(Minghui.org) A Zhifu District, Yantai City, Shandong Province, resident, was recently sentenced to four years for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Ms. Wang Li, in her 60s, was arrested during a police sweep on May 9 and 10, 2024. At least 16 other practitioners in the same district, including a mother and a daughter, were arrested during the two-day period. 

While most other practitioners were released later on, Ms. Wang remained detained and was later sentenced to four years with a 20,000 yuan fine by the Zhifu District Court. Details about her indictment, trial, and sentencing aren’t clear. 

Ms. Wang’s latest persecution came four years after a previous arrest on October 28, 2020. Around 8:30 a.m. that day, Hou Guangming and Zhang Chunjie, deputy directors of the Zhifu District Domestic Security Division, and six officers descended on Ms. Wang’s home. They flashed their IDs before her but didn’t allow her to take a closer look. The search warrant they produced wasn’t original, but a photocopied document. Her Falun Gong books, portrait of Falun Gong’s founder, and many informational materials about Falun Gong, a computer, and a printer were confiscated. 

The police took Ms. Wang to the Xiangyang Street Police Station around 10 a.m. At around 2 p.m., three officers carried her into an interrogation chair and cuffed her hands and feet. She was interrogated for the next eight hours and released on bail in the evening after her son-in-law paid a 1,000 yuan bond. 

Ms. Wang filed a complaint on November 11, 2020, against the police for trespassing and illegally searching her private property. It’s not clear whether she received any response.