(Minghui.org)
Name: Wang JinrongChinese Name: 王金蓉Gender: FemaleAge: 68City: ChifengProvince: Inner MongoliaOccupation: N/ADate of Death: April 2025Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 22, 2015Most Recent Place of Detention: Inner Mongolia Women’s Prison
A woman in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, died in April 2025, four years after surviving a 5.5-year prison term for practicing Falun Gong. She was 68.
Ms. Wang Jinrong became a divorced parent in her 30s and raised her son by herself. After she took up Falun Gong in 1996, she came to understand that there’s a reason behind everything. She let go of her resentment towards her ex-husband and no longer felt that life was a burden.
After the communist regime launched the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Wang held firm to her faith and was repeatedly targeted. She was arrested on June 1, 2001, while making copies of Falun Gong teachings at a print shop. The police interrogated her under torture in a warehouse for four straight days. They shocked her with electric batons all over her body. At one point, they pressed an electric baton on the top of her head for such a long time that they caused her skull to sink in. She later recounted the electric shocks and other forms of torture in those four days. See the first related report for details.
Ms. Wang was later given one year of forced labor. After she was released, she resumed her efforts to raise awareness of the persecution. She was arrested again on July 21, 2015, while passing a highway toll station. Four other practitioners riding in the same car with her were also arrested, including Mr. Qu Yazhong, Mr. Qi Hongshu, Ms. Wei Guoyu, and Ms. Zhang Chunyan. The car was also impounded.
Captain Xu Guofeng of the Songshan District Domestic Security Office in Chifeng City accused the five practitioners of distributing the Falun Gong materials that he and his deputies had found around Songshan District. Eager to accumulate political capital, he reported the group arrests directly to the Inner Mongolia Public Security Bureau, instead of his direct supervisor, the Chifeng District Police Department.
Mr. Qu, who was the driver, was beaten by the police and sustained injuries. The local detention center initially declined to admit him but relented under police pressure. The police took Mr. Qu, handcuffed, to his home the next day for a raid.
Captain Xu also raided Ms. Wang’s home on July 22, 2015 and did not find any Falun Gong-related items. He saw a note her son left for her on a desk and arrested the young man. He accused him of moving Ms. Wang’s Falun Gong materials. Her son denied having done so and was held in custody for several days. Xu threatened to get him fired and he eventually caved in.
With her son’s “confession” that she owned Falun Gong materials and other “evidence,” captain Xu built a case against Ms. Wang. The other four practitioners were also indicted.
The Songshan District Court sentenced all five practitioners at an unknown time, with Ms. Wang receiving 5.5 years, Mr. Qi 6.5 years, Ms. Zhang 5 years, Mr. Qu 3.5 years, and Ms. Wei 3 years.
Ms. Wang served time at the Inner Mongolia Women’s Prison. Her son did not visit her even once or deposit any money into her commissary account during her five and a half years of detention. Misled by the hate propaganda against Falun Gong, he held resentment towards his own mother for “having implicated him” with her faith.
The Chifeng City Social Security Office stopped Ms. Wang’s pension after she was released on January 21, 2021 and ordered her to return the retirement benefits issued during her imprisonment as a condition to resume her pension. Her son, who had been collecting her benefits for her, returned the funds. It was unclear whether Ms. Wang’s pension was reinstated after that.
Ms. Wang passed away in April 2025. Her son, who still resented her for “giving him a hard life” due to the repeated persecution against her, did not even change her clothes per Chinese tradition. He had her body cremated and tossed the ashes into the ocean.
Related Reports:
Ms. Wang Jinrong Recounts Torture by Officers from the Chifeng City Domestic Security Division
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