(Minghui.org) After Mr. Shan Furong finished serving a 4.5-year wrongful prison term on July 5, 2025, the local authorities took him straight to a senior center and didn’t allow him to go home, even after he had become completely blind due to torture in custody.
Mr. Shan, around 60 and of Laohekou City, Hubei Province, was arrested on January 5, 2021, while distributing informational materials about Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been targeted by the Chinese Communist Party since 1999. His family was kept in the dark of his case status. They didn’t learn of his secret prison sentence until July 2023. They were also devastated to know that he had become blind in both eyes after being tortured at the Fanjiatai Prison (located in Shayang County in Hubei Province).
On July 5, 2025, Mr. Shan’s scheduled release day, the local Political and Legal Affairs Committee, an extralegal agency tasked with persecuting Falun Gong, took him to the Sujiahe Senior Center. They restricted his freedom and didn’t allow him to go home. His family has repeatedly demanded to be allowed to take him home, but to no avail.
This is not the first time that Mr. Shan has been targeted for his faith. He has been arrested multiple times and was sentenced to four years following an arrest in 2015. His employer, Jiangshan Machinery, fired him after he was released in 2019. His wife could no longer cope with the pressure of the persecution, and divorced him. Mr. Shan’s mother was dealt another blow when he was arrested again in 2021. She died in late 2022, at the age of 86, without seeing her son one last time.
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