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Name: Wei XiuyingChinese Name: 魏秀英Gender: FemaleAge: Around 76City: LinghaiProvince: LiaoningOccupation: UnknownDate of Death: November 27, 2024Date of Most Recent Arrest: May 25, 2021Most Recent Place of Detention: A local police station
Two women from the Linghai City Court in Liaoning Province showed up at local resident Ms. Wei Xiuying’s home on the afternoon of November 28, 2024 and demanded that she sign some paperwork. Her husband was beyond infuriated as his wife had died at around 10 p.m. the night before, after facing repeated attempts by the authorities to take her back into custody to serve a five-year prison sentence for practicing Falun Gong.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Ms. Wei, around 76, was arrested on May 25, 2021 and was released on bail after she failed to pass the physical exam. She was sentenced to five years and fined 10,000 yuan on February 24, 2023. She lost her appeal two months later. The authorities repeatedly attempted to take her back into custody, including the aforementioned episode on November 28, 2024, the day after her passing.
Prior to her latest wrongful conviction, Ms. Wei was repeatedly arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison. She was released two years earlier after being tortured to the brink of death. Traumatized by the police humiliation in custody in 2009, Ms. Wei’s then 20-year-old younger daughter suffered a mental breakdown and still needs constant care.
In 2016, two years after Ms. Wei was released from prison, the local social security bureau suspended her pension. She filed a lawsuit and won, but the judge chose not to enforce the ruling when the social security bureau refused to reinstate her pension. Her lawyer kept seeking justice for her and the social security bureau finally agreed in 2023 to pay her 1,800 yuan per month (only a fraction of the retirement benefits she was entitled to). The promised monthly payments, however, were not issued every month. The social security bureau even garnished from her pension card the heating subsidy her former employer gave retired workers.
Details of Attempts to Take Ms. Wei Back into Custody
Ms. Wei was arrested on May 25, 2021 and soon released on bail after she was found to be physically unfit for detention. Prosecutor Li Feng of the Linghai City Procuratorate and judge Huang Yanchun of the Linghai City Court, as well as ten other people, came to her home on February 10, 2023. They claimed to be there to “verify certain information regarding her case.” However, they only read some prepared documents and left without having her read the documents herself or having her sign anything.
Judge Huang announced on February 24, 2023 that Ms. Wei was sentenced to five years and fined 10,000-yuan. She filed an appeal but the Jinzhou City Intermediate Court ruled against her on April 19, 2023.
Around 10:30 a.m. on November 22, 2023, seven officers from the Linghai City Police Department came to Ms. Wei’s home with an ambulance. When her older daughter Min (alias), who happened to be visiting, tried to reason with the police, they grabbed her by the hair and slammed her head against the wall. They threatened Min, “You want to sue us? We dare you to sue us! Don’t think we’ll go easy on you just because your younger sister has a mental illness.”
The police confiscated Ms. Wei’s Falun Gong books before taking her for a physical examination. Her family was not allowed to go with them. The police sent her back around 6 p.m., barefoot and without her jacket. They told her family that she had six health indicators that were severely abnormal, including a systolic blood pressure reading of 230 mmHg (when a normal range is 120 or lower).
Prosecutor Li and village secretary Chai Jin showed up on August 20, 2024. Ms. Wei was not in. Only her husband and their mentally ill daughter were home. Her husband was forced to sign three pieces of paper. Judge Huang later called Ms. Wei’s son-in-law and accused her of faking being sick.
Under the directive of Huang, one man and seven women came to Ms. Wei’s home after 8 a.m. on September 20, 2024. They told her they would return in three days to take her for a physical examination, at her own expense, so they could determine whether she qualified for medical parole. Her husband was ordered to accompany his wife for the checkup. He said he had to stay home to care for his mentally ill daughter and was not be able to leave home. They told him to find a solution himself and gave him a phone number (+86-416-8152019) to call. A court worker called him on September 23 and ordered him to have his wife sign statements to renounce Falun Gong and report to a local hospital after October 1 to have a physical examination to see if she was well enough to be jailed.
Ms. Wei died on November 27, 2024. The court sent two people to harass her again the day after.
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