Family Seeks Justice When a 74-year-old Practitioner Is Disabled by Torture; Court Refuses to Accept the Case

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Ning Bo, 74, is a resident of a village near Panjin City. In May 2004, while Mr. he was clarifying the facts about Falun Gong, Xi'an Town Police Station Chief Zhang Mingjiang and a person named Gao Xianbao seized him and forced him to walk over 10 miles with them. They fiercely beat him the entire way, and severely injured and eventually disabled him. He became deaf in his right ear and he could not move his right arm. His lower back was seriously injured, and he could not walk on his own anymore. Subsequently, officials in the Dawa County Court sentenced Mr. Ning Bo to three years in jail, where he was tortured badly.

While he was detained, Ning Bo proclaimed his innocence. He requested that the court investigate the criminal acts of Zhang Mingjiang and Gao Xianbao for beating him into disability and then throwing him in jail. However, the court did not conduct an investigation. When Mr. Ning Bo was detained, Zhang Mingjiang and Gao Xianbao brutally beat him and twice tortured him to the brink of death.

In accordance with the law, Ning Bo's family sued Zhang Mingjiang and Gao Xianbao at the Dawa County People's Council and Procuratorate (1). The People's Council and Procuratorate have refused twice to formally hear the case. Zhang Mingjiang and Gao Xianbao are still unpunished as of this date.

People who persecuted Mr. Ning Bo:

Ding Ziqing, head of the Politics and Law Committee in Dawa County, Panjin City,: 86-427-6862905
Police Department chief in Dawa County, Yang Wanguo: 86-427-2684201
Police Department deputy chief, Liu Jingli: 86-427-2684007
President of the People's Council in Xi'an Town, Dawa County, Yu Songqi: 86-427-8892312
Xi'an Town Police Station chief, Zhang Mingjiang, 86-427-6870056 (Home), 86-427-8892541 (Office)
Police Station duty office: 86-427-8892110

(1) Procuratorate: The Chinese state organ responsible for legal supervision. Its functions include deciding on arrest and prosecution of major criminal cases, conducting investigations, initiating and supporting public prosecutions, interpreting the law in specific applications, supervising courts decisions, monitoring judicial procedures, and supervision over activities of prisons, detention centres, and labour camps.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/2/6/94932.html