(Minghui.org) A resident of Longkou City, Shandong Province, was sentenced to two years in prison following a court hearing on June 5, 2024, for his faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Mr. Guo Meixue was arrested on February 28, 2024, and taken straight to the Longkou City Detention Center. He immediately went on a hunger strike in protest of the arbitrary detention and did not resume drinking or eating until the sixth day.
Two people from the Longkou City Procuratorate deposed Mr. Guo at the detention center on the morning of March 8. Guo Fudui, one of the arresting officers from the Longkou City Domestic Security Division, came that afternoon to notify him that he had just been issued a formal arrest warrant.
The police submitted Mr. Guo’s case to the procuratorate in May 2024. The Longkou City Court held a hearing on June 5, 2024, and sentenced him later (exact date unknown).
Mr. Guo has filed an appeal and he is still held at the detention center at the time of writing. According to an insider, he started another hunger strike recently (exact date unknown) and was taken to the Beihai Hospital for force-feeding multiple times.
Prior to his latest prison sentence, Mr. Guo was once given an unknown term of forced labor at the Shandong Province Second Men’s Labor Camp. He went on a hunger strike in protest on January 6, 2008, and was put in solitary confinement. The guards hung him up and shocked him with electric batons for long hours. They also gave him a tiny steamed bun only for each meal.
Mr. Guo’s loved ones couldn’t believe that he was incarcerated again for simply practicing his faith. They knew all too well that Falun Gong saved his life back in 2003. He had an accident at work that year and suffered third-degree burns all over his body. He stayed at a burn intensive care unit for more than three months and underwent multiple skin grafts. After he was discharged from the hospital, he did Falun Gong exercises and gradually recovered. The burn marks on his face have now completely disappeared. Everything else has also returned to normal (except his hands which cannot fully straighten yet). As a Falun Gong practitioner, he did not try to seek exorbitant compensation from his employer and won respect from everyone.
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