(Minghui.org) Ms. Sun Shuhua, 57, from Jizhou District, Tianjin, was sentenced to one and a half years and fined 10,000 yuan on July 19, 2024 for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
It’s unclear when Ms. Sun was arrested or where she is being held. This is not the first time that she has been targeted for her faith, which she credits for curing her eye diseases, rheumatic fever, gynecological diseases, cervical bone spurs and back pain.
Ms. Sun was arrested on April 13, 2009 and given one year and two months of forced labor. She was brutally tortured and forced to do unpaid labor at the Tianjin Women’s Forced Labor Camp (see the related report for details). Every time her husband went to visit her, the labor camp guards ordered him to bring the couple’s two young children in an attempt to pressure her to renounce her faith. Her children suffered car sickness during the long trip and cried non-stop after seeing their mother behind bars. Her husband blamed her for everything. She held firm to her faith and her term was extended by two days. She was released on June 15, 2010.
Her husband asked to divorce her numerous times after she returned home. It is unclear if they are still married.
The local police kept harassing Ms. Sun at home. Around June 2011, about seven police officers broke in to search for a computer that they alleged she used to write and submit articles about her persecution to Minghui.org. Her parents-in-law, who lived with her, were so terrified that they trembled and couldn’t speak.
A female officer threatened Ms. Sun and told her to not submit articles to Minghui.org or they would come at her again. Two other officers returned the next day to harass her. Not long after, two local government employees showed up, and tried to make her renounce her faith. Four officers came in 2014 to raid her home without showing their IDs or a search warrant. Her mother-in-law trembled in fear again.
Ms. Sun’s parents were also affected. After her older sister was sentenced to four years for practicing Falun Gong, her father became so distraught that he died in 2012. Her mother had a mental breakdown and passed away shortly afterwards.
Related Report:
Practitioner Ms. Sun Shuhua Recounts Torture at Dagang Women's Forced Labor Camp in Tianjin
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