Shanghai Engineer, a Mother of Two, Given Second Prison Sentence in Less Than Two Years for Her Faith

(Minghui.org) A senior engineer in Shanghai was recently sentenced to sixteen months by a court in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, for practicing Falun Gong. This is the second time that Ms. Yang Hui, in her 40s, has been convicted for her faith since she took up the practice in 2018. 

Ms. Yang has a fifth grade son and a daughter who is a high school senior and will take the college entrance exam in June this year. The mother of two was arrested in early June 2022 while on her way to Lanzhou for a business trip, after being reported for talking to another passenger about Falun Gong.

After being held at a police station in Tianshui City, Gansu Province for a few days, Ms. Yang was transferred to the Lanzhou City No. 1 Detention Center on June 12, about 200 miles away. The Lanzhou police submitted her case to the Lanzhou Railroad Transportation Procuratorate on September 22, and she was indicted on October 17, 2022. The procuratorate next moved her case to the Lanzhou Railroad Transportation Court. She stood trial on March 16, 2023 and was recently sentenced to sixteen months. She has appealed the verdict.

Ms. Yang’s arrest came only seven months after she was released from serving a one-year term. She was previously arrested on November 8, 2020. Her home was ransacked and she was held at the Pudong New District Detention Center. Her arrest was approved on December 11. When a prosecutor of Pudong New District Procuratorate interviewed her on February 19, 2021, he attempted to force her to plead guilty, but she refused to comply. The Fengxian District Court held a trial of her case on October 26, 2021 and sentenced her to one year.

Perpetrators’ contact information:

Lanzhou Railroad Transportation Court: [phone], [phone]Xu Pengsheng (徐鹏升), police officerLi Kui (李奎), head of Lanzhou City No.1 Detention Center: [phone]

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

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