(Minghui.org) Two and a half years after a Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, resident completed a 4-year term for practicing Falun Gong, he remains wheelchair-bound, incapacitated, and confused, as a result of abuse he suffered in prison.
Mr. Deng Weiyong was arrested on May 5, 2018 and sentenced to four years with a 10,000-yuan fine on December 26, 2019. He was admitted to the Jiazhou Prison in Leshan City in June 2020. His family was only allowed to see him virtually from time to time. He spent the last eight months of his term in three different hospitals after he lost consciousness at a torture session on September 1, 2021. He was repeatedly denied medical parole. His family picked him up from the third hospital when his term ended on May 10, 2022.
Minghui.org previously reported on Mr. Deng’s prison abuse earlier in his term (see related reports for details). The rest of this article details newly available information.
During a video call with his daughter in July 2021, Mr. Deng said that he had severe adverse reactions after receiving two shots of COVID-19 vaccines days earlier. The prison guards, however, still forced him to work long hours during the day and stand until 10 p.m. after dinner, every day. They also starved him and he was always hungry.
Mr. Deng’s family was then not allowed to have any virtual visits with him in August and September 2021. They received a call from the prison on September 27, 2021 notifying them that Mr. Deng had been admitted to the Leshan City Central Hospital weeks ago on September 2. The caller said Mr. Deng complained about lightheadedness, headaches, difficulty walking, and frequent falls. An insider later revealed that he lost consciousness and collapsed on the ground during a morning round of torture on September 1, 2021. The prison didn’t send him to the hospital until the day after.
Another call came from the prison on October 3, 2021, asking Mr. Deng’s family to go to the hospital to see him one last time as he had been issued a critical condition notice. His loved ones rushed to the hospital to see more than 60 police officers patrolling outside. Inside the emergency department, there were over 20 other officers guarding Mr. Deng. They had been waiting for him to take his last breath and were ready to stop his family from taking his body. They didn’t allow his family to whisper into his ears as they wanted to monitor every bit of the conversation.
Mr. Deng was handcuffed and shackled to a hospital bed with IV drips. His family noted a gash on his forehead stitched up with blood stains visible. He had dark circles under his eyes and a black bruise on his left eye, likely from being punched. There was also dried blood on his arms. There was a hole in his left pant leg and a few dried blood clots on his pants. His legs were very thin and red. There was no good skin on the soles of his feet, which had thick calluses and blood stains just like his hands.
Only 54 at the time, Mr. Deng looked like someone in his 70s or 80s. He was asleep when his family walked in. They woke him up and noted that he kept complaining about feeling thirsty even after drinking several glasses of water. Five of his loved ones were allowed inside the room and he could only recognize his older brother. He did not even recognize his wife.
While the prison guard on duty said they had sent people to get food for Mr. Deng, nothing was ever delivered to him. The guard also prohibited Mr. Deng from eating the food his family bought for him.
The police videotaped everything but barred Mr. Deng’s family from filming him being shackled to the bed.
The director of the prison’s in-house clinic was also at the city hospital. He told Mr. Deng’s family that he still twitched and foamed at the mouth sometimes, due to his hypertension-induced stroke symptoms and epilepsy.
During the family’s visit, three prison guards followed them everywhere, including Yang Yan’gang, the head of the prison affairs department. He warned the family not to expose Mr. Deng’s situation online.
Mr. Deng’s family requested medical parole but was repeatedly rejected. He survived and was transferred to the Shuangliu District Airport Prisoner Ward Hospital in Chengdu on October 4, 2021. His loved ones were then told he had schizophrenia and was given antipsychotic medications. As a veteran, he was always very healthy and had no history of mental illness. His family suspected that the new diagnosis was either a new tactic to subject him to nerve-damaging drugs or a result of the horrific torture he went through.
Around mid-January 2022, Mr. Deng was transferred to the Jintang Hospital, where he served the last few months of his term. His family was notified on February 28, 2022 that he had just been issued a critical condition notice due to schizophrenia. That afternoon, his family was allowed to have a video call with him. They saw that he couldn’t stand or walk and had to stay in a wheelchair. When he opened his mouth, they were shocked to see all his teeth were gone. He had a hat on and his family suspected that was likely to cover any wounds on his head. He appeared dazed and confused, with slurred speech.
Mr. Deng’s term ended on May 10, 2022. When his family went to the Jintang Hospital to pick him up, he could not walk and remained incapacitated. His younger brother carried him out of the police car.
Mr. Deng continued to suffer memory decline and cognitive impairment after he was released. His family reported him having an IQ of a toddler. He was weak all over, unable to sit still. He was also incontinent.
His family took him to more than ten hospitals in the past two-plus years, incurring hundreds of thousands of yuan in medical bills. He was diagnosed with a total of 16 different diseases, including stroke, epilepsy, and diabetes. His hair is thinning and graying. He’s also in a confused state most of the time. Despite the treatment, he had almost no improvement and the police still came a few times to harass him.
Related Reports:
Falun Gong Practitioners Tortured in Jiazhou Prison in Sichuan Province, Two Die
Falun Gong Practitioner Starved and Overworked in Prison Until He Collapses
Three Sichuan Residents, Including a 76-year-old Woman, Sentenced to Prison for Their Faith
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