In the Hefei Youth Fellowship, Anhui, two leading co-workers, Brother Mu En and Brother Yi Nuo, were sentenced. Brother Mu En received a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence and a fine of 60,000 yuan, while Brother Yi Nuo was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 50,000 yuan.
Brother Mu En, 35 years old, is married with an 8-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son. He lives with his parents.
Brother Wang Yi Nuo, 33 years old this year, is unmarried and originally from Lixin County, Anhui. Yi Nuo previously worked at Huawei in Xi’an. Learning that many young people from his hometown were going to university in Hefei, he quit his job in Xi’an and returned to Anhui, working for a company in Hefei.
In early 2018, the “Hefei Youth Fellowship” was established in the university town. Initially, there were only a dozen members, but it quickly grew. By the time of the raid on September 18, 2022, nearly two hundred people were attending the meetings, mostly students, with a few working adults.
The Hefei National Security had once suggested Wang Yi Nuo join the Three-Self Church or simply register, but Wang Yi Nuo did not agree. The believers’ offerings were made through WeChat transfers, which were considered convenient but later proved to be very dangerous.
On September 18, 2022, the “Hefei Youth Fellowship” was raided during a meeting, and 84 people were arrested on the spot. The police took Wang Yi Nuo home for a search that lasted several hours. Without a search or arrest warrant, they took him away. Most of those arrested that day were released after 24 hours, and four were detained for seven days before being released. The main co-workers, Brothers Wang Yi Nuo and Mu En, were criminally detained and later formally arrested.
The families were notified in April, and the trial took place on April 27. The families hired two lawyers, one for each brother, as they did not know how to find Christian lawyers, so neither lawyer was a Christian.
The charge was fraud, involving an amount of 240,000 yuan. The police forced some believers to write a “victim’s rights and obligations notification,” implying they were defrauded. Those who refused to write were detained. The police classified the donated money as fraud. The police restored all deleted WeChat messages of Wang Yi Nuo, recovering all donor names, amounts, nearly five years of total contributions, each donor’s occupation, position, and even their photos.
The verdict is now out: Brother Mu En has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison with a 60,000 yuan fine, and Brother Yi Nuo to three years in prison and a 50,000 yuan fine.
Brothers and sisters, please pray for Brothers Mu En and Wang Yi Nuo.
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