(Minghui.org) When Ms. Qian Youyun’s family went to pick her up on her scheduled date of release, November 15, 2025, they were shocked to learn that she had been transferred to another detention facility to face prosecution for her faith in Falun Gong.
Ms. Qian, of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, was arrested on October 31, 2025, after being reported for talking to people about Falun Gong at a farmers’ market. Officer Wei Jie and a woman officer in plainclothes from the Jiangxia District Domestic Security Office drove Ms. Qian to the Jiangxia District Police Department in a private car.
As Ms. Qian refused to cooperate in the interrogation, an officer with the badge number 039399 beat her. She also had her blood sample forcibly drawn and was made to have a physical exam. She was then taken to the Zhifang Police Station and next given 15 days of administrative detention at the Dongxihu District First Women’s Lockup.
When Ms. Qian’s family went to the lockup on November 15 to pick her up, they were told that she had been transferred to the Wuhan City Women’s Detention Center. On the same day, the police took her back to the Jiangxia District Police Department for interrogation. When she remained silent, they retrieved the record of her arrest in 2019 and used that to file a new case against her. They forced her to have another physical exam, collected her blood sample, and took photos of her. Meanwhile, the police also searched her home and workplace, and confiscated her Falun Gong books, informational materials, and a tablet. She has been put in criminal detention since.
Ms. Qian’s husband hired a lawyer to seek justice for her, but the lawyer was stonewalled by prosecutor Wang of the Jiangxia District Procuratorate.
Prior to her latest persecution, Ms. Qian, a former employee of the Grain Bureau of Jiangxia District, had been repeatedly targeted for upholding her faith since the Chinese Communist Party ordered the persecution in 1999. She was given a three-year prison term in 2000, a one-and-a-half-year labor camp term in 2003, a four-year prison term in 2014, and a two-year term in 2019.
While in custody, she was subjected to various torture methods, including being handcuffed and hung up for over a month, held in solitary confinement for over two weeks, forced to stand for long periods of time, deprived of food and sleep, and not allowed to use the toilet. The mental and physical torture caused her to become emaciated and mentally disoriented at times.
In April 2018, while Ms. Qian was still serving time, her local Jiangxia District Social Security Office issued a notice ordering her to pay back the pension benefits issued to her between 2000 and 2003 (during her first prison term) and between December 2014 and April 2018 (the majority of her second prison term). She didn’t have the money to pay, and the social security office suspended her pension to pay back her past “pension debt.”
When Ms. Qian finished her second prison term in December 2018, she tried to have her pension reinstated. But before her efforts bore fruit, she was arrested again in April 2019 and sentenced to two years in prison. After she was released in April 2021, she resumed her efforts to reinstate her pension. Although the Jiangxia District Social Security Office agreed to issue her a 1,000-yuan monthly subsidy after she appealed to various government agencies, the payments were stopped in October 2023, due to retaliation against her continued efforts to seek justice and have her pension reinstated.
Ms. Qian’s husband only has 2,000 yuan in monthly pension income. As they struggled to make ends meet, she and her husband, who has poor health, were forced to continue doing odd jobs to make a living.
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