(Minghui.org) Despite her poor health, Ms. Shi Yujie was taken back into custody on June 4, 2026, to serve a seven-month term she was sentenced to in 2023 for her faith in Falun Gong.
Ms. Shi of Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, was first arrested on April 20, 2023. She was held in the Zhangjiakou City Lockup for 15 days before being transferred to the Zhangjiakou City Detention Center.
Officers from the Wuyi Road Police Station raided Ms. Shi’s home on May 16, 2023, and submitted her case to the Qiaodong District Procuratorate two days later. The procuratorate later returned the case, citing insufficient evidence. The police resubmitted the case to the same procuratorate around July 5.
The case was forwarded to the Qiaoxi District Procuratorate on July 14, 2023. Ms. Shi’s family urged prosecutor Dong Qi to drop the case, but to no avail.
Ms. Shi went on a hunger strike for about two weeks in May 2023 and was force-fed twice. She had a stomachache afterwards and became seriously ill. When her lawyer visited her on July 14, she told him about her hunger strike and force-feeding. She said that she experienced dizziness, chest pain, acough, swelling, and difficulty eating after the force-feeding. The guards took her to a hospital for a physical exam, but did not tell her the results.
On September 4, 2023, the day before her hearing, Ms. Shi’s lawyer visited her again and found her emaciated and disfigured. The next day, when she was escorted into the Qiaoxi District Court, she was seen walking extremely slowly. Her face was pale, and she kept her eyes closed during most of the session. She struggled to open them to answer the judge’s questions.
Ms. Shi’s family applied to have her released on bail on September 7, but the detention center and the court gave them the runaround.
Ms. Shi was finally released on bail on September 27. Her eyes were dull and her head shook uncontrollably.
Ms. Shi’s family was notified on November 30, 2023, that they could pick up her verdict at the courthouse the following day. She was sentenced to seven months and fined 2,000 yuan.
The court forced Ms. Shi to have a physical exam in the Zhangjiakou City Hospital on June 13, 2024. She still had difficulty walking, but the court ordered her be taken back into custody to serve time. To avoid being incarcerated, Ms. Shi went into hiding.
Due to the mental strain, Ms. Shi fell into a delirious state. She sometimes refused to eat, insisting that someone was trying to harm her by lacing her food with poison. Her family had to care for her around the clock.
In 2025, her family moved. But only a few months later, officers from the Wuyi Road Police Station knocked on the door. Ms. Shi locked herself in the bedroom for two hours, and the police left.
The family moved again in 2026. In mid-April, officers from the Wuyi Road Police Station called Ms. Shi’s husband, demanding to know the couple’s new address so they could check on her. They claimed that they had seen her “walking pretty fast.”
To prevent the police from finding them, Ms. Shi’s husband stopped using his cellphone, but four officers from the Wuyi Road Police Station broke into their home at 7 a.m. on June 3 and took Ms. Shi to a hospital for a physical exam. Although she was still very weak, she was admitted to the Zhangjiakou City Detention Center that afternoon and ordered to serve the seven-month term.
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