News Analysis Chinese rights defenders are often deprived of their pensions as a punishment by the Chinese Communist regime. The 74-year old Cui Xuemin, formerly a teacher at a junior college in Heilongjiang Province, received such treatment after she defended her rights to practice Falun Gong. She was imprisoned for three years and had her retirement pension revoked. Cui retired in 1998. In a recent interview, she told the Chinese edition of The Epoch Times that the regime canceled her retirement fund in October 1999. “I have not received a dime since,” she said. Cui is now in political asylum in Canada. Many Chinese Falun Gong adherents have reported similar experiences, according to Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that documents the regime’s brutal campaign of persecution against the practice of Falun Gong since July 1999. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a meditative practice that includes a set of …