(Minghui.org) A 63-year-old resident of Qingdao City, Shandong Province was sentenced to three years with four years probation and a 10,000-yuan on August 28, 2024 for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Ms. Gao Xu’e, a tailor, took up Falun Gong in 1997 and credits the practice for enabling her to recover from chronic back pain, a stomach condition and gynecological disease. Grateful for Falun Gong’s health benefits, she used her spare time to raise awareness about the persecution, hoping more people could understand that Falun Gong was nothing like what’s depicted by the communist regime’s propaganda.

She was reported for distributing calendars bearing information about Falun Gong on November 19, 2012 and arrested by officers from the Sanlihe Police Station. She was detained overnight at the Jiaozhou City Lockup.

Ms. Gao was seized during a police sweep of over 40 practitioners on June 2, 2021. This arrest eventually led to her latest prison sentence. While she was initially released on bail, she received a call from the Huangdao District Court on August 25, 2023 and was ordered to go there to sign certain paperwork. She didn’t go, and the court called her again on September 4 that year. While she went to the court with her family, she refused to sign anything. When she was about to leave, officers from the Puji Police Station came and took her to the hospital for a physical examination. As she was found to have a lung condition and uterine prolapse, the Pudong Detention Center refused to admit her. It’s not clear whether she was released afterwards.

Ms. Gao’s family hired a lawyer to represent her. The lawyer later discovered that the police had fabricated all her signatures in her case document.

Ms. Gao was tried by the Huangdao District Court on September 25, 2023. She received the verdict on August 28, 2024.