Guangdong Man Sentenced to 5.5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong

(Minghui.org) A Shanwei City, Guangdong Province resident was sentenced to 5.5 years on November 19, 2021 for practicing Falun Gong. His appeal was turned down on February 21, 2022. 

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

Mr. Zhuang Xiachang

Mr. Zhuang Xiachang, 64, was reported on February 5, 2020, for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong in a neighborhood. The police created a “high priority” case against him.

The police broke into Mr. Zhang’s home at around 10 p.m. on April 9, when he was studying Falun Gong’s teaching with four other Falun Gong practitioners – Mr. Huang Shengwei, Mr. Chen Xianzhen, Mr. Wu Yiguo, and his wife Ms. Zeng Shaolan.

Another married couple, Mr. Liang Shengqiang and Ms. Yu Shaoliang, were arrested around the same time. An eighth practitioner, Ms. Ye Xiaojie, was arrested on June 9, 2020.

Mr. Huang Shengwei

Mr. Chen Xianzhen

The Cheng District Procuratorate approved the eight practitioners’ arrests on May 31, 2020. Mr. Zhuang, Mr. Huang, Mr. Chen and Ms. Ye were later indicted. 

Judge Huang Weiqun of the Cheng District Court sentenced Mr. Zhuang to 5.5 years with a 20,000-yuan fine on November 19, 2021. He appealed with the Shanwei City Intermediate Court, which ruled to uphold his original verdict on February 21, 2022. 

Mr. Huang was also sentenced to 5.5 years and fined 20,000 yuan by the same judge. Mr. Chen and Ms. Ye have been convicted as well, but details about their verdicts aren’t clear. 

Prior to his latest sentence, Mr. Zhuang was sentenced to 3.5 years in Sihui Prison by the Cheng District Court on May 12, 2003. 

Perpetrators’ contact information:

Wu Huajian (吴华坚), head, Xinlian Police Station: [phone]Ye Weijian (叶伟健), head, Cheng District Police Station: [phone]Zeng Ruiyuan (曾瑞源), prosecutor, Cheng District ProcuratorateHuang Weiqun (黄伟群), judge, Cheng District Court: [phone]

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

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