(Minghui.org) A resident of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia has been detained since his arrest on May 11, 2024, for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999. He had a stroke and developed other medical conditions after being beaten by the police. The authorities, however, refused to release him and are seeking prosecution of him.

A group of officers from the Qianjin Police Station in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province staked outside Mr. Lan Qingzhong’s print shop in Chifeng on May 11, 2024. As soon as two other Falun Gong practitioners, Mr. He Hongjun and his wife Ms. Fu Wenhui, of Chaoyang, stepped into the shop around 9 a.m., the police broke in and arrested the couple and Mr. Lan.

The police ransacked Mr. Lan’s shop until 2 p.m., confiscating four printers, two computers, 320,000 yuan cash from Mr. Lan, and 120,000 yuan cash from Mr. He and his wife. 

When two customers came during the raid, the police ordered them to verbally abuse Falun Gong’s founder. The two customers refused to comply and were detained for a few hours.

While taking Mr. Lan to Chaoyang (about 100 miles from Chifeng) in the afternoon on May 11, the police kept his hands tied up. One officer hit him on his head and face until blood came out of his mouth. They wiped off the blood to cover up the beating. 

Mr. Lan called his family around 4 p.m. that day. They noted that he had slurred speech and struggled to express himself. He said that he felt very uncomfortable, especially in his head. He also lost partial mobility of his limbs. As soon as he mentioned that the police were taking him for a physical examination, the officer standing next to him grabbed his phone and told his family that they were from the Qianjin Police Station and would detain Mr. Lan. The officer urged the family to make a 500 yuan deposit into Mr. Lan’s WeChat pay account to cover the fee for his physical examination. 

Mr. Lan later told his family that the police didn’t only use his money to pay for the physical examination, but also for the highway toll on their way to Chaoyang. 

The physical examination indicated Mr. Lan had a stroke and systolic blood pressure at 195 mmHg (when the healthy level is no more than 120 mmHg). The doctor who performed the checkup still declared that he passed it. He was put in criminal detention and admitted to the Chaoyang City Detention Center.

For the next few days, the police contacted Mr. Lan’s family nine times asking them to deliver medicine to him. As Mr. Lan was perfectly healthy and not on any medication, his loved ones didn’t know what medicine they should deliver to him, especially when the police refused to provide details about his current condition. The family is now very worried about his health. They also don’t know whether the authorities provided any medical treatment to him. 

The police later submitted Mr. Lan’s case to the Shuangta District Procuratorate, which had formally approved his arrest.

Mr. Lan’s family has filed complaints against the officers involved in his case. They demanded the authorities investigate the police’s violence against him, release Mr. Lan’s physical examination result upon his detention, return the 320,000 yuan cash taken from him, and unconditionally release him.