(Minghui.org) Ms. Chen Shuqin in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region has been detained since June 2026 because she practices Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Chen Shuqin, around 62, was arrested on either June 11 or 12, 2026, after being shadowed by a plainclothes officer. The police raided her rental place in Yinchuan City (capital of Ningxia) and put her in the Yinchuan City Detention Center. Other details of her case remain unknown.
This is not the first time that Ms. Chen has been targeted for her faith. While she lived in Longde County (also in Ningxia and about 200 miles away from Yinchuan), she was twice jailed for a total of 8.5 years.
Ms. Chen was arrested on December 7, 2009, and was sentenced to four years in June 2010. She served time at the Ningxia Women’s Prison. While she was in jail, the local media ran reports accusing her of “abandoning” her husband, who was diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2004 and relied on her for care. She took meticulous care of her husband after she was released in December 2013.
After she was arrested in 2015, she was detained for 15 days. Her next arrest came in July 2016 with her detained for one day. Her husband died six months later.
Two officers seized Ms. Chen on March 7, 2020, upon receiving a tip that she had given someone Falun Gong materials. The police raided her home and confiscated her Falun Gong books, laptop, and other valuables.
The Guyuan City Detention Center refused to admit Ms. Chen and she was released on bail. She then resumed her work as an attending physician at the Longde County Hospital. Longde is under the administration of Guyuan City.
Ms. Chen was taken back into custody in mid-June 2020 and put in the Guyuan City Detention Center. The Longde County Procuratorate issued a formal arrest warrant for her on June 22, and she was sentenced to four and a half years in March 2021.
After Ms. Chen was released in December 2024, she was fired by the Longde County Hospital. She worked at a private hospital for a while and later moved to Yinchuan City, where she lived alone.
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