(Minghui.org) Two Falun Gong practitioners who worked at a kindergarten in Sichuan Province were sentenced on March 17, 2015. They have appealed their verdicts with the Deyang City Intermediate Court.

The Zhongjiang County Court sentenced Ms. Qi Xiaoping to seven years in prison and Ms. Wang Xiaomei to three and a half years. They were arrested on May 15, 2014, by officers from the Jiqing Town Police Station and are being held in the Zhongjiang County Detention Center.

Persecuted Since 1999

Ms. Qi and Ms. Qang were persecuted by the Zhongjiang County's Education Department and their employer after the onset of the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999.

Ms. Wang has not received her salary or retirement pension for almost 13 years. Ms. Qi's salary has been suspended for nearly a decade.

Ms. Qi and Ms. Wang were taken to a brainwashing center on September 23, 2001, and held for over three months.

They were taken to the Nanmenwai Detention Center on January 8, 2002. Guard Xie Jiuzhou beat them and injured their backs. They could not lie down or sit for over two weeks.

They were sentenced to one year of forced labor, to be served in Nanmusi Forced Labor Camp, on February 8, 2002. They escaped on their way to the camp.

Hu Jiaren, director at the Zhongjiang Political and Legal Affairs Committee, ordered the county's State Security Division to issue a warrant for their arrest, offering a 10,000-yuan reward.

Ms. Qi and Ms. Wang were arrested on August 13, 2008, and sentenced to three years in prison in March 2009. They were taken to Yangmahe Women's Prison in Jianyang City, Sichuan Province.

Background

Ms. Qi Xiaoping was a former teacher at Dadongjie Kindergarten in Zhongjiang County, Deyang City, Sichuan Province.

Ms. Wang Xiaomei worked as a controller and cashier in the logistics section of the same kindergarten. She refused to accept a kickback.

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