(Minghui.org) Ms. Lyu Yamin’s family has been denied visits with her since she was admitted to the Chongqing Women’s Prison around mid-April 2024 for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Lyu, a 78-year-old Chongqing resident, was sentenced to one year and four months with a 5,000-yuan fine in mid-April 2024. She was transferred from the Jiangbei District Detention Center to the prison soon after her conviction. Her children applied to the prison to visit her in person but were referred to the prison’s supervising agency, which insisted that as long as Ms. Lyu refused to be “transformed” (renounce Falun Gong), there’d be no family visits.
Her children are now extremely concerned about Ms. Lyu, an elderly woman who is blind in her right eye.
Arrest and Secret Prison Sentence
Ms. Lyu was arrested at home on May 25, 2023, when a group of police officers deceived her into opening her door and confiscated all her Falun Gong books.
The police targeted Ms. Lyu after suspecting that she’d distributed articles written by the founder of Falun Gong to several local students. They placed her on criminal detention in a local detention center and submitted her case to the Jiangbei District Procuratorate in November 2023.
The procuratorate later returned the case to the police citing insufficient evidence, but prosecutor Liu Jie sided with the police to keep Ms. Lyu in detention because she refused to renounce Falun Gong and did the Falun Gong exercises in the detention center.
Ms. Lyu’s family hired a lawyer to represent her, but neither they nor the lawyer were given updates of her case status. They still do not know when the police resubmitted her case and got it accepted by the procuratorate, or when she was indicted or tried.
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