(Minghui.org) A man in Linyi County, Shanxi Province, was brutally tortured while serving a six-year term for his faith in Falun Gong. He remains incapacitated after his prison release on November 6, 2018.
Mr. Wang Shimin’s prison sentence stemmed from his arrest on May 22, 2012, by agents from the Linyi County 610 Office. They confiscated his Falun Gong books and laptop. They took him to their office the next day and released him on bail that night upon his family’s strong request.
An officer from the Beixin Police Station called Mr. Wang on November 6, 2012 asking him to pick up the confiscated laptop. He went, only to be seized on arrival by captain Linghu Chunxi from the Linyi County Domestic Security Office and three other officers including Zhang Yunlai.
Mr. Wang’s family went to the Linyi County Detention Center three times but was denied visits with him each time. The Linyi County Court heard his case on May 3, 2013 and sentenced him to six years.
The Yuncheng City Intermediate Court ruled to uphold Mr. Wang’s wrongful conviction without holding an open hearing. Yuncheng oversees Linyi County.
On September 17, 2013, Mr. Wang was admitted to the Jinzhong Prison, where he previously served a three-year term for his faith. His family was not notified of the prison transfer in advance.
While held at the team for the elderly and the infirm, Mr. Wang was savagely beaten on many occasions. Once his mouth bled profusely after one round of beatings and the blood soaked half of his shirt. Another time an inmate kicked him on the thigh so hard that he spun uncontrollably and one of his legs remained up for a while. Instructor Sun Wenbin did nothing to stop the inmate.
Due to long-term abuse, Mr. Wang developed paralysis on one side of his body. By 2016, he became completely paralyzed and could not walk at all. The prison sent him to the 109 Hospital (also unknown as Xinkang Prison) in January 2017. Weeks later his family was notified to visit him in the Shanxi Province Police Hospital. They went and noted he was on the verge of death. Their parole request went unanswered.
Mr. Wang was taken back to the Jinzhong Prison on March 13, 2017. Division 16 head asked his family to purchase him a wheelchair.
On November 6, 2018, Mr. Wang’s scheduled day of release, the Linyi County 610 Office picked him up and drove him to the Sunji Town Hospital in Linyi County, where his family was asked to wait for him. He was carried out of the vehicle on a gurney. He remained bedridden and wheelchair-bound in the years that followed. The prison has never provided any compensation to him.
According to insiders, many more Falun Gong practitioners after Mr. Wang are still being tortured in the Jinzhong Prison (located in Qi County, Jinzhong City). The Beijing Prison sent delegates to Jinzhong around April 20, 2025 to train the guards there to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
Starting in May 2025, the Jinzhong Prison put newly admitted practitioners in an isolation room on the fourth floor one by one to go through intensive brainwashing. The practitioners were forced to stand all day long without sleep. They were beaten and pepper-sprayed. After some time, the practitioners were assigned to various divisions, where they were again put in solitary confinement.
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