On January 20th, 2006, practitioner Ms. Wu Jingjuan, who has been "illegally detained1" in the Guangdong Province Kedong County Detention Centre, filed an appeal letter to the Jieyang City Intermediate People's Court, refuting the decision made in January by the Kedong Court to sentence her to three years. Ms. Wu Jingjuan is now detained in Kedong County Detention Centre. We appeal to people around the world for support and rescue efforts.
Fifty-five-year-old Ms. Wu Jingjuan worked at an industrial and commercial institute in Jieyang City Kedong County. She was sentenced to two years of forced labour for her steadfast belief in Falun Dafa. She was sent to the Guangdong Province Women's Labour Camp in Sanshui City.
Around 4 p.m. on October 25th, 2005, Ms. Wu went grocery shopping. Carrying a few CD's of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party 2 she was not aware that a few plainclothes policemen were secretly following her. After she finished her shopping, she carried the black plastic bag containing the CDs in her hand. As she passed Kedong County Elementary School, the police surrounded her and asked her what she was carrying. They grabbed her bag, dragged her on to the car, and drove her to Kedong County Chengxi Police station. By midnight, she had been sent to Kedong Detention Centre.
After Ms. Wu was arrested and detained, she protested by holding a hunger strike. After hunger striking for eight days in the detention centre, she was told to leave the detention room, but she fainted right after she stepped out the door. Policemen in the detention centre gave her an IV infusion for a day. As soon as Ms. Wu regained consciousness, she explained the true situation of Falun Gong to them and told them the reason why she went on a hunger strike was to protest the persecution.
In further interrogations by the police and the procurators, Ms. Wu kept her silence. Facing the illegal interrogation, she refused to answer questions, sign any documents, or leave her fingerprint on any documents. The police ended up fabricating documents and making up charges. Ms. Wu was arrested again.
When the procurators from the Jiedong Procuratorate asked her if she wanted to hire a lawyer, Ms. Wu was uncertain. First of all, she didn't want to cause more pain and create more burdens for her family, and secondly, she knew that the judicial system is violating its own laws in the persecution of Falun Gong. Lawyers dare not speak out against it, so she decided not to hire a lawyer.
The falsified indictment against Ms. Wu drafted by the Kedong Procuratorate did not have much evidence, so the procurators included her detention at the labour camp as well. The purpose was to intensify the persecution. They labelled her crime as "disturbing the process of legal procedures," yet they didn't dare to mention the CDs of the Nine Commentaries found on Ms. Wu.
From the indictment, we learned that the people who arrested Ms. Wu were from the Kedong County Quxi Patrol Force.
On December 20th, 2005, Kedong County Court secretly opened the case and illegally sentenced Ms. Wu. The court did not notify Ms. Wu or her family members beforehand. Facing Ms. Wu's demand for an explanation why no one was notified, the secretary in charge of the case responded that they had posted a notice. When practitioners who checked the court bulletin board said they did not see any such notice, the secretary revealed that opening the case was only formality.
Sure enough, the jury was told simply how Ms. Wu was arrested and shown the materials provided by the Chengxi Detention Centre, the Kedong County Police Station, and the Kedong Procuratorate. Afterwards, they pretended to give Ms. Wu a chance to defend herself. After just a few words, the procurators told Ms. Wu the court would rest. They asked her if she had any requests and Ms. Wu told them to be clear about the truth, to distinguish with care between right and wrong, and to release her without conditions.
After the hearing, the secretary typed up the court records. Because Ms. Wu did not have a chance to express herself and the record did not include her request, she did not sign the paper.
Kedong Court sentenced Ms. Wu to three years of forced labour. On January 12th, the judgement paper was delivered to Ms. Wu. Ms. Wu decided to use her right to appeal to file an appeal to the Keyang City Intermediate People's Court on January 20th.
The Kedong Court did not transfer Ms. Wu's case to the Keyang City Intermediate People's Court until about a month later. However, Ms. Wu's family still hasn't received the judgement paper from Kedong Court.
We appeal to people who know the details of the case to help Ms. Wu escape the persecution as soon as possible.
Kedong Court system for reporting unlawful police officers: 86-663-3266569
Keyang City Intermediate People's Court Reporting: 86-663-8212407
Note
1. Illegally arrested: Contrary to what former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, who initiated the persecution, and the Chinese Communist Party would like the world to believe, practising Falun Gong is NOT illegal in China. Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practising the exercises or distributing flyers. For a more complete discussion of the illegality of the persecution of Falun Gong, please refer to the article "The Ban on Falun Gong—A Dictator's Whim, Not the Rule of Law". (Variation: "illegally sentenced")
2. Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party: Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is a series of essays published in late 2004 that reveal the true nature of the Communist Party. The Nine Commentaries have led millions of people to renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). "A book that has shocked all Chinese around the world. A book that is disintegrating the Communist Party." http://ninecommentaries.com
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/3/4/122063.html
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