(Minghui.org) Ms. Xu Zhiying from Leshan City, Sichuan Province, was recently sentenced to one year for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Xu’s wrongful conviction stemmed from her arrest on May 11, 2023. Captain Luo Zhaoping from the Zhong District Domestic Security Division and his officers raided her home before taking her to the Haitang Police Station for interrogation.
Luo produced three Falun Gong flyers and three still images from surveillance videos and asked if Ms. Xu distributed the flyers. She said the woman in the videos was her, but she did not pass out the flyers.
The police later released Ms. Xu on bail. Four officers from the Haitang Police Station, including Wang Weiwei, showed up at her home on August 30, 2023 and took her to their police station for interrogation. Wei notified her that a case against her was established on May 6, 2023, five days before her initial arrest. She asked to see the case document but was her request was refused. Wang then gave her a notice of summons and a notice of house arrest. Both stated that she was suspected of “using a cult to undermine law enforcement,” a standard pretext used to frame and sentence Falun Gong practitioners.
Officer Wang called Ms. Xu on September 7, 2023, ans told her to report to them to sign some paperwork. She went the next day and was taken to the Zhong District Procuratorate, where she was given a notice of permitted timeframe for the procuratorate to file an indictment. The procuratorate indicted her on January 25, 2024 and then forwarded her case to the Zhong District Court.
Ms. Xu appeared in court twice, on September 5 and November 28, 2024, respectively, before she was convicted at an unknown date.
Prior to her latest prison sentence, Ms. Xu was sentenced to three years on May 20, 2008 following an arrest on February 28 that year.
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