Police Attempt to Jail Ailing 75-Year-Old to Serve Prison Term Given in 2021

(Minghui.org) Ms. Zhang Huiqing, 75, from Jinan City, Shandong Province, was forcibly taken for a physical examination, as the police attempted to jail her to serve a 1.5-year prison term given in 2021 because she practices Falun Gong.

Ms. Zhang Huiqing

Ms. Zhang and her husband Mr. Liu Sitang, 82, were arrested on September 6, 2018 for telling people about the persecution of Falun Gong. Mr. Liu was sentenced to three years on July 24, 2019 and taken to the Shandong Prison, shortly after his appeal was rejected by the Jinan City Intermediate Court.

Ms. Zhang wasn’t tried until December 2020 and she was sentenced to one and a half years and fined 1,000 yuan a month later. Her appeal was also rejected. Due to her physical condition, she wasn’t immediately ordered to report to prison.

On the morning of June 19, 2025, more than 20 police officers and a doctor suddenly showed up at Ms. Zhang’s home and took her to the Shandong University Second Hospital for a physical examination. Her husband, who was recently released from prison, followed her to the hospital. The police ordered Mr. Liu to wait in their cruiser and an officer pushed Ms. Zhang inside, in a wheelchair.

After the physical examination, the police took Ms. Zhang to the Jinan City Detention Center, which refused to admit her after they saw the results of her examination. The elderly couple was sent home later that day. The police returned on July 3 and ordered Ms. Zhang to go to the hospital on July 10 for a two-week treatment. They threatened to put her in the detention center if she dared to defy the order. It’s not clear whether she complied.

Prior to their latest ordeals, the elderly couple have been repeatedly targeted after the Chinese Communist Party began to persecute Falun Gong in 1999. Mr. Liu was sentenced twice and subjected to brutal torture in custody. See the following reports for details of their past persecution.

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