(Minghui.org) It was recently learned that Ms. Zhu Yafen, 74, who lives in Fushun City, Liaoning Province was sentenced to three years for practicing her faith, Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Zhu Yafen was arrested on February 1, 2023 after she was reported for talking to people about Falun Gong outside a department store. Three officers from the Qianjin Police Station arrested her. They also later raided her home.
Judge Zhang Yang of the Dongzhou District Court appointed a lawyer to represent Ms. Zhu and instructed the lawyer to enter a guilty plea for her. It’s unclear when Zhang convicted Ms. Zhu.
This is not the first time that Ms. Zhu has been targeted for her faith, which she credits for eliminating her arthritis, insomnia and many other illnesses. One month after the persecution began in July 1999, she was arrested with a few other local practitioners, when they did the Falun Gong exercises in public. She was taken to the Fushun City Detention Center, before she was transferred to a brainwashing class in the Wujiabaozi Labor Camp, where she was held for more than one month.
The labor camp videotaped her being handcuffed and humiliated and played the clip on a local TV program. Ms. Zhu’s mother saw her on TV and was so traumatized that she had a stroke. She became paralyzed, never recuperated and died eight years later.
Four officers from the Fushun City Domestic Security Office and the Gongyuan Police Station arrested Ms. Zhu on August 24, 2019. The same Dongzhou District Court sentenced her to one year with a 4,000-yuan fine on August 30, 2020.
Officer Zhang Weilai (+86-18940090723) was involved in both of Ms. Zhu’s arrests, in 2019 and 2023. He worked at the Gongyuan Police Station in 2019 and was later reassigned to the Qianjin Police Station in the same Xinfu District of Fushun City.
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