(Minghui.org) A 61-year-old woman in Weifang City, Shandong Province, is facing indictment because she practices Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Tian Xiuzhen, born in April 1964, was arrested on December 15, 2025, while talking to people about Falun Gong. The Weifang City Domestic Security Office agents next raided her rented apartment and confiscated a large amount of personal belongings. They put her in the Weifang City Detention Center and submitted her case to the Weifang City Procuratorate.
Ms. Tian developed ovarian cysts and rhinitis in 2002. She began practicing Falun Gong when nothing else helped. To her surprise, all her symptoms disappeared in less than two months. She came to see that Falun Gong was nothing like what’s depicted in the hate propaganda perpetuated by the communist regime. She felt compelled to tell people that the persecution of Falun Gong was groundless, only to be targeted repeatedly.
Prior to her latest persecution episode, Ms. Tian was arrested on June 13, 2006, while talking to people about Falun Gong. She was taken to a police station in Kuiwen District. Officer Gu Zhiyong and other officers from the Kuiwen District Police Department raided her home that night and confiscated her cell phone, computer, printer, keys, and 300 yuan in cash. At the time, she was running her own advertising agency. The fabrics, paper, pigments, and other materials that she had just purchased, were also seized from her home.
Ms. Tian was moved to the Kuiwen District Police Department and interrogated all night. The next morning she was driven to the Weifang City Detention Center, where she was forced to do hard labor and ordered to renounce Falun Gong. In mid-July 2006, she was given one and a half years of forced labor and she was sent to the Wangcun Women’s Labor Camp.
The labor camp guards subjected Ms. Tian to various forms of abuse, including long-term sleep deprivation, denied restroom use, long hours of forced labor, sitting still on a small stool for extended periods of time, brainwashing sessions aimed to make her give up her spiritual belief, and she was not allowed to talk to anyone.
Ms. Tian’s term was later extended by two weeks. She was released on December 29, 2007.
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