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Disabled Falun Gong Practitioner: Tortured by being Shocked by Electric Batons While in Water
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- Victim:
- Wang Guozhi, male, paralysis of the legs, weight lifting athlete, husband, father
- Locations of Detention and Torture:
- 1. The police station in Jianping County
2. The No. 4 Prison of the Dabei Prison in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province
- Perpetrators:
- 1. The staff at the Jianping County Court of Liaoning
2. The staff at the No. 4 Prison of the Dabei Prison in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province 3. The police in Jianping County
- Brief Report of Incident:
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Mr. Wang Guozhi, a disabled Falun Gong practitioner, was illegally sentenced to prison by the Jianping County Court of Liaoning. Mr. Wang’s disability does not allow him to stand or walk, although he used to be an otherwise healthy weight lifting athlete. Before he was illegally sent to the prison for practicing Falun Dafa, the police in Jianping County brutally tortured him. Policeman Jiang Jie and others from the Political and Security Department put Wang in a room where water had leaked on the floor and shocked him for six hours using several electric batons. The strong current made Wang, who sat in the water, twist and spasm and his whole body was covered with sweat.
When he was sent to the No. 4 Prison of the Dabei Prison in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, evidence of the previous torture was still visible as his palms were still badly swollen and blistered. Due to the torture, Mr. Wang is very weak and emaciated, and the wounds on his hands have not healed.
His elderly mother traveled to the prison to see him. After she returned home, she was distraught by her son's situation. She dares not let his 90-year-old grandmother know about it, fearing that she could not endure the news. Whenever Mr. Wang’s wife talks about him, she breaks down crying. They have two young daughters. |