(Minghui.org) A 52-year-old Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province resident was arrested on April 1, 2023 while walking down the street.
According to police in Nanying Town, Shijiazhuang City, who arrested Ms. Ma Xiujuan, they saw her walking on the street and noted that she looked like a Falun Gong practitioner on their wanted list. They looked it up and found that she was indeed the one wanted by the Xinzhou City Procuratorate in the nearby Shanxi Province. They contacted the police in Xinzhou, who came on April 4 and took her there.
Ms. Ma’s ordeal stemmed from an earlier arrest on November 21, 2019 by the police in Yuanping City, Shanxi Province, which is under the jurisdiction of Xinzhou. Four months prior to her arrest, her parents, who live in Yuanping, were arrested with ten other practitioners. Suspecting that Ms. Ma worked with these practitioners in raising awareness about the persecution, the police also arrested her.
Ms. Ma was held at the Xinzhou City Detention Center. She was released on bail after 37 days. In late 2020, Guo Zhihong, the former head of the Yuanping City Domestic Security Office, submitted her case to the Xinfu District Procuratorate in Xinzhou City.
Ms. Ma hired a lawyer to represent her. But prosecutor Hou Xuming gave the lawyer a hard time and didn’t allow him to review her case document.
After approving Ms. Ma’s arrest in May 2021, Hou ordered her to come answer some questions at the procuratorate and threatened to sentence her if she didn’t show up.
To avoid being sentenced, Ms. Ma stayed away from home and was then put on the wanted list by the procuratorate.
Four officers in Shijiazhuang broke into the home of Ms. Ma’s 90-year-old mother-in-law one day at 3 a.m. in July 2022 to look for her. The officers claimed that they were asked by the police in Xinzhou to look for Ms. Ma. The entire family was deeply terrified.
When the family reported the persecution to Minghui.org, the police in Xinzhou threatened them and accused them of “colluding with foreign anti-China forces.”
Ms. Ma took up Falun Gong in 1997 and she credits the practice for curing her long term neurasthenia and insomnia. Prior to her latest persecution, she was previously harassed in August 2015 and ordered to renounce Falun Gong.
Liu Dong (刘东), chief of Nanying Town Police Station: +86-311-88099415Li Zhonghua (李中华), head of Gaocheng District Police Department: +86-311-88380018Zhu Guoqiang (朱国强), director of Gaocheng District Domestic Security Office: +86-311-88380045Li Zhenguo (李振国), deputy secretary of Nanying Village Committee
(More perpetrators’ contact information is available in the original Chinese article.)