After Being Relentlessly Tortured in Prison, Jilin Woman Faces Prosecution Again for Her Faith

(Minghui.org) Ms. Dou Lina, 66, from Siping City, Jilin Province, is facing prosecution because she practices Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Ms. Dou was arrested on April 22, 2025, as soon as she left another Falun Gong practitioner’s home. The police took her to her home and confiscated her laptop and Falun Gong informational materials.

The police told Ms. Dou that she would be detained for 15 days. When her family went to the Siping City Lockup to pick her up on May 7, 2025, they were shocked to learn that she has been transferred to the Siping City Detention Center and that the police submitted her case to the Tiedong District Procuratorate.

This isn’t the first time that Ms. Dou has been targeted for her faith in Falun Gong. Shortly after the onset of the persecution in 1999, she went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice her faith and was given one year of forced labor.

Ms. Dou was arrested again in mid-July 2007, together with her husband Mr. Zhang Kejiang. They were sentenced to three and eight years, respectively, on May 12, 2008, by the Tiexi District Court. Ms. Dou served time at the Jilin Province Women’s Prison in the capital city of Changchun. Mr. Zhang was taken to the Jilin Prison in Jilin City.

As soon as she arrived at the prison, several inmates dragged Ms. Dou into a cell on the first floor. Wang Lixin, one of the inmates assigned to watch her, demanded to know whether she still practiced Falun Gong. Ms. Dou did not answer directly, but told Wang that Falun Gong is practiced all over the world and that people have benefited greatly from practicing it. Wang reported her response to the prison guards.

The inmates forced Ms. Dou to sit motionless on a small stool from 5 a.m. until 1 or 2 a.m. the next day. When she moved slightly at one point, Wang pushed her down violently and broke the bench. Wang then grabbed another small stool and forced Ms. Dou to continue sitting on it.

Ms. Dou was later taken to the second floor for brainwashing. She ignored all the slanderous propaganda they tried to force on her. The guard locked her in a cell and demanded that five inmates transform her. They pushed her onto a bed and tied her limbs to the four bedposts so tightly that her body was lifted in the air and stretched to the limit.

Torture illustration: stretching

The pain was excruciating. To drown her screams, they turned up the television and played blaring music. Ms. Dou was not allowed to use the restroom and urinated on the bed. Wang soaked a mop with the urine and thrust it into Ms. Dou’s mouth, breaking one of her front teeth. Wang also pinched Ms. Dou’s face, causing many wounds. The scars on Ms. Dou’s wrists and ankles from the stretching torture were still visible a year later.

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