(Minghui.org) Three women in Huaihua City, Hunan Province are facing indictment for their faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Yin Lanying, 76, was taken to the Zhijiang County Procuratorate to process paperwork on December 27, 2025. Officer Yin Hui (no relation) from the Tuanjie Police Station in Hecheng District, Huaihua City, submitted her case that day. Zhijiang County is under the administration of Huaihua City. The cases of two other Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Yi Luxian, 72, and Ms. Yang (first name unknown), in her 70s, were also submitted to the same procuratorate.
According to insiders, the three women were targeted after surveillance cameras recorded them distributing Falun Gong informational materials in Zhijiang County.
Ms. Yin was previously arrested on April 14, 2025, during a police sweep of local Falun Gong practitioners. She was seized at a bus stop by seven officers, who then took her to the legal education center next to the Tuanjie Police Station. There she saw more than ten practitioners already detained, most of whom were her age.
That night Ms. Yin had a medical episode, and fainted. The police sent her home, only to return the next day and hand her over to officer Yin Ping (no relation) from the Railway Police Station. She heard Yin say, “It will be lifted in half a year,” but had no clue what that meant.
With her having been taken to the procuratorate on December 27, 2025, Ms. Yin’s family realized that officer Yin was implying that her bail condition would be lifted in six months. It is unclear whether she remained detained after the case was submitted.
Past Persecution of Ms. Yin
Ms. Yin, a retired worker of the Huaihua Railway Passenger Transport Division, took up Falun Gong in September 1996, and soon recovered from her nephritis, kidney prolapse, pulmonary tuberculosis, frozen shoulder, and heart disease. She has served a two-year forced labor term and a three-year prison term for her faith during the past two-plus decades. She was also detained numerous other times.
The police arrested Ms. Yin at home two days after the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 1999, and interrogated her for several hours. While she was soon released, her workplace arranged for a retired official and the security chief to monitor her. The local street committee also dispatched people to surveil her. Yang Shuqing, then Party secretary of her workplace, also ordered her husband to divorce her. The local court denied the divorce application.
Ms. Yin went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in September 1999, and was arrested. She was held at the Dongcheng District Detention Center for seven days before being taken to the Huaihua City’s Liaison Office in Beijing. Three days later she was transferred to a railway lockup, where she was held for another 15 days before being released.
Ms. Yin’s workplace took her to a brainwashing center organized by the Huaihua City Police Department on May 17, 2000, and held her there for 15 days. In July 2000, she was taken to another brainwashing center and held for ten days. Four months later she was arrested again and detained for 15 days. After another arrest in March 2001, she was detained for ten days.
Ms. Yin was walking on the street just after 9 p.m. on June 1, 2001, when she was struck by a speeding motorcycle from behind, sending her flying, and landing over twenty meters away. The inertia then propelled her another five or six meters. After falling to the ground, she saw officer Wang Jian backing up his motorcycle. She suspected that he hit her on purpose.
Ms. Yin was arrested and put in the Mayang Detention Center when she was distributing Falun Gong materials in neighboring Mayang County in June 2001. She developed a medical condition and became critically ill. Her workplace picked her up one week later.
An official from Ms. Yin’s workplace led officer Man Huilong from the Mayang County Police Department and broke into her home in September 2001. They found an unconscious Ms. Yin (reason unknown). Instead of taking her for medical treatment, they took her to the Baimalong Women’s Labor Camp to serve a two-year term.
The labor camp declined to admit Ms. Yin, and the police forced her workplace to pay the labor camp several thousand yuan as a bribe. The police also assured the labor camp that they would not be held responsible should Ms. Yin die in their custody.
Ms. Yin was then admitted to the labor camp. Two or three drug addicts were assigned to monitor her around the clock. She was not allowed to talk to any other people. She was given only ten minutes in the morning to brush her teeth and use the restroom. She had to keep the door open when using the restroom or taking a shower. The drug addicts forced her to sit on a small stool for long hours. She often fainted and didn’t come to for 1-2 hours, or even longer later. Her hands became so weak that she couldn’t comb her hair or wipe herself after using the restroom. She needed help to bathe herself. She was in so much pain that she couldn’t sleep.
Ms. Yin survived and was released in September 2003. She was arrested again on April 15, 2008, and sentenced to three years in November 2008. While serving time in the Hunan Province Women’s Prison, she was subjected to various forms of abuse, including sleep deprivation, restriction of restroom use, and revocation of family visits. She was also stripped of control of her own commissary account and had to ask other inmates to help purchase daily necessities using her money.
Already 60 at the time, Ms. Yin was also later forced to do hard labor from 7 a.m. to midnight every day. She had to carry goods weighing 100-140 pounds to the workshop on the fourth floor (there was no elevator). She sometimes collapsed on the ground and couldn’t get up even after a long while. At times she worked until 2 a.m. to finish her work quota.
Ms. Yin was released in 2011, only to be arrested again on October 7, 2017, during a police sweep. The police submitted her case to the Hecheng District Procuratorate on January 11, 2018, and she was tried by the Hecheng District Court on December 17, 2018. Her sister had hired a lawyer for her, but was forced to dismiss the lawyer before the trial, after the court threatened to sentence Ms. Yin to three years.
The court did not release Ms. Yin after the hearing, and ordered her to be held at the Huaihua City Detention Center for an unknown amount of time before finally releasing her.
Ms. Yin faced constant surveillance after she returned home. The monitoring became even worse beginning in May 2024. The police even arranged people to stay at her home at one point, to prevent her from going out to talk to people about Falun Gong. Three young men were later seen monitoring her outside the apartment complex. As soon as she stepped outside, she was followed. One day she was about to give someone a Falun Gong information brochure and the person who had been shadowing her snatched it, but she managed to get it back.
The relentless persecution of Ms. Yin also caused irreparable damage to her family. Her mother was heartbroken after she was sentenced in 2008, and died the year after. Ms. Yin’s son ranked second in the written test and first in the in-person interview during a civil servant exam in 2000, but was not hired because of her faith. He also had a few opportunities to go on business trips overseas, but was not allowed to leave China, again due to his mother’s faith.
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