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Name: Wang ZhongqiongChinese Name: 王忠琼Gender: FemaleAge: 85City: ShifangProvince: SichuanOccupation: retired hospital worker and pharmacistDate of Death: around March 8, 2025Date of Most Recent Arrest: November 2021Most Recent Place of Detention: an unknown police station
Ms. Wang Zhongqiong
An 85-year-old woman in Shifang City, Sichuan Province, died on either March 8 or 9, 2025, hours after she was harassed by police for her faith in Falun Gong.
The passing of Ms. Wang Zhongqiong, born on January 16, 1940, capped decades of persecution for her refusal to renounce her belief in Falun Gong.
Ms. Wang, a retired hospital worker and pharmacist, credited Falun Gong for curing her severe thrombocytopenia, anemia, and cholecystitis. Her husband Mr. Gong Xueliang, 88, also recovered from polycythemia vera (an abnormally high number of red blood cells) after he and his wife both took up Falun Gong on March 2, 1997.
The couple were repeatedly arrested and had their home raided after the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999. They were both taken to a local brainwashing center on June 6, 2005 and held there for more than three months. They were denied family visits there and ordered to watch TV programs slandering Falun Gong. The volume of the TV was always turned to the maximum. Ms. Wang had a mental breakdown and had blood in her urine. She also developed high blood pressure and insomnia. The guards there ordered her to renounce Falun Gong all day long and even pressured her to “kill herself” if she still held firm to her faith.
The months-long brainwashing caused irreparable damage to Ms. Wang. She still trembled in fear years later when this experience was brought up.
After another arrest on October 12, 2007, Ms. Wang was sentenced to four years in prison. She and her husband were last arrested in November 2021. The Shifang City Court sentenced them on July 8, 2022, giving Ms. Wang one and a half years of probation with an 8,000-yuan fine and her husband a one-year probation with a 5,000-yuan fine. They were allowed to go home after receiving the verdicts.
The police harassed the couple at home every month. Ms. Wang’s pension was suspended in March 2024. She submitted a request to reinstate her pension the following month. Only a day later, she suddenly had severe symptoms, unable to eat or sleep. She had to halt her pension appeal.
Ms. Wang never recovered and died on either March 8 or 9, 2025. The morning of her passing, the police still harassed her at home.
In addition to Ms. Wang and her husband’s ordeal, their daughter, Ms. Gong Xingcan, an economist, has been repeatedly arrested and detained, also for practicing Falun Gong. She was given two forced labor camp terms and held in a brainwashing center three times. Her legs became disabled as a result of torture.
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