(Minghui.org) Seven Kangping County, Liaoning Province residents were arrested on August 27, 2024 for practicing Falun Gong. Two of them were convicted.
The Xinmin City Court sentenced Mr. Qi Like, 55, to four years and Mr. Yu Changlong, 54, to three years and three months. Both Xinmin City and Kangping County are under the administration of Shenyang, the capital city of Liaoning Province.
Mr. Li Manxin, Mr. Liu Qiang, Ms. Zhen Xiufen, and Ms. Wang Xiuzhen are confirmed to have been released. Mr. Lu Yuming’s status is not clear.
Past Persecution of Mr. Qi
Mr. Qi was arrested in August 2003 while trying to remove posters that defamed Falun Gong from public walls and utility poles. Officers from the Zhenbei Police Station put up these slanderous posters in an attempt to catch Falun Gong practitioners. They gave Mr. Qi two years of forced labor.
While serving time at the Zhangshi Labor Camp, Mr. Qi was taken to a local brainwashing center multiple times to receive intensive brainwashing aimed to force him to renounce Falun Gong. Two officers and some former practitioners who no longer practice Falun Gong monitored him around the clock. When he refused to renounce his faith, they shocked him with several electric batons simultaneously. His entire body turned dark and was covered in blisters and wounds. The monitors also beat him and cuffed him behind his back.
Mr. Qi was arrested again on July 15, 2022, after the police spotted him through surveillance cameras, putting up stickers which had Falun Gong messages. They detained him for 15 days.
Past Persecution of Mr. Yu
Mr. Yu went to visit a friend in October 2000 and was arrested by chief Gao Zhongfeng from the Zhennan Police Station and his three deputies, including Feng Xueyang.
Feng demanded to know which practitioners Mr. Yu was in contact with. He refused to answer the question and the police held him at the Kangping County Detention Center for one week.
Under the directive of chief Gao, Wang Jindang and two other officers arrested Mr. Yu at work and took him to the Zhennan Police Station. Gao asked if he knew who put up the banners bearing Falun Gong messages along local highways.
Mr. Yu said he didn’t know so Gao moved him to another room and instructed more than ten officers to beat him for more than 30 minutes. Gao then resumed interrogating him. He still refused to answer questions and Gao kicked him twice. Gao also lied that another practitioner ratted him out. Mr. Yu asked to see that practitioner face-to-face to verify everything. Gao went silent and later kept Mr. Yu at the Kangping County Detention Center for more than two months.
The police said that they arrested Mr. Yu on August 27, 2024 because he was seen on surveillance cameras putting up banners which had Falun Gong messages.
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