Name: Wang Deliang (王德亮)
Gender: Male
Age: Late 70s
Address: Beixin Village, Qiaoxi District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Death: September 16, 2009
Date of Most Recent Arrest: Just prior to August 2008
Most recent place of detention: Zhangjiakou City Legal Education Center located in the City Drug Rehabilitation Center (张家口市法制中心(在市戒毒所))
City: Zhangjiakou
Province: Hebei
Persecution Suffered: Electric shock, brainwashing, illegal sentencing, beatings, torture, extortion, home ransacked, interrogation, detention
(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent from Hebei Province) Mr. Wang Deliang was a kind person. He began cultivating Falun Dafa in the Fall of 1996, after he retired. He disciplined himself according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance, upgraded his mind nature, and his severe bronchitis and prostatitis were cured. He was almost 70 years old, but looked as if he was in his fifties.
After the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, Mr. Wang told people about the benefits of Falun Dafa, and he exposed the facts about the persecution. Local government, police, community and neighborhood administrators, and the 610 Office began observing him closely, and they frequently harassed and threatened him.
On October 25, 2001, police ransacked Mr. Wang's home, arrested him and his wife, and took their possessions and cash. Officers Zhao Jin'guo, Kang Xin, and Wang Chengzhong brutally beat Mr. Wang, who was as old as their fathers. They stepped on his head, beat, spit-on, shocked him with a electric baton, and extorted 1,000 yuan without providing a receipt. All of this was done to try to get him to give up his belief. These officers used the cash to eat out on that night.
The police officers took Mr. Wang to be detained in the Zhangjiakou City Detention Center after he was held in police custody at the station for a week. Mr. Wang endured 386 days of inhumane torture while in detention, and was sentenced to three years in prison, with four years of parole.
Upon returning home, local 610 Office agents constantly harassed Mr. Wang's family, and threatened them to not leave their home. Before the Beijing Olympics in August 2008, community and neighborhood administrators with local police arrested Mr. Wang Deliang and his wife, and took them to the Zhangjiakou City Legal Education Center located in the City Drug Rehabilitation Center. No legal procedures were followed, and the couple was detained for more than two months. During those two months, the guards were very vicious. Often the food provided was found to contain mouse feces, and the couple was often starved. This unreasonable two months of detention caused Mr. Wang to become sick with stomach cancer, and he died.
During the past ten years of persecution, Mr. Wang was subjected to unthinkable mistreatment, both physical and mental. Even while he was in the hospital, Wang Wancai, the neighborhood CCP secretary, called him and tried to get his personal ID, allegedly for "security for the 60th National Day celebration." He threatened Mr. Wang, warning him not to leave his home.
September 30, 2009
