(Minghui.org) Ms. Wang Xiaocui a 55-year-old woman in Youyi County, Heilongjiang Province was sentenced to two years and four months in late 2022 for practicing Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Wang Xiaocui’s family managed to find out about her prison sentence, but they still do not know the details of her trial, sentencing or where she is detained. Her daughter-in-law gave birth to twins earlier this year, but the family was unable to enjoy the happy event because Ms. Wang was jailed for a second time for practicing Falun Gong.
Ms. Wang’s (also known as Wang Li) sentence stemmed from her arrest on April 13, 2022. Lyu Donglei, then chief of the Youyi Town Police Station in Youyi County, led more than ten officers to her home that day and pounded on the gate. They said that their surveillance cameras recorded her distributing Falun Gong informational materials in a residential area in December 2021. They also claimed that she was sheltering a Falun Gong practitioner who was on the run, in her home.
Ms. Wang refused to open the gate as the police did not show any IDs or search warrants. The police then scaled the nearly 7-foot-tall fence and jumped into her courtyard. They snatched her house key and opened the door. Her Falun Gong books, more than ten copies of Falun Gong informational materials, computer, printer, cell phone and other valuables were confiscated.
The police did not find the Falun Gong practitioner they were looking for and took Ms. Wang to the Youyi Town Police Station. She exhibited symptoms of a heart disease during interrogation. Lyu accused her of faking her symptoms but took her to a hospital after noticing she was not getting any better. Her blood pressure was 180/110 mm Hg. Luy then drove her home. He summoned her and her husband to the police station the next day to sign paperwork to have her released on bail.
The Youyi County Procuratorate indicted Ms. Wang around September 2022 on the grounds that she “harbored a criminal (the Falun Gong practitioner the police accused her of sheltering)” and was a “repeat offender,” due to her previous three-year prison term after being arrested on August 13, 2006 for distributing Falun Gong informational materials. Her father passed away while she was incarcerated at the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison. Her mother was hospitalized and her son couldn’t focus on his school studies.
A local Falun Gong practitioner managed to report Ms. Wang’s persecution to Minghui.org, which published a report (in Chinese) on October 11, 2022. The police took her back into custody the next day and held her at the Jixian County Detention Center.
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