(Minghui.org) Two residents of Suining City, Sichuan Province, were recently notified that they were each sentenced to six months for practicing Falun Gong. They were allowed to serve time outside of prison but were ordered to report to their local police station once a month.
Ms. Pu Zexiu, an 86-year-old retired teacher, and Ms. Chen Weixin, 80, were arrested on the morning of April 1, 2024, after a plainclothes officer spotted them talking to people about Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999. They were taken to the Kaixuan Road Police Station to be searched and interrogated before being released on bail at noon.
The police called the sons of both women’s on June 5, 2024, ordering them to bring their mothers to the police station. Ms. Pu and Ms. Chen both complied and reported to the police the next day in the company of their sons. However, instead of talking to them, the police had their sons sign all the paperwork. After that, all four were taken to the Chuanshan District Procuratorate, where the staffers also just talked to the sons and had them sign all the paperwork. Both women later learned from their sons that they had been put on bail and were awaiting indictment.
Ms. Pu and Ms. Chen were notified by the Chengnan Police Station in late February 2025 to report to the Chuanshan District Court to have their cases resolved. They went and were ordered to pay 2,000 yuan each to close their cases. They did so, only to receive another call from the court in mid-March to appear before them again. They went as instructed and were told that they were each sentenced to six months.
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