(Minghui.org) It’s recently confirmed by Minghui.org that a Huangshi City, Hubei Province, resident was taken to Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang County in September 2023 to serve a 22-month term for practicing Falun Gong.

Mr. Cao Gan, also known as Cao Fuguo, was arrested at home on June 27, 2023. He was held at the Huangshi City First Detention Center. He appeared in court around mid-August 2023 and was later sentenced to 22 months. Details about his indictment, trial, and sentencing aren’t clear.

Mr. Cao began to practice Falun Gong in 1995. He credits the practice for helping him quit smoking, drinking, and drug addiction.

Since the onset of the persecution in 1999, Mr. Cao and his wife, Ms. Wang Yuemei, were twice arrested together and held in forced labor camps and brainwashing centers. The couple was each arrested one more time and detained for a month each. The second time they were arrested together, their two young daughters were left at home alone to fend for themselves.

In June 2020, Mr. Cao’s pension was suspended. In the same month, he was recorded by surveillance cameras of distributing Falun Gong flyers. Officers of the Shengyanggang Police Station and Huangsiwan Police Station arrested him and his younger daughter at home. They also seized his older daughter, Ms. Cao Wen, at her store. Both women were interrogated at the Huangsiwan Police Station until midnight before being released. Mr. Cao was held at the police station for one more day and released on house arrest the next evening around 10 p.m.