Laizhou City, Shandong Province, 610 Office Agents Stage a Mock Court Trial as a Trap, Arrest 23 Practitioners

Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Liu Hongying, Xu Yongqing, and Lu Chengjun from Laizhou City in Shandong Province have been detained in the Laizhou City Detention Centre. Party members claimed that they would try these practitioners on January 24th, 2007, at a court in Laizhou City, located on the east side of the old supermarket. This was in fact a trap set up to arrest other practitioners. That day, 23 practitioners were arrested. They were incarcerated in the Dianzi Brainwashing Centre in Laizhou City.

On January 24th, 610 Office¹ officials placed a large number of plainclothes police in the vicinity of the court. These agents knew the practitioners from the different townships and towns. These police had orders to arrest people walking on the street. They even stopped the supermarket shoppers, whom they considered suspects, and put them in the police vehicles. The police knew that they were violating the law. They claimed they were wanting to arrest burglars.

Around 9:30 a.m. on January 26th, 2007. the police tried practitioners Ms. Liu Hongying, Xu Yongqing, and Lu Chengjun in a dark room outside the detention centre in the absence of their family members. Furthermore, the police did not even spell out the judge's name in the court. Policeman Sun Junwei beat Ms. Liu Hongying to the floor and then handcuffed her. The three practitioners were dragged out of the court.

The court even went so far as to fabricate the facts. The court made up some names, saying these were the names of those who had testified. The court listed all the things that were taken away from Xu Yongqing's home except cash in the amount of 48,700 yuan². Ms. Xu's father, over 80 years old, died in November 2006. He was traumatised by the police who had broken into his home.

Additionally, one male and two female plainclothes police officers reported Qi Haijun, a disabled practitioner from Laizhou City, on the evening of January 23rd, 2007. He was then sent to Laizhou City Detention Centre although they found nothing on him to use as evidence against him. About 2:00 p.m. on January 27th, Mr. Qi suddenly felt dizzy, had a rapid heart beat and lost consciousness. He then went into convulsions and fell into a coma. When his family members learned of his condition, they petitioned the detention centre to allow them to bring him home. They did bring him home after paying 4,000 yuan in cash as a "warrant of probation."

Liu Jingbing, head of Laizhou City National Security Division: 86-535-2289252 (home), 86-13589811377 (cell)
Song Junhua, head of Laizhou City Police Department: 86-13589887766 (cell), 86-535-2289111 (office)
Yang Xuandi, Laizhou City 610 Office head: 86-535-2238791 (home)
Yu Zhibin, Laizhou City 610 Office associate head: 86-535-2289249 (home)
Office of Laizhou City National Security Division: 86-535-2289249
Court Head Office: 86-535-2212674
Court Office: 86-535-2212752
Criminal Court: 86-535-2212872
Zheng Yueqiang, associate head of the court, in charge of this case: 86-13356902336 (cell)

Note

1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.

2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/2/5/148331.html