(Minghui.org) A Qingdao City, Shandong Province, resident stood trial on October 12, 2023 for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.

Ms. Wei Chunrong, a native of Huanan County, Heilongjiang Province, has been living with her son’s family in Qingdao City since 2013. She was most recently arrested on March 2, 2023, after a man reported her for talking to him about Falun Gong. The arresting officers from the Zhengyang Road Police Station raided her son’s home and confiscated her five memory cards and three music players. 

The police accused Ms. Wei of organizing people to promote Falun Gong and took her to the Jimo District Second Detention Center in Qingdao City. 

On June 6, 2023, the police submitted Ms. Wei’s case to the Jimo District Procuratorate, which indicted her on July 5. The Jimo District Court held a hearing of her case at the detention center on October 12.

This is not the first time that Ms. Wei has been targeted by the police in Qingdao City. She was arrested by the Chengyang District Domestic Security Office in August 2013 and detained for ten days.

Officers from a police station in Chengyang District arrested Ms. Wei on October 25, 2015 and the Chengyang District Court sentenced her to two years in prison on January 23, 2017.

Ms. Wei was arrested again on May 4, 2018, barely six months after she was released from prison. The Jimo District Court sentenced her to three years and four months in January 2019. She was released in September 2021, only to be arrested again in March 2023 and now face a third prison sentence.