(Minghui.org) A 69-year-old retired teacher in Ankang City, Shaanxi Province, stood trial at Hanbin District Court on June 2, 2023, for writing letters to her local social security bureau and government officials, requesting the reinstatement of her pension that was suspended because of her faith in Falun Gong. The prosecutors recommended a five-year prison sentence for her.
Ms. Luo Changyun testified against the arresting officers during her hearing. She said that they took her to a local hospital for a physical examination shortly after arresting her on May 30, 2022. As her blood pressure readings were 184/140 mmHg and the detention center refused to admit her (in China, detention facilities usually do not accept anyone whose systolic blood pressure, the top number in the readings, is 180 or higher), Zhao Silin, head of the Hanbin District Domestic Security Office, took her to another hospital and directed his daughter, who worked there, to change Ms. Luo’s blood pressure readings to 179/140 mmHg.
With the altered readings, Ms. Luo was admitted to the Hanbin District Detention Center.
During her trial, Ms. Luo’s two lawyers requested that the court hold responsible officers Zhao, Zhou Yunshui, and Bamacimu for fabricating her blood pressure readings. The lawyers also demanded justice against prosecutors Cheng Lina, Zhang Xiuqiong, and Zhang Pucha for failing to investigate the police’s fabrication of Ms. Luo’s health records.
Latest Arrest on May 30, 2022
Ms. Luo has been repeatedly targeted since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a nationwide campaign against Falun Gong, a mind-body practice based on the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, in July 1999. Simply for upholding her faith, she was arrested more than 20 times in the past 24 years.
She was thrice given forced labor terms totaling six and a half years between 2000 and 2007 and sentenced to five years in prison in 2008. Her husband divorced her under pressure, and their two daughters were also implicated.
The local social security bureau suspended Ms. Luo’s pension from April 1, 2010, to January 1, 2013, when she was still serving her five-year prison term. They later reinstated her pension, but started suspending it again in 2016. She has not received any pension benefits since then.
Ms. Luo mailed a letter to the social security bureau on January 8, 2022, requesting that her pension be reinstated and urging them to stop persecuting her financially for her faith in Falun Gong.
She also mailed another letter to the secretary of the Ankang City Discipline Committee, secretary of the Ankang City Police Department Political and Legal Affairs Committee, postmaster of Gaoxin Post Office, and deputy secretary of the Hanbin District Political and Legal Affairs Committee. She shared in the letter how Falun Gong freed her from stubborn illnesses and how people in more than 100 countries practice Falun Gong. She urged the officials to stop following the CCP in persecuting innocent Falun Gong practitioners like her. She also asked that they uphold justice for her and help reinstate her pension.
The social security bureau and those government officials turned in her letters to the Hanbin District Police Department Domestic Security Office. The police arrested her on May 30, 2022. She stood trial on June 2, 2023. The details of her court hearing can be found from the first related report listed below.
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