(Minghui.org) A Qixia City, Shandong Province, resident in her 60s was recently convicted for speaking up for Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999. 

Ms. Lin Jianping

Ms. Lin Jianping was arrested right outside the Qixia City Police Department on February 6, 2022, for talking to an officer about Falun Gong. After the Mouping Detention Center refused to admit her due to her health, Ms. Lin was released that same day and put on six months of residential surveillance. The Qixia City Procuratorate on October 21 charged her with “undermining law enforcement with a cult organization,” the standard pretext used to criminalize Falun Gong in China.

Ms. Lin stood trial at the Qixia City Court on December 19, 2022. She called out the prosecutor for wrongfully indicting her and the police for fabricating evidence against her. The judge sentenced her to three years with a 5,000-yuan fine on March 29, 2023.

Past Persecution

Prior to her latest ordeal, Ms. Lin was previously arrested on September 26, 2004. She was first given three years of forced labor and then three years in prison.

She was once handcuffed to a heating pipe for seven days in the Wangcun Forced Labor Camp. The guards tightened the handcuffs until her hands turned dark purple. She passed out several times due to the pain, yet the guards accused her of faking it. When she started a hunger strike later on to protest the torture, the guards force-fed her. They left the feeding tube in her nose for a long time to increase her suffering.

After Ms. Lin was later taken to the Shandong Province Women’s Prison, the guards pulled out handfuls of her hair, locked her in solitary confinement, and injected her with unknown drugs. She was also subjected to many other brutal torture methods, including suffocation and beating. In order to humiliate her, a female guard once stripped her down to her underwear and forced her to lie on the cold concrete floor in the presence of a male guard.

While Ms. Lin was incarcerated, her 80-year-old mother-in-law once knelt down to beg the police to release her. Her husband and daughter endured many sleepless nights.

Worrying about her daughter day and night, Ms. Lin’s mother fell ill and passed away. Before her death, she would become terrified at the sound of police sirens passing by her home. Ms. Lin’s mother-in-law also passed away from depression-related illnesses.

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