50-Year-Old Practitioner Mr. Wang Dianren from Jilin Province Tortured to Death

After having been sentenced to three years in prison, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Wang Dianren from Tonghua City, Jilin Province was transferred to Sipingshiling Prison in Jilin Province on August 9th 2005. He died as a result of torture on August 15th 2005. More details follow:

Mr. Wang died at the age of 50. He was a Falun Gong practitioner from Tonghua City, Jilin Province. He worked as a bricklayer at a construction company. In 2001, he was unjustly sentenced to two years in Xishan Forced Labour Camp in Tonghua City, but he was released several months later because of his faith and righteous mind. Since then, the police often harassed him at his home.

On February 5th 2005, Mr. Wang went to his daughter's home, but the police came shortly after his arrival and abducted him. Once at the Laozhan Police Station, the police kept shocking him with electric batons until he was unable to urinate. They also stripped off his clothes and forced him to stand outdoors for a long time in the mid- February weather in northeast China.

Next the police transferred him to Changliu Detention Centre where the guards repeatedly beat him. Once a guard Mr. Liu Jian kicked Wang Dianren hard in his stomach after he shouted out, "Falun Dafa (or Falun Gong) is good." The kick severely injured Mr. Wang's spleen. The intense pain caused him to collapse and pass out. He never recovered from the internal injury.

The police did not notify Wang Dianren's family of the trial date and location. They held a secret trial in which Mr. Wang was sentenced to three and a half a years in Sipingshiling Prison in Jilin Province. He was transferred there on August 9th 2005 and by August 15th 2005 he died as a result of torture.

Laozhan Police Station: 86-435-3517946

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/8/19/108715.html