Chinese Police Fabricate Evidence to Frame Falun Gong Practitioners

(Minghui.org) After the Chinese Communist Party ordered the persecution of Falun Gong, the police have been working closely with the procuratorates and courts to sentence the practitioners to prison. When they couldn’t collect enough evidence to frame the practitioners, they fabricated evidence to send the practitioners to prison.

Below are a few select cases.

 

Case 1: After Nearly Three Years of Prior Incarceration, Liaoning Man Gets Another 4.5 Years for Practicing Falun Gong

Mr. Lyu Qing, of Fushun City, Liaoning Province, was arrested outside of his home on October 19, 2023. The police summoned his wife to the Dongzhou Police Station later that day and forced her to sign four sheets of blank paper.

During Mr. Lyu’s court hearing on May 16, 2024, his wife was shocked to hear that the police recorded more than a two-page-long “confession” she had made against her husband, which was written on the blank paper she was forced to sign on October 19, 2023.

Mr. Lyu was later sentenced to four years and six months, with a fine of 18,000 yuan. As he didn’t pay the court fine, the judge froze his property rights in April 2025.

 

Case 2: Hebei Woman Sentenced to 5.5 Years Due to Fabricated Evidence

Ms. Li Guoying, of Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, was arrested on the evening of July 18, 2023, while shopping at a convenience store in Yongan Village on her way home from work. Several people surrounded her and asked if she practiced Falun Gong. When she said yes, they grabbed her and called the police. She was taken to the nearby Chezhan Police Station.

She later learned that a villager had found a Falun Gong flyer at his home and reported it to a village official. The official happened to be on patrol duty and spotted Ms. Li in the store. He knew she wasn’t from the village and decided that she might be the person who distributed the flyer.

In the early hours of July 19, 2023, officers from the Chezhan Police Station forced Ms. Li to take them to her home. They were shocked to see her door wide open and all the lights on. No family member was home, but captain Wang Xiaofeng of the Chengqu Criminal Police Division was searching the residence with more than ten deputies.

Ms. Li immediately realized that Wang was trying to take credit for her arrest and seek revenge against her for her past conflicts with his wife, a clothing store owner she once worked for. Wang’s wife instructed Ms. Li to do things that she felt went against Falun Gong’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. She refused to follow orders and later quit her job at the clothing store. Wang and his wife since harboured resentment towards her.

Ms. Li condemned Wang for trespassing into a private residence and raiding her home without a search warrant. She also urged him to recuse himself from her case due to their past personal issues.

Wang flew into a rage and knocked Ms. Li down, causing her head to hit the corner of a table. She passed out immediately.

When Ms. Li came to, she was in a room in the Zhengding County Domestic Security Division. Wang came over and ordered her to sign and fingerprint a list of items allegedly confiscated from her home. She was shocked to see items not belonging to her on the list, such as a broken printer. Because none of her family members were there during the raid, the list was not verified by her or her family, as required by law. Wang also listed a large amount of Falun Gong informational materials to frame her. She refused to sign the list and condemned Wang again for raiding her home without a search warrant.

Wang became infuriated. He grabbed Ms. Li’s hand and pried open her fist to press her fingerprints on the list of confiscated items.

Wang called in two officials from Yongan Village and instructed them to give testimony against Ms. Li. He also placed more than twelve copies of Falun Gong materials on a table, and photographed them as items “distributed by” Ms. Li on the day of her arrest. He then got a mobile video showing Ms. Li being seized in the convenience store. All this “evidence” was submitted to the Shijiazhuang City Police Department for “authentication and verification.” Shijiazhuang City oversees Zhengding County.

Wang next submitted the case to the Zhengding County Procuratorate. He also extorted 1,000 yuan from Ms. Li’s daughter to cover her “medical treatment” for her fainting episode, even though he didn’t render Ms. Li any medical care after he knocked her unconscious.

Ms. Li was tried by the Zhengding County Court on March 6, 2024, and sentenced to five and a half years with a 30,000-yuan fine on March 31, 2025.

 

Case 3: Fabricated Evidence Used to Sentence 72-Year-Old Woman

Ms. Chen Jinqing, 72, from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, was sentenced to 3.5 years and fined 5,000 yuan in mid-September 2024, after the police claimed she distributed informational materials about Falun Gong.

Ms. Chen was arrested at home on February 24, 2023, after the police suspected her of distributing Falun Gong materials. Lai Ganwen, the director of the Tianhe District Domestic Security Division, took her to the Xinghua Police Station for interrogation. He said to her, “If I say you are guilty, then you are guilty!”

Ms. Chen was tried by the Haizhu District Court on November 20, 2023. The police presented a low-resolution video clip of a short-haired masked woman entering a parking lot on August 2, 2022. The woman was wearing a white top and a black skirt. She was light on her feet, and she looked like someone in her 50s. It’s not clear whether the video showed the woman distributing Falun Gong materials.

Ms. Chen argued that it’s obvious this woman wasn’t her. She is in her 70s and her body type is curvy. She added that there’s nothing wrong with distributing materials about Falun Gong. Whether it’s her or another person, they didn’t violate any laws.

Ms. Chen’s lawyer requested to have her family appear in court and decide if they could recognize the woman in the video. The judge refused his request.

Prosecutor Zhao Xiaokai insisted that the woman in the video was Ms. Chen. He recommended a prison sentence of 18 or 21 months.

After the hearing, Tianhe District Police Department officers went to the detention centre to depose Ms. Chen again. They also photographed her and submitted the photos along with the video to the Xinzheng Judicial Appraisal Institute, which concluded that the woman in the video was Ms. Chen. The police then submitted the “new evidence” to the court.

Ms. Chen’s lawyer pointed out that the police had no right to conduct further investigation and gather new evidence as the case was already being tried. Additionally, it was unclear whether the police pressured the appraisal agency to reach their desired conclusion.

While the appraisal agency claimed that the facial features, including forehead, eyes, and nose, of the woman in the video mostly matched those of Ms. Chen’s, the person in the video was wearing a face mask, and her nose couldn’t be seen at all.

With the “new evidence,” the judge arranged a second hearing of Ms. Chen’s case on April 30, 2024, and again denied her family’s request to attend the trial.

Ms. Chen’s lawyer further pointed out that there were many areas where the police violated the law, including having the wrong address of Ms. Chen’s residence on their search warrant, filling out the search warrant after the fact, and issuing the detention notice, interrogation record, and other case records after the mandatory due dates.

The judge announced in mid-September 2024 that Ms. Chen was sentenced to 3.5 years and fined 5,000 yuan.

 

Case 4: After Seven Years of Displacement, Former Glass Shop Owner Gets 12 Years

Mr. Wang Liqun, a 62-year-old native of Qingyang County, Gansu Province, was arrested in Xi’an City (the capital of Shaanxi Province and about 120 miles away from Qingyang County) on October 19, 2022. His hometown police targeted him because he filed a criminal complaint against former Chinese dictator Jiang Zemin in 2015 for ordering the persecution of Falun Gong. The police had intended to arrest him in 2015, but he evaded them. They hunted him for the next seven years before tracking him down in Xi’an City and arresting him.

The Zhenyuan County Procuratorate indicted Mr. Wang in January 2023 and moved his case to the Zhenyuan County Court. While reviewing Mr. Wang’s case document, his lawyer found that the 700-page indictment submitted by the prosecutor was exactly the same as the indictment against another Falun Gong practitioner, Ms. Duan Xiaoyan, seven years ago. Ms. Duan was sentenced to ten years back then.

The Zhenyuan County Court held a hearing of Mr. Wang’s case on February 27, 2023.

Among the 17 witnesses listed by the prosecutor, Mr. Wang said he only recognised the names of his brother and father, and he had never met or heard of the other 15 people. The lawyer pointed out that the witness accounts were very similar to each other. As none of the witnesses appeared in court to accept cross-examination, he doubted their credibility.

The prosecutor claimed that all 17 witnesses said that Mr. Wang had helped them prepare criminal complaints against Jiang Zemin. The prosecutor thus concluded that it was Mr. Wang who organized them to file the complaints to “defame the country’s leader.”

Mr. Wang’s lawyer refuted the charge of illegal activity, saying that every citizen is entitled to freedom of speech and the right to criticize or sue the country’s leaders. Exercising such a constitutional right was by no means “undermining law enforcement with a cult organization.” The lawyer added that all of the witnesses mentioned filed complaints against Jiang on their own initiative, without being ordered by anyone, which also debunked the prosecutor’s claim.

As the prosecutor couldn’t refute the defence statement, he blurted out, “Falun Gong [practitioners] persuade people to quit the Communist Party. Isn’t that a cult?”

The court sentenced Mr. Wang to 12 years on an unknown date.