(Minghui.org) Mr. Chen Jiaqing, 68, from Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, had his pension suspended after he completed a one-year prison term in June 2024.
Mr. Chen was arrested on June 11, 2023, at a hotel in Urumqi City, Xinjiang, after the police found Falun Gong information on his phone when they randomly questioned visitors. Falun Gong is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Shortly after Mr. Chen’s arrest, two agents from the Urumqi Railway Police Department traveled more than 1,800 miles to Sanjiang Town, Sichuan Province, and together with their counterparts from the Sanjiang Town Police Station, raided his vacation home.
The police confiscated three cell phones, several computer storage cards, a flash drive, and a small music player. The two Urumqi officers also ransacked the homes of several Sichuan practitioners that Mr. Chen was in contact with.
Mr. Chen’s family went to Sanjiang again (about 90 miles from Chengdu) in July 2023 to inquire about the status of his case, but they were unable to get any updates from the Sanjiang Town Police Station. They also called the Urumqi Railway Police Department which denied having ever detained Mr. Chen or that they had any knowledge of his whereabouts.
His family didn’t know about his prison sentence until he was released in June 2024.
Wife Once Jailed for 3 Years
Mr. Chen graduated from Harbin Institute of Technology in Heilongjiang Province in 1982. He and his wife, Ms. Liu Guiying, also an engineer, both worked at the 29th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation in Sichuan Province.
The couple was repeatedly targeted for practicing Falun Gong. Ms. Liu was denied promotion and also briefly fired in 2000 (she was later reinstated) for going to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong. She was held at a brainwashing center and a police station multiple times in 2000. In 2001 she was given a forced labor term of an unknown length. After she was arrested in 2007, she was held at a brainwashing center for four months. Her workplace suspended her and stopped all her benefits in 2008. They later reinstated her at an unknown time.
The couple was arrested at their home in November 2015, for filing complaints against former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin for launching the persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. Chen was released 15 days later but Ms. Liu was sentenced to three years in prison. Her employer fired her soon afterward and barred her from applying for pension when she later reached retirement age.
While serving time at the Sichuan Province Women’s Prison, Ms. Liu was subjected to various forms of abuse. She was forced to sit on a small stool for long hours, with her kneecaps against the wall and her back straight. For several months in a row, she was not allowed to brush her teeth, wash her hair or body. She was also not given toilet paper. Every day she was only given four small cups of water to drink and four restroom breaks. The food portions were small and she was always hungry.
Related Report:
Copyright © 1999-2025 Minghui.org. All rights reserved.
