Disabled Woman Taken Straight to Brainwashing Center On Day of Completing 8-Year Prison Term for Practicing Falun Gong

(Minghui.org) A 61-year-old woman in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, finished serving an eight-year prison term on April 25, 2025, only to be taken straight to a brainwashing center.

The ordeal of Ms. Zhu Ya, who is disabled, began on April 25, 2017, when she was arrested for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.

Ms. Zhu was sentenced to eight years with a 20,000-yuan fine in September 2018 and admitted to the Hubei Province Women’s Prison in Wuhan on September 12, 2019.

Ms. Zhu’s daughter arrived at the prison on April 25, 2025, to pick her up after eight long years. The younger woman was shocked that her mother had been seized by agents from the Qianchuan Police Station, the Huangpi District 610 Office, the Huangpi District Justice Bureau, and the Jinxiu Community Office. They took her to the Wangjiahe Town Brainwashing Center and did not allow her daughter to see her.

An insider later revealed that the continued detention of Ms. Zhu was actually at the request of the prison. Before her release, the prison notified the aforementioned four agencies and asked them to keep “transforming” her after her release, as she had been “stubborn” in holding firm to her faith.

To punish her, the prison only allowed her family to visit her a few times during her entire eight-year term despite their repeated requests. When her daughter visited her for the first time, Ms. Zhu had a cast on her right arm. She said the guards beat her so badly that they broke her arm. When her daughter came again in early 2024, Ms. Zhu could no longer walk due to foot injuries. It is unclear what other torture she had gone through during her prison term.

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