(Minghui.org) It’s recently been confirmed by Minghui.org that a native of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province was sentenced to three years in 2020 for her faith in Falun Gong, after she was arrested in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, where her daughter resides. 

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Ms. Wan Xin’er, 70, has been traveling between Nanchang and Nanjing in the past few years, after her daughter moved to Nanjing. She was arrested in Nanjing in mid-May 2019 and had her residence ransacked. She was released on bail after 37 days in detention.

When she returned to her home in Nanchang, the Nanjing police followed her and also ransacked her home in Nanchang. 

In late October 2020, the Xuanwu District Court in Nanjing sentenced Ms. Wan to three years. She appealed, but the Nanjing City Intermediate Court ruled to uphold her original verdict. She was taken back into custody at the Nanjing Prison and is still held there now. 

In the past two decades, Ms. Wan has been repeatedly targeted for her faith in Falun Gong. Because she sold Falun Gong books in her bookstore, she was harassed by the police after the onset of the persecution. 

Ms. Wan and four other practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong in early 2000 and were arrested. 

Because the guards at the Nanchang County Detention Center found Falun Gong books in her cell on February 17, 2000, they dragged her and four other practitioners to an empty room and cuffed their left hands to their right feet, and their right hands to their left feet. Then the guards beat them and kept them cuffed for two days. The practitioners couldn’t use the restroom during the time or have blankets to sleep with. 

Ms. Wan was later given two years at the Jiangxi Province Women’s Prison. Because she refused to renounce Falun Gong, the guards held her in solitary confinement and subjected her to intensive torture.