(Minghui.org) The Ankang City Intermediate Court in Shaanxi Province ruled on March 31, 2024 to uphold a guilty verdict against Ms. Cao Ping, 73, for practicing Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since July 1999.
Ms. Cao was arrested on September 24, 2022 and sentenced to eight years with a 50,000-yuan fine by the Xunyang County Court on April 23, 2023. It was unclear whether the Ankang City Intermediate Court held a hearing before issuing the ruling to reject her appeal on March 31, 2024. Presiding judge Zhang Jiaohui (+86-915-3832307, +86-915-3832310), judges Du Tao and Wang Fei (+86-915-3213500), and clerks Hua Maoli, Meng Xiaojing, and Yang Jinxuan signed the appeals ruling.
According to insiders, Ms. Cao has gone blind in one eye and the vision in her other eye is now blurred. Her request for medical parole has been denied. She is likely still held at the Hanbin District Detention Center at the time of this report.
This is not the first time Ms. Cao has been targeted for her faith. She was previously arrested seven times: Twice in 2000 (July 17 and October 11) and five times in 2001 (January 19, February 2, April 29, May 13, and October 16). She was detained for 15 days following each of her first six arrests and given three years of forced labor following her seventh arrest.
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