(Minghui.org) Ms. Song Yaping had just returned from grocery shopping around 8 a.m. on June 15, 2026, when three men and one woman stopped her at the entrance of her apartment complex.
The four agents (only the woman in uniform) stuffed the 63-year-old Jinzhou City, Liaoning Province resident into their cruiser and drove her to the local Tianan Police Station.
During the interrogation, the police questioned if Ms. Song, born in August 1962, had applied self-adhesive stickers bearing messages about Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) in public places. She refused to answer and just kept reciting “Falun Dafa is good.”
The police raided her home shortly after, confiscating her Falun Gong books, laptop, desktop computer, cell phone, gift cards, and house key. Some of the items were later returned.
The police also took Ms. Song to a light pole and took a picture of her standing next to it, likely to use it as “evidence” that she applied the said stickers on the pole.
Ms. Song had acute chest pain and difficulty breathing during the physical exam required for admission to the Jinzhou City Detention Center. The police coerced her family into paying 5,000-yuan bond before releasing her on bail. They also ordered her to write a guarantee to not practice Falun Gong any more. When she refused, they threatened to implicate her family and pursue further prosecution of her.
This is not the first time that Ms. Song has been targeted for her faith, which she credits for enabling her to recover from a severe heart condition and other ailments. She previously served an unknown term of forced labor and an 11-year prison term.
Labor Camp Detention
After the Chinese Communist Party started persecuting Falun Gong in July 1999, Ms. Song went to Beijing to appeal for her right to freedom of belief. She was arrested and given an unknown term of forced labor. In 2000, while held at the Masanjia Labor Camp, she was forced to squat from morning until midnight every day for a full month because she refused to renounce her faith.
Nanshan Prison, where Ms. Song worked, fired her in 2000. She has since relied on her family and friends for financial support.
Sentenced to 11 Years in 2009
Ms. Song was arrested outside the local Children’s Park at 6:40 a.m. on April 17, 2009. The police beat her to the point that she felt dizzy, nauseous, and vomited non-stop. The Jinzhou City Detention Center declined to admit her, and the police took her to the hospital. The doctors discovered a tumor in her stomach.
Then deputy chief Li Yazhou of the Jinzhou City Police Department ordered the detention center to admit Ms. Song despite her medical condition. He said, “If she dies, then it’d be counted as a natural death!”
Ms. Song was later diagnosed with uterine cancer while still being held at the detention center.
The Guta District Court soon sentenced Ms. Song to 11 years, and she was admitted to the Liaoning Province Women’s Prison in late August 2009, despite her cancer diagnosis. Wu Li, head of the Ninth Division, and Qian Lei, lead of Team Four, instructed the inmates to abuse her.
Qian said to the inmates, “Beat her as hard as you can, as long you don’t beat her to death.”
The torture included hanging Ms. Song up, beating, tying up, taping her mouth shut, slapping her in the face, grabbing her hair and slamming her head against the wall, pricking her with needles, stuffing her mouth with soiled underwear or toilet paper, holding her in solitary confinement, and depriving her of sleep and pouring cold water on her when she dozed off.
Some of the inmate-perpetrators included Li Ying, Shi Liping, and Wei Xiaofeng.
The guards also instructed six inmates to force feed Ms. Song with feces.
Ms. Song’s family visited her in January 2011 and learned that she had a stroke. One side of her body and her face were paralyzed. Her uterine cancer had metastasized and progressed to the late stages, yet the prison still refused to release her because she refused to renounce her faith.
Ms. Song eventually became completely incontinent and amnestic. She also suffered a mental breakdown. The prison finally released her on parole in late October 2012, with her on oxygen and carried out of the prison hospital on a gurney.
Standing at 5’3’’, Ms. Song weighed only about 80 pounds when she was sent home. She no longer recognized her family or friends. She also had no memory at all of the abuses in the prison. According to her sister, the prison hospital injected her with an unknown drug and ordered the family to sign a waiver form.
Ms. Song’s husband noted that she just lay in bed and remained silent no matter who came to visit her. She later improved a little but still had scattered thinking, slow reaction, and extremely poor memory. She managed to gain some weight but struggled to control the muscles in her limbs.
Detained for Five Days in 2025
Ms. Song’s husband suddenly passed away in 2025, leaving her struggling to fend for herself. She developed a diminished sense of taste and experienced frequent nausea and vomiting.
Despite her frail health, the police harassed her at home frequently, attempting to put her back in jail. They arrested her on September 13, 2025, after receiving a tip that she talked to people about Falun Gong. Her home was raided, and she was detained for five days.
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