The 60-year-old Ren Changbin had just arrived in Heilongjiang’s Shuangyashan Prison when his sister was informed he had “accidentally” died.
by Shen Xiang
In Heilongjiang Province, Falun Gong practitioner Ren Changbin was tortured to death on September 28, 2024, merely five days after his incarceration in the notorious Shuangyashan Prison, where torture is routinely practiced.
Ren Changbin was born in 1964 in Jiamusi City in Heilongjiang Province. He previously worked at the Jiamusi Gongnong Glass Factory before retiring and later joined the Jiamusi Jianxing Ready-Mixed Concrete Company.
On September 14 and 15, 2023, a special anti-xie jiao (the Chinese name for banned “organizations spreading heterodox teachings,” sometimes less correctly translated as “evil cults”) squad of the Jiamusi Public Security Bureau raided several private homes, arresting some thirty Falun Gong practitioners and their families.
Among them, Ren Changbin was arrested by the police at his home on the evening of September 14. He was accused of being active in a xie jiao, a crime punished by Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code. On July 25, 2024, he was sentenced to three years in prison by the Jiamusi Xiangyang District Court.
Ren Changbin was transferred to Shuangyashan Prison on September 23, 2024. He was tortured to death just five days later, on the 28th, at the age of 60.
On September 28, 2024, at 8:00 a.m., Ren Changbin’s sister was informed by the prison that he had died unexpectedly. When his family inquired about the cause of death, the prison authorities did not clarify, vaguely mentioning that he may have fallen while taking a shower. They were told that Ren Changbin’s body had been sent to the funeral home.
Ren Changbin’s sister quickly gathered family members and hurried to the funeral home. There, they observed a stitched wound on his head, bruised eyes, body injuries, and hurt feet, all unmistakable signs of torture. Ren Changbin joins a long list of Falun Gong practitioners tortured to death in Chinese jails.
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