(Minghui.org) Ms. Zou Hualan, 75, who lives in Chongqing was recently sentenced to two years and three months because she practices Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999. Ms. Zou has appealed the verdict.
Ms. Zou was arrested at a bus station on March 6, 2026, after local community vice secretary Yang Guoqiang reported her when she talked to him about Falun Gong. Officers from the Gelan Town Police Station searched her but did not find any Falun Gong informational materials. They reported the case to the Changshou District Domestic Security Office.
When officers from the Changshou District Domestic Security Office raided Ms. Zou’s home at 1 a.m. on March 7. They did not find any Falun Gong materials. To prosecute her, they watched numerous surveillance videos and found three clips which showed Ms. Zou talking to people. They claimed that she was promoting Falun Gong and submitted her case to the Changshou District Procuratorate.
Since the police didn’t find any Falun Gong materials at Ms. Zou’s home, they submitted 14 QR code cards with links that circumvent internet censorship, which were confiscated from another practitioner, Mr. Li Chunyuan, during his arrest on July 21, 2025, and accused Ms. Zou of distributing them.
The procuratorate issued a formal arrest warrant for Ms. Zou on March 18, and later transferred the case to the Liangjiang New District Procuratorate, one of the local procuratorates designated to handle Falun Gong cases. Prosecutor Zhang Shiyang of the Liangjiang New District Procuratorate indicted her and transferred the case to the Liangjiang New District Court.
A hearing was scheduled for June 26 and it’s unclear whether it indeed took place. The judge sentenced Ms. Zou to three years and three months on August 18. She has appealed.
Prior to this latest persecution episode, Ms. Zhou, a retired employee of the Changshou Agricultural Machinery Company, was incarcerated for nearly 11 years. She served three forced labor terms totaling five years and two months (July 1999 – March 2001; November 2001 – November 2003; and August 2006 – February 2008), as well as two prison terms totaling five years (July 2017 – July 2019; and November 2019 – November 2022). Additionally, she was held at a local detention center from September 2012 to May 2013.
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