(Minghui.org) A group of officers broke into Ms. Li Hanping’s home on March 2, 2026 (the day before the Lantern Festival), and confiscated her Falun Gong books and portrait of Falun Gong’s founder.
The police targeted Ms. Li, a 77-year-old resident of Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, because she published a solemn declaration on Minghui.org to nullify the statements she was forced to make against Falun Gong while she was previously detained.
Ms. Li has been repeatedly targeted since the communist regime began to persecute Falun Gong in July 1999. Chief Ou Jinbin (+86-19888960966) of the Dahekan Town Police Station ordered this latest raid of her home.
Ms. Li was arrested in September 2001 and sent to the Nanzheng District Detention Center. Three months later, she was moved to a brainwashing center, and her husband was forced to pay 1,000 yuan to cover her living expenses there.
Ms. Li was given two years of forced labor soon long after she was put in the brainwashing center. During the required physical exam for labor camp detention, she was found to hepatitis. She also had difficulty walking and was mentally disoriented. The police extorted 4,600 yuan from her husband before they released her on parole. They arranged two people to monitor her and ordered her to report to the local legal affairs office every month.
Ms. Li filed a criminal complaint in 2015 against former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin for launching the persecution of Falun Gong. The local police harassed her at home and forced her to sign statements against Falun Gong.
Du Jiucheng, secretary of the Nanzheng District Political and Legal Affairs Committee, led people to harass Ms. Li at home in April 2020. He asked her about other local practitioners’ information.
The police called Ms. Li’s son in 2023 and ordered him to bring his mother to them to have her pictures taken. Ms. Li refused to comply, and the police harassed her at home. They photographed her against her will.
Ms. Li’s husband, a school teacher, was initially very supportive of her practice of Falun Gong, upon seeing that she recovered from cervical spondylosis, colitis, hepatitis B, and lower back pain. He was elated that their family no longer had to worry about her medical expenses and that she was able to care for herself and him.
After the persecution began, Ms. Li’s husband also faced tremendous pressure even though he did not practice Falun Gong. He was suspended from work for one week because of his wife’s faith. His school threatened to fire him. The repeated fines he was forced to pay for his wife were a huge financial burden to their family. He eventually opposed his wife practicing Falun Gong. He died in the first half of 2025.