(Minghui.org) The Meihekou City Court in Jilin Province sentenced a 51-year-old resident of Qingyuan County, Liaoning Province, to eight months in mid-March 2026.
Ms. Xin Kui went to nearby Shancheng Town in Meihekou City on November 22, 2025, to distribute informational materials exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing persecution of her faith, Falun Gong. She was arrested by officers from the Shancheng Town Police Station and held at the Meihekou City Detention Center.
Ms. Xin’s two lawyers went to the Meihekou City Police Department on November 27 and 28, 2025, but they were not allowed to visit her. They then went to the detention center, the Meihekou City Procuratorate, and the appeals office, but their visitation requests were denied again.
The lawyers and Ms. Xin’s family returned to the procuratorate on December 22, 2025, but the receptionist refused to accept their application to represent her. They then went to the detention center and had a guard pass their letter to Ms. Xin. Ms. Xin was indicted a few days later.
On February 6, 2026, Ms. Xin’s family learned from the lawyers that her case was now with the Meihekou City Court. Her daughter called judge Wang Xue that day to say that she planned to serve as her mother’s non-lawyer defender. She mailed her defender application and requested a review of the case file. She later went to the courthouse but was told Wang was not in.
Wang held a secret hearing of Ms. Xin’s case on February 28, 2026, without notifying her lawyers or family. Her daughter called Wang on March 6, 2026, asking about her mother’s case. Wang hung up hastily.
Ms. Xin’s family received a copy of her verdict in mid-March 2026.
Ms. Xin took up Falun Gong in 1996, when she was struggling with severe postpartum joint pain. She soon recovered and has enjoyed good health ever since.
On December 15, 1999, five months after the persecution started, Ms. Xin set out for Beijing to appeal for the right to practice her faith. She was arrested while on the way there, at the train station in Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. Officers Wang Jixian and Wang Weixian of the Caoshi Town Police Station in Qingyuan escorted her to the Qingyuan County Police Department. They detained her for 15 days and charged her with “disrupting social order.” The Qingyuan County 610 Office and the Caoshi Police Station extorted over 7,000 yuan from her. After she was released, the police frequently harassed her and ordered her to renounce Falun Gong.
Ms. Xin talked to a villager about the benefits of Falun Gong in January 2002, but was reported by village secretary Pan Honglu. Officer Li Xianghui took her to the Caoshi Police Station. They extorted 500 yuan from her and then released her.
Liaoning Woman Faces Prosecution in Jilin Province for Practicing Falun Gong