(Minghui.org) A 52-year-old woman in Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, was sentenced to five years and fined 80,000 yuan in early April 2025 for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Fu Xuebing, born in July 1972, was arrested on September 10, 2024, as soon as she stepped outside her apartment building. She was taken to the Chengdong Detention Center and issued a formal arrest warrant around October 15 by the Meijiang District Procuratorate.
Ms. Fu’s case was later reassigned to the neighboring Meixian District Procuratorate, which together with the Meixian District Court has been designated to handle Falun Gong cases in Meizhou City.
Ms. Fu stood trial on March 18, 2025 and was convicted in early April. Presiding judge Wei Donghua, judges Zhang Qiaoling and Zhang Wei, as well as prosecutor Lan Sheng and his assistant Yang Haiyan signed the ruling.
This is not the first time Ms. Fu was targeted for her faith. She was previously arrested in 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2014. Her home was ransacked numerous times and her properties were confiscated.
In addition to being arrested and incarcerated, Ms. Fu was also repeatedly fined for not calling her supervisor at the Bank of China Meizhou City Division to report her whereabouts at night or on holidays (as the authorities tried to prevent her from going out to distribute Falun Gong materials). She worked at the bank as a lobby manager for 16 years, but when she was eventually fired on August 6, 2008, she was not given any severance pay.
Ms. Fu was sentenced to seven years by the Meijiang District Court after her arrest in 2014. She endured horrific abuse in prison and was released early in June 2020. She was frequently harassed by the police after she returned home. See the second related report for details of her past persecution.
Bank Manager Is Persecuted for Two Decades for Practicing Falun Gong