Mr. Wang Zechen, a Retired Prosecutor with the Beijing Procuratorate, Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison

Name: Wang Zechen
Gender: Male
Age: 69
Address: Tongzhou District, Beijing
Occupation: a retired prosecutor at a subdivision of Beijing Procuratorate
Date of Most Recent Arrest: 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Qianjin Prison
City: Beijing
Persecution Suffered: Imprisonment, deprivation of pension

Mr. Wang Zechen was a prosecutor at a subdivision of the Beijing Procuratorate. Sometime after he retired, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for practising Falun Gong. He is being detained at Qianjin Prison in Beijing.

Mr. Wang Zechen, 69, is a resident of the Tongzhou District of Beijing. He is kind and honest and worked diligently before retiring from the Beijing Procuratorate with commendation as an excellent prosecutor.

In 2009, he was arrested in Beijing and sentenced to eight years in prison the following year.

Mr. Wang was very healthy before his arrest. After many months of imprisonment, however, he became weak and his hair turned grey. During his imprisonment, he has been sent to a hospital for about 45 days as a result of ill-treatment in prison.

After he was sentenced, his former employer stopped paying him his pension.

Please share any information you may have about Mr. Wang's situation.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/9/29/230301.html