(Minghui.org) A husband and wife from Jiusan Farm were each sentenced to 3.5 years and fined 10,000 yuan for refusing to renounce Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese communist regime.

Mr. Zhou Shengyong and Ms. Zhang Chunyan were arrested on December 8, 2014 and given the prison sentence on July 15 of this year during their third court appearance.

Mr. Zhou is currently being held at Jiusan Detention Center and Ms. Zhang Qiqihar First Detention Center. Both of them are appealing their sentences.

The couple’s 11-year-old daughter is struggling to live a normal life. Her grandfather passed away just two months ago, unable to recover from the trauma of her parents’ arrest. Her grandmother recently became mentally disoriented because of the family ordeal.