(Minghui.org) A 63-year-old woman in Linyi City, Shandong Province is facing indictment because she practices Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Ms. Liu Chirong’s ordeal stemmed from her arrest on December 17, 2020, while she was visiting her sister. Six plainclothes officers broke in, and claimed they came to measure her siblings’ temperatures. None of them showed their IDs, or search or arrest warrants. They confiscated Ms. Liu’s purse, which contained 2,000 yuan in cash, her bank card, and her cell phone.
Ms. Liu was held at the Sishui County Police Department overnight and taken to the Jining City Detention Center the following afternoon. Due to her poor health, the authorities refused to admit her. She questioned Wang Hui, captain of the Sishui County Domestic Security Office, as to what crime she had committed. Wang took out two photos which showed someone who’s face was blurred and accused her of distributing Falun Gong materials.
Ms. Liu was released on bail and returned home around 3 a.m. on December 19, 2020. The police summoned her three days later on December 22. She refused to answer any questions. When the police also attempted to search her home, she strongly protested.
The Rencheng District Procuratorate summoned Ms. Liu in March 2021 and said that she was facing indictment. She was ordered to return in three months. To avoid further persecution, she decided to live away from home. When the police couldn’t find her, they put her on the Chinese regime’s wanted list.
Living in displacement took a toll on Ms. Liu’s health. She was unable to fall asleep or eat. When her family took her to the hospital, her heart beat was more than 200 beats per minute, and she had severe heart failure. The county hospital couldn’t treat her, and she was transferred to a provincial hospital.
Although Ms. Liu survived, she was arrested again on August 20, 2025, while dining out at a restaurant. She was released later in the evening, after her husband paid 10,000 yuan as bail bond.
Zhang Yuqiang, the captain of the Sishui County Domestic Security Office, went to Ms. Liu’s home on July 22, 2026, and attempted to force her husband to take her to their office. Her husband refused to comply, saying that she was struggling with very poor health.
Zhang returned to Ms. Liu’s home on August 25, 2026, with two staffers from the Sishui County Procuratorate. They told her that her case had been submitted to the procuratorate and that the prosecutor would decide in two days whether to approve her arrest and indict her. No further development of the case is available at the time of this report.
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