(Minghui.org) The police in Baohe District, Hefei City, Anhui Province dropped a case against a local resident in late June 2023, ten months after they filed a case against her.
Ms. Ji Guangying, 78, wrote a letter to deputy director Yang of Baohe District Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC) in May 2022, expressing her determination to keep practicing Falun Gong. Yang turned over the letter to the police.
The PLAC, an extrajudicial agency that has branches at every government level, has been leading the persecution of Falun Gong since the Chinese Communist Party launched a nationwide campaign against the spiritual discipline in July 1999.
The Luogang Police Station in Baohe District raided Ms. Ji’s home on August 25, 2022 and placed her under house arrest. They submitted her case to the Shushan District Procuratorate, which has been designated to handle Falun Gong cases, on November 12, 2022.
The procuratorate returned Ms. Ji’s case to the police in late April 2023. The police then summoned Ms. Ji, but she refused to go to the police station because she didn’t want to give them any chance to fabricate more evidence against her.
Ms. Ji went to the police station on her own accord in mid-May 2023 because she had intended to deliver some documents to deputy chief Zhang Yingsong. The documents included: 1) Announcement 50 issued on March 1, 2011, by the General Administration of Press and Publication, to lift the ban on Falun Gong publications. issued Announcement 50 on March 1, 2011; 2) her lawyer’s request to exclude the police-supplied evidence against her as it was illegally gathered and thus inadmissible; 3) her own request to urge the procuratorate to not indict her for exercising her constitutional right to freedom of belief.
Zhang did not meet her or answer her phone call. Ms. Ji then asked officer Zhang Xiangyu to pass the materials to deputy chief Zhang.
Ms. Ji visited the police station again on June 27 and saw officer Zhang again. She urged him to drop the case against her and warned him that the police had violated Article 40 of the Constitution for filing a case against her simply because she wrote a letter to the vice director of the local PLAC.
Officer Zhang called Ms. Ji’s husband on June 29 and said his police chief invited her to have dinner together the next day. She took it as a good sign.
On July 1, Ms. Ji received a certified mail from officer Zhang. It contained a notice from the Baohe District Branch of Hefei City Police Department saying that the case against her had been dismissed.
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