(Minghui.org) Ms. Sun Dongmin, 69, in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, has been detained for weeks because she practices Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Sun was arrested on the morning of October 22, 2026, after she was reported for talking to people about Falun Gong the day before. The arresting officers from the Dingziqiao Police Station raided her home and put her in a local detention center, where she remains.
This is not the first time that Ms. Sun, a retired worker of Hubei Power Transmission & Transformation Engineering Company, has been targeted for her faith. She was previously arrested on December 30, 2000, while unfurling a banner which read “Falun Dafa is good” on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. She was taken to the Tiananmen Square Police Station and released that night. She returned to Wuhan the next day. As soon as she came home, officers from the local Wansong Police Station and street committee broke in. They raided her home and took her to the police station.
Ms. Sun was interrogated with torture overnight and not allowed to sleep at all. After 24 hours at the police station, she was stripped naked (the temperature was 19.4oF) and driven to the Wuhan City Detention Center. The police further transferred her to the Hewan Labor Camp on February 20, 2001. She was subjected to various forms of humiliation and forced labor at the labor camp before she was released in August 2001.
While Ms. Sun was on a business trip in October 2006, the police raided her home and confiscated her computer, three printers, and Falun Gong books. The items were valued at over 10,000 yuan. She was forced to live away from home between December 2006 and May 2007 to avoid being arrested.
Ms. Sun returned home from work one day in January 2009, and was arrested by a group of officers who were waiting outside. They also raided her home and confiscated items worth over 1,000 yuan.
Ms. Sun’s father was also implicated. The police summoned him for “talks” on numerous occasions. He became depressed and died in 2009.
Ms. Sun was arrested again in January 2021, after she was reported for talking to people about Falun Gong. She was issued a formal arrest warrant two months later. Her sister, who also practices Falun Gong, was arrested with her. Their detention put their nearly-90-year-old bedridden mother in a dire situation.
Even when Ms. Sun was not in detention, she faced constant harassment from the local police and street committee. They often showed up at her home uninvited and ordered her to stop practicing Falun Gong. They also pressured her family to not allow her to go out to talk to people about Falun Gong. Her family lives in fear.
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