(Minghui.org) Numerous Falun Gong practitioners in Huai’an City, Jiangsu Province, have had their pensions suspended after completing wrongful detentions or prison terms for their faith.
The Huai’an City Human Resources and Social Security Bureau cited an internal document as the basis for the pension suspensions. The document specified that Falun Gong practitioners who worked for private companies would have their pension stripped during detention; practitioners who worked for public entities would lose their pension both during their detention and after their release. In addition to the pension suspension, the practitioners also face job title downgrades and pay cuts at work. Those who received payments during detention would be forced to pay back the funds, which is often deducted from their future retirement benefits.
The practitioners who are known to have been struck with such financial persecution include Li Sen (deceased), Wang Jingling, Zuo Kangwei, Shi Zaolin, Shi Shoumei, Wang Huafen, Feng Huizhen, Shi Suhua, Liu Zhengfu, Li Guiying, Li Jiuping, and He Cuiping.
Below are details of six practitioners’ cases.
Ms. Shi Suhua, a 68-year-old retired worker, was sentenced to three years in January 2019. She was admitted to the Changzhou Prison on August 7, 2019. She had her pension suspended between July 2017 and July 2020, for a total of 98,119.59 yuan.
Ms. Liu Zhengfu, 86, is retired from the Huai’an Electric Motor Factory. She was arrested in May 2017 for distributing Falun Gong materials. She appeared in the Huaiyin District Court on April 27, 2018 and was sentenced to three years with a 6,000-yuan fine on July 11, 2018. She had her pension suspended between July 2018 and August 2021, including 90,410.8 yuan between July 2018 and August 2020, and 44,980 yuan between September 2020 and August 2021. The authorities also stripped her of the 35,459.2 yuan annual increase originally entitled to her, causing a total financial loss of 170,850 yuan.
Ms. Wang Huafen, 62 and a retired employee of the Huai’an Second Motor Factory, was arrested on September 16, 2019 and detained for a month. The authorities took her back into custody on July 24, 2021 and sentenced her to six months with a 1,000-yuan fine in August 2021. She was released on December 24, 2021. She had a total of 14,659.08 suspended from her pension during that time.
Ms. Feng Huizhen, a 72-year-old retired worker, was arrested on March 29, 2022 for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong. She was sentenced to one year in prison with a 1,000-yuan fine on January 29, 2023. She had a total of 42,199.50 yuan of pension suspended between April 21, 2023 and April 20, 2024.
Ms. Li Guiying, in her 70s, was arrested on September 17, 2019 and released on bail on October 23, 2019. She appeared in the Qingjiangpu District Court on September 28 and was sentenced to three years with a 5,000-yuan fine on August 24, 2021. She was receiving her pension when she started to serve time at the Nanjing Women’s Prison, but the payments stopped at an unknown date. After she was released on July 17, 2024, she was ordered to pay back the over 80,000 yuan she had been given.
Ms. He Cuiping, a 68-year-old former head nurse at Huai’an Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, was arrested on July 24, 2018 and detained for six months. In February 2025, she received a call from the hospital, saying that the Huai’an City Human Resources and Social Security Bureau ordered her to return the pension and house subsidies she received during the six-month detention between July 2018 and January 2019. The Bureau also reduced her contribution rate (a percentage of her pay to be accrued in her pension account) and made it retroactively effective from January 2019. With the lower contribution rate, they ordered her to return an “overpayment” of over 100,000 yuan.
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