(Minghui.org) Two Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, residents were sent to the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison in January and May 2024, respectively, to serve time for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Ms. Yu Haixia is serving one year and eight months, and Ms. Zhang Jiqiu four years. Their cases are not related. It is unclear which court(s) convicted them.

Ms. Yu was arrested on April 13, 2022, by officers of the Longhua Road Police Station. Her Falun Gong books, computer, and informational materials about Falun Gong were confiscated. She was released on bail that day.

Officers from the Longhua Road Police Station arrested Ms. Yu again on October 23, 2023, and took her to the local detention center. She was sentenced to one year and eight months and sent to prison in May 2024.

Ms. Zhang, 56, was arrested at home in March 2023 by officers of the Bukui Police Station. She was sentenced to four years and sent to prison in January 2024.

Ms. Zhang took up Falun Gong in 1999. Many of her ailments disappeared in just one month. She was arrested on March 20, 2006, and taken to the Shuguang Police Station. The Tiefeng District Court sentenced her to nine years in February 2007. While serving time at the Heilongjiang Province Women’s Prison, she was held in solitary confinement and was under constant pressure to renounce Falun Gong. On May 31, 2013, the day before her scheduled release, the 610 Office took her to the Qinglongshan Brainwashing Center for extended detention.

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