Wang Lihua, a military veteran and rights activist from Hebei Province, saw his family torn apart and destroyed as a result of his efforts to seek justice. Wang says that for the past 25 years he has struggled through a hellish existence under Communist Party rule, and that in his next life he does not wish to be Chinese again.

Wang Lihua was born in 1972 in Fengnan District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, and once served in the Second Artillery Corps of the People's Liberation Army. His parents were retired officials of the Fengnan District Bureau of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry; his father, Wang Hewu, was a senior agronomist and a former CCP member who quit the Party in 2009, while his mother, Zhang Shulan, was a senior livestock specialist.

"Leaving a Record of My Parents' Lives: Writing A True Account of Twenty Years in Hell's China"

Wang Lihua began his fight for justice after a serious medical malpractice incident. In the course of seeking redress, he suffered all kinds of suppression and persecution: his mother, terrorized into mental illness, died in 2009; his father, hospitalized for a cold, fell victim to yet another medical error and died in the hospital in 2017, his body's whereabouts never accounted for. Grief-stricken and outraged, Wang Lihua wrote his family's story into a book in 2021 titled A True Account of Twenty Years in Hell's China, and registered an account on X (formerly Twitter), pinning his article there and linking it to his blog — which drew the attention of the Ministry of Public Security and brought further suppression.

Wang Lihua recently recounted his experiences to Epoch Times reporters.

Wang Lihua said that in 2022, after he first used Twitter to publish A True Account of Twenty Years in Hell's China, the Ministry of Public Security designated the matter a "major case," claiming he had insulted the Chinese Communist Party, and summoned him for questioning.

"In March 2022, Tian Shupeng, deputy director of the Fengnan District Public Security Bureau, and Sun Hongguang of the Xugezhuang police station, came to see me about the Twitter matter. I explained to Tian Shupeng in detail the story of my life as told in A True Account of Twenty Years in Hell's China, and told him that I was simply publishing my own experiences seeking justice, along with the evidence. My parents and I came into this world once, and we deserve to leave some trace of that — we cannot simply die in silence."

"During our conversation, I only told the facts of what I personally experienced, and told Tian Shupeng he could have any evidence he wanted. Those sneaking, scheming officials who harm people only know how to calculate and plot behind the scenes; those thuggish enforcers who carry out orders from above, helping tyrants do evil, do it all to climb the ranks and grab benefits — but if it's all out in the sunlight, I don't fear any of them."

"Detained for 20 Days on Charges of 'Insulting the Chinese Communist Party'"

"On October 16, 2022 — the opening day of the CCP's 20th Party Congress — Fu Baofeng, head of the 5th Criminal Investigation Squad of the Fengnan District Public Security Bureau, sent seven or eight officers bursting into the guard room of the residential compound where I lived. Two of them immediately grabbed my shoulders and wrists on either side, while the one in charge said Deputy Director Wu Baozhang wanted to talk to me."

"It was already past 7 p.m., and I needed to feed my son, whose ankle ligament was torn and who could not care for himself, so I refused. The lead officer stepped outside to make a phone call, then came back in and said I was being summoned. I asked him to show the paperwork; he said it was a verbal summons. They forcibly seized me, dragged me into a vehicle, and took me to the district public security bureau."

"Wu Baozhang arranged for Li Jianghui, head of the Criminal Police Brigade, to talk with me. He spoke aggressively, saying my Twitter posts had alarmed the Ministry of Public Security, and that District Chief Jia Baozhong [who concurrently heads the district public security bureau] wanted to 'deal with' me. He said he was speaking to me formally, on behalf of the public security organs. Li Jianghui kept switching between asking me which officer I wanted to 'kill,' and asking what my hospital dispute [the medical malpractice case] had to do with the police, and how I wanted to 'resolve' it."

"Regarding the Twitter articles, I told him I had already voluntarily informed Deputy Directors Tian Shupeng and Wu Baozhang of the Fengnan District Public Security Bureau back in February and March 2022 — I had posted on Twitter openly, and both deputy directors already knew about it. Li Jianghui said he would have to report to Bureau Chief Jia Baozhong, and whether or not I'd be dealt with would depend on my 'attitude.'"

"I asked Li Jianghui to turn on his body camera, and I began recounting my experiences in detail. I raised the matter of my father's death [he died under mysterious circumstances at the Fengnan District hospital, his body's whereabouts unknown] and asked the police to help find his remains. Then, that same night, they took me to the interrogation room at the Xugezhuang police station, where I refused to recount my life story again in detail. Deputy chief Bi Haibo gave the same line, saying it depended on my 'attitude,' urging me to recognize what I'd done wrong so I could go home. I asked: what's wrong with using Twitter to seek justice?"

"Bi Haibo then said that leadership required me to delete any Twitter posts touching on the Party, politics, or the police before I could go home. I said that under the Central Committee with General Secretary Xi at its core, the Party had zero tolerance for corruption — my tweets were about seeking justice and fighting corruption, so how could corrupt power represent the Communist Party, or represent the government? My tweets were based strictly on facts, backed by video, audio, and documentary evidence. Besides, even a vice minister of Public Security has fallen in the anti-corruption campaign."

"Afterward, Bi Haibo came to me again and said that District Public Security Chief Jia Baozhong had personally instructed that my father's matter be resolved, but that I would still have to be punished over the Twitter matter — after all, it had come down from the Ministry of Public Security. They had to give their superiors an answer, and the leaders were discussing how to punish me — I should just wait."

"On the afternoon of October 17, 2022, Bi Haibo brought me a stack of documents to sign; I refused. Bi Haibo told me the Twitter matter had been pressed down repeatedly by the Ministry of Public Security, and that the leaders needed to show some gesture to satisfy their superiors — after discussion, they had decided to detain me for 20 days. I later learned the charge listed for my detention was 'insulting the Chinese Communist Party.'"

"On the morning of October 18, 2022, I was forcibly taken to the Fengnan District Public Security Bureau for a medical examination. Even though it revealed I was suffering from a whole host of ailments, I was still sent to the detention center that night. When I asked for the administrative penalty decision for my detention, Bi Haibo said the detention center would provide it."

"State Security Police Ordered Me to Stop Giving Interviews to Foreign Media"

"On the 9th day of my detention, Bi Haibo came to interrogate me again about the Twitter articles. I asked to meet with District Public Security Chief Jia Baozhong; Bi Haibo said I had missed my chance, and refused to discuss it further. On the 11th day of my detention, Bi Haibo and officers from the district's domestic security squad [Guobao] interrogated me again, still asking about Twitter. I said that since it had alarmed the Ministry of Public Security, they should just send me there directly."

"The domestic security officers produced printouts of the pinned tweet linking to my blog, and a downloaded video of my interview on the self-media program Democratic China Media hosted by Qiu Jiajun, saying they had both watched it. I told them: I am a victim; my parents were victims; my family was destroyed and torn apart by what happened to us. They asked how I viewed the Party and the state; my only aim, I said, was simply to seek justice."

"The domestic security officers ordered me never to accept interviews from foreign journalists again, so as not to be 'used by hostile foreign forces.' I told them that inside China I couldn't get any media outlet to help me at all — and if someone from outside was willing to help, who in my position would refuse it?"

The Wang Lihua Case Brought a Promotion for Bureau Chief Jia Baozhong

Wang Lihua continued: "About five days after I was released from detention, Fengnan District Public Security Bureau Chief Jia Baozhong was promoted to director of the command center of the Tangshan Municipal Public Security Bureau and made a Party committee member. Party officials and police who are supposed to represent the Communist Party's governance and law enforcement are committing brazen crimes in flagrant disregard of Party discipline and the law! I ask you: was it I, Wang Lihua, who insulted the Chinese Communist Party? Or was it I, Wang Lihua, and my parents who died unjustly, who were the ones insulted?"

Wang Lihua concluded: "Death comes to everyone eventually — whether alive or dead, a person deserves dignity. But under Communist Party rule, one's life, health, and property can be seized at any time; people live worse than livestock. Is this a nation? No — for me and my family, this is hell."