Ms Wang Chenglin - Is She Alive or Have the Jinan Prison Officials Tortured Her to Death?

Qingdao Dafa Practitioner Ms Wang Chenglin is currently imprisoned in Jinan Prison, Shandong Province. For the past six months, the prison has prohibited her family members from visiting her, and they are uncertain as to whether or not she is still alive. In early August, the prison staff notified Wang's family members that she was on a hunger strike, and that she had already shown signs of a mental collapse, as she sometimes babbled randomly. Even so, they still prohibited Wang's family members from visiting her. According to other sources, Wang Chenglin is either dead or on the brink of death.

40-year-old Ms. Wang Chenglin is a Dafa practitioner from Qingdao City, Shandong Province. After starting Falun Dafa practice in 2000, she underwent a major physical and spiritual renewal. For telling the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had been misled by the government propaganda she has been arrested and imprisoned twice by the Qingdao City Public Security Bureau. After being released, she was forced to leave her home to avoid further persecution. In November 2002, she was once again detained by the Anqiu City Public Security Bureau, and had ten thousand yuan¹extorted from her before being released. In April 2003, while distributing leaflets exposing the persecution, she was again arrested and sentenced to eleven years in prison, and is currently in Jinan Prison in Shandong Province.

Since January 2004, Wang Chenglin's family members have gone to the prison eight times, but they have only been allowed to see her on three of those occasions. Her family members have not seen her at all since March 2005. In April 2005, Wang's sister went to the prison to visit her, but the prison team leader refused, saying that Wang had broken prison rules and was in isolation. In early August, Wang's sister went to the prison again, and this time, the prison team leader told her that Wang Chenglin was currently on a hunger strike so she could not see her. Moreover, he said that Wang had lost her sanity and that she babbled senselessly at times. Wang Chenglin's family members are very worried, and have heard from other sources that she has been tortured to death or to the brink of death.

In addition to Wang Chenglin, nine other Dafa practitioners are also imprisoned in the Jinan Prison and are being subjected to the same torture. When Wang Chenglin's sisters tried to visit her in prison again some time later, not only did the prison refuse to let them see Wang Chenglin, but they also blocked them from filing an official complaint to the local People's Procuratorate². It is uncertain as to whether Wang Chenglin is even alive right now.

We urgently appeal to the international community to regard this issue with great concern. We request that an immediate investigation be launched to find out the facts about the persecution of Dafa practitioners who are detained in the Jinan Prison of Shandong Province. This would hopefully compel the Chinese Communist Party to release all illegally imprisoned Dafa practitioners in prisons across China immediately, and to restore the good reputation of Falun Dafa.

Note

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

2. Procuratorate: The Chinese state organ responsible for legal supervision. Its functions include deciding on arrest and prosecution of major criminal cases, conducting investigations, initiating and supporting public prosecutions, interpreting the law in specific applications, supervising courts decisions, monitoring judicial procedures, and supervision over activities of prisons, detention centres, and labour camps.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/10/1/111561.html