(Minghui.org) Ms. Huang Zhongmei, a Shanghai resident, was secretly sentenced to prison in late 2019 for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since 1999.
According to sources in Qingpu Prison in Shanghai, Ms. Huang was sent to the prison on December 29, 2019, to serve a 1.5-year prison term.
Ms. Huang’s family told a Minghui correspondent that she was arrested on her way back home on the afternoon of July 12, 2019. The police ransacked her home around 7 p.m. and confiscated her Falun Gong books and 7,000 yuan in cash, printed with messages about Falun Gong.
With strict information censorship in China, many Falun Gong practitioners use creative ways to spread awareness about their faith, including printing information on banknotes.
On August 16, the police took Ms. Huang’s detention notice to her husband and asked him to sign it. The police revealed that they did so because Ms. Huang refused to sign the form.
The police soon submitted her case to Shanghai Railroad Transportation Procuratorate. Her husband was asked to sign her arrest-approval form on August 16.
He hasn't heard any update since then. He has no idea about when and where Ms. Huang was tried, and he has not been given any notice of her verdict.
