(Minghui.org) While serving a five-year term for her faith in Falun Gong, Ms. Jiang Yongqin suffered a broken leg due to torture and also developed symptoms of lung cancer. She became extremely weak and emaciated and had mobility issues. She has been granted medical parole and is currently receiving treatment.
Ms. Jiang Yongqin
Ms. Jiang, 57 and of Jilin City, Jilin Province, was arrested on June 12, 2022. While in custody, she was sexually assaulted by the police, force-fed wasabi oil through her nose and had lit cigarettes placed into her nostrils.
The Changyi District Court held a hearing of Ms. Jiang’s case on June 14, 2023. Her lawyer wasn’t allowed to represent her and the judge adjourned the session in just 20 minutes.
Ms. Jiang was sentenced to five years on January 24, 2024, and was soon admitted to the Jilin Province Women’s Prison.
This wasn’t the first time that Ms. Jiang, a mother of three, has been persecuted for her faith. While working as a teacher at the laboratory center of Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, she was arrested on September 26, 2009. Her computers and cell phone were confiscated. She was later sentenced to three years and was admitted to the Zhejiang Province Women’s Prison in April 2010. During the seven months at the Hangzhou City Detention Center, she was forced to make clothes and solder surface mounty chip components (placing chips on tiny pads of electronic devices).
After she was transferred to prison, Ms. Jiang was forced to wear an inmates’ uniform. The guards kept her handcuffed and shackled. They also forced her to work without pay, including processing packages and making electric blankets.
Ms. Jiang was released in March 2012, only to face constant harassment by the local police and 610 Office agents.
Ms. Jiang was arrested again in 2015 when she was still living in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. The police raided her home and confiscated over 40 Falun Gong books, over 30 DVDs, a computer and a hard drive. She was held at the Hangzhou City Detention Center for an unknown period of time.
The police arrested Ms. Jiang another time on October 10, 2017. They threatened to send her to a brainwashing center for a month, before the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress.
Ms. Jiang was harassed one more time in 2019 in Hangzhou. She later moved back to Jilin City, only to be harassed by the residential committee staffers in 2021 during the “Zero-Out” campaign aimed to force every Falun Gong practitioner on the government’s blacklist to renounce their faith.
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