(Minghui.org) The Minghui.org website recently learned that a 56-year-old man in Yushu City, Jilin Province, has been admitted to Gongzhuling Prison to serve a one-year term for his faith in Falun Gong.
Mr. Yuan Junfeng was arrested on June 28, 2024, and released on bail hours later. He was taken back into custody on September 12, 2024, and sentenced to one year by the Dehui City Court in December 2024. It is unclear when exactly he was admitted to prison.
Mr. Yuan began to practice Falun Gong in 1997. He soon quit many bad habits such as gambling, drinking, and fighting. Because he refused to renounce Falun Gong after the persecution started in 1999, he was repeatedly targeted and spent over 13 years behind bars prior to his latest sentencing.
Mr. Yuan was arrested on July 14, 2001, by officers of the Tuqiao Township Police Station. After 15 days of detention, he was taken to the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp to serve a one-year term.
During his labor camp term, the police took him to the Shulan City Detention Center to interrogate him. They whipped him on the back with PVC pipes. One officer said, “Even if you don’t say anything, we can still sentence you. I will torture you and make you suffer little by little.”
To protest the persecution, Mr. Yuan held a hunger strike for 28 days. The officers force-fed him corn paste with excessive amounts of salt and injected him with unknown drugs. His mouth was injured from the brutal forced feeding and bled profusely. An officer stepped on his face and said, “Let’s see how long you can keep this up.”
Mr. Yuan was later sentenced to four years even before his one-year labor camp term ended. He was transferred to Tiebei Prison in the capital city of Changchun on April 15, 2002. While he was serving time, the police made another attempt to trick him into providing information about other practitioners by promising to reduce other practitioners’ prison terms. Mr. Yuan refused to comply and was taken back to the Yushu City Detention Center. After another 15 months of detention, he was sentenced to eleven years, even though his first four-year prison term had not ended yet. He was transferred to the Jilin Province Second Prison.
When Mr. Yuan was finally released on December 13, 2014, after having spent 13 years and four months in three lockups, two detention centers, one forced labor camp, and two prisons, his vision was blurred and one of his legs was thicker than the other. He had a severe back injury and was unable to do hard work. Even sitting for a long time would cause him excruciating pain.
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