(Minghui.org) A woman in Beizhen City, Liaoning Province, was sentenced to four and a half years in mid-January 2025 for her faith in Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Gao Ying’s wrongful conviction stemmed from her initial arrest on May 24, 2022, when she was working in a crop field. She refused to answer any questions after she was taken to the police station for interrogation. Officer Chen Xinyu slapped her in the face, hit her in the ribs, and stabbed her ribs with a pen. The left side of her face, as well as multiple places on her body and arms, were covered with bruises.
When the police took Ms. Gao to the detention center the next day, the guards there refused to accept her, as her temperature was 37.5°C (99.5°F). They urged the police to try again seven days later.
The police took Ms. Gao back to the police station and held her there overnight. They took her to the detention center the next day, only to be turned away again as Ms. Gao’s temperature was even higher at 37.7°C (99.86°F).
Xu Shilin, the head of Liaotun Police Station, called Zhang Xiaomin, the head of the Beizhen City Domestic Security Division, and asked what to do. Zhang instructed Xu to take Ms. Gao to the hospital and give her some antibiotics.
After two days of “treatment,” the police made a third attempt to admit Ms. Gao to the detention center. They prepared a special thermometer, setting the temperature at 36.5°C (97.7°F), and planned to replace it with the detention center’s thermometer. Ms. Gao discovered their plot to switch thermometers and called them out in front of the detention center guards. She was thus denied admission again because of her high temperature.
The police were furious and upset about the situation. When they took Ms. Gao’s temperature themselves, it was fine. But when the detention center took her temperature, it was always higher. With no other way to detain her, they had to released her.
Ms. Gao was arrested again and taken to the Jinzhou City Detention Center around April 1, 2024. Her case was then assigned to Linghai City, which, like Benzhen City, is also under the administration of Jinzhou City. Both the Linghai City Procuratorate and Linghai City Court have been designated to handle Falun Gong cases in the greater Jinzhou area.
The Linghai City Court sentenced Ms. Gao to four and a half years in mid-January 2025. The Linghai City Court had sentenced at least 24 other practitioners in the greater Jinzhou area in 2024 alone.
Prior to her latest arrest, Ms. Gao, who was arrested earlier and released on bail, has been living away from home to hide from the police.
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