(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Wang Shengbiao, a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, is currently imprisoned in the Second Brigade of the Shijiazhuang City Labor Camp. He is very likely to be transferred in the near future. Mr. Wang has been tortured so badly that one of his legs has become paralyzed and he is unable to walk. He is extremely weak.
Mr. Wang was secretly arrested in early August of 2003. Ma Wensheng, who was an officer of the "610 Office" [1] and Police Department in Shijiazhuang City, and his associates had not been able to fabricate enough "evidence" against him at that time, but didn't want to release Mr. Wang either. Thus, they sent him to the labor camp.
Mr. Wang was sentenced to three years of labor camp at the end of January 2004. He was imprisoned in the Second Brigade, where he was tortured brutally. On his first day at the labor camp, the guards subjected him to the "Wearing Down the Eagle" method, which is basically sleep deprivation. They deprived him of sleep for five consecutive days by beating him whenever he closed his eyes. When Mr. Wang did not yield under torture, the guards forced him to maintain the "Horse Stance" posture [2] for more than twenty hours at one time. Mr. Wang refused to sign the so-called "Four Statements" (the Guarantee Statement, Repentance Statement, Disclosure Statement and Dissociation Statement) [3]. The ranking guard ordered other prisoners to beat him mercilessly, causing Mr. Wang's right leg to become partially handicapped.
Ma Wensheng, who is an officer in the 610 Office in Shijiazhuang City, as well as the deputy chief of the Political Security team in Shijiazhuang City Police Department, has been involved in the imprisonment and persecution of nearly every Dafa practitioner in Shijiazhuang City. Since 1999, Ma has done everything in his power to persecute practitioners. We hope that other practitioners with additional information about crimes he may have committed will expose them so that we can submit evidence of his crimes to the proper courts in the near future.
Fellow practitioners all over the world are paying close attention to Mr. Wang Shengbiao's status and are actively trying to rescue him.
[1] 610 Office: An agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.
[2] "Horse Stance" is a forced posture in which the practitioners are not allowed to squat down or stand up, but are forced to maintain a position in between. This position is extremely painful because the body is immobilized and the legs become numb after a while.
[3] The so-called "Four Statements": The "Guarantee Statement", declares that the undersigned is remorseful for practicing Falun Gong and guarantees not to practice Falun Gong again, not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and never again to associate with Falun Dafa practitioners. The "Repentance Statement", declares that the undersigned admits remorse for practicing Falun Gong, promises to give up Falun Gong, and will never again associate with other practitioners or go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. The "Disclosure Statement" is meant to provide a list of names and addresses of all family members, friends and acquaintances who also practice Falun Gong. The "Dissociation Statement", states that the undersigned will no longer associate with Falun Gong and promises not go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.