Seventy-Year-Old Resident of Sichuan Province Dies from Torture and Injection of Drugs

Wang Zengren, 70 years old, was from Deyang City, Sichuan province. He was repeatedly detained and persecuted by police and 610 Office¹ staff because he persisted in practising Falun Dafa. In May 2003, he was sentenced to forced labour. In Deyang prison he was tortured and drugged. His skull had two holes from beatings, so he was released on medical parole. He passed away on January 29th, 2006. More details follow.

Mr. Wang Zengren was from Gaodou village, Deyang city. He had retired from the first division of the Mechanical Construction Company in Sichuan province. Before practising Falun Gong, he had heart disease, diabetes and rectal cancer. He began to practise Falun Gong in 1997, and in two years all his diseases disappeared without further treatment. He felt the happiness of being free of pain. After the persecution began, he was detained three times because he explained the true situation of Falun Gong. Police ransacked his home many times, and confiscated two years' salary totalling 32,000 yuan².

In the last ten days of October 2000, policeman Lin Dexi arrested Mr. Wang. Lin was manipulated by the director of Jingyang district police sub-station, Xiang Huaming. Mr. Wang was handcuffed and detained at the police sub-station for one night. The next day he was sent to Deyang Detention Centre and detained for fifteen days.

At around 11 p.m. on August 15th, 2001, police Xiang Huaming and Lin Dexi and 12 others went to Gaodou village, Yangjia town and seized Wang Zengren and his wife Tian Xingqiong. They took them to the local police station. Wang and his wife were not allowed to sleep, and they were bitten by mosquitoes all night. Several Dafa books, leaflets exposing the persecution, ID cards and address books were confiscated from their home. On August 16th, Wang Zengren was detained at the Deyang City Detention Centre for another fifteen days. He was transferred to another detention centre and detained for another fifteen days.

In 2001, Yangjia town police caught Wang Zenren at the Deyang railway station and sent him to the Deyang City Detention Centre for fifteen days. He was held for another four days by Yangjia town police. In the meantime, six to seven people--including police from Yangjia police station and Gaodou village security officer Yu Yunshou--broke down the door to Wang's house and ransacked it.

On August 23rd, 2002 Wang Zengren was again arrested, this time because he took part in a Falun Gong group practice with 92 people. At around 11:15 a.m. on September 25th, 2002, Wang Zengren was deceived by Yangjia police chief Xiang Huaming into going to the police station. Xiang Huaming ordered Gongnong police to send Wang Zengren to Deyang city detention centre. He was detained there for nine months and in the middle of May 2003, he was sentenced to two years of forced labour. His pension was also stopped.

On June 30th, 2003, Wang Zengren was detained at Deyang city prison, where the guards tortured him. The following is what Wang Zengren said before his death: "On the morning of August 4th, two guards told me to go to the health office at the gate. One of them named Cui said I should stand by the window. He then told me to bend toward the windowsill. He wiped my head with an unknown drug and I fainted suddenly."

Wang Zengren was injected with unknown drugs and was kept unconscious for 12 days. He was incontinent, suffered anal erosion, his legs were swollen and he could not walk. Wang's head had two holes in it from the beatings he received, and as a result of all the persecution he suffered, Wang could no longer take care of himself. Wang Zengren was released on medical parole and he passed away on January 29, 2006.

Deyang prison in Sichuan province (also named the Ninety fifth Plant at Deyang city Sichuan province) postal code: 618007
Telephone: 86-838-3820115, 86-838-3820224
Head of Ninety fifth Plant at Deyang city: Ma Aijun
Political division of Deyang city prison: 86-838-380225
Director of prison political division: Wang Gang
Life division: Li Kaili
Head of No. 2 ward in the Ninety fifth Plant at Deyang city: Zeng Guofu
Deyang city Police Department: 86-8383-2203029
Jingyang Sub-division of Deyang city Police Department 86-838-2207263, Director Office: 86-838-2203760, 86-838-2202727 (Office)
Political and legal committee: 86-838-2202774

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/2006/3/4/122041.html