Elderly Mr. Wang Deliang Dies as Result of Persecution

Name: Wang Deliang
Gender: Male
Age: Late 70s
Address: Beixin Village, Qiaoxi District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: September 16th, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: Just prior to August 2008
Most recent place of detention: Zhangjiakou City Legal Education Centre located in the City Drug Rehabilitation Centre
City: Zhangjiakou
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, brainwashing, sentencing, beatings, torture, extortion, home ransacked, interrogation, detention

Mr. Wang Deliang was a kind person. He began practising Falun Gong in 1996, after he retired. He disciplined himself according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance, upgraded his mind nature, and his severe bronchitis and prostatitis were cured. He was almost 70 years old, but looked as if he was in his fifties.

After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20th, 1999, Mr. Wang told people about the benefits of Falun Gong, and he exposed the facts about the persecution. Local government, police, community and neighbourhood administrators, and the 610 Office¹ began observing him closely, and they frequently harassed and threatened him.

On October 25th, 2001, police ransacked Mr. Wang's home, arrested him and his wife, and took their possessions and cash. Officers Zhao Jin'guo, Kang Xin, and Wang Chengzhong brutally beat Mr. Wang, who was as old as their fathers. They stepped on his head, beat, spit-on, shocked him with a electric baton, and extorted 1,000 yuan²The police officers took Mr. Wang to be detained in the Zhangjiakou City Detention Centre after he was held in police custody at the station for a week. Mr. Wang endured 386 days of inhumane torture while in detention, and was sentenced to three years in prison, with four years of parole.

Upon returning home, local 610 Office agents constantly harassed Mr. Wang's family, and threatened them to not leave their home. Before the Beijing Olympics in August 2008, community and neighbourhood administrators with local police arrested Mr. Wang Deliang and his wife, and took them to the Zhangjiakou City Legal Education Centre located in the City Drug Rehabilitation Centre. No legal procedures were followed, and the couple was detained for more than two months. During those two months, the guards were very vicious. Often the food provided was found to contain mouse faeces, and the couple was often starved. This unreasonable two months of detention caused Mr. Wang to become sick with stomach cancer, and he died.

During the past ten years of persecution, Mr. Wang was subjected to unthinkable mistreatment, both physical and mental. Even while he was in the hospital, Wang Wancai, the neighbourhood CCP secretary, called him and tried to get his personal ID, allegedly for "security for the 60th National Day celebration." He threatened Mr. Wang, warning him not to leave his home.

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/10/1/209398.html