A Teacher Is Dying in Chongqing City Prison

Falun Dafa practitioner Mr. Wang Guanglin is detained in the Chongqing City Second Prison located in the Nan'an District of Chongqing City. On August 10th, 2007, his family visited him, but Mr. Wang walked out very slowly with the help of two guards. He is was as thin as a skeleton, deformed, almost paralysed, and could not take care of himself. He hasn't had a normal bowel movement for many days, and he is near death.

Mr. Wang Guanglin was a teacher employed by the Beipei District Thirteenth Middle School in Chongqing City. He taught without notes and was very effective and lively, so he was widely respected and loved by his students. Because he cultivated Falun Dafa and exposed the truth of the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners, he was arrested on August 19th, 2004. He was released on September 19th, 2004, after holding a one-month hunger strike.

On November 28th, 2004, he was arrested in Gaoliang Town and taken to the the Wanzhou District Detention Centre, where they began torturing him for three whole days by tying him up on a metal chair. He could not move because he was handcuffed and his feet were shackled to the chair. This torture resulted in his feet becoming severely swollen and numb, and he had difficulty walking. Mr. Wang went on a hunger strike without water to protest the persecution after he was arrested.

After three days, police officers He Changquan, Tan Xingwei, and Bai Yuwei (all male) from the Beipei Department went to the Wanzhou District and recognised Mr. Wang Guanglin. The officers took him back to the Beipei District Detention Centre. The guards force-fed him twice each day and damaged his stomach. On December 29th, 2004, the detention centre administrators promised to return all his personal property that they had taken, allow his son to visit him, and release him as innocent, so he agreed to end his hunger strike. However, the centre administrators reneged on their promise. They coerced the Chongqing City First Middle Court into rejecting his appeal and sentencing him to 15 years in prison. They took him to Yongchuan Prison on January 19th, 2005. He is now detained in the Eighth Ward of the Chongqing City Second Prison.

Mr. Wang Guanglin firmly believes he is not guilty of any crime. The guards told his family, "[Mr. Wang] does only the Falun Gong exercises and refuses to do labour." He believes he is not a criminal and has never violated the law, so he refuses to cooperate by doing forced labour at the prison.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/8/20/161208.html