(Minghui.org) A Pujiang County resident was arrested ten days before the 2016 G20 Summit was to open in Hangzhou, a city about 80 miles from his hometown. Mr. Chen Hualiang was detained for 15 days and exiled on the day of his release.
The local police targeted Mr. Chen because he refused to renounce Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese communist regime.
He was working at his company, Huapu Magnetic Electricity Company, on August 24 when Fu Fukang, head of the local Domestic Security police, showed up and demanded he return to his home to have a talk.
Mr. Chen refused and was taken straight to the local police station, where officers tried to pressure him to renounce his belief in Falun Gong. He refused and was sent to Pujiang County Detention Center, where the guards again tried unsuccessfully to make him recant.
Fu warned Mr. Chen, “If you still hold firm to your belief, you must leave Pujiang!”
Fu’s threat materialized on the day of Mr. Chen’s release, September 8. Several officers drove Mr. Chen out of Pujiang and dropped him off at an unknown location.
Mr. Chen’s 86-year-old mother, who had been living with him, was almost arrested when the police went to ransack his home shortly after his arrest. The elderly woman refused to be taken away, and the officers relented. She is now left with no one to care for her.
Mr. Chen’s ordeal is just a continuation his persecution at the hands of the authorities over the years. He was sentenced to three years in 2004 and fired from his job as a lecturer at a local community college. He later landed a job at Huapu Magnetic Electricity Company, only to be terminated not long after his latest arrest.
