Two Brothers Imprison Their 78-Year-Old Mother Because She Practices Falun Gong

(Minghui.org) When police in China harass Falun Gong practitioners, they often threaten to implicate their family members, including having them expelled from school or terminated from their jobs. Fearing that his son might be denied admission to a police academy, a man in Rushan City, Shandong Province, and his brother held their 78-year-old widowed mother in a secret location and cut off her communication with the outside world, simply because she wouldn’t renounce Falun Gong.

Ms. Xun Peiying’s grandson decided to apply for the police academy around July 2024. He ordered her to give up practicing Falun Gong, fearing that if she did not, he would fail the political background check. When Ms. Xun refused, he destroyed her copy of Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Gong. Days later, Ms. Xun’s two sons led a group of family members to her place and demanded that she record a voice memo, saying she would stop practicing Falun Gong. She refused to comply.

Around October 2024, Ms. Xun’s two sons forcibly took her to a secret place and cut off all of her communication with others. Her friends tried to reach out to her, but they could not find her.

Ms. Xun lived alone after her after her husband passed away. Her older son is Gong Xuefeng and his younger brother is Gong Guangye. Both of them are married and have children. It’s not clear which of the brothers’ sons destroyed Ms. Xun’s Falun Gong book.

This isn’t the first time that Ms. Xun’s sons subjected her to false imprisonment, a punishable act that involves a person intentionally and illegally restraining another person’s right to move freely. On June 20, 2016, Ms. Xun was arrested for talking to people about the persecution of Falun Gong and was given 15 days of administrative detention. After she was released, her sons took her to a place they rented and detained her. A relative heard about her situation and rescued her.