On July 7th, 2008, Linghe District Court officials held a trial and sentenced three Falun Gong practitioners. Practitioner Xiang Ying was sentenced to twelve years, and Miao Jianguo and Yin Zhiyou were each given four-year terms. All three practitioners pleaded innocent and will appeal the sentences.
The court officials tried to obstruct Mr. Miao Jianguo's lawyer from entering the courtroom when he arrived to defend his client. In the end, he was unable to provide defence. Court officials forbade him from bringing his laptop computer into the courtroom.
Prior to this incident, the same officials had brought unlawful suits twice in matters pertaining to Falun Gong. Zhou Jun was the judge dealing with those cases. When an lawyer attempted to defend Falun Gong in those trials, Zhou Jun repeatedly prevented the lawyer from presenting a legal argument and interrupted the lawyer's defence attempts.
Officials at the Provincial Liaoning Political and Legislative Committee were the ones pulling strings behind the scenes and decreed these severe sentences. After the lawyer pleaded not guilty in the trial of the Falun Gong practitioners, Jinzhou City Communist Party authorities put pressure on the defence lawyer's law office, attempting to prevent the lawyer from continuing his defence of Falun Gong practitioners.
On February 25h, 2008, police department chief Wang Lijun from Jinzhou City personally ordered officers from local police stations and agents in the 610 Office1 under his command to take action against Falun Gong practitioners. Agents from the National Security Department in Jinzhou City also took part in this action. The police arrested more than twenty practitioners, searched their homes and confiscated many things. Practitioners Xiang Ying, Miao Jianguo, Yin Zhiyou, Cui Yaning, and Huang Cheng were among those arrested. The persecutors locked them up in the No. 1 and No. 2 Detention Centres in Jinzhou City, and other local detention centres. Practitioner Xiang Ying, from Linghe District, has been on a persecution-protest hunger strike since his arrest four months ago. He is now emaciated and skeleton-like.
On the morning of June 13th, 2008, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled trial of practitioners Xiang Ying and Yin Zhiyou took place at Linghe District Court. Mr. Xiang Ying's family had hired a lawyer to plead not guilty for him. The lawyer met with difficulties, caused by the court itself, before he entered the courtroom. During the three hours of debate in court, the lawyer presented a clear defence from different angles, to testify that Falun Gong is not a [slanderous word omitted], and that Mr. Xiang Ying was innocent.
A few days later, on June 18th, 2008, the court tried practitioners Guo Yanping and Miao Jianguo. Mr. Miao Jianguo's family also hired a lawyer. The court was confronted with a solid defense and could not bring any argument to stand the accusation, but the officials still sentenced the practitioners severely.
Linghe District Court:
Zhou Jun: 86-416-2916201 (Office), 86-416-2834230 (Home), 86-13840666678 (Mobile)
Liu Geng, chief of Linghe District Court: 86-13904160692 (Mobile)
People who participated in the persecution of Xiang Ying:
Liu Yuzhu, Longjiang Police Station head, Linghe District, Jinzhou City
Kong Wei, Longjiang Police Station deputy head: 86-13504066866 (Mobile)
Li Ming, police officer (the person who carried out the persecution): 86-13941674900 (Mobile)
People who participated in the persecution, from the Prosecuting Section of the Linghe District Procuratorate: Jin Quyi, Hu Rizhong, Zhao Bin, and Zhang Weihui
People at Linghe Court who took part in the persecution (besides Zhou Jun and Liu Geng): Cao Yang, Tian Haiqin, Li Meng
Li Yuxia, secretary general of the Committee of Political and Legislative Affairs in Guangzhou City: 86-416-2182001 (Office), 86-416-2386666 (Home)
Liu Tieli, 610 Office head in Jinzhou City: 86-416-3184001 (Office), 86-416-2938080 (Home), 86-13804165095 (Mobile)
Li Wei, second in command at the 610 Office: 86-416-3194002 (Office), 86-416-2601038 (Home), 86-13897889812 (Mobile)
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://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/7/12/181880.html
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