Name: Li Qiaocun (李巧存)
Gender: Female
Age: 49 (Born in 1963)
Address: Wadian Village, Huolong Town, Yuzhou City, Henan Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 26, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Yuzhou City Detention Center (禹州市看守所)
City: Yuzhou
Province: Henan
Persecution Suffered: Illegal sentencing, beatings, imprisonment, home ransacked, detention
Name: Li Meirong (李梅荣)
Gender: Female
Age: 59 (Born in 1953)
Address: Xijie Village, Yuzhou City, Henan Province
Occupation: Unknown
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 26, 2011
Most Recent Place of Detention: Yuzhou City Detention Center (禹州市看守所)
City: Yuzhou
Province: Henan
Persecution Suffered: Illegal sentencing, beatings, imprisonment, home ransacked, detention
(Clearwisdom. net) Two Falun Gong practitioners from Yuzhou City, Henan Province, 49-year-old Ms. Li Qiaocun and 59-year-old Ms. Li Meirong, were illegally sentenced to four years and five years of imprisonment, respectively. Both practitioners have appealed.
Ms. Li Qiaocun and Ms. Li Meirong were arrested on the morning of July 26, 2011, as they posted information about Falun Gong and the persecution on utility poles along the roadside outside Xiguan, Yuzhou City. Police officers, including Wang Fengtao and Song Minggang from the Xicheng Police Station, arrested them and took them to the Yuzhou City Detention Center. The police also ransacked Ms. Li Meirong's home the same day.
The two women were placed under administrative detention for two weeks, then transferred to the Yuzhou City Custody Center on July 4. They were officially arrested on July 20. While they were being held, the practitioners were taken to the Yuzhou City Domestic Security Division, where officers Geng Songtao and Pan Shuchao physically abused them in an unsuccessful attempt to extract confessions from them.
Ms. Li Meirong had suffered from heart problems, hepatitis B, and severe ascites before she began practicing Falun Dafa in 1999. Within a few months after she began practicing, all her illnesses disappeared. When the CCP began slandering and vilifying Dafa on July 20, 1999, Ms. Li started to validate the goodness of Dafa.
One evening in August, 2005, Ms. Li Meirong and several other practitioners drove a car to the countryside to distribute information about Falun Gong. Unfortunately they were betrayed by a collaborator. The police ransacked Ms. Li's home, took all the practitioners' truth clarification materials, impounded their car, and took them to the Yuzhou City Detention Center. Ms. Li Meirong was sentenced to five years in prison on November 20, 2005, and released on July 17, 2009.
Ms. Li Qiaocun started practicing Falun Gong in 1995. After the CCP began slandering and vilifying Master Li and Dafa on July 20, 1999, Ms. Li stepped forward. She went to Beijing twice to appeal for justice for Falun Dafa and was taken back to her hometown. She was detained several times--the first time between July 23 and August 10, 1999; the second time was between October 13 and November 12, 1999; and the third time, between July 1 and August 23, 2000. She was placed under administrative detention on December 13, 2009; later placed in criminal detention on December 23; and finally placed under residential surveillance due to her poor health.
The two women were indicted by the Yuzhou City Court on October 19, 2011, and tried on December 2, 2011. During the hearing, two lawyers entered a not-guilty plea for both practitioners. The prosecutor was unable to respond during the hearing, so the court adjourned.
On January 12, 2012, the Yuzhou City Court announced the verdicts: Ms. Li Qiaocun was given a four-year term of imprisonment, and Ms. Li Meirong, a five-year term. Both of them appealed.
