(Minghui.org) Ms. Wang Guixia was no longer the same person when she completed a 15-month prison term in May 2025 for her faith in Falun Gong. She was emaciated and weak with severe swelling in her legs. Once cheerful and outgoing, she was withdrawn and timid. She also suffered from mental fatigue and struggled to focus.
Ms. Wang, an 81-year-old retired textile worker in Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, was initially arrested on September 25, 2022, and later released on bail. She was taken back into custody on February 1, 2024, and issued a formal arrest warrant four days later. Her case was submitted to the Linghai City Procuratorate on February 19, 2024 and she was indicted the next day. The Linghai City Court held a hearing in the Jinzhou City Women’s Detention Center on March 4, and she was sentenced to 15 months weeks later.
Ms. Wang was admitted to Division 12 of the Liaoning Province First Women’s Prison on July 18, 2024. During her first two months there, she was forced to write statements to renounce her faith every day. The guards also video-recorded her being questioned and agreeing to sever ties with Falun Gong. On September 18, 2024, she was moved to Division 11 for the elderly and the infirm.
During her nine months in prison, Ms. Wang was subjected to various forms of abuse, including the following:
Ms. Wang was forced to take hypertension medication after she was found to have high blood pressure. She decided to stop taking the pills three months later on October 28, 2024. The guards did not let her shower that day. They later intimidated her and instructed inmates to beat her when she refused to participate in the physical exams required for all detainees.
For a period of time, Ms. Wang was forced to do hard labor, such as folding paper origami, for eight hours a day. She later stopped doing the labor and was verbally abused by the guards and inmates.
Guard Chen Lin removed the mattress from Ms. Wang’s bed between September 19 and 25, 2024, because she did the Falun Gong meditation. She was unable to sleep that whole week and had to sit up all night.
The guards required everyone to stand facing the wall during roll calls. Ms. Wang refused to admit she was a criminal or to stand facing the wall. Guard Shu Ping threatened to put a torture device on her when she later also refused to wear inmates’ name tag.
Inmate Zhang Cuiying slapped Ms. Wang in the face and hurled abusive language at her on the morning of April 13, 2025. That afternoon, inmate Cui Yang kicked her. Other inmates were also instigated by the guards to defame Falun Gong and verbally abuse Ms. Wang.
Ms. Wang was never given enough to eat in Division 11. The guards did it on purpose in an attempt to weaken her will. They also restricted her purchases of daily necessities. When some inmates became sympathetic and gave her food, the guards reprimanded them. Ms. Wang was always hungry, and her health suffered.
Past Persecution
Ms. Wang used to suffer from numerous ailments, including, hyperthyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis, gynecological issues, allergic rhinitis, and gastritis. She was on medical leave from work for eight years. After she attended a lecture series given by the founder of Falun Gong in April 1994, she recovered from all her symptoms in just a few months. She held firm to her faith after the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999 and was repeatedly targeted.
Prior to her latest prison sentence, Ms. Wang served a four-year term between 2002 and 2006. In Liaoning Province Women’s Prison, she was once forced to stand barefoot on a cold concrete floor for four straight hours. Another time she was barred from taking showers for two months in a row. She was also tied to a bed in a spread-eagle position with her mouth taped shut for ten days.
The guards often hit Ms. Wang with slippers, kicked her private parts, stabbed her in the chest with safety pins, and hit her hands with brooms. On a few occasions, they dunked her head in a basin filled with water, wrapped tape around her neck, sat on her to punch her temples, yanked out her hair, and even stripped her to her underwear. When she went on a hunger strike in protest, they force-fed her, kept her restrained on a bed, didn’t let her use the restroom.
The police raided Ms. Wang’s home on July 19, 2012. She was not in but was forced to live away to avoid being arrested.
Ms. Wang was distributing Falun Gong informational materials on October 18, 2013, when she was arrested and forced to pay a fine of over 10,000 yuan. She was released 16 days later.
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