Torture Paralyzes Chinese Lawyer Who Defended Falun Gong Wang Yonghang, winner of the Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Association’s “Ten Best Human Rights Defense Lawyers Award,” has become paralyzed below the waist as a result of prolonged torture in a Chinese prison, wrote Human Rights Lawyer Tang Jitian in his post on the popular Chinese social media website Weixin on Jan. 14. “Wang Yonghang, who is now 42 years old, has been persecuted since June 2009 ever since he defended Cong Rixu in court, with the secret order of his persecution coming from Zhou Yongkang, the former head of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee,” Tang wrote. The Political and Legal Affairs Committee is the Party’s umbrella organization Zhou once headed that had authority over all aspects of legal system, including the police, courts, procuratorate, lawyers, prisons, and labor camps. “Wang was secretly sentenced to seven years in prison in November (2009). Because of cruel persecution, he never fully recovered from his leg wound,” Tang wrote. “For five years, water, blood and pus have continued seeping from the wound. Now, he has symptoms of tuberculosis and paralysis below the waist.” Wang became a well-known lawyer in China for defending practitioners of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, which the Chinese regime has severely persecuted since 1999. One of several practitioners he defended was Cong Rixu, from Dalian, a major city of Liaoning Province. theepochtimes/n3/1218676-torture-paralyzes-chinese-lawyer-who-defended-falun-gong/
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