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Name: Liu WanshengChinese Name: 刘万胜Gender: MaleAge: 71City: JinzhouProvince: LiaoningOccupation: N/ADate of Death: April 29, 2026Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 23, 2020Most Recent Place of Detention: Jinzhou Prison
Mr. Liu Wansheng was in critical condition on April 22, 2026, when he was released from six years in prison for practicing Falun Gong. He died eight days later, on April 29. He was 71.
Mr. Liu, of Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province, remained in a coma in his final days. There were only a few very brief moments when he appeared to hear his loved ones talking to him, but he was unable to move or utter a word. He had wounds on both his ankles and wrists, which may have been caused by being handcuffed and shackled to a bed in prison.
Mr. Liu Wansheng
Mr. Liu Wansheng, four days after he was released
Mr. Liu’s wife, also a Falun Gong practitioner, became ill after he was sentenced to six years in 2020. She was dealt another blow when Mr. Liu’s pension was suspended later on. She succumbed to the mental distress and died around 2024. The couple are survived by their only son, who struggles with depression and is unable to work after witnessing the persecution his parents endured over the years.
Mr. Liu’s Last Arrest and Sentence
Mr. Liu was arrested on April 23, 2020, for talking to people about Falun Gong at a bus station. The police ransacked his home and confiscated his belongings.
On the second day of Mr. Liu’s arrest, his father, who is in his 80s, went to seek his release, but to no avail. Three days later, the elderly man went to the local police station again. The police said to him, “This is different from last time. This time, we are going to submit his case to the procuratorate.”
The “last time” referred to Mr. Liu’s earlier arrest in January 2019, also for talking to people about Falun Gong. The police released him soon after without seeking prosecution.
Mr. Liu’s arrest and subsequent prosecution dealt a heavy blow to his father, who soon passed away.
After the police submitted Mr. Liu’s case, the Linghe District Procuratorate approved his arrest in late April 2020 and indicted him not long after. He was tried through a virtual hearing by the Linghai City Court inside the Jinzhou City Detention Center on September 4, before being sentenced to six years and fined 10,000 yuan on September 30, 2020. He appealed with the Jinzhou City Intermediate Court, which ruled to uphold his original verdict.
Mr. Liu was taken to the Panjin Prison in March 2021 and later transferred to the Jinzhou Prison. Due to the poor conditions and severe abuse in prison, his health gradually declined.
The Jinzhou Prison guards took Mr. Liu to the Jinzhou City Hospital on November 23, 2025. He was discharged at 3 p.m. on November 27, only to be rushed to the same hospital’s emergency room (ER) three hours later. He was returned to the prison late that night. His family was notified of his inpatient care and ER visit but they were not allowed to visit him.
Mr. Liu was rushed to the Jinzhou City Hospital again on December 12, 2025, after he fell into critical condition.
Son’s Appeal
To seek justice for his father after his latest arrest, Mr. Liu’s son wrote to the prosecutor and judge, detailing the positive changes in his father from practicing Falun Gong, and the family’s suffering in the past two decades due to the persecution. He urged the authorities to release his father.
Mr. Liu’s son wrote,
“My mother was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 1995. Our family spent a fortune seeking medical treatment for her, but she didn’t see much improvement. She later took up Falun Gong upon other people’s recommendations and completely recovered soon after.
“At that time, my father also suffered from poor health. Especially with his irregular heartbeat, he was unable to sleep at night. Upon seeing my mother’s changes, he also learned Falun Gong. For the many years that followed, both of them enjoyed good health and didn’t need to see the doctor. I’m really grateful for Falun Gong from the bottom of my heart.
“Although I don’t practice Falun Gong myself, I’m really impressed to see how Falun Gong changed my father into a better person. He stopped taking advantage of others in doing business. He became honest and was always ready to help others. He often taught me to be a good person as well.
“Since the Chinese Communist Party began to persecute Falun Gong in 1999, I have not lived one day in peace. For the past twenty years, my father and mother have been arrested one after another. That’s why I’m so sick of instant noodles now, because I’ve eaten too many of them during the years when both my parents were serving labor camp terms. I was also traumatized by witnessing the police ransacking my home so many times. Whenever I see police cars on the street, I’m frozen with fear.”
Family’s Past Persecution
Mr. Liu took up Falun Gong in July 1996. He let go of the attachment to personal interest, and returned the money concerning two disputed invoices that his suppliers claimed that his company owed them, even though the court ruled in his favor in one of the cases.
After the Chinese Communist Party ordered the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, both he and his wife, Ms. Zhou Hua, were repeatedly targeted for upholding their faith. They were forced to shut down their online store, which caused tremendous financial loss for the family.
In addition to Mr. Liu’s father, Ms. Zhou’s mother also died in deep sadness when the couple were detained for their faith.
Mr. Liu’s Early Arrests and Detention
Mr. Liu was arrested twice, in July and September 1999, and was detained 15 days each time.
He was arrested again in 2001. The police took him to an empty room, where they twisted his left hand behind his back to be handcuffed to his right hand, which was pulled over his right shoulder (see illustration below). The police sat on the side and enjoyed watching Mr. Liu sweating heavily due to the excruciating pain. The torture lasted for an hour.
Torture illustration: handcuffed behind the back
After Mr. Liu was taken to the local detention center, the inmates often beat him, sometimes elbowing him on the back. Many times, the sharp pain caused Mr. Liu to collapse to the ground. The police kept him detained for 43 days and extorted 30,000 yuan from him.
Tortured in the Labor Camp
Mr. Liu was arrested for a fourth time when he returned home on the evening of April 15, 2004. The police ransacked his home and interrogated him. Three days later, he was given a three-year term at the Jinzhou City Forced Labor Camp.
As soon as he was admitted to the labor camp, the guards shackled him in a spread-eagle position to a bed. He was held in this manner, completely imobilized, for a month.
Torture reenactment: shackled to a bed
After the initial torture, the guards arranged two inmates to monitor Mr. Liu and prevent him from talking to others. He was forced to get up at 5 a.m. every day and sit on a small stool measuring 6 inches tall, 4 inches deep, and 12 inches wide until 10 p.m. The sitting torture caused excruciating pain to his buttocks. At night, the inmates shackled him to his bed, and the sitting torture would be resumed the next day. Whenever Mr. Liu tried to resist the inmates’ abuse, they beat and berated him.
Torture reenactment: sitting on a small stool without moving
Later on, when Mr. Liu held a hunger strike to protest the persecution, the guards force-fed him with highly-salted corn paste. The head of the labor camp’s clinic stood on the side and said to the guards and inmates, “That’s fine. It won’t kill him.”
In an intensified round of torture to force Mr. Liu to renounce Falun Gong, the guards tied up his legs in the lotus position (sitting cross legged, each leg resting on the other), handcuffed his hands behind his back, put headphones on him, and played propaganda smearing Falun Gong at a very high volume.
The guards extended the torture time every day. They also arranged an inmate to sit on the side and occasionally punch his legs. The longest torture time was 3.5 hours from morning to noon. By the time the guards loosened him, Mr. Liu was unable to move his legs and had to be dragged by the inmates back to his cell.
On another occasion, Mr. Liu was taken to the guards’ office and given a severe blow to the head. He collapsed, felt nauseated, and was soaked in a cold sweat.
Ms. Zhou’s Persecution
Ms. Zhou Hua was arrested around July 20, 2002, after the Jinzhou City 610 Office ordered the local police to arrest Falun Gong practitioners on the government’s blacklist and take them to brainwashing sessions.
After Ms. Zhou was taken to the brainwashing center, she questioned Li Xiejiang, a 610 Office agent, about what he did with the 35,000 yuan he extorted from her husband the year before. Li became enraged; he immediately transferred Ms. Zhou to the Jinzhou City Detention Center and ordered the Jinzhou Police Station to give her a three-year labor camp term. Fifteen days later, she was taken to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp. Due to health reasons, she was denied admission and released.
Ms. Zhou was arrested again in June 2004, when she went to the Jinzhou City Forced Labor Camp to visit her husband. She was admitted to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp to serve the three-year term and subjected to various torture methods.
Ms. Zhou started a hunger strike in February 2006 and she refused to wear the inmates’ uniform. The guards hung her up by her wrists for days.
Ms. Zhou protested by shouting “Falun Dafa is good” in early November 2006. She was handcuffed, force-fed, and slapped countless times in the face. When she resisted the forced feeding on December 15 of that year, the guards beat her, causing her mouth to bleed profusely. She continued the hunger strike and was finally released when she was on the verge of death.
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