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Name: Wang RangeChinese Name: 王冉阁Gender: FemaleAge: 78City: Tai’anProvince: ShandongOccupation: Retired employee of Tai’an City Railway 14th BureauDate of Death: October 5, 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: December 18, 2020Most Recent Place of Detention: A detention center in Tai’an
Ms. Wang Range lived in fear when she faced constant police harassment after serving a three-month term for her faith in Falun Gong. She developed severe medical conditions at the end of 2023 and died on October 5, 2024. She was 78.
Ms. Wang, a retired employee of Tai’an City Railway 14th Bureau in Shandong Province, was waiting for a bus after grocery shopping on the morning of December 18, 2020, when two police cars stopped in front of her. Several officers dragged her into the car and took her to the Daolang Police Station.
The police spent three hours interrogating Ms. Wang before taking her home at around noon. They raided her place without producing proper documents. Her personal shopping cart and 60 desktop calendars bearing information about Falun Gong were confiscated.
After this incident, the police harassed Ms. Wang and her children’s families multiple times, either in person or over the phone. Her family members were placed under tremendous pressure, unable to eat or sleep well.
Two plainclothes officers searched Ms. Wang’s home again on October 25, 2021, without showing their IDs.
The Feicheng City Procuratorate indicted Ms. Wang in early December 2021 and moved her case to the Feicheng City Court. She stood trial on December 10, 2021 and was sentenced to three months. She was first detained at a facility in Xintai City, which is under the jurisdiction of Tai’an, and then transferred to a detention center in Tai’an.
Shortly before her release on March 9, 2022, she was ordered by the court to pay a 1,000 yuan fine. The court also froze 100,000 yuan from her bank account as a guarantee bond. The judge claimed that if she was found to distribute Falun Gong materials or talk to people about Falun Gong again in the next five years, the 100,000 yuan would be forfeited. But if she “behaved,” they would unfreeze the money after five years.
Ms. Wang continued to face frequent police harassment after she was released. The mental pressure took a toll on her health. She developed severe conditions in late 2023 and died in October 2024.
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