(Minghui.org) A 67-year-old woman in Chengde City, Hebei Province, was issued a formal arrest warrant on September 25, 2025 because she practices Falun Gong. She is now held at Chengde City Second Detention Center and is awaiting indictment.
Ms. Chen Fengxia, born in May 1958, was initially arrested in the elevator of her apartment building on the early morning of July 12, 2024, by several plainclothes officers from the Gaoxin District Police Department. They took her to her apartment and tried to press her fingerprints on her smart lock. After that failed, they dragged her downstairs, causing multiple bruises on her body.
Ms. Chen had a medical episode later that day and was rushed to the hospital for observation overnight. She was released on bail the next day. When she returned home, she noticed that her Falun Gong books, portrait of Falun Gong’s founder, and other valuables were gone. Captain Mao Kai of the Gaoxin District Domestic Security Office later admitted that he brought a group of people to her apartment and they pried open her door. They raided her home and replaced her smart lock afterwards.
Mao returned on July 15, 2024 and ordered Ms. Chen to sign a one-year bail form. She refused. One of Mao’s subordinates video-recorded the whole conversation.
Captain Hou Shouyin of the Chengde County Domestic Security Office led two officers to knock on Ms. Chen’s door on September 18, 2024. (Chengde County is under the administration of Chengde City). No one was home and they taped a summons on the door. Hou called Ms. Chen’s daughter on October 12, 2024 to say that they submitted her mother’s case to the local procuratorate.
Officers from the Shidongzigou Police Station arrested Ms. Chen on a bus on September 11, 2025. They said they were following an order from the Chengde County Domestic Security Office to take her into custody after her one-year bail expired.
Ms. Chen collapsed and lost consciousness soon after the arrest, and captain Hou and his officers drove her to a hospital for a physical exam. Even though she was unconscious they held her up and pinched her arms. The doctor there said he could not do a CT scan on an unconscious person.
Hou took Ms. Chen, who was still semi-conscious, to the Chengde City Second Detention Center around 6 p.m. that day. The guards on duty refused to admit her because she hadn’t had a physical exam. Hou assured the guards that he'd spoken to their director who agreed to admit Ms. Chen as long as she was still breathing.
Hou promised to get all the required paperwork submitted later but the guards still insisted on seeing a physical exam report. Hou then called an acquaintance at the 266 Hospital and said he needed a notarized stamp. He drove Ms. Chen to that hospital and wheeled her inside. She refused to submit to a physical and fell out of the wheelchair during the struggle. The doctor said he could not perform the physical exam on her. Hou said he only needed a stamp without an actual physical exam.
Hou got the stamp and had Ms. Chen admitted to the detention center around 10 p.m. Her family hired a lawyer to file a complaint against Hou and the other officers involved in the case, including Qi Jianfei and Yuan Bingnan. The lawyer submitted the complaint to relevant government agencies in Chengde County on September 24, 2025.
Ms. Chen’s family received a call from Hou the next day saying he was able to get a formal arrest warrant issued.
Past Persecution
In 2006, while visiting the Dayingzi Township Government Office for another matter, Ms. Chen wrote “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance” on a piece of paper the size of a small matchbox. A government worker later reported her to the police. About seven officers soon showed up at her door. They raided her home and took her to the Kuancheng Lockup.
Ms. Chen was interrogated with torture. She was restrained in a metal chair and beaten. Her heart condition relapsed. The police released her two weeks later, but not before extorting 3,000 yuan from her family.
In 2009, Ms. Chen mailed letters to government agencies urging them to stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners. The police shadowed her and arrested her on September 27 that year. They held her at the Luanping County Lockup and then gave her an unknown term of forced labor. While she was held at the Tangshan City Women’s Labor Camp, she was forced to stand in the snow wearing thin clothing. The guards also hit her with electric batons.
One year later she was transferred to the Shijiazhuang City Women’s Labor Camp. She faced similar torture there. They boxed her ears until she became deaf, and her ears festered and bled on and off for four years afterward. Several of her ribs were broken, her back was covered in bruises, and she ended up with severe rectal prolapse due to the prolonged torture.
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