(Minghui.org) A resident of Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, was arrested around February 21, 2024, while distributing materials exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of her faith, Falun Gong. 

A group of officers from Shenzhen City in the same province travelled more than 300 miles to Zhanjiang City the next day and took Ms. Huang You, 78, to Shenzhen and put her in the Longgang District Detention Center.

The involvement of out-of-town police stemmed from Ms. Huang’s arrest for distributing Falun Gong materials in February 2022, when she was visiting her daughter, a resident of Yantian District, Shenzhen. Due to a local outbreak of COVID-19, the Shenzhen police released her on bail. In December 2022, they called her daughter and demanded to see her mother. Ms. Huang did not go to Shenzhen as ordered.

The Yantian District Procuratorate notified Ms. Huang’s daughter in February 2023 that they had received her case and needed to depose her. Ms. Huang complied this time. The procuratorate promised to not indict her if she signed a statement to admit guilt. She refused to sign and returned to Zhanjiang.

The Yantian District Court later summoned Ms. Huang. When she ignored the order, the court worked hand in glove with the Zhanjiang authorities and suspended her pension. The local Minzhu Police Station in Zhanjiang also harassed her at home and monitored her whereabouts, resulting in her latest arrest on February 21, 2024.

This is not the first time that Ms. Huang, a retired custodian, has been targeted for practicing Falun Gong, which she credits for curing her numerous diseases, including back pain, stomach problems, migraines, leg pain, and frequent fevers. 

Ms. Huang was arrested in 2000 and held at a brainwashing center in Zhanjiang City for 12 days. While visiting her daughter in 2003, she was arrested by the Yantian District Police Station for putting up a Falun Gong poster and held at a detention center for three months before being given three years of forced labor. The guards at the Sanshui Labor Camp tortured her in various ways. She couldn’t keep food down or fall asleep at night. She soon became emaciated. Her term was later extended by an unknown amount of time.

Because of her frequent visits with her daughter, Ms. Huang has been closely monitored by the Shenzhen police over the years.