Guangdong Woman Taken to Prison to Serve 2.5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong

(Minghui.org) A Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, resident was taken to the Guangdong Province Women’s Prison on July 26, 2022, to serve a 2.5-year term for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Ms. Li Yanxia

Ms. Li Yanxia was arrested at home on February 8, 2021. The police ransacked her home and pried open her safe. Her laptop computer, cellphone, over 20,000 U.S. dollars, 5,000 Chinese yuan, and car key were confiscated.

Ms. Li stood trial at the Dongguan City No. 2 Court on August 17. The judge sentenced her to 2.5 years with a 20,000-yuan fine on September 7, 2021. One of her phones remained confiscated, and other electronics, including her other phones and computer, were auctioned to pay the court fine. Her Falun Gong materials were destroyed. Her cash and car key were returned.

She appealed to the Dongguan City Intermediate Court, which ruled to uphold her original verdict.

Perpetrators’ contact information:

Chen Chao (陈超), president, Dongguan City Intermediate Court: [phone]Liu Chao (刘超), judge, Dongguan City No.2 Court: [phone], [phone]Lu Mingjun (陆明军), prosecutor, Dongguan City No.2 Procuratorate: [phone]

(More perpetrators’ contact information is available in the original Chinese article.)

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