(Minghui.org) Ms. Wang Lanying, 74, from Fangshan District, Beijing, was admitted to the Hebei Province Women’s Prison on June 5, 2025 to serve a two-year term because she practices Falun Gong.

Ms. Wang’s conviction stemmed from her arrest on November 2, 2022. About eight officers from the Gongchen Police Station broke into her home that day and seized her and five other Falun Gong practitioners who were visiting her. After they were interrogated at the police station, they were taken to a local detention center. They all failed the required physical examination for continued detention and were released on bail on November 4, 2022.

The police submitted Ms. Wang’s case to the Fangshan District Procuratorate on November 1, 2023, and she received a copy of the indictment one month later on December 18.

The Fangshan District Court held two hearings at an unknown time. Her family was barred from attending the trial. Her lawyer entered a not guilty plea for her, and she also testified in her own defense. The presiding judge admitted that he had no say in Falun Gong cases and had to consult his supervisors.

Ms. Wang was sentenced to two years on December 30, 2024. She was allowed to serve time outside of prison. She filed an appeal and the Beijing Intermediate Court ruled against her on April 2, 2025. She was taken back into custody on April 16 and put in the Tiangezhuang Detention Center in Fangshan District.

The detention center didn’t allow Ms. Wang’s family to visit her until May 7, 2025. They learned then that she was to be transferred to another facility, but they were not told where. They went to the Daxing District Transit Center (located in the Beijing Women’s Prison compound) on June 20, 2025 to inquire about her whereabouts. The receptionist there said that she had been “expatriated” to her home province of Hebei and put in the Hebei Province Women’s Prison (located in the capital city of Shijiazhuang) on June 5, 2025.