(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Wang Dejiang is a Falun Dafa practitioner from Yantai City, Shandong Province. Due to persecution, he had been forced to leave his home and remain destitute for a very long time. On August 15, 2005, Mr. Wang was arrested and viciously beaten. Later, Mr. Wang was severely persecuted while imprisoned at the Huanhai Brainwashing Center and the Zhaoyuan Brainwashing Center. When his condition worsened and his life was in danger, the police left him at the hospital and walked away. On August 31, his family and friends took him home.

Mr. Wang Dejiang is 50 years old. He was an employee at the Yantai Marine Fisheries Corporation. He lived at Xinfu Community, Zhibu District, Yantai City. He was persecuted for practicing Falun Gong. As a result, in order to avoid the persecution, he had not able to live at home for four years.

On the evening of August 15, 2005, guided by the local security guards, police from the Gaoling Police Station of Muping District broke into the homes of Falun Gong practitioners Sun Houqi and Sun Houxuan. Six practitioners were arrested; they are Sun Houlian, Sun Houxuan, Sun Xuejin, Wang Dejiang, Sun Houqi and his wife Wang Chunxiang.

Mr. Wang Dejiang was able to escape from the police. When they ran after him, they told the villagers that they were chasing after a thief. The villagers believed the police and stopped Mr. Wang. When the police caught up with Mr. Wang, they beat him so badly that he passed out. According to an eyewitness, "They used a wooden bench to beat him. They beat him so severely that the bench was smashed from the beating."

They sent Mr. Wang to the Huanhai Brainwashing Center and later transferred him to the Zhaoyuan Brainwashing Center. He refused to cooperate and acknowledge the persecution. He went on a hunger strike in protest, so the police and collaborators beat him. As a result, Mr. Wang's life was in danger.

Around August 24, Mr. Wang was sent to the Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital. He was unable to walk. His left knee turned a dark purple color. There was a bruise under his right arm 10 cm long and 6~7 cm wide. It was unclear if it was from the electric shock or other torture. When his family demanded his release, the police and the hospital ignored their requests. Instead they instructed the caretakers from the fisheries to prevent Mr. Wang's family from visiting him. On August 31, the family and friends took Mr. Wang home. The police officers dared not tell their names or phone numbers.

It has been learned that practitioners Sun Houlian and Sun Houxuan who were arrested along with Mr. Wang are still being detained at the Muping District Detention Center. Sun Houqi, Wang Chunxiang, and Sun Xuejing are all in their sixties. They were first detained at a brainwashing center near the Muping District Communist Party School. When the family went to visit them, they found out that they had already been secretly transferred. Sun Houqi and Wang Chunxiang do not have any family members living with them, so no one is caring for their vegetable garden, chickens, and farm crops.

In March of this year, Gaoling Police Station officers Zhu Jianguo, Yang Yinhai, Hu Fengrui, Wang Li, Yang Xinwei and one more person broke into Sun Houqi's home and searched the place.

The Gaoling Police Station: 86-535-4722006
The Muping State Security Unit Office: 86-535-4212479 ext 4108
Yang Yinhai: 86-13863801960 (Cell), 86-535-4228520 (Home)
Zhu Jianguo: 86-535-4312188 (Home)
Yu MingSi, Secretary of the Political and Judiciary Committee: 86-13606381909 (Cell)