(Minghui.org) A 71-year-old resident of Chongqing was recently admitted to prison after being sentenced to 2.5 years for his faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Mr. Dai Xianming was arrested on the evening of January 5, 2022 for putting up informational materials about Falun Gong. He was taken to the Yongchuan District Detention Center hours later and the police didn’t allow his wife, Ms. Xu Keqin, to visit him. The police also refused to reveal their names to Ms. Xu, fearing that she might report their persecution of Mr. Dai to the Minghui.org website.
The police questioned Ms. Xu as to where her and Mr. Dai’s son worked, which school their grandson was attending, and whether she or Mr. Dai picked up their grandson from school. The police also asked what Mr. Dai usually did during the day and how many houses they had. Ms. Xu refused to answer the questions. An officer accused her and Mr. Dai of putting up informational materials about Falun Gong on July 1, 2021. Ms. Xu denied the allegation.
On January 21, 2022, two weeks after Mr. Dai’s arrest, an officer who refused to identify himself called Ms. Xu and asked her to sign Mr. Dai’s arrest approval notice. She refused to sign it and demanded her husband’s release. The officer said, “It’s fine if you don’t sign it,” and hung up. The same officer then called another family member of Mr. Dai’s, but that family member didn’t answer the call.
Ms. Xu recently confirmed that Mr. Dai has been sentenced to 2.5 years and he was transferred to the Yongchuan District Prison on April 27, 2023. But she is still kept in the dark about the details regarding his sentencing.
Past Persecution
Before Mr. Dai took up Falun Gong, he suffered severe bronchitis and rheumatism. Only a month after practicing Falun Gong, he completely recovered and felt that his life was renewed. Witnessing his changes, Ms. Xu also began to practice Falun Gong and her many ailments disappeared as well.
The couple have been arrested and incarcerated many times since the onset of the persecution in 1999. Mr. Dai was arrested four times between 2000 and 2003. He was forced to live away from home to hide from the police, only to be arrested on March 13, 2005 and sentenced to 4.5 years in Yongchuan Prison. He was arrested again while attending his father’s funeral in April 2011, and given one-year in the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp. His next arrest was on July 2, 2016 and he was sentenced to 14 months in prison shortly after.
Ms. Xu has also been repeatedly arrested and held in brainwashing centers. After arresting her in 2006, the police beat her until she lost consciousness. They then stomped on her toes. After she came to, they dragged her downstairs by her feet. As her head kept hitting the stairs, she fainted again. The beatings lasted a few days, and her body was covered with injuries. Her hands and feet became severely swollen, and she lost five teeth as well.
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