(Minghui.org) A 57-year-old woman in Lanzhou City, Gansu Province, was sentenced to two and a half years by the Daying County Court in Sichuan Province, because she practices Falun Gong, Minghui.org learned recently.
Ms. Yuan Xiuying, born in 1969, is appealing the wrongful conviction while she is held at the Suining City Detention Center in Sichuan Province.
Ms. Yuan, who has a bachelor’s degree, took up Falun Gong in September 1996 and made a full recovery from her severe hepatitis B. After the communist regime started the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, she held firm to her faith and was repeatedly targeted. She was fired by her employer, Lanzhou City Minbai Group. After an arrest on July 18, 2017, she was chained and shackled for nine days. Her back was broken as a result. See the related reports for details of her suffering.
Ms. Yuan was later sentenced to two and a half years. After she finished serving time on December 18, 2019, the local police kept harassing her at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her latest persecution by an out-of-province court began in 2023, when she returned to her hometown in Daying County, Sichuan Province, to care for her father. The Daying police monitored her closely. A relative mailed something to her father’s home. Within two or three hours, the relative received a call from the Daying police. The caller said they were conducting a census but the questions they asked were about the package sent to Ms. Yuan.
Ms. Yuan boarded a train from Lanzhou City to Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, on the night of August 14, 2025. She had just settled in her seat for a few minutes when three officers showed up. One of them was An Lin (badge number 012280) from the Xiaoxihu Police Station. They ordered her to get off the train.
Ms. Yuan refused to comply. Half an hour later, captain Sun from the Qilihe District Domestic Security Office arrived. He said that Ms. Yuan was not allowed to travel to Chengdu, where the World Games 2025 was being held from August 7 to 17, 2025. She had no choice but change her train ticket to a later time.
Ms. Yuan received a call from her 93-year-old father’s home aide after 7 a.m. on August 15, 2025, saying that he fell. She called officer An. He consulted a supervisor and said she could travel to Daying County but was barred from entering Chengdu.
Ms. Yuan rushed to her father’s side in the early morning of August 16, 2025. He fell into a coma, never regained consciousness and died.
The Daying police traveled to Lanzhou City in early September 2025, together with agents of the Qilihe District Domestic Security Office, to look for Ms. Yuan. They eventually arrested her in late October 2025 and took her back to Daying County. She was held at the Suining City Detention Center.
The Daying County Court tried Ms. Yuan on March 4, 2026, and sentenced her to two and a half years at an unknown time.
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