Two Shanghai Residents Sentenced to Prison in Jiangsu Province

(Minghui.org) Two Shanghai residents were recently sentenced to prison by a court in Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province, because they practice Falun Gong.

Mr. Huang Jiayuan, 53, and Mr. Chen Chen, 52, were arrested at their homes on July 29, 2025, by officers from the Wujin Police Station in Changzhou. The police confiscated several computers from Mr. Huang’s home. Both men were detained at the Wujin District Detention Center in Changzhou.

Minghui.org recently confirmed that Mr. Huang was sentenced to three years and Mr. Chen was sentenced to three and a half years. Details about their prosecution are unclear.

This isn’t the first time that Mr. Huang and Mr. Chen have been targeted for their faith. They were arrested on May 14, 2006, and held at the Jinshan Detention Center in Shanghai. At the time, Mr. Huang’s wife was three months pregnant, and his widowed father relied on him for care. Mr. Chen’s computer repair shop was forced to shut down.

After they were detained for more than a year, both men were sentenced to four years of forced labor in mid-April 2007.