A Well-Regarded Person Arrested Again

Name: Wang Shenlun
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Address: Boyuquan District in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province
Occupation: Worker
Date of Most Recent Arrest: June 10th, 2009
Most recent place of detention: Boyuquan Detention Centre
City: Yingkou
Province: Liaoning
Persecution Suffered: Forced Labour, Administration of Drugs, Sleep Deprivation
Key Persecutors: Wang Hongkui

On June 10th, 2009, a group of police officers from the Boyuquan National Police Squadron in Yingkou City, Liaoning Province, led by Wang Hongkui, went to the home of practitioner Wang Shenlun. After they arrested him and took him to the detention centre, they took his key and ransacked his house when no one was there. They seized his notebook computer and other personal property, worth over 10,000 yuan¹. When his wife got home and tried to stop them, Wang Hongkui attempted to arrest her too. She steadfastly rejected them. In the end, they wanted her to sign the list of the seized property, but she refused and Wang Hongkui signed it himself instead.

A few days later, Mr. Wang was taken to the Boyuquan Jail, but family members were not allowed to visit him. His eighty-year-old mother and other family members went to the National Security Squadron many times to request Mr. Wang's release, but they were rejected by Wang Hongkui and were told that Mr. Wang would be prosecuted and sentenced to prison.

Mr. Wang was jailed and put in the forced labour camp in 2000, and was fed with food laced with unknown drugs.

In December 2000, when Mr. Wang worked at a glass shop in the 475 Military Factory, he was arrested by officers from the local Goumenzi Police Station and the 475 Factory Police Department. He was held in Lingyuan City Detention Centre for five months. He was subsequently sentenced to three years of forced labour and jailed in Ward II of Xidayingzi Forced Labour Camp in Chaoyang City. He was released in March 2002.

During Mr. Wang's detention in Lingyuan City Jail, the police tortured him by forcing him to sit on a small, narrow bench for extended periods of time, attempting to force him to give up his belief. The family members had to pay to see him and also had money extorted from them for his "meal fee" and "warmth fee."

In the forced labour camp, Mr. Wang was forcibly brainwashed, deprived of sleep, and drugged through his food. He became dizzy and confused after eating the food and was seriously injured both physically and mentally. When he was released 15 months later, he had a tumour on his face. During this period, the whole family lived on the meagre income of his wife's 300 yuan per month.

While Mr. Wang was jailed, his son's fifth-grade school teacher harassed his son, and class director Yu Shuhua punished him often. She told the child to sit on the podium in class and had him stand where the wind blew in the winter. On one occasion she insulted the child in front of the class by saying that his hair looked like that of an inmate in a forced labour camp, and asked him to recite articles desecrating Falun Gong. When the child refused, she took his book bag to the office and refused to let him stay in the class.

Mr. Wang, 47, originally worked at the glass factory at the 475 Military Factory in Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province. After the factory went into bankruptcy and moved, he moved with it to Boyuquan District of Yingkou City. He enjoyed helping people, and was often commended for his work. After he began cultivating Falun Gong, he became an even better person by following Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. His managers all knew that he cultivated in Falun Gong and posted his commendations outside the factory gate to show other employees.

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.ca/mh/articles/2009/8/25/207125.html