74-Year-Old Shandong Woman Convicted for Her Faith in Falun Gong

(Minghui.org) A 74-year-old woman in Liaocheng City, Shandong Province, was sentenced to seven months with one-year probation and fined 2,000 yuan on December 28, 2023, for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.

Ms. Zhou Yuexin’s sentencing stemmed from a police raid of her home on February 2, 2023. About seven officers from the Liuyuan Police Station, including Xu Guangyou and Sun, confiscated her Falun Gong books, portrait of Falun Gong founder, MP3 player, and other valuables. They then produced a subpoena dated February 1 (case number A3715024200002023025002) that had been signed by Sun Fuda, not by the aforementioned Sun.

Ms. Zhou went with them to the police station and was released that afternoon. The same two officers summoned her to the Dongchangfu District Police Department on February 13, 2023. There was no signature on the subpoena this time. Xu Dongfang ([phone]), deputy chief of the Liuyuan Police Station, went to the police department and took Ms. Zhou to a hospital for a physical exam. She was deemed unfit for detention and released. In late June 2023, Xu put her on bail and ordered her to pay a 20,000-yuan bail bond.

A Dongchangfu District Procuratorate staff member ([phone]) called Ms. Zhou in late November 2023 to tell her that her case would be transferred to the Dongchangfu District Court in two days. The court notified her on December 7 that they had docketed her case. The caller collected some of her personal information.

Ms. Zhou was tried on December 20 and sentenced on December 28.