(Minghui.org) Minghui.org recently learned that a Baiyin City, Gansu Province resident was admitted to the Gansu Province Women’s Prison on April 13, 2025, to serve a four-year term for her faith in Falun Gong.
Ms. Si Liping, in her 50s, was arrested on April 20, 2023, and held at the Baiyin City Detention Center. She was tried by the Baiyin District Court in early February 2024, and sentenced at an unknown time.
This is not the first time that Ms. Si has been targeted for practicing Falun Gong, which has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999. She has been arrested multiple times, resulting in two prison terms (a three-year probation term, from 2010 to 2013, and a one-year prison term, from 2016 to 2017).
Earliest Arrests
Ms. Si was arrested in May 2001 when she went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong.
Her next arrest took place in late June 2003 while she was at work. A group of officers broke into her workplace and took her to the Baiyin City Police Department. They interrogated her under torture before taking her to the Baiyin City Detention Center, where she faced even more torture.
The detention center guards slapped Ms. Si in the face with rubber tubes so hard that she still has visible marks on her face today. They also instigated inmates to drag her to the courtyard and put shackles weighing about 37 pounds on her feet. The shackles were then linked to her handcuffs with a very short chain, rendering her unable to stand or stretch her legs. She had to stay in a bent posture and her feet became deformed under the weight of the shackles. She went on a hunger strike in protest and soon became emaciated.
The guards removed the shackles on the tenth day of Ms. Si’s hunger strike and noticed that she could no longer stand. Only then did they release her. After returning home that night, she lost consciousness several times. Through doing the Falun Gong exercises, however, Ms. Si recovered in less than one week.
About a week after she recovered, the security guards from Ms. Si’s workplace seized her from home and took her to the Wuchuan Brainwashing Center. Two people were assigned to follow her around the clock, not allowing her to do the Falun Gong exercises or talk to other practitioners held there.
In order to force Ms. Si to give up her belief, the brainwashing facility personnel dragged her to the torture room. They restrained her in a metal chair with her legs secured to the chair legs with a metal bar and her hands twisted behind her back and cuffed to the back of the chair. To add to her suffering, they hung a heavy metal lock on the handcuff. Her wrists bore all the weight of the handcuffs and the lock, causing excruciating pain. Ms. Si recounted later that she felt like numerous insects were crawling on her body. When she screamed in pain, she was verbally abused by the brainwashing center personnel.
Ms. Si was on her way home from work on the afternoon of September 12, 2016, when several officers from the Tongcheng Police Station suddenly showed up and arrested her. They raided her home the next morning and confiscated a large amount of Falun Gong informational materials. She was taken to the Baiyin City Detention Center later that day.
First Prison Sentence in 2011
Ms. Si was arrested again on October 20, 2010, while distributing Falun Gong informational materials. The Baiyin City Court sentenced her to three years with three years probation in May 2011.
Second Prison Sentence in 2017
While visiting a fellow practitioner on September 19, 2014, Ms. Si was arrested by officers who had been staked outside that practitioner’s home. They took her to the Xiqu Road Police Station and released her hours later.
The Tongcheng Police Station officers arrested Ms. Si on September 12, 2016, and the Baiyin District Court sentenced her to one year on February 7, 2017. She served her entire term at the Baiyin City Detention Center.
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