(Minghui.org) A 72-year-old woman in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, has been detained for one month because she practices Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Ms. Li Xiuzhen was arrested on October 11, 2026, after she was reported for talking to people about Falun Gong. She has been held at the Shijiazhuang City Detention Center since then.

This isn’t the first time that Ms. Li has been targeted for practicing Falun Gong. She previously served a four-year term from 2019 to 2023.

Ms. Li was arrested on April 9, 2019, for urging officers of the Xinle City Police Department not to participate in the persecution. When the police ordered her to write statements to renounce Falun Gong she refused to comply. She was briefly detained at the Zhengding Detention Center and then released.

Ms. Li was arrested again on November 12, 2019, after she was reported for talking to people about Falun Gong at the Matoupu Town. She was held at the Shijiazhuang City Second Detention Center.

The Matoupu Town Police Station delivered Ms. Li’s detention notice to her home in early December 2019 and ordered her son to sign the document. He refused.

The authorities kept Ms. Li’s family in the dark about her case status and did not allow them to visit her. She was later secretly tried and sentenced to four years.