At 9:40 a.m. on August 9th, 2007, Falun Dafa practitioner Ms. Gao Yunxia from Chongqing City was taken by police from a detention centre to a small courtroom on the second floor of the Changshou District Court building for a trial. The court announcement said it was an open trial, therefore Ms. Gao Yunxia's family and friends were seated in the courtroom. The court then required that all persons in the court turn off their mobile phones. The judge also announced that the audience could not talk or ask questions. Five minutes later, the court suddenly declared its verdict to everyone, except two who were cleared from the courtroom. Ms. Gao's relatives protested, but their efforts were futile. Soon after, only her husband and son stayed and listened to the trial.
The prosecution had no physical evidence at all for what Ms. Gao was accused of. It was not a "trial" at all. Rather, it was a show trial. One peculiar sighting: there was a woman with an unknown identity seated in the courtroom from the beginning to the end. She was neither court staff, nor Ms. Gao's friend or relative.
On April 25th, 2007, practitioner Ms. Gao Yunxia, 43, was arrested by police from the Duzhou Police Station in Changshou District while working. That afternoon, the police broke into Ms. Gao's home and ransacked the house. They even wrenched off the ceiling. However, they did not find any leaflets exposing the persecution there. Just like bandits, the police took away whatever they wanted, including cigarettes. The police scrambled with Ms. Gao's mother-in-law for her retirement cash deposit card. They stopped when Ms. Gao's brother scolded them loudly over their criminal behaviour and returned the deposit card. But they still took away more than ten thousand yuan1 in cash that Ms. Gao's sisters put together as college tuition for her son and payment for her retirement insurance. The computer that Ms. Gao's sisters bought for her son for his studies was also stolen.
Ms. Gao Yunxia was a cadre at the Changshou District Food Bureau. She was honest, kind, and hardworking. She had won many awards from the Food Bureau. Following the principles of "Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance," she kept improving her moral standards toward unselfishness. However, such a good person was brutally tortured by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) staff after the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20th, 1999. She was imprisoned twice, extorted for five thousand yuan and imprisoned at the Changshou District Detention Centre for a year after being arrested in October 2000. At the detention centre, she was savagely tortured. She was put in handcuffs, foot shackles, forced to sit on a chair for a long time and forced to sleep on a "Dead Person's Bed" (details can be found at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2004/12/15/55600.html). She was also force-fed with a tube, gagged with a dirty cloth, and beaten. When her family visited her, her hand was so cold and swollen that she could not even make a fist, as the result of being hand cuffed for too long. She could not walk or speak normally. Ms. Gao was illegally sentenced to five years in prison and taken to the Chongqing City Yongchuan Women's Prison for torture. The torture turned all of her hair white and left injuries all over her body. The guards at that prison did not allow her to eat, drink, or go to toilet. The guards also frequently whipped her and tightened her hands with a thin rope.
On April 25th, 2007, Ms. Gao Yunxia was arrested again and imprisoned at the Changshou District Detention Centre. On August 9, 2007, she was tried.
At 9:30 a.m. on July 11th, 2007, practitioner Ms. Yang Shuqiong from Changshou District was sentenced. At 2:30 p.m. on August 7th, 2007, practitioner Ms. Yu Xiurong was sentenced for three and half years in prison. To all just people both inside and outside of China, please help to release these innocently detained practitioners.
The people involved in persecuting practitioners
Wang Dailu, Party Secretary of the Changshou District Political and Legal Committee
Hua Changyi, in charge of Falun Gong issues at the Changshou District Political and Legal Committee: 86-23-40251893
Changshou District Procuratorate: 86-23-40403841
Changshou District Court: 86-23-40244240
Changshou District Court executive tribunal judges: Zhao Rong, Zhao Zhixuan, Zhu Xingshu, Fu Xueying
Sun Wei, Executive of the Changshou District: 86-13808366200 (Mobile), 86-23-40244297 (Office)
Jiang Chaozhi, Former Party Secretary of the Changshou District
You Zhimin, Police Chief of the Chongqing Police Department
Changshou District Police Department: 86-23-40586810
Note
1. "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://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/8/11/160627.html
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