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Name: Liao YuyingChinese Name: 廖玉英Gender: FemaleAge: 86City: MaomingProvince: GuangdongOccupation: N/ADate of Death: December 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: April 21, 2022Most Recent Place of Detention: an unknown police station
Ms. Liao Yuying
An 86-year-old woman in Maoming City, Guangdong Province, died in December 2024 while awaiting a verdict in her trial for practicing Falun Gong, Minghui.org learned recently.
Ms. Liao Yuying, who had been out on bail due to poor health, was taken to the Maonan District Court on December 25, 2023. Her family was not allowed to attend the hearing, but a man with unknown identity was seen there. Judge Tan Wei presided over the trial, assisted by judges Pan Chuanghua and Ke Xuejun.
Ms. Liao, born in September 1938, shared how Falun Gong cured her decades-long stomachaches. She used to feel intense pain any time she ate something and no medical treatments helped. After she took up Falun Gong in 1998, her stomach no longer hurt no matter what she ate.
Because of her positive experience with Falun Gong, Ms. Liao held firm to her faith after the communist regime launched a nationwide campaign against the practice in July 1999. She was repeatedly arrested over the years and served two years of forced labor (November 2000 – November 2002).
Her latest persecution episode began with her arrest on April 21, 2022. While she was released on bail hours later due to her poor health, the police harassed her numerous times in an attempt to take her back into custody. They took her for physical examinations on multiple occasions, but she was always found to be in poor health and unfit for detention. She was most recently taken for a physical examination on August 15, 2023, and the results still showed she had high blood pressure.
Prosecutor Zeng Zhenqiang accused Ms. Liao of “using a cult organization to undermine law enforcement,” a standard pretext used by the communist regime to frame and imprison Falun Gong practitioners.
Her two lawyers argued that no law in China criminalizes Falun Gong or labels it a cult. Ms. Liao’s practice of Falun Gong caused no harm to any individual or society at large, much less undermined law enforcement. The lawyers demanded her acquittal.
The judges adjourned the hearing and allowed Ms. Liao to go home. She never recovered from her poor health and died in December 2024, while still awaiting a verdict.
For details of Ms. Liao’s 2022 arrest and subsequent harassment, see the first two reports below. Her earlier persecution is detailed in the rest of the related reports.
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