Wang Guiming Tortured to Death, His Wife, Threatened after Appealing on His Behalf, Is Afraid to Go Home

Mr. Wang Guiming, a Falun Gong practitioner from Tonghua City, Jilin Province, was arrested and sent to the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp in Changchun City on February 27th, 2008, by officers at the Xinzhan Police Station in Tonghua City. On February 29th, at the age of 38, he died as a result of torture in the labour camp. His wife, Han Fengxia, appealed on behalf of her husband. As a result Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities from the police station and the street and community administration offices have threatened her many times. Right now she is too frightened to go home.

In 2006, Ms. Han was arrested by Dongchang District Domestic Security agents from Tonghua City and detained in Changliu Detention Centre for a month because she tried to rescue her husband who was on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

According to a reliable source, Wang Guiming died from being electrically shocked with many electric batons. His head had two straight wounds more than 10 centimetres in length. The wounds were not stitched together and there wasn't any swelling or blood.

Mr. Wang was arrested by Dongchang District Domestic Security agents in 2002 and sentenced to five years in prison. He was previously imprisoned in Jilin Province Prison and Siping City Prison and was brutally tortured in both places. He was detained in solitary confinement in March 2006. The police used four electric batons to beat him when he was in solitary, causing severe facial injuries.

In order to survive, Wang Guiming had to sell baked sweet potatoes at the Hongyuan Market in Tonghua City for a living. On the afternoon of February 13th, 2008, he was reported to police when he distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong at the Hongyuan Market. At 2 p.m., Xinzhan Police Station Political Director Zhang Xiaoxu arrested Mr. Wang, who was interrogated for seven hours and then taken to Changliu Detention Centre to be detained at 9:20 p.m.

Mr. Wang was then sentenced to two years of forced labour and taken to Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp. After just three days in the New Arrival Ward of the Chaoyanggou Forced Labour Camp, he was dead as the result of torture. As soon as Mr. Wang died, Chaoyanggou Labour Camp officials sealed off all outgoing information and closed down the New Arrival Ward. The labour camp did not notify Wang Guiming's family directly about his death. Instead, they told the local police to pass on a message to his family to bring him some clothes. His family did not go that same day. The next day, officials called Mr. Wang's elder sister and told her that Wang Guiming had died. They told his family to come to the labour camp. Until March 3rd, 2008, the labour camp officials allowed Mr. Wang's family to see his body but emphasized that they would not be allowed to take photos. They also assigned police to accompany the family and claimed that they "were afraid that the family would take the body away."

His family filed an appeal with the Chengjiao District Procuratorate in Changchun City, Jilin Province. They went to the Procuratorate twice within two days, but a Procuratorate official said, "Tell the labour camp to give them eight to ten thousand yuan¹ and everything will be settled." Right now Wang Guiming's wife, Han Fengxian, is being threatened by CCP members and she is afraid to go home. We call for help from the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong and other justice organizations.

Contact information:
Xinzhan Police Station in Tonghua City, Jilin Province: 86-435-3616892
Director Feng Gang
Deputy Director Liu Haitao (who was involved in Wang Guiming's case and appealed the two years of forced labour at Wang Guiming)
Political Director Zhang Xiaoxu: 86-13944596115(Mobile), 86-435-3909516(Home)

Personnel who approved Wang Guiming's forced labour case:
Deputy Director of the Dongchang District Police Department in Tonghua City Chen Cheng
Xue Guibin and Zhang Shanliang from the 610 Office: 86-435-3231120

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Note

1. "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.org/mh/articles/2008/3/14/174291.html