(Minghui.org) Ms. Chen Xiufen, 69, from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province was sentenced to four years and fined 10,000 yuan on September 8, 2023 for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Chen, who lives in the Yuexiu District of Guangzhou City, was arrested at her home on January 26, 2022, by officers from the Nanshitou Police Station in Haizhu District. It’s unclear why she was targeted by out-of-district police. Her Falun Gong books and other valuables were confiscated and she was taken to the Haizhu District Detention Center.
The Haizhu District Court sentenced Ms. Chen on September 8, 2023. The details of her indictment, trial, and sentencing are being investigated.
Prior to her latest persecution, Ms. Chen was arrested by officers from the Dengfeng Police Station in Yuexiu District on January 5, 2016, after they found out that she filed a criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese dictator who ordered the persecution of Falun Gong.
A Well-regarded Teacher
Ms. Chen is retired, and taught at the Dengfeng Elementary School in Yuexiu District. She used to suffer from a myriad of diseases, including enteritis, gastritis, colitis, proctitis, transverse colitis, uterine fibroids, gynecological diseases, migraines, chronic fatigue, chronic diarrhea, and chronic abdominal distension. More than once she woke up in pain and had to seek emergency care.
All her symptoms disappeared about one month after she began practicing Falun Gong in early 1999. Ms. Chen also became a better person and stopped taking gifts from her students’ parents. [It is commonplace in China for parents to gift their children’s teachers in exchange for preferential treatment in school.] She treated all her students equally, and their parents commended her for being such an upright and caring teacher.
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