(Minghui.org) An 80-year-old Kunming City, Yunnan Province resident filed complaints in late July 2020 against the police for ransacking her home without a search warrant and the prosecutor for indicting her for her faith in Falun Gong.
Falun Gong is a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999. Ms. Han Junyi's main argument in the complaints was that the persecution, which the police and the prosecutor used as the basis to target her, had no legal basis from the onset.
When Ms. Han returned home around 6 p.m. on November 23, 2019, after being out all day, she was shocked to find that although her front door remained locked, every room was in a mess after an apparent home-raid. All her Falun Gong books, related materials, and the photo of Falun Gong’s founder were gone.
Ms. Han found Li Lan, the police officer in charge of her neighborhood, two days later and asked her what had happened. Li revealed that agents of the 610 Office (an extralegal agency created specifically to persecute Falun Gong) and Domestic Security Office had ransacked her home.
At Ms. Han’s request, officer Li took her to see Ma Yun, one of the 610 Office agents involved in the raid. Ms. Han said that the raid of her home by Ma and other agents when no one was around was the same as stealing from her. Ma didn’t address her concern but attempted to take her picture and collect her fingerprints. He also asked Ms. Han whether she distributed Falun Gong materials on November 22, the day before the home raid.
Ms. Han urged Li, Ma, and other agents present not to follow the persecution policy. They refused to listen and arrested her. In the afternoon, the police took Ms. Han to the hospital for a checkup. After she was refused admission by the Kunming City Detention Center due to a medical condition, the police held her in the police station overnight and released her at noon the next day.
The police demanded that Ms. Han’s daughter pay 1,000 yuan fine when she came to take her mother home. She refused to comply.
In mid-July, Ms. Han received a copy of her indictment by the Wuhua District Procuratorate issued on July 9. She was charged with “undermining law enforcement of a cult organization,” a standard pretext used to criminalize Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese authorities.
As she had been sentenced before for her faith, the prosecutor accused her of being “a repeat offender” and “failing to correct her past wrongdoings” in the indictment.
In her complaints submitted to the Supreme People's Court, Supreme People's Procuratorate, Higher People's Court of Yunnan Province and Yunnan Provincial People's Procuratorate, Ms. Han recounted how her many ailments, including nephritis, hepatitis, frozen shoulder, Meniere's syndrome, as well as constant dizziness, were all cured after she took up Falun Gong. Now in her 80s, she still enjoys good health and can live independently.
Because of upholding her faith, her home was ransacked eight times and she was detained several times. She also served one year of forced labor and two prison terms for a total of seven years. While incarcerated at the Yunnan Province No.2 Women’s Prison, she was forced to sit on a small stool without moving for 14 hours every day. The guards restricted her restroom use and didn’t allow her to talk to others or contact her family. She was also subjected to brainwashing and other abuses aimed to force her to renounce her faith.
“I practice Falun Gong and follow the principles of ‘Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance’ to be a good person. Meanwhile, I do meditation to improve my health. What did I do wrong?” asked Ms. Han in her complaints.
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