(Minghui.org) Since 2016, a former middle school teacher in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, has been sentenced twice to two years for talking to people about her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Ms. Pan Chengying, 49, was arrested again on January 5, 2023, and is being held in the Nanjing City Detention Center.
Ms. Pan used to work at the Lishui County No.1 Middle School. She was beloved by her students and won several awards. But because she upholds her faith in Falun Gong, she has been repeatedly targeted over the past two decades.
Ms. Pan was first arrested on October 10, 2007, and held in a brainwashing center for sharing information about Falun Gong online.
The Lishui County 610 Office and the Domestic Security Office seized Ms. Pan at her school on March 4, 2009, during the communist regime’s National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. She was given one year in the Judong Forced Labor Camp.
Ms. Pan was arrested again on June 8, 2012, after being reported for talking to people about Falun Gong. Her home was ransacked.
Her next arrest was on May 17, 2016, outside her home. She was held in the Baima Brainwashing Center. In one week, the police ransacked her home three times and confiscated two computers, several printers, and other equipment she used to produce Falun Dafa informational materials. Another 20,000 yuan in cash with messages about Falun Dafa printed on the bills (as a way to raise awareness about the persecution due to the strict information censorship in China) was also taken. She was transferred to the Nanjing City Detention Center on June 20.
Ms. Pan was tried in the Lishui District Court in May 2017. Her lawyer entered a not-guilty plea for her. She was sentenced to two years to the Nanjing Women’s Prison. Her school fired her when she was released in June 2018.
Only a year after her release, she was arrested again on June 24, 2019, also after being reported for talking to people about Falun Gong. The Yuhua District Court sentenced her to two years with a 20,000-yuan fine in late May 2020.
Perpetrators’ contact information:
Wang Haibo (王海波), head of Nanjing City Detention Center: +86-25-84420914
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