(Minghui.org) A 78-year-old woman in Yingtan City, Jiangxi Province, was sentenced to three years with a 20,000-yuan fine on May 6, 2023, for refusing to give up her faith in Falun Gong.
Ms. Zhao Longying had been repeatedly harassed by the police and local officials over the past three years before being arrested. Hu Xiongping, the deputy village secretary, went to her home on October 15, 2022, and seized her Falun Gong books. When she tried to get her books back, she was arrested. The police collected her fingerprints at the police station before releasing her later that day.
The police harassed Ms. Zhao two days later and took her to the hospital for a physical exam. They claimed to be following up on her previous arrest months earlier after she was recorded by a surveillance camera putting up information about Falun Gong. Due to the pandemic, the police didn’t detain her back then but now sought to prosecute her.
The mental distress caused Ms. Zhao to suffer dangerously high blood pressure. Yet the police still took her to the police station for interrogation and released her in the late afternoon.
The Guixi City Procuratorate indicted Ms. Zhao in December 2022 and moved her case to the Guixi City Court. The authorities had people stay outside of her home to monitor her and prevent her from going out. She was taken into custody at the Yingtan City Detention Center on January 31, 2023, and sentenced three months later.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
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