(Minghui.org) A 75-year-old woman in Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, is serving a 5.5-year term in the Guangdong Province Women’s Prison for her faith in Falun Gong, Minghui.org learned recently.
Ms. Yuan Yinying was arrested on May 9, 2024, after the police suspected her and two other women of distributing Falun Gong informational materials in neighboring Chaozhou City (also in Guangdong Province).
The Jiedong District Procuratorate promised to give Ms. Yuan only two and a half years if she signed a statement to admit her “guilt.” She refused to comply because no law in China deems practicing Falun Gong a crime.
The Jiedong District Court held a virtual hearing on February 21, 2025, and later sentenced her to five and a half years.
Ms. Yuan filed an appeal with the Jieyang City Intermediate Court. A judge went to the Jieyang City Detention Center and asked her a few questions in the reception room. That was then considered an “appeals hearing.” A ruling was issued in August 2025 to uphold the original verdict. Lin Dongxiong, Lu Ming, Zhou Shaofen, Huang Shengqiang, and Zheng Jiaxian signed the appeals ruling. She was admitted to the Guangdong Province Women’s Prison shortly after.
Prior to her latest prison sentence, Ms. Yuan was repeatedly arrested for her faith in Falun Gong. She was given two years of forced labor around 2000. Her husband was unable to cope, his health declined, and he died in March 2003.
Ms. Yuan was arrested again on January 12, 2006, and sentenced to five years in prison on July 21 that year. For details of her past persecution and latest arrest, see the report below.
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