Older Practitioner Mr. Wang Shouren Dies Two Months after Release from Henan Province Forced Labour Camp

Mr. Wang Shouren, 64 lived in Dongguo Village, Qiaolou Town, Xingyang City, Henan Province. He began practising Falun Gong in 1997. After the persecution started in July 1999, he believed there was nothing wrong with being a better person according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. He distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong to people, but he was arrested in September 2000. The police ransacked his home and put him under custody for several months on the second floor of the Xingyang City Foreign Trading Company. They then transferred him to be brainwashed for three months in the Party Training School.

In the middle of one night in the summer of 2002, the police ransacked his home again and forcibly took him to a brainwashing centre for two more months. On August 21st, 2003, he was arrested and detained for more than 20 days in the Dongguan Detention Centre in Xingyang City.

In 2004, Mr. Wang was arrested and taken to brainwashing centres twice, each for 15 days. Because he refused to give up his faith, he was sentenced to one year of forced labour in 2005, which he served in the Baimiao Labour Camp located in Zhengzhou City. He was forced to do slave labour for more than ten hours each day. In April 2006, guard Lu Shuangfu ordered each detained practitioner to fill out a quiz that slandered Falun Gong. Mr. Wang Shouren refused to cooperate. Lu took him to the prison office, kicked his calves until they bled, and stomped on his body after they pushed him down to the floor.

In May 2007, Mr. Wang was arrested again by Xingyang City Domestic Security agents and sentenced to 18 months of forced labour. He was taken to the Baimiao Labour Camp again and imprisoned in the Third Ward. Before the 2008 New Year, all of the prisoners were forced to do slave labour for 18 hours each day, which was later reduced to 15 hours. Under such severe conditions, Mr. Wang was too weak to eat, emaciated, and could not take care of himself when the Camp Administration released him. He died two months after returning home at 8:30 p.m. on September 14th, 2008.

He Baoxi, Xingyang City CCP Political and Judiciary Committee Secretary: 86-13603823989 (Mobile)
Zhao Weidong, Xingyang City Domestic Security Division Leader
Han Hongtao, Third Warden of Baimiao Forced Labour Camp

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2008/11/22/190282.html