(Minghui.org)
Name: Liang WeishengChinese Name: 梁维生Gender: MaleAge: 76City: N/AProvince: BeijingOccupation: Former teacherDate of Death: February 28, 2023Date of Most Recent Arrest: September 5, 2019Most Recent Place of Detention: Qianjin Prison
A 76-year-old Falun Gong practitioner in Beijing passed away on February 28, 2023, after serving a five-year prison term and being forced to move from place to place yet still unable to avoid police harassment.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Mr. Liang Weisheng worked as a teacher and later became the director of the Shunyi District Science Association. He struggled with poor health from the time he was young. He had psoriasis on his legs that oozed pus nonstop. In 1997, Mr. Liang was introduced to Falun Gong. After one week of practice, his legs began to heal and he completely recovered in five days.
When the persecution of Falun Gong started two years later, he was demoted from the director of the science association to be the security guard.
Police officers broke into Mr. Liang’s home at 10: 30 p.m. on April 26, 2011, and spent five hours ransacking his home. He was taken to the police station at 3:30 a.m. and transferred to the Nihe Detention Center the next day. A month later he was admitted to the Beijing No.2 Detention Center.
He was moved back to the Nihe Detention Center in December 2011, and the Shunyi District Court sentenced him to five years on December 20. He appealed with the Beijing City No.2 Intermediate Court, which ruled to uphold his original sentence. Mr. Liang was admitted to Qianjin Prison shortly after.
Due to the long-term torture in prison, Mr. Liang suffered a stroke in late 2015 and was in the prison hospital’s intensive care unit for a month. He was released on April 26, 2016.
Despite his mobility issues (a side effect of the stroke), he still joined his brothers in taking turns caring for their mother.
To avoid police harassment, Mr. Liang and his wife moved to a new apartment in 2017. The police located them soon and pressured their landlord into terminating their lease in just three months. Not long after the couple moved elsewhere, the social security bureau suspended Mr. Liang’s pension. He filed a lawsuit against the bureau, but the court declined to hear his case and ordered the police to pressure his landlord into evicting him and his wife again. The police followed the couple when they moved a third time and constantly harassed them.
Mr. Liang’s 97-year-old mother fell ill and became incapacitated in 2019. Shortly after he returned home on September 5, 2019, after feeding her breakfast, the police broke in, arrested him and his wife, and took them to the Nihe Detention Center. Because both of them had disqualifying medical conditions, the detention center refused to admit them. The police released them on bail but pressured their landlord and forced the couple to move again, the fourth time in two years.
No matter where the couple was, the police never stopped harassing them, usually once or twice every month. Mr. Liang wrote to the director of the Shunyi District Police Department and the deputy chief of Zhangzhen Police Station, urging them not to participate in the persecution.
Seeing that the letter was printed instead of handwritten, the police chief suspected that Mr. Liang was printing Falun Gong informational materials at home. He presented a fake warrant without his name or the police department’s seal and searched Mr. Liang’s home.
After that, the neighborhood security guards began to monitor the couple. They followed them wherever they went. The monthly harassment by the police also continued.
Unable o bear the mental distress, Mr. Liang passed away on February 28, 2023. He was 76.
Zhang Jun (张军), chief of Zhangzhen Police Station: +86-10-61480506Wang Yunxiao (王云霄), deputy police chiefFan Qiang (范强), deputy police chief