Wuhou District Procuratorate and Court of Chengdu City Persecute Falun Gong Practitioners

The following are true accounts of how the Wuhou District Procuratorate and the Court in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province have persecuted Falun Gong practitioners and sentenced them.

1. Zhou Yiqun and Tu Qiyao Were Sentenced

On May 22nd, 2006, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Wuhou District Court sentenced practitioners Zhou Yiqun and Tu Qiyao for five years and three years respectively based the fabricated charge of "intentionally divulging a national secret." The court claimed that the two practitioners mailed to the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net) an official file, "About Falun Gong Planning the Inaugural Chinese New Year Global Gala," which the Chinese Broadcasting and Television Bureau sent to the sub-level bureau, and the official file "Wuhou District Chinese Communist Party Committee Persecuting Falun Gong, the Lead Team's key tasks for 2004," which the Wuhou District CCP Committee sent to its sub-level party committees.

The CCP has never followed any legal procedures in its persecution of Falun Gong. It has always sentenced practitioners based on its own internal files. Its "internal files" were exposed and the fact that it used its internal files to sentence practitioners was exposed. People can clearly see the CCP's evil nature based on the fact that the CCP used its power to override the legal system and used fabricated charges to persecute practitioners and deceive the public.

Personnel who participated in persecuting Tu Qiyao and Zhou Yiqun:

Wuhou District Court:
Deputy Chief Justice: Mi Yi
Presiding Judge: Gao Xiaoqiang
Deputy Presiding Judge: Zhu Junliang
Mediator: Yan Qingxiu
Former Wuhou Procuratorate Chief Prosecutor: Lu Ruimin

2. Mr. Tao Yuan Sentenced to Four Years of Imprisonment

Chengdu City practitioner Mr. Tao Yuan was sentenced to four years by the Wuhou District Court after he was arrested and detained for two years.

During the past six months, Mr. Tao's family went to see CCP officials repeatedly to ask for his release. His father is more than 80 years old. He visited the CCP officials every day even though he was very ill. The Jinyang Police Station officers told his family to see the procuratorate officials. The procuratorate officials told them to see the court officials. After a lot of effort, the Wuhou District Court still sentenced Tao Yuan to four years and did not allow his family to see him. The court also did not process any paper work.

The personnel who participated in persecuting Tao Yuan:

Wuhou District Court: 86-28-85070584
Criminal Court of the Wuhou District Court Criminal Court: 86-28-82872718
Zhou Yajun: 86-28-82872734
Chengdu City Court: 86-28--87780837
Wuhou District Procuratorate: 86-28-85062000

3. Wang Yangfang Sentenced to Three Years

On April 11th, 2003, the Wuhou District Procuratorate charged Wang Yangfang (Wuhou District Procuratorate Case Number 184, year 2003, the prosecutor was Liang Lan). On August 21st, 2003, Chengdu City Wuhou District Court sentenced Wang Yangfang to three years in temporary custody outside prison (Sentence Case Number 219, year 2003). Actually Wang Yangfang has been detained and persecuted for three years and five months. The judge, Shui Changbing, also said that the five months did not count because Wang Yangfang was not detained during those five months. Judge Shi forced Wang Yangfang to sign the form that "requires a guarantor to post bail while awaiting trial."

4. Ms. Ning Hong Sentenced to Three Years of Forced Labour

Practitioner Ms. Ning Hong, 48, is a reporter for the Sichuan Province People's Broadcasting Station. She was arrested on August 27th, 2006, at her home by a National Security agent and officers from the Shuangnan Police Station because she circulated DVDs exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. She was then detained at the Pi County Detention Centre in Chengdu City.

On February 12th, 2007, she was sentenced to three years of forced labour by the Wuhou District Court. She firmly rejected this and appealed to the Chengdu City Intermediate Court, but she got no response. On June 26th, the police suddenly took her to the Sixth District of Yangmahe Prison in Jianyang City, Sichuan Province, without giving notice to her family.

5. Ms. Fan Xiuying Sentenced to Four Years Charged with a "Political Crime"

Chengdu City practitioner Ms. Fan Xiuying, 70, lived at the Southwestern Minority College Apartments at Yulinzheng Street, Wuhou District, Chengdu City. In June 2007, the Wuhou District Court requested that her son bring her to the court to finish some paperwork. The court officials guaranteed her son that it was just procedure and the court wouldn't do anything to his mother since she was very old. The officials also said it would be "custody outside of prison" at most. At four o'clock in the afternoon, Ms. Fan, her husband, son, and daughter-in-law were deceived into showing up the Wuhou District Court. The court official read a written judgement that had been previously prepared, and sentenced Fan Xiuying to four years on a charge of "political crime."

At that time, Ms. Fan had already been detained and tortured for more than three months. She was very thin and could not even walk. She needed her daughter to carry her to the toilet. She also suffered from memory loss and could not remember many things that had happened previously.

6. Ms. Yang Jingxia Sentenced to Three Years of Imprisonment

Ms. Yang Jingxia, who is in her seventies, is a professor at the Architectural and Environmental Protection College of Sichuan University and is a well-known environmental protection expert, known all over the world. In May 2003, Ms. Yang was arrested at her home by Chengdu City 610 Office¹ agents and detained at the First Detention Centre in Chengdu City. Her hands were cuffed and she was not allowed to sleep for four days. Later she was sentenced to a four year term by the Wuhou District Court and was imprisoned in Jianyang City Women's Prison in Sichuan Province.

7. Ms. Luo Ping Sentenced to Three and a Half Years of Imprisonment

Ms. Luo Ping, 31, is an English teacher at the Huaxi Public Health College of Sichuan University. In May 2003, she was arrested at her home by Chengdu City 610 Office agents and was detained in the First Detention Center in Chengdu City. Later she was sentenced to a four year term by the Wuhou District Court and was imprisoned in Jianyang City Women's Prison in Sichuan Province.

8. Ms. Practitioner Fang Hui Sentenced to Three and A Half Years

Ms. Fang Hui, about 40 years old, is a teacher of Foreign Language at Sichuan University. Because she went on a hunger strike to protest her persecution, she was brutally tortured in the prison, which made her so frail that she was not able to take care of herself. Later she was sentenced to three and a half years of custody outside prison. One and a half years after leaving the prison, she still could not walk steadily, her vision was still blurred, and it was difficult for her to speak. She now lives with her son in dire circumstances.

9. Mr. Practitioner Wang Haibo Sentenced to Three Years by the Wuhou District Court

Mr. Wang Haibo has a PhD in mathematics and is an associate professor at Sichuan University. In 2002, right before the Chinese Communist Party's 16th Party Congress, he was arrested at his home and his home was ransacked. Both his hands and feet were cuffed and he was deprived of sleep for four days and nights. He was sentenced to three years and imprisoned in Wumaping Prison, in Muchuan County, Leshan City, Sichuan Province.

Personnel who persecuted Wang Haibo:

Wuhou District Court:
Address: 12 East Gaoshengqiao Road, Wuhou District, Chengdu City, zip code 610041
Telephone: 86-28--85079350, 86-28-85070584, 86-28-85072109, Fax: 86-28 -85072109
Contact person: Yi Fuqiang
Chief Justice: Yu Jiachuan, 86-28-85056708, 86-13908091999, 86-28-85535999
Deputy Chief Justices: Zhang Jun, Gu Jian, Mi Yi (86-28-85071571, 86-13880000002)
Criminal Court: 86-28-82872718, Zhou Yajun: 86-28-82872734

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.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/3/25/175048.html