(Minghui.org) A Shenyang City, Liaoning Province resident was sentenced to seven and a half years with a 20,000-yuan fine for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Chen Min was arrested at home on April 23, 2024, by officers from the Huanggu District Police Department. The Dadong District Court tried her on September 24 and convicted her at an unknown time. She is currently appealing the wrongful sentence.
Ms. Chen, around 54, used to work at a local antibiotics factory. She was sickly since childhood and suffered from tracheitis, sinusitis, and migraines. After she gave birth to her son, she developed severe anemia. Only in her 30s at the time, Ms. Chen was so frail that her health indicators looked like those of someone in her 60s.
All her symptoms disappeared after she took up Falun Gong in 1998. Ms. Chen held firm to her faith after the persecution began in July 1999. She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong on September 18, 1999 and was arrested. She was taken back to Shenyang the next day and held at the Shenyang Lockup. Fifteen days later, she was transferred to Da’nan Shelter. After Ms. Chen was released, her CEO, Jiang Enhong, fired her and dared her to sue him anywhere she wanted.
Ms. Chen was arrested again on July 19, 2012 and given one year and three months of forced labor. She was admitted to the now-defunct Masanjia Labor on August 22 that year. Her son, then a high school senior, had to move in with her brother. The teen shed tears every time someone mentioned his mother.
Ms. Chen was forced to sit on a small stool motionless for long hours every day at the beginning of her detention. She was later forced to do unpaid manual labor for long hours. She was released from the labor camp on July 25, 2013. The police still harassed her at home from time to time.
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