(Minghui.org) A 77-year-old woman was recently forced to live away from home to avoid being persecuted for her faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been targeted by the Chinese Communist Party since 1999.
Ms. Chen Suzhen of Huludao City, Liaoning Province, was frequently harassed in October and November 2025. The police even dispatched SWAT officers to her residence.
On January 21, 2026, a man from the Longgang District Procuratorate called Ms. Chen’s daughter and demanded to meet with Ms. Chen. He claimed that Ms. Chen had committed a serious crime, but if she signed some documents, she would be fine.
Ms. Chen refused to comply. To avoid being arrested, she moved into a temporary, unheated apartment, which, given her age and the extreme cold in the northeast of China, is making life very difficult for her. She cannot even return home for the upcoming Chinese New Year, because the police and community office have dispatched officers to look for her.
Below are the details of the harassment that preceded the January 2026 phone call from the procuratorate.
Around 5:40 p.m. on October 23, 2025, a SWAT vehicle and several private cars showed up at Ms. Chen’s residence. SWAT officers, plainclothes officers, and uniformed auxiliary officers entered her apartment and confiscated all her Falun Gong books (over 50) and hundreds of Falun Gong calendars. They had their bodycams on during the raid.
Around 7 p.m., the police received instructions to harass another local Falun Gong practitioner. While most of the officers left, the chief of the Xijie Police Station, auxiliary officer Wei Jia, and the street committee director stayed behind. Wei carried Ms. Chen on her back to a so-called inspection team (location unknown) to photograph her.
When Wei brought Ms. Chen home, Ms. Chen’s husband insisted that Wei sign a paper to say that she took Ms. Wei away just after 8 p.m. and brought her back after 9 p.m. When Wei complied, the police chief said that no civilians had ever made the police sign something like that.
The harassment caused Ms. Chen to lose sleep that night. While she was still in bed the next morning, October 24, three officers from the Xijie Police Station broke in and forced her to sign her case file.
About three days later, Ms. Chen’s friend offered to let her stay with her for a while. While she was living with the friend, uniformed officers and people hired to harass Falun Gong practitioners monitored her friend, who noticed suspicious cars outside her apartment building that followed her when she went grocery shopping and ran errands. Once she had to go to the hospital, and the person who was monitoring her even followed her into the restroom. Her phone was tapped and those who followed her took pictures of her with their phones. She was monitored even after she returned home. Ms. Chen eventually went home.
At around 3 p.m. on November 9, 2025, three officers from the Xijie Police Station pounded on Ms. Chen’s door and windows. She did not let them in because her husband, in his 80s, had stents in his heart and could not handle any more police harassment.
Just after 2 p.m. on November 11, 2025, another friend of Ms. Chen’s visited her. When he left, he caught a man in his 40s or 50s dressed in military fatigues trying to pry open the trunk on his electric bike. He stopped the man, who then sped away in a white car.
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