(Minghui.org) Minghui.org recently learned that a 40-year-old resident of Laixi City, Shandong Province, was sentenced to six years by a court in Henan Province, for exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of her faith, Falun Gong, online.
Henan Province police have been traveling outside the province since 2019 to arrest law-abiding citizens who posted information on various social media platforms to expose the persecution of Falun Gong. There were at least 22 documented cases, including that of Ms. Wu Jiajian, who was arrested in late 2020 and given six years in or before 2023 (exact date unknown). Prior to the confirmation of her sentencing, twelve other arrested practitioners were known to have been given prison terms ranging from 3 to 9.5 years.
Details of Ms. Wu’s Persecution
Ms. Wu and her parents are natives of Fuxin City, Liaoning Province. Her parents took up Falun Gong in 1996 and said their health and character improved. Ms. Wu, then an elementary school pupil, also joined them in the practice. After the persecution began in July 1999, the family of three was constantly harassed by the local police, who even went to Ms. Wu’s school to question the then 15-year-old as to her parents’ whereabouts. Her parents were detained at the end of 2000. After they were released, they were forced to live away from home. Ms. Wu had to drop out of school and wandered around with her parents. They eventually settled in Jiangshan Town, Laixi City, Shandong Province.
Seven agents broke into Ms. Wu’s home at 6 p.m. on November 7, 2020. Four of them were officers from the local Liquanzhuang Police Station in Jiangshan Town and the other three, all in plainclothes, were from the Luoyang City Domestic Security Division in Henan Province. They did not show any IDs and ordered Ms. Wu to go to the police station to verify her information. She only had her pajamas on and they did not even allow her to put on her socks.
Upon learning of her arrest, Ms. Wu’s family rushed to the police station at 8:30 p.m. One of the three plainclothes agents from Henan, surnamed Zhu, turned them away saying he’d call them the next day.
Ms. Wu’s loved ones returned to the police station at 9:30 p.m. and were told that she had been taken to an unknown location. They went to the police station at 8 a.m. the next day and a police instructor finally revealed that Ms. Wu was on her way to Henan Province.
The Henan police held Ms. Wu at the Luoyang City Detention Center and did not allow her family to visit her. They submitted her case to the Jianxi District Procuratorate in Luoyang City. Prosecutor Wu Jiangyang indicted her for sharing videos about Falun Gong on WeChat (a social media platform). Her case was forwarded to the Jianxi District Court on April 25, 2021. Her family was not given any further updates of her case status until 2023 when they learned that she had been sentenced to six years. They do not know any other details of her trial or sentencing.
Ms. Wu’s arrest dealt a heavy blow to her mother, Ms. Song Jingsu, who suffered declining health and died on February 6, 2022, the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, without seeing her daughter one last time.
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