More Information About How Wang Ziguang Was Tortured to Death

Falun Dafa practitioner Wang Ziguang was a mathematics and physical education teacher in a middle school in Jilin City. He had taught for dozens of years and was awarded the honour of "Extraordinary Teacher." Once when he was setting up the electric line for the school, he fell down from the table, causing a serious lumbar protrusion. It cost tens of thousands of yuan (1) for his therapy, but it was all in vain. The pain of the injury tortured him so much that he could not teach anymore. He had to leave his teaching post and rest at home.

It was at this time that Mr. Wang started to practise Falun Gong. He no longer needed his thick glasses and his back pain also disappeared.

After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, Wang Ziguang decided to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. He and other practitioners stepped onto Tiananmen Square and were then arrested and taken back by policemen to their hometowns and sent to brainwashing classes. In the class, policemen forbade Mr. Wang from appealling again, threatening him with dismissal from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Wang Ziguang chose to resign from the CCP immediately. He was detained in the police station for a day and a night. Later, he was detained in the Jilin Detention Centre for 15 days. The policemen forced his family to submit an "accommodation fee."

In October 1999, Wang Ziguang went to Tiananmen Square for the second time. He entered the People's Hall and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" He was taken to Jilin Detention Centre and later was transferred to Huanxiling Labour Camp in Jilin.

In the detention centre, the guards instigated criminal inmates to torture Wang Ziguang using vicious means. Several criminals beat him, forced him to brush his teeth with the phlegm of the criminals, and forbade him from eating.

In the labour camp, the environment for studying the Falun Dafa teachings and practising the exercises was taken away. Furthermore, Mr. Wang was beaten frequently and could not get enough to eat. Under such bad conditions, Wang Ziguang's health kept getting worse. At that time, the labour camp ordered his wife, a former practitioner in Changchun Women's Labour Camp who had been "transformed," (2) to force him to give up Dafa. Wang Ziguang sadly signed the divorce agreement letter.

Suffering from both mental and physical attacks, Wang Ziguang, who believed firmly in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance," was tortured nearly to death. The authorities did not release him until September of 2000 when they saw that he was dying. By then, Wang Ziguang had entered the late phase of liver ascites. His abdomen became terribly swollen, and he could not eat or drink anything. Three months later, in December 2000, Wang Ziguang passed away due to the persecution.

Note:

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

(2) "Reform or Transform" Implementation of brainwashing and torture in order to force a practitioner to renounce Falun Gong. (Variations: "reform", "transform", "reformed", "reforming", "transformed", "transforming", and "transformation")

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/3/31/98510.html