Panjin City Intermediate Court, which ruled to uphold his original verdict. He was taken to the Panjin Prison on October 19, 2023, and later transferred to the Shenyang City First Prison.
Prior to his latest sentence, he was also given one year of forced labor in 2004 and sentenced to four years in prison in 2014.
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