(Clearwisdom.net) Mr. Wang Gongliang is from Baini Town, Chongyang County of Hubei Province. He began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. Sometime between November and December 1999, the police ransacked his home and illegally arrested him. Then, they took him to Chongyang County Public Security Bureau before transferring him to a detention center. Only after the family was extorted for 1,500 yuan did the police release Mr. Wang.
In September 1999, Mr. Wang's wife, Ms. Luo Yufang, went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. She spent over 3,000 yuan for the trip.
On July 20, 2001, the police from the Politics and Security Section of the Chongyang County Public Security Bureau arrested Mr. Wang and his wife at their son's home. The police threatened to send the elderly couple to a forced labor camp if the family members didn't pay a "fine" of 40,000 yuan. The couple's children had to pay a total of 21,500 yuan to related departments. After suffering prolonged harassment and torture, Mr. Wang passed in away August of 2006 at the age of 81.
Mr. Wang's home has been ransacked many times and he was detained twice. Below are further details of the police's crimes:
1. At around midnight on July 22, 1999, the police ransacked Mr. Wang's home and detained him and his wife for one night at the Baini Police Station in Chongyang County.
2. Sometime between November and December 1999, the police again ransacked Mr. Wang's home. Ms. Luo was not at home at that time, so the police took Mr. Wang to the Chongyang County Public Security Bureau. That evening, Mr. Wang was sent to his daughter's home. The next day, he was sent to a detention center. The police released Mr. Wang after the family was extorted for 1,500 yuan.
3. In May 2001, the couple was at their youngest son's home in Wuhan City. The police from the Politics and Security Section of the Chongyang County Public Security Bureau ransacked their other son's home. Also that May, the police detained the couple for 24 hours when they visited a friend in Chongyang.
4. In July 2001, the police from the Politics and Security Section of the Chongyang County Public Security Bureau and officers from the Nanhu Police Station in Wuhan ransacked their eldest son's home in Wuhan City. At that time, the couple was staying with their eldest son.
5. In September of 2002, the police ransacked the couple's home and confiscated their copy of Zhuan Falun and one of Teacher's article. The couple was also detained at the Chongyang Detention Center for one month.
6. Before July 20, 1999, the police confiscated a Falun Gong book from the couple's home.
7. In 2002, the police harassed the couple while they were at Nanhua.
8. In 2003, the political committee of the Chongyang County Public Security Bureau and the head of the Criminal Police Squad harassed Mr. Wang and his wife, claiming that another practitioner was hiding in their home.
9. In 2003, someone with the surname Dan from the Baini Town Government went to the couple's home to harass the couple and asked them to fill out a form.
10. In March 2004, someone with the surname Dan went to the couple's home to harass them again.
Those involved in persecuting Mr. Wang and his wife:
Head of the Traffic Police Team of Chongyang County: Niu Xihuan
Staff of the Politics and Security Section of the Chongyang County Public
Security Bureau: Rao Fangdong
Director of the Politics and Security Section of the Chongyang County Public
Security Bureau: Rao Hongwu
Instructor of the Politics and Security Section of Chongyang the County Public
Security Bureau: Hu Shabing
Hao Yansheng, Hu (surname), Shu (surname), two drivers, a female and a male from
the Nanhu Police Station.
