(Minghui.org) A 60-year-old woman in Luzhou City, Sichuan Province was admitted to the Chengdu Women’s Prison in early April 2025 to serve a three-year term for her faith in Falun Gong.
Ms. Liu Zongzhen’s wrongful conviction stemmed from an incident on May 17, 2023. She went to nearby Lantian Town to hang up banners bearing Falun Gong messages and was spotted by some locals. They seized her and took her to the local police station. Her home was then raided, with her Falun Gong books confiscated.
Ms. Liu was released two days later, and the Jiangyang District Police Department formally put her on bail on May 24, 2023. Officer Wang Qianwei (badge number 09944) submitted her case to the Jiangyang District Procuratorate on March 20, 2024. Prosecutor Dai Chunzhe indicted her on July 19 that year.
While out on bail awaiting trial, Ms. Liu faced frequent harassment from local authorities. Prior to the Chinese Communist Party’s National Day (October 1) in 2024, six people raided her home, including community workers Zhang Ying and Wang Fei.
Ms. Liu stood trial at the Jiangyang District Court on December 13, 2024. A police officer promised to give her a lighter sentence if she revealed whom she had contacted regarding her hanging up banners in 2023.
On April 7, 2025, Ms. Liu was notified that she had been sentenced to three years and that she should pack her clothes to get ready for prison admission. She was soon taken back into custody and put in the Chengdu Women’s Prison. Other details of her prosecution remain unknown.
This is not the first time that Ms. Liu has been targeted for her faith, which she took up in 1997 and credits for curing her numerous ailments, including laryngitis, gastritis, pneumonia, hepatitis, cholecystitis, and breast hyperplasia. She no longer lived in pain and was able to walk again.
After the persecution of Falun Gong began in July 1999, Ms. Liu held firm to her faith and was repeatedly targeted. In September 2000, local government officials Ren Xiaobo and Shi Zhide, along with a few police officers, showed up at her home and warned her not to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong.
Officer Duan and village head Liang Fugui came in early 2012 and ordered Ms. Liu to defame Falun Gong and its founder. She refused to comply.
Ms. Liu talked to people about Falun Gong at a mall on July 1, 2021 and was reported to police. Four plainclothes officers from the Yudaiqiao Police Station raided her home the next day and confiscated 60-70 Falun Gong books and other related materials, as well as the music player that she used to do Falun Gong exercises.
While the police did not arrest Ms. Liu after the raid, they called her on July 20, 2021, ordering her to report to them to sign some paperwork. She went and was taken for a physical exam, including blood tests, heart examination, CT, and COVID-19 test.
At 5 p.m. that day, Ms. Liu was admitted to the Naxi Detention Center, where she was given another round of physical exams, including ultrasound, CT, and blood tests.
Ms. Liu was detained for 15 days before being released on August 4, 2021. Three days later she was summoned to the police station again to sign statements to renounce Falun Gong. She refused to comply. The police wrote her name on the paperwork and grabbed her hand to press fingerprints on it.
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