(Minghui.org) Three Kunming City, Yunnan Province, residents were recently sentenced to prison for their shared faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Mr. Ou Xuehui was sentenced to four years with a 10,000-yuan fine. Mr. Yao Zuming received two years with an 8,000-yuan fine. Ms. Zhou Xulin, 68, was given three and a half years and fined 10,000 yuan.
The three practitioners were arrested on August 13, 2024. All of their homes were also ransacked. Mr. Ou and Mr. Yao were held at the Kunming City Detention Center. Ms. Zhou was released on bail as she was deemed unfit for detention due to her poor health.
The police first submitted the practitioners’ case to the Jinning Procuratorate, which then forwarded it the Xishan District Procuratorate. Prosecutor Guo Yanni later indicted the practitioners.
The practitioners appeared in the Xishan District Court on January 26, 2025 and were sentenced at a later time.
Prior to her latest persecution, Ms. Zhou, an epidemiologist at Kunming Mental Health Hospital, was arrested another time on June 27, 2012, by officers of the Xishan District Domestic Security Division. She was sentenced to three years with a five-year probation. After she was released on January 16, 2013, she applied for retirement. But the local department of health refused to process it for her, leaving her with no retirement income.
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