(Minghui.org) Ms. Wang Xiurong, 81, from Pingdu City, Shandong Province, was taken to a detention center on February 13, 2025, to serve a six-month term because she practices Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.

Ms. Wang’s ordeal began when she was arrested in 2023 for talking to people about Falun Gong. The police released her on bail and later submitted her case to the Pingdu City Procuratorate. Prosecutor Zhang Zhengxia indicted her and she appeared in the Pingdu City Court on July 19, 2024. Judge Dou Zaiqiang presided over the hearing.

Ms. Wang was later sentenced to six months. The police went to her home several times, but she refused to open the door. When they came again on February 13, 2025, she opened the door, was arrested and taken to the Pudong Detention Center.

Prior to her latest ordeal, Ms. Wang has been targeted numerous times for her faith.

Ms. Wang went to a community fair to talk to people about Falun Gong on October 12, 2009 and was followed by the police. She was arrested by officer Liu Jie of the Pingdu City Domestic Security Division on her way back home and taken to the Chengguan Police Station. Her cellphone and contact book were confiscated. The police forced her family to pay 8,000 yuan before they released her.

An officer knocked on Ms. Wang’s door on May 19, 2021. She refused to let him in and urged him not to participate in the persecution.

Ms. Wang talked to a young father and his child about Falun Gong on the morning of July 2, 2022. The man reported her and several officers soon came and arrested her. After they took her to the Chengguan Police Station, the police called her daughter-in-law and forced her to take them to the home where she and Ms. Wang lived, around noon, and they raided the place. Ms. Wang’s four Falun Gong books and more than ten copies of Minghui Weekly were confiscated. The police also ordered her daughter-in-law to pay 10,000 yuan. They threatened to increase the amount every day if she didn’t pay it on time. Ms. Wang was released around 2 p.m. that day.