(Minghui.org) Mr. Chen Yongqing is from Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment on December 11, 2012 for telling people the truth about Falun Dafa. He has suffered numerous forms of torture in Nanchang Prison, including being handcuffed, foot shackles, solitary confinement, and slave labor.
His daughter tried to visit him in prison recently but was not allowed to see him. Mr. Chen's family is very concerned about his situation in prison, and his daughter cannot afford her university school fees due to financial hardship resulting from the long- term persecution of her parents.
Mr. Chen Arrested and Detained in Prison
Mr. Chen was born in 1955, and his right hand and foot have been disabled since childhood. He is identified by the authorities as having a disability which does not allow him to work. He was a teacher in a school set up by the state-owned lumberyard in Fuzhou City, and then earned a living selling vegetables.
He Fangming, director of the Linchuan District 610 Office, and Tu Leping, chief of the Domestic Security Division, along with approximately 10 police officers, broke into Mr. Chen's home on August 9, 2012. They confiscated several thousand yuan in cash, a set of satellite receivers, Falun Dafa books, and other personal items. Mr. Chen and his wife, Ms. Zhao Peng, were illegally arrested and taken to the Fuzhou Detention Center.
The Linchuan District Court in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, held a trial for Mr. Chen Yongqing and his wife Ms. Zhao Peng at 9 a.m. on December 12, 2012. Two attorneys from Beijing and Guangzhou defended them. Mr. and Mrs. Chen spoke to the court about the wonderfulness of Falun Dafa, and the benefits they had experienced from practicing. They warned people not to believe the lies of the Chinese Communist Party, hoping that the judges and police would support Dafa, and treat practitioners kindly so they would have a better future.
The Domestic Security Division agents fabricated evidence in order to convince the Procuratorate to put the practitioners on trial. The agents claimed that they had verified the “evidence” provided to the Procuratorate; however, the Domestic Security Division does not have authority to verify the evidence.
Mr. and Mrs. Chen were each sentenced to three years imprisonment at the end of December 2012 for the “crime of using a cult to undermine national law implementation.” Mr. Chen was taken to Nanchang Prison in June 2013.
Mr. Chen continued his firm belief in Falun Dafa while in prison and kept practicing the exercises. The guards cuffed his hands and feet, locked him in solitary confinement, forced him to do slave labor, and deprived him of the right to family visitation.
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