(Minghui.org) A 78-year-old resident of Wuhan City, Hubei Province, was put under house arrest after a local detention center declined to admit her due to her poor health.

Ms. Lin Xianghua was home at around 9 a.m. on April 1, 2024, when the local street committee led about seven officers to arrest her. They said that she had been reported by a grid manager for distributing Falun Gong informational materials in her apartment complex. They produced a search warrant and confiscated her laptop, music player, and Falun Gong books and informational materials. 

Falun Gong is a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999. In addition to using the law enforcement and judicial systems to arrest and sentence Falun Gong practitioners, the communist regime has also mobilized street committees and grid managers to aid in the persecution. [Note: China’s grid-style social management system involves dividing each county into smaller zones (or grids) and tasking the grid managers with monitoring citizens and reporting suspicious activities to local governments on a regular basis.]

The police took Ms. Lin to the Hanshuiqiao Police Station for interrogation. They also forcibly took her pictures and blood samples. She was next taken to the hospital behind the Qiaokou District Police Department for a physical examination. The doctors there drew her blood and measured her blood pressure.

After the hospital visit, Ms. Lin was taken to the Wuhan City First Detention Center, where she was made to undergo another round of physical examination. The detention center refused to admit her after discovering she had high blood pressure. The police released her under house arrest after 7 p.m. that night. She refused to sign the paperwork.

Ms. Lin’s latest persecution episode was preceded by another one on January 19, 2024. She gave a neighbor a DVD containing Falun Gong information a bit past 10 that morning, only to be reported by the neighbor. The police descended on her home in less than one hour and confiscated her Falun Gong books and other valuables. They did not give her a list of confiscated items as required by law.

Ms. Lin was then taken to the same Hanshuiqiao Police Station, where she was interrogated and had her pictures taken and blood drawn. She was released after 10 p.m. that night.