(Minghui.org) More than ten people from the local police station, procuratorate, and court descended on Ms. Zhou Fenglan’s home on November 25, 2025, and held a trial of the 77-year-old woman who’d recently become bedridden after suffering a stroke. After sentencing her to three years with a 20,000-yuan fine, the judge threatened to take her for a physical exam in preparation for her prison admission.
Ms. Zhou, of Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, has been targeted for her faith in Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999. Simply for talking to people about Falun Gong, she was reported and arrested by Huishan Police Station officers on March 20, 2024. The police continued to harass Ms. Zhou after she was released on bail. She was indicted by the Dadong District Procuratorate at an unknown time and convicted by the Dadong District Court on November 25.
This is the second time that Ms. Zhou, a retired employee of the Huishan Livestock Farm, has been sentenced for upholding her faith.
Ms. Zhou was previously arrested on September 20, 2011, when she put up posters to seek the release of another detained practitioner, Ms. Yan Fengjin. She was beaten by four officers and covered with bruises. She managed to escape that night and was forced to live away from home for six months to hide from the police.
Ms. Zhou was arrested again on August 30, 2012, while out buying groceries. She was held at the Zaohua Detention Center. When she was tried by the Shenbei New District Court on January 17, 2013, Ms. Zhou was so weak that she couldn’t stand on her own. She maintained that she didn’t violate any law in practicing Falun Gong. The judge didn’t allow her husband and son to talk to her.
Ms. Zhou was sentenced to three years in January 2013 and was soon transferred to the Liaoning Province Women’s Prison. When her family went to the prison on visitation day in December 2013, the guards didn’t allow them to see her, with the excuse that Ms. Zhou refused to renounce Falun Gong.
The family finally saw Ms. Zhou a year later on December 9, 2014. She had been on a hunger strike for nearly 80 days. The guards admitted having added drugs to the food used to force-feed her, which they said was “beneficial to her sleep.” The guards also said that she had been bedridden in the prison hospital for over 20 days and they’d previously taken her to the Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University for “psychotherapy.” They accused her of refusing to do forced labor (mainly making clothes).
Ms. Zhou was released on August 30, 2015.
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