(Minghui.org) The police in Yanbian City, Jilin Province fabricated evidence against three Falun Gong practitioners in order to seek prison time for them.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Ms. Zhu Xiuxia, 64, Ms. Li Fengyun, 69, and Ms. Wei Yumei, 72, were reported to police by postal workers for trying to mail Falun Gong materials to people. The police began to monitor them and arrested them six months later, on July 14, 2019, while they were putting up posters about Falun Gong.
While five police officers were carrying Ms. Zhu into the police car during the arrest, she shouted out “the police are arresting good people” and attracted a large crowd. Some condemned the police's brutality against her.
Irritated, one officer hit the back of Ms. Zhu’s head and she suffered from persistent headaches for two months. Ms. Zhu had a heart condition in the police cruiser and lost consciousness. The police fed Ms. Zhu with an unknown pill and injected some unknown drug into her right arm, which caused a large bruise. Ms. Zhu was soaked in sweat when she came to.
The police ransacked all three women’s homes on the same day and confiscated their Falun Gong books, computers, printers and other personal belongings. The police also took 20,000 yuan in cash from Ms. Wei’s home, but later returned it at her family’s strong demand.
The police took pictures of the three women, collected their fingerprints and DNA samples, before releasing them on July 15.
The police submitted the practitioners’ cases to the procuratorate with fabricated evidence two months later: the scalpel used by Ms. Zhu’s husband was counted as six paper cutters to make Falun Gong materials; the milk bags Ms. Zhu used were counted as zipper bags for her to distribute Falun Gong materials; while the police didn’t find any cash at Ms. Zhu’s home, they alleged that they found six 100-yuan bills printed with information about Falun Gong; and the 20,000 yuan of bank notes from Ms. Wei were also said to have Falun Gong messages printed on them.
The three women have been indicted and are now facing trial.
