Chinese authorities are persecuting Chinese citizen Shao Mingliang for publicly criticizing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). His health has continued deteriorating since he was released from prison, and he claims that authorities prevent him from receiving medical treatment. In an interview with the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times on April 13, Shao recounted the torture he endured while imprisoned for four years. 
“I didn’t expect that I could have survived all the torture,” he said.  
Shao, a native of Jiangsu Province, is a pro-democracy activist and an anti-CCP critic.  
He said he almost died from torture several times while being kept in a detention center in Nanjing and a prison in Changzhou, both in Jiangsu Province, from 2019 to 2023. …