(Minghui.org) Having served a three-year term and been fired from his job, Mr. Chen Quanlong is again facing trial for his faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Mr. Chen, a 60-year-old Guangshui City, Hubei Province resident, was arrested in July 2022, after being reported for telling people about Falun Gong. The person who reported him also videotaped him.
The police searched his two residences and confiscated his eight Falun Gong books. He was put on residential surveillance on July 24. The Guangshui City Procuratorate indicted him on September 15, 2022 with the charge of “undermining law enforcement with a cult organization,” the standard pretext used against Falun Gong, and moved his case to the Guangshui City Court.
Previous Persecution
Mr. Chen previously worked at the Guangshui City Tax Bureau. Before he took up Falun Gong in 1995, he suffered multiple diseases including migraine, tuberculosis, enteritis, and rheumatism. He was also addicted to gambling.
Two months after he learned Falun Gong, not only did his ailments disappear, but he also quit gambling. His family, that was about to fall apart, became harmonious again.
After the persecution started, Mr. Chen was targeted several times for upholding his faith. He was arrested at work on September 10, 2003, carried into a police car, and taken to the local police station. When the police were ransacking his home, his elderly mother was terrified, and fainted. Not finding any Falun Gong materials at his home, the police released him at 10 p.m., after extorting 3,000 yuan from his workplace.
Mr. Chen was arrested again at a gas station on July 30, 2006, after being deceived by his work supervisors into going there. Four police officers then took him to the Tangxunhu Brainwashing Center in Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei Province. He developed high blood pressure there and was then released. Because he refused to renounce Falun Gong, the local 610 Office, an extralegal agency created to persecute Falun Gong, ordered the tax bureau to remove him from the managerial position.
Mr. Chen talked to people about Falun Gong while having a haircut in September 2008. A customer in the barbershop reported him, resulting in his arrest. He was released in the afternoon.
For distributing Falun Gong informational materials with his wife, Ms. Li Sheng, on March 30, 2014, Mr. Chen was arrested one more time and sentenced to a three-year prison term by the Guangshui City Court on August 18, 2015. He was taken to the Fanjiatai Prison in Shayang County on June 27, 2016.
By the time he was released on April 29, 2019, he had lost his job and pension. He did odd jobs to make a living.
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