A lawyer has called for the public to pay attention to a disabled woman’s case before the final verdict of her second trial is delivered in December, saying she is the victim of the persecution of Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) in China.
Niu Xiaona, is a permanently disabled woman from Harbin, a city in the northeastern province, Heilongjiang.
A Chinese court conducted a second trial of the Falun Gong adherent on Nov. 27. It was held online because of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions..
On Sept. 29, she was sentenced by a local court to 15 years in prison and fined 1,000 yuan (about $139) for holding and producing copies of Falun Gong information. Niu appealed to the intermediate court in Heilongjiang….