Having Served Nine Years, Liaoning Man Sentenced Again for Practicing Falun Gong

(Minghui.org) A Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province resident was recently sentenced to 1.5 years for practicing Falun Gong. He has appealed with the Jinzhou City Intermediate Court.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Three officers of the Zijing Police Station knocked on Mr. Miao Jianguo’s door on the early afternoon of February 21, 2022. His wife opened the door and told the police that Mr. Miao wasn’t home. After staying for a brief while, the officers left. They returned at around 4 p.m., shortly after Mr. Miao had returned.

Thinking it was his friends, Mr. Miao, 51, opened the door, only to have the officers barge in. They ransacked his home and confiscated Falun Gong related materials. Mr. Miao tried to call for help, but the officers took away his phone.

Although the officers told Mr. Miao’s wife that they were just taking him to their police station to ask him some questions, they arrested and took him to the Jinzhou City Detention Center, where he was beaten by the inmates. The police promised that they would release Mr. Miao in seven days. But when his brother went to the detention center to pick him up on February 27, the authorities refused to release him. 

Mr. Miao was later indicted by the Linghai City Procuratorate. The Linghai City Court recently sentenced him to 1.5 years. Other details about his case aren’t clear. 

Mr. Miao used to work as an electrician for the Jinzhou railroad bureau. For upholding his faith in Falun Gong, he was arrested in October 2001. His wife, who was then eight months pregnant, was terrified and suffered placental abruption, resulting in the unborn child’s death. She has never been able to carry a baby again.

Mr. Miao was given three years of forced labor following his arrest on July 23, 2002. While he was briefly released on bail, he was later taken back into custody and had his term extended. He wasn’t released until February 15, 2007. He was arrested again on February 25, 2008 and later sentenced to four years in prison. While he was serving his term, his mother passed away without seeing him one last time. His father suffered mental instability and died in a car accident three years later.

Mr. Miao’s latest arrest was ordered by Yan Shengbin, the chief of the Zijing Police Station. Yan used to be the deputy director of Linghe District Domestic Security Office and has been actively participating in the persecution. Just on September 21, 2022, he ordered the arrests of Ms. Xie Chengyu, Ms. Li Yanling, Ms. Song Wenli and Ms. Jiang Yongjin. All practitioners had their homes ransacked and they are now detained at the Yi County Detention Center.

Perpetrators’ contact information:

Yan Shengbin (彦生斌), chief of the Zijing Police Station: [phone]Zhang Fengwu (张凤武), president of Linghai City Court: [phone]Xu Bing (许冰), presiding judge of Linghai City Court: [phone], [phone]Xue Weiwei (薛伟巍), president of Linghai City Procuratorate: [phone], [phone], [phone]

(More perpetrators’ contact information is available in the original Chinese article.)

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Liaoning Man Beaten While Detained for His Faith