Relatives of Illegally Jailed Falun Gong Practitioner in China Vow to Work for Her Release

Ms. Wang Sanying and her family (Clearwisdom.net)

Despite a strong defense by her two attorneys, the Shijiazhuang City Xinhua District People’s court sentenced Ms. Wang Sanying to four years in prison for her belief in Falun Gong on January 21, 2009.

Falun Gong, also called Falun Dafa, is a meditation practice and spiritual discipline that has been banned in China and its followers are severely persecuted by the Chinese communist regime.

On June 3, 2008, Ms. Wang, a Falun Gong practitioner, was told to leave her work by the local police and an officer took her to her house. Upon arrival, the accompanying officer, Zhai Zhongyi, started to search the house. Ms. Wang drove the officer away but he went back with more people from the police station and Public Security Bureau and broke into the house. The police ransacked her house and took her belongings away. Items that they confiscated included Falun Gong books, more than 70, 000 yuan (US$10,234) in cash, two debit cards, a bank book, a computer, a printer and, a cell phone. They also took her to the police station with them.

The police gave false testimonies and evidence and then filed a lawsuit against Ms.Wang. Her family in turn hired two attorneys from Beijing to defend her rights.

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