(Minghui.org) Ms. Li Xiuqin, 66, from Dalian City, Liaoning Province, is facing indictment because she practices Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Li was arrested on June 11, 2025 and issued a formal arrest warrant by the Dalian City Railway Procuratorate on July 18, 2025. Her son submitted a request to drop the case to officer Zhao, who was in charge of the case. Zhao took the application but never issued a response.
He submitted Ms. Li’s case to the Dalian City Railway Procuratorate. On August 22, 2025, her son asked the procuratorate to release his mother on bail. By law, the procuratorate should respond in three days. When it didn’t, Ms. Li’s son contacted the staff again and finally received a brief response on August 29, saying that his mother was not allowed to be released on bail because she promoted Falun Gong.
Prosecutor Tang at the Dalian City Railway Procuratorate said that all Falun Gong cases in the Dalian region would eventually be handled by the Ganjingzi District Procuratorate. He told Ms. Li’s son that her case was scheduled to be delivered to the Ganjingzi District Procuratorate on September 30 and it wouldn’t be docketed until October 9 after the week-long legal holiday (October 1-8).
Minghui.org previously reported that a court date was set for September 2025 and now confirmed that Ms. Li is still facing indictment. Her son filed a request on 12309 (an online platform to raise concerns about procuratorate decisions) demanding to know the legal basis for labeling Falun Gong a cult. He never received a response and now his request is unavailable to him.
Details of Arrest
Ms. Li credits Falun Gong for resolving her tracheitis, bronchitis, slipped disc, and chronic cough. She was walking near a railway crossing in Ganjingzi District, Dalian City around 4 p.m. on June 11, 2025, when two plainclothes officers suddenly stopped her. They searched her and found two flash drives, several Falun Gong amulets, and about 200 yuan in cash. All of the confiscated items had information about Falun Gong. The police took her to the Beizhan Police Station.
Around 8 p.m. that evening, about eight people, including police officers and property management personnel, raided Ms. Li’s son’s home. They didn’t find anything related to Falun Gong and transferred Ms. Li to the Dalian City Detention Center later that night.
On June 20, 2025, agents from the Dalian City Railway Police Department together with property management personnel raided Ms. Li’s home. They confiscated a music player, one amulet, one Falun Gong flyer, an experience sharing article, and a five-yuan bill printed with information about Falun Gong.
Ms. Li’s family made several requests to meet with the officer in charge of the case, but the Beizhan Police Station denied them each time. The family then visited the Dalian City Railway Police Department, and officer Zhao accepted them. They submitted a request to drop the case. Zhao took the document but refused to issue a receipt despite the family’s repeated requests. He said he’d forward the request to the judicial system.
A deputy chief surnamed Zhou from the Beizhan Police Station led a uniformed officer and a plainclothes officer surnamed Gao to interrogate Ms. Li’s husband on June 25, 2025. They ordered him to sign a piece of blank paper. He was confused and signed it but didn’t press his fingerprints as they ordered.
The police later realized they used the wrong letterhead on the paper, which automatically voided the document as evidence. They made many attempts later to have Ms. Li’s husband re-sign a new one with the correct letterhead. By then he realized he should not sign anything so the police failed.
The Dalian City Railway Procuratorate issued a formal arrest warrant for Ms. Li on July 18, 2025, despite insufficient evidence. Her family received a formal notice two days later.
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