Mr. Pang Shikun Dies in Custody

Name: Pang Shikun
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Address: Fangtai Town, Hulan District, Harbin City, Helongjiang Province
Occupation: Grain trader
Date of Death: June 13th, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: Unknown
Most Recent Place of Detention: Jilin Province Siping Prison
City: Siping
Province: Jilin

Mr. Pang Shikun began cultivating Falun Gong while in prison. He was tortured in Siping Prison and died on June 13th, 2009.

Mr. Pang previously traded grain, and mixed sand in with his grain to increase his profits. He was thus sentenced to more than a dozen years of imprisonment. During his term in Gongzhuling Prison, he learned Falun Gong and enlightened to how a person should live and became determined to become a good person.

However, guards inhumanly tortured him in order to force him give up the practice. He was transferred to the Siping Prison, locked in a small cell with no sunlight or bedding, for 13 months. He had endured unthinkable torture. On June 11th, 2009, guards called his family, said he was dying, and was being bailed out on medical parole. On June 13th, Mr. Pang died in the prison hospital. He was barefooted, and his body was very pale due to being locked in a small cell for such a long time. His body was cremated at 9:00 a.m. on June 18th.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/8/23/207017.html