Hubei Physician Sentenced to Three Years and Four Months for Practicing Falun Gong

(Minghui.org) A retired physician in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, was admitted to the Hubei Province Women’s Prison on February 26, 2025 to serve a prison term of three years and four months for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Ms. Xi Guoxiu, 61, was arrested around 11 p.m. on October 24, 2023. More than ten plainclothes and uniformed officers from the Hanyang District Police Department and the Sixin Police Station broke into her home that night and confiscated her computer, cell phone, and other valuables.

The police took Ms. Xi to the Hanyang District Police Department for interrogation. They said someone found some Falun Gong brochures in a residential area and suspected she distributed them. While it’s not illegal to spread information about Falun Gong, Ms. Xi did not pass out the materials at the said location. On the interrogation record she wrote, “The allegations that I distributed the materials are fabricated.”

Ms. Xi was taken to the Wuhan City First Detention Center the next day and issued a formal arrest warrant on November 9, 2023. The Hanyang District Procuratorate received her case in mid-January 2024 and forwarded it to the Hanyang District Court on April 11.

Ms. Xi stood trial on November 19, 2024 and was convicted on December 31, 2024. She appealed to the Wuhan City Intermediate Court in January 2025 and was issued an unfavorable ruling on February 28, 2025.

After she lost her appeal, Ms. Xi’s family asked the police, the trial court, and the intermediate court when she would be transferred to prison. They were either given the runaround or their phone calls were ignored. Not until March 10, 2025 did they receive a letter from the Hubei Province Women’s Prison saying that Ms. Xi was admitted to the prison on February 26 (two days before her appeal was rejected). Her family went to the prison to visit her, but the guards denied their request, saying that she was still in the three-month strict management period.

Prior to her latest prison sentence, Ms. Xi was held at brainwashing center at least five times and was sentenced to two years in 2016.

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