(Minghui.org) A 72-year-old woman in Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province, remains jailed after her motion to reconsider a ruling against her appeal was rejected.
Ms. Xie Xianqiong was arrested early in the morning on March 8, 2023, after Zhao Gang, Fu Yi, and four other officers from the Zhongshan District Domestic Security Division broke into her home. They targeted her because she refused to renounce Falun Gong, a mind-body practice that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Judge Wang Xun of the Zhongshan District Court sentenced Ms. Xie to three years and two months with a 15,000-yuan fine after two hearings. Her appeal was rejected by the Liupanshui Intermediate Court on February 1, 2024.
Ms. Xie was admitted to the Guizhou Province Women’s Prison in March 2024. The guards abused her to the point that her blood pressure shot up and her heartbeat became irregular. She was hospitalized for a period of time.
Not long after her prison admission, Ms. Xie and her family filed a motion to reconsider the ruling against her appeal. The Liupanshui Intermediate Court rejected the motion and she remained incarcerated.
This is not the first time that Ms. Xie has been targeted for practicing Falun Gong, which she credits for curing her arthritis. She was arrested on March 26, 2020, for distributing Falun Gong informational materials. The police detained her for 12 days and arrested her again on June 2 that year after spotting her talking to people about Falun Gong.
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