(Minghui.org) More than ten officers in four police cruisers descended on an 85-year-old woman’s home after 9 a.m. on July 21, 2025 and seized her. She was put in a prison the next day and has been denied family visits.
Ms. Liu Chunping, of Jinan City, Shandong Province, was arrested in October 2021 for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong. A few hours later she was released on bail. She appeared in the Zhangqiu District Court on July 26, 2022 and was sentenced to one year and fined 5,000-yuan on September 9, 2022. She was taken back into custody immediately after her sentencing hearing but she was denied admission to the local detention center after she failed the required physical exam.
The court tasked the Dongfeng Police Station and the Dongguan Police Station with monitoring Ms. Liu. They harassed her at least once every month in the beginning and increased the frequency to once a week around June 2025. They urged her to have more physical exams to see if she was fit enough to report to prison.
After Ms. Liu was seized from home on July 21, 2025, her two sons checked with the two monitoring police stations and they denied having any knowledge of her arrest. Just past 8 that night, the Dongguan Police Station called Ms. Liu’s sons and asked them to pick up her clothes at the local detention center (as she was made to wear detainees’ uniforms).
Ms. Liu was transferred to the Shandong Province Women’s Prison in Jinan the next day and her family was not allowed to see her.
Prior to her latest conviction, Ms. Liu was sentenced to one year in 2002 for distributing informational materials about Falun Gong. She was arrested again in 2020 and released the same day, also for distributing Falun Gong materials.
82-year-old Sentenced to One Year for Distributing Falun Gong Materials