68-year-old Woman Faces Indictment for Putting Up Falun Gong Posters

(Minghui.org) A 68-year-old Wuhan City, Hubei Province, resident is facing prosecution for her faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Several officers from the Sanjintan Police Station broke into Ms. Qin Xiujuan’s home on February 3, 2023, and arrested her. They claimed that she had been reported for putting up Falun Gong posters in the subway station on January 30. Her dozens of Falun Gong books and photo of Falun Gong’s founder were confiscated.

Ms. Qin’s five-year-old granddaughter was left at home by herself after Ms. Qin was taken to a detention center. The police didn’t inform Ms. Qin’s son and daughter-in-law, who were working out of town, of her arrest until two days later.

Ms. Qin is now facing an indictment after the police submitted her case to the Hanyang District Procuratorate.

Ms. Qin is a native of Tangshan City, Hebei Province, and is retired from the Tangshan Printing and Dyeing Factory. Before she took up Falun Gong in 1996, she had frequent colds and fevers, as well as heart palpitations, lumbar disc herniation, and a poor digestive system. All of the diseases disappeared shortly after she started doing the Falun Gong exercises.

Because Ms. Qin went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong after the communist regime ordered the persecution in July 1999, she was arrested and detained by her factory for 15 days. She was arrested two more times, in January 2000 and 2001, and held at the Tangshan City Brainwashing Center for 20 and 60 days respectively.

Between 2000 and 2003, the Tangshan City 610 Office, an extralegal agency created to persecute Falun Gong, ordered Ms. Qin’s factory to restrain or detain her during all major holidays, in order to prevent her from publicly exposing the persecution. Li Yushun, the factory’s deputy general manager, also harassed Ms. Qin at home several times.

When Ms. Qin went to Wuhan City, Hubei Province to help care for her other grandchild in February 2012, the Tangshan City 610 Office instructed the police in Wuhan to arrest her. Her Falun Gong books, laptop computer, printer, and DVD burner that she kept at her son’s home were confiscated.

Ms. Qin was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison by the Qingshan District Court in Wuhan. She suffered various forms of torture in the Hubei Province Women’s Prison. Her hair turned gray and she often suffered from cramps in her hands, legs, and feet.

Perpetrators’ information:

Hu Jun (胡俊), prosecutor of Hanyang District Procuratorate: [phone]Zhang Mingjun (张明君), chief of Sanjintan Police StationTu Yangwu (涂阳武), police instructor