(Minghui.org) A Shenyang City, Liaoning Province resident was sentenced to four years on December 28, 2020, for raising awareness about Falun Gong, a spiritual and meditation discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Ms. Wang Qiuping, 65, was first arrested on February 22, 2020, after being reported for distributing information about Falun Gong. The police confiscated her over 1,000 yuan in cash, watch, and bike. The pass she used to leave her subdivision during the coronavirus lockdown was also taken away. Two officers verbally abused and beat her while interrogating her in the local police station.
After Ms. Wang managed to escape from the police station that night, the authorities dispatched many police officers to look for her, but she escaped again.
The police later tracked her down through her cellphone and found her home address through the police database and the pass from her subdivision.
On the evening of February 23, the police went door to door in her subdivision to look for her, but to no avail.
Ms. Wang was arrested again on February 27 and taken to the Heping District Psychiatric Hospital. She was transferred to the Shenyang City No. 2 Detention Center on April 13. The guards forbade her family from sending in clothes or money for her. Her lawyer wasn’t allowed to visit her either.
The police later submitted her case to the Heping District Procuratorate, which indicted her and moved her case to the Heping District Court.
Ms. Wang was tried by the Heping District Court on December 9, 2020, and sentenced to four years on December 28.
Prior to this latest persecution, Ms. Wang was arrested on March 26, 2011, after being reported for distributing materials about Falun Gong. She was given one year at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, where she was forced to do intensive unpaid labor, denied family visits, and ordered to read and watch slanderous materials defaming Falun Gong.
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