80-year-old Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Wu Guizhi from Bayan County, Harbin, Heilongjiang, sentenced to 8 years, persecuted to death in Heilongjiang Women’s Prison
(Rights Defense Network Information Center report) On November 4, 2026, this website learned that Ms. Wu Guizhi, an 80-year-old Falun Gong practitioner from Bayan County, Harbin, Heilongjiang, who was sentenced to 8 years, was persecuted to death in Heilongjiang Women’s Prison.
Wu Guizhi: A female Falun Gong practitioner from Bayan County, Harbin, Heilongjiang, born in 1946. On September 28, 2017, she was arrested by police from the Xinghua Police Station in Bayan County at her home. She was later detained at the Harbin No. 1 Detention Center. She was released on bail pending trial on July 19, 2018. In February 2019, Wu Guizhi was sentenced to a harsh term of 8 years. She was subsequently taken into custody at Heilongjiang Women’s Prison to serve her sentence. In early 2026, while serving her sentence at Heilongjiang Women’s Prison, Wu Guizhi was found to have cancer. The prison authorities then sent her to a hospital for treatment, but news of her death emerged just a few days later. She was 80. Information known to her family about the course of her illness, her treatment, and the specific cause of death is limited.
From her arrest in 2017, to her eight-year sentence in 2019, and then her death in prison in 2026, Wu Guizhi endured nearly ten years of persecution. For this 80-year-old woman, the lengthy imprisonment not only deprived her of her freedom in her later years, but also meant that she ultimately did not leave prison, departing this world with regrets.
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