(Minghui.org) Ms. Wei Liping who lives in Hailin City, Heilongjiang Province, was arrested by officers from the Hailin City Police Department and a local police station on July 11, 2022. She is now facing trial.
Ms. Wei was released on bail after being detained for fifteen days. It was confirmed by Minghui.org in mid-July 2023 that the Hailin City Procuratorate indicted her and forwarded her case to the Hailin City Court.
This is not the first time that Ms. Wei was targeted for her faith, Falun Gong, which she credits with restoring her health.
Ms. Wei suffered from numerous diseases, including glaucoma, rhinitis, pharyngitis, gastritis, postpartum arthritis, premature ventricular contractions (PVCs) (extra heartbeats that begin in one of the heart’s two lower pumping chambers), and rheumatism. She had to wear cotton-padded clothes most of the year and her family lived in poverty as they struggled to cover her medical expenses.
One day in 1998, she heard her sister-in-law and a neighbor talk about their positive changes after they began practicing Falun Gong. She was interested and asked to borrow a copy of Zhuan Falun, Falun Gong's main book, to read. Her illness symptoms and pain disappeared within days. She was able to care for her husband, child and mother again.
Because of her positive experience with Falun Gong, Ms. Wei never wavered in her faith after the persecution began a year later. She was repeatedly arrested in the past 24 years. The details of her persecution can be read here. Below is a quick recap of what she suffered prior to her latest ordeal.
Ms. Wei was arrested in late October 1999 and detained for two months. The police extorted 2,000 yuan from her.
She was arrested on January 1, 2000 and she was detained for seven days.
She went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong before the 2000 Chinese New Year (February 5). She was arrested again and taken back to Hailin City, where she was detained for seven months.
After she was released, she moved to Shandong Province to avoid further arrests. She later returned to Hailin and opened a restaurant to make a living. The police kept harassing her.
Ms. Wei was arrested in April 2002 but escaped five days later. She was found and arrested the next day. Officer Lyu Lihai of the Hengdao Police Station slapped her face so hard that she lost consciousness and her left eardrum was ruptured. She has not regained hearing in that ear.
The Hailin City Court sentenced to Ms. Wei to five years in July 2002 and she was transferred from the Hailin City Detention Center to the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison five months later. The prison refused to admit her due to her poor health, but the police kept her in the detention center and sent her to prison in September 2003.
Ms. Wei was released in April 2007 after being brutally tortured throughout her five-year imprisonment.
She was arrested again in December 2007, by officers from the Hailin City Second Police Station and officers Jin Haizhu, Guan Jingwei, and Song Yumin from the Hailin City Domestic Security Office. They raided her restaurant and confiscated her Falun Gong books. They took her to the police station before transferring her to the Hailin City Detention Center, where she was held for five days.
Officers from the Hailin City Second Police Station and the Hailin City Domestic Security Office targeted her again on January 9, 2008 and raided her restaurant. Her Falun Gong informational materials were confiscated.
Ms. Wei’s then six-year-old child witnessed her arrest on January 20, 2014, by officers from the Hailin City Third Police Station.
Ms. Wei was twice harassed in October 2017, the first time by officers from the Hengdao Police Station and the second time by officers from the Hailin City First Police Station and a street committee worker.
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