(Minghui.org) An 85-year-old woman in Chenxi County, Hunan Province, is facing six months of incarceration because she practices Falun Gong.
Ms. Li Yueying’s ordeal stemmed from her arrest in the first half of 2020, after Huang Mingbi, the director of Chenxi County Political and Legal Affairs Committee, saw her putting up Falun Gong posters on the street. After she was released, the police kept harassing her and later submitted her case to the Yuanling County Procuratorate. The prosecutor called her and her family several times and intimidated them.
In March 2022, led by police officer Hu Changsheng, the prosecutor went Ms. Li’s home with a copy of her indictment. He ordered her to go with him to the court to close her case. She refused to comply and they left.
Ou Yuanyuan of the Chenxi County Anti-Cult Office harassed Ms. Li twice on November 14 and 24, 2025. She came a third time on November 26, accompanied by staffers from the Yuanling County Court. After taking photos of Ms. Li without her permission, they carried her downstairs and took her to the hospital in an ambulance for a physical exam. Her family strongly protested and she was released that evening.
The authorities arrested Ms. Li again on December 19, 2025, and took her to a hospital in Huaihua City for a physical exam. They threatened to take her into custody to serve time and ordered her to sign an agreement to “willingly serve a six-month term.” She firmly refused to comply. It’s not clear whether the authorities went through a formal legal process to sentence her.
Due to the mental distress, Ms. Li experienced red face, dry mouth and dangerously high blood pressure. She was allowed to go home in the evening.
Past Persecution
Ms. Li, a retiree of Chenxi County Fish Farm, took up Falun Gong in August 1995. Her many ailments, including a heart condition, lumbar spondylosis, high blood pressure, and gastric ulcer, all disappeared.
In November 1999, four months after the Chinese Communist Party ordered the persecution of Falun Gong, Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice her faith and was arrested on Tiananmen Square. The police beat her on the head with a hard object and the blood stained her coat. She was sent back to Chenxi County and detained for 50 days.
Ms. Li went to Beijing to appeal again in September 2000 and was given one year at the Baimalong Forced Labor Camp in Zhuzhou City, Hunan.
Ms. Li was arrested again in December 2001 for talking to people about Falun Gong. After 15 months of detention, she was sentenced to three years and admitted to the Hunan Province Women’s Prison in the capital of Changsha.
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