(Minghui.org) A 51-year-old man in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, has been admitted to the Chifeng City Prison to serve a 3-year term for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Mr. Lyu Tonggang was arrested on April 29, 2025, by officers from the Ningcheng County Domestic Security Office and the local police station. They raided his home and held him at the Ningcheng County Detention Center. He was sentenced on January 7, 2026, and transferred to prison on an unknown date.
This isn’t the first time Mr. Lyu has been targeted for his faith. He was previously arrested on April 11, 2009. The police ransacked his home, and confiscated his TV, computer, printer, and other personal items. The Ningcheng County Detention Center repeatedly denied his family’s requests to visit him. He was sentenced to three years on September 14, 2009, and admitted to the Chifeng City Prison. His elderly mother went to the prison many times but each time she was not allowed to see him.
A group of police officers broke into Mr. Lyu’s home on May 21, 2024, and confiscated a large amount of his personal items. He wasn’t home, so they arrested his father. His father was soon released. The police stayed outside his home until 11 p.m., after learning from the village director that Mr. Lyu often visited his father after finishing his night shift. But due to his work schedule, he didn’t come that night.
To avoid being arrested, Mr. Lyu was forced to live away from home, only to be arrested in April 2025 and sentenced to three years in prison.
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