(Minghui.org) It was recently learned that a resident of Laiyang City, Shandong Province was admitted to prison at the end of February 2024 to serve time for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.

Ms. Sun Chengrong, in her 50s, went to the Shanqiandian Town Police Station in 2022 to urge the police there to stop participating in the persecution of Falun Gong. She was arrested but later released on bail. A court in Yantai City, which oversees Laiyang City, held a hearing on her case at the Songjiazhuang Village government compound at an unknown time. The details remain to be investigated.

Officers from the Shanqiandian Town Police Station raided Ms. Sun’s home in September 2023 and took her to the Yantai City Detention Center (located in Fushan District). She was transferred to the Shandong Province Women’s Prison (located in the capital city of Ji’nan) at the end of February 2024. Her family learned from Songjiazhuang Village officials that she had been sentenced to seven years.

This is not the first time that Ms. Sun has been targeted for her faith. She was arrested at home at around 7:30 a.m. on November 17, 2015, by the secretary of Songjiazhuang Village and officers from the Laiyang City Domestic Security Division. They held her at the Laiyang City Lockup for an unknown amount of time.

In October 2019, chief Wang Zhenping of the Shanqiandian Town Police Station harassed Ms. Sun at home and ordered her to sign statements to renounce Falun Gong. Wang also ordered her arrest on November 27 that year. She was detained for 15 days. 

Bu Zhigang from the Shanqiandian Town Judicial Bureau, harassed Ms. Sun at home in September 2020 and ordered her to sign statements to give up her belief. 

Bu summoned Ms. Sun in June 2021. He and his supervisor Wu Jian took pictures of her and again attempted to make her renounce Falun Gong. Three months later, she was summoned to the Judicial Bureau, where multiple people grabbed her hand and forced her to “sign” statements to renounce Falun Gong. 

The local officials harassed Ms. Sun on the phone in November 2021.