Falun Gong Practitioner Mr. Lin Wenwei in Critical Condition After Being Tortured

Name: Lin Wenwei
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: Xiamen City
Date of Most Recent Arrest: Late 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Fuqing Prison, Fuzhou, Fujian Province
Province: Fujian

In early November 2010, Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Lin Wenwei was tortured at Fuqing Prison until he was in critical condition. Guards took him to Fuzhou Hospital and notified his family only after his condition failed to improve. Mr. Lin's sister and her husband went to Fuzhou Hospital and found that his entire body was black and blue. They asked the hospital officials for his release, so that they could take him back to Xiamen City for treatment. Mr. Lin was then brought to the Haichang Number 2 Hospital in Xiamen by ambulance. After a few days of treatment, Mr. Lin regained consciousness, but he couldn't think or speak clearly, nor could he remember the details of his ordeal at Fuqing Prison. His internal organs were damaged and he showed symptoms of brain atrophy. The prison officials demanded that Mr. Lin's family pay the ambulance expenses, but they refused. The prison refused to pay any additional medical expenses for Mr. Lin.

This is the third time that Mr. Lin Wenwei was tortured. Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong in 1999, the Xiamen 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong), Public Security Team, State Security Team, and residential committees have continuously pressured and harassed Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioners have been followed, arrested, and had their homes ransacked. Mr. Lin's home was monitored by the Shuanglianchi Residential Committee, which reported to the Xiahe Police Station. He was often harassed or followed by residential committee staff members, and his home was also ransacked.

Mr. Lin went to Beijing in early 2000 to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. For this he was arrested and returned to Xiamen, and then sentenced to three years in prison. He was released after completing his prison term, and then monitored and followed by police.

On May 23rd, 2004, the day of the Qingming Festival, Mr. Lin was arrested while shopping for groceries, and taken to the police station. The police didn't notify his family until that afternoon. Mr. Lin was sentenced to three years in prison, which caused his father to grieve and later become seriously ill. He passed away while Mr. Lin was in prison.

Mr. Lin distributed leaflets exposing the persecution of Falun Gong to people on the street in late 2009. He was followed and arrested by Xiamen 610 Office agents and Public Security Team members. He was sentenced to a four-year term at Fuqing Prison, where he was tortured.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/12/22/233972.html