(Minghui.org) Ms. Yu Shuhui from Chongqing was sentenced to three and a half years on December 27, 2024 for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Yu was arrested at her home around 8 p.m. on January 23, 2024, by three men and one woman. None of the plainclothes agents revealed their identifies or produced a search warrant. They took Ms. Yu and her husband to the Shiban Town Police Station. Around 1 a.m. the next morning, they transferred Ms. Yu to the Dadukou District Police Department. Later that day they raided her home and seized one piece of clothing and a pair of shoes.
Ms. Yu was later transferred to the Dadukou District Detention Center. Prosecutor Zhang Lin from the Jiulongpo District Procuratorate indicted Ms. Yu on May 13, 2024 but didn’t notify her of the indictment until July 24. Her family filed a complaint against Zhang and requested that she be recused from Ms. Yu’s prosecution.
Zhang revised the indictment in retaliation. The earlier version stated that Ms. Yu committed a “minor crime” but this wording was removed from the revised version.
The Jiulongpo District Court sentenced Ms. Yu to three and a half years on December 27, 2024. Details about the hearing aren’t clear.
After Ms. Yu appealed to the Chongqing City Intermediate Court, her 38-year-old son wrote a letter to support her. He said that he was afraid of losing his mother when he was a child, because she was always sick. After she took up Falun Gong, she became healthy and energetic. He was beyond thrilled. However, their happy life didn’t last long. His mother’s repeated arrests and prison sentences caused the family tremendous stress. For about five years, he had to live with his aunt because his mother was in jail. His father drank all day to numb his pain and stress.
Ms. Yu’s son added that he and his wife just had a new baby and wanted his mother to enjoy the newest addition to their family. However, she is in jail for a third time simply for exercising her constitution right to freedom of belief. He called for the intermediate court to acquit his mother, only to receive a written ruling to uphold the original verdict without a hearing.
Ms. Yu’s family was notified of her prison admission to the Chongqing Women’s Prison around early April 2025.
This is not the first time that Ms. Yu has been targeted for her faith, which she took up in 1998 and credits for curing her decades-long kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, and slipped disc. She was previously sentenced to three years in prison following an arrest in 2000 and given another 3.5 years after an arrest on May 13, 2012. She was brutally tortured during her two prior prison terms.
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