Media Profile & Archive — Wang Zhong (王忠). A chronological archive of reporting on the case of Wang Zhong, a Falun Gong practitioner from Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County, Hebei Province — a retired senior engineer of the People’s Bank of China — sentenced to three and a half years’ imprisonment. See his full profile.
Case chronology
- 2002 — Wang is held in a brainwashing center for more than two months; released for health reasons.
- April 2004 — Detained in the Kuancheng detention center; denied admission to Gaoyang Labor Camp due to a poor health examination; released after nearly two months.
- November 10, 2004 — Arrested for distributing materials exposing the persecution; held at the Chengde brainwashing center for more than 20 days, then sent to Gaoyang Labor Camp to serve a three-year forced-labor term. Tortured: electric shocks, cigarette burns, beatings, starvation. Weight drops from 170 to 90 pounds; nearly loses his eyesight.
- November 2005 — Transferred to Handan Labor Camp; guards pour hot water and hot tea into his eyes, damaging his sight and hearing; suffers beating-induced injuries that make walking difficult.
- ~August 2007 — Released at the end of his three-year term.
- June 2010 — Seized at a People’s Bank meeting by 610 Office and Domestic Security agents; held at Jiecheng Villa (Chengde County) for about a month; released after 10,000 yuan extorted.
- May 13, 2011 — Arrested again; given one year of forced labor but refused admission due to poor health; serves the time outside the camp; the bank suspends his pay.
- May 4, 2023 — Reported for talking to two students about Falun Gong; arrested; home raided (computer and printer confiscated).
- ~June 2023 — His pension is suspended at the order of Captain Li Lin of the Kuancheng Domestic Security Office.
- (date unreported; before Feb. 2024) — The Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County Court sentences him to three and a half years in prison.
- February 3, 2024 — Transferred from the Kuancheng detention center to Tangshan Prison to serve the term.
Source records
- Minghui.org (English), “72-Year-Old Man Sentenced to 3.5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong, Transferred to Prison to Serve Term,” Feb. 29, 2024 — https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2024/2/29/216042p.html — Primary sentencing report: age 72, Kuancheng, People’s Bank senior engineer, May 4, 2023 arrest, home raid, pension suspension, 3.5-year sentence, transfer to Tangshan Prison on Feb. 3, 2024.
- Minghui.org (English), “Additional Persecution News from China – February 2024 (17 Reports),” March 14, 2024 — http://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2024/3/14/216204.html — Aggregate digest repeating the 3.5-year sentencing and Feb. 3, 2024 Tangshan Prison transfer.
- Minghui.org (English), “Senior Bank Engineer Severely Tortured, Nearly Blinded Due to Persecution,” March 19, 2013 — https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2013/3/19/138558.html — Historical record explicitly naming Wang Zhong (王忠): Kuancheng, People’s Bank senior engineer; documents the 2002–2011 persecution history.
- Minghui.org (English), “Guard at Handan Forced Labor Camp Boils Tea, Pours It Over Practitioner’s Eyes,” Feb. 28, 2016 — https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2016/2/28/155732p.html — Corroborating record of the same person: Kuancheng bank engineer transferred from Gaoyang to Handan Labor Camp in Nov. 2005, hot water/tea poured into his eyes.
Provenance and limitations
All four records are from Minghui.org (Falun Gong-affiliated). No official court judgment or state-media coverage of this case was located. Minghui reported him imprisoned at Tangshan Prison as of February 3, 2024; no later updates have been published and his present status has not been independently verified.