(Minghui.org) A Huzhu County, Qinghai Province, resident, was sentenced to six years on May 8, 2024 for posting information about Falun Gong on social media. She is now held at the Xining City Women’s Prison.
Ms. Xue Shunrong, 49, was arrested at home on July 6, 2023, by a group of officers led by Shang Chaoming, the new director of the Huzhu County Domestic Security Division. Without any arrest or search warrant, they confiscated her Falun Gong books and information materials and took her away.
The police also interrogated Ms. Xue’s daughter and son, as well as her bedridden mother-in-law in her 80s.
The police held Ms. Xue at the Sanhe Town Detention Center in Haidong City, which oversees Huzhu County. The Huzhu County Procuratorate soon approved her arrest and moved her case to the Haidong City Procuratorate. She was accused of posting videos about Falun Gong on Kuaishou, a popular short-form video platform, which had garnered over 100,000 views.
Ms. Xue was tried by the Haidong City Intermediate Court on January 17, 2024. The presiding judge, Nima Zhaxi, and the prosecutor said the higher-ups deemed the trial as a “significant case” and recommended a sentence between five and seven years. The sentence, however, may be reduced to three years if her family managed to persuade her to renounce Falun Gong.
Ms. Xue stated clearly during the hearing that it’s not possible for her to renounce Falun Gong. Judge Na announced the six-year sentence against her four months later. Judge Ma Chunying also signed her verdict.
This isn’t the first time that Ms. Xue has been targeted for her faith. In 2015, she filed a criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin, the former head of the Chinese communist regime who ordered the persecution. Instead of accepting the complaint, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate returned it to the Haidong City Police Department in March 2016.
Officers from the Haidong City Domestic Security Division and Huzhu County Domestic Security Division raided Ms. Xue’s home, confiscated her Falun Gong books and stuffed her into the trunk of a compact police car.
After taking her to the Huzhu County Domestic Security Division, they asked her who wrote the complaint. She remained silent. The officers took turns beating her with rubber tubes and shocking her with electric batons. She was covered with wounds and bruises. She was unable to walk when her family picked her up around 6 p.m. For a week after that, the open wounds kept bleeding and oozing pus.
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