A Kind-Hearted Young Practitioner from Weifang City, Shandong Province, Sentenced to a Nine Year Prison Term

Name: Ge Kun
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Address: No. 1 Building, Apt. 301, Guanxi Zhonghe Street, Weicheng District, Weifang City.
Occupation: Student, Department of Architecture in a University in Tianjin City
Date of Most Recent Arrest: July 9th, 2008
Most recent place of detention: Weifang City Detention Centre
City: Weifang
Province: Shandong
Persecution Suffered: Electric Shock, Sleep Deprivation, Forced Labour, Beatings, Hang Up, Imprisonment, Solitary Confinement, Torture, Force-Feedings, Extortion, Expelled from University, Physical Restraint, Home Ransacked, Interrogation, Detention

Key Persecutors: Mou Aiping, Lv Baoqing, Li Hong

Defense Attorney: Wu Jiangtao

At 8:30 a.m. on October 18th, 2009, Mou Aiping, the chief judge, and two alternate judges Lv Baoqing and Lihong from the Hanting District Court, Weifang City, Shandong Province sentenced Mr. Ge Kun to a nine year prison term.

Mr. Ge Kun was arrested on July 9th, 2008. He was imprisoned and tortured him for more than a year. Mr. Ge Kun, who was a very healthy young man, is now emaciated and physically weak.

Mr. Ge Kun studied architecture at a university in Tianjin City. He is very honest, simple and kind. Anyone who knows him will attest to that. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute practitioners on July 20th, 1999, he went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practise Falun Gong. Since then, officers attacked him with a knife, teachers detained him and the school expelled him. Mr. Ge Kun was harassed frequently. Therefore, he couldn't live a normal life and was forced into homelessness.

At 6:00 a.m. on July 9th, 2008, officers from the Weifang City's Domestic Security Division arrested Mr. Ge Kun at the Datuo Dormitory, Kuiwen District, Weifang City. They took him to the Weifang City Detention Centre and refused family visitation. Officers ransacked his dormitory and confiscated his desktop computer, mobile phone, digital camera, his mother's jewellery, bank book and other personal property valued at 35,000 yuan¹.

Mr. Ge Kun went on hunger strike. After six days, he was force fed and tortured. He was tied to a cross for six days. The cross was supported with iron pipes. His hands were stretched out and strapped to the cross. He suffered excruciating pain.

Guards interrogated him almost daily. They forced him to sit on an iron chair² and interrogated him for four days and nights. He suffered sleep deprivation for five days. In December 2008, officers interrogated him again. Mr. Ge Kun's family visited him at the Changle Detention Centre and brought with them some clothes. The guard refused again family visitation and did not accept the clothes.

Mr. Ge Kun was cruelly tortured and suffered physically and spiritually. His face looked sallow and swollen. He was weak. Despite his condition, he was forced to work overtime daily.

On July 31st, 2009, judges in Hanting District Court, Weifang City put Mr. Ge Kun on trial. His parents hired Wen Haibo, a human rights lawyer from Beijing as he was innocent. On January 5th, 2009, Wen Haibo went to Hanting District Procuratorate to look through the files, but the officials refused to hand them over. At the end of May 2009, judicial officers confiscated Wen Haibo's law certificate. Mr. Ge Kun's family then hired Wu Jiangtao, a lawyer from Beijing Xinnuo Attorney Firm, to defend Mr. Ge Kun. When Wu Jiangtao went to review the files, the officials allowed him to review a little of Mr. Ge's file. They didn't allow the lawyer to copy the files. At the court session, the judges interrupted Wu Jiangtao many times when he tried to defend Mr. Ge Kun.

On October 18th, the judges from Hanting District, Weifang City held a court session to charge Ge Kun for a second time and sentenced him to a nine year prison term.

Parties that participated in persecuting Mr. Ge Kun are: Hanting District Court, Weifang City; Weifang City Procuratorate, Kuiwen District Procuratorate, Hanting District Procuratorate, Kuiwen District Police Bureau.

Mr. Ge Kun's parents were devastated when they were told that their son was sentenced to a nine year prison term.

List of those persecuting Mr. Ge:

Mou Aiping, female, head judge and deputy presiding judge, Criminal Section of Hanting District Court, Weifang City: 011-86-536-7254040

Lv Baoqing, Li Hong (female), judges of Hanting District Court, Weifang City: 011-86-536-7254040

Zhang Futao, public prosecutor and chief of the Public Prosecution Section, Hanting District Procuratorate, Weifang City: 011-86-536-3012087

Huang Weilian, Chief of Weifang City Police Bureau: (Office) 011-86-536-8783707, 011-86-536-8783121; (Home) 011-86-536-8789366, (Mobile): 011-86-135-73689006

Zhou Guosheng, police office of the Kuiwen District Police Bureau, Weifang City

Xu Xinping, political commissar of Weifang City Police Bureau: (Office) 011-86-536-8783156, (Mobile):

011-86-13605369816

Luo Xiangxian, commander of Weifang City's Domestic Security Division: (Home)011-86-536-8783238, (Office) 011-86-536-8783251, 011-86-536-8783153, (Mobile)011-86-13963650099

Hanting District, Weifang City, zip code: 261100

Cui Huaitian, chief of Hanting District Police Bureau: 011-86-15905360909

Hanting District Domestic Security Division: 011-86-536-7285585

Yan Fengshan, commander of Hanting District Domestic Security Division: (Mobile)011-86-13953668177, (Office) 01-86-536-7268908

Hanting District 610 Office: (Mobile) 011-86-7251243

Political and Judiciary Committee Office, Hanting District: 011-86-536-7251243

Sui Ruwen, director of Weifang City's 610 Office: (Home) 011-86-536-8783031 (Mobile): 011-86-138-06495398

Note

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

2. Iron Chair: The "Iron chair" is made of iron pipes. Victims are restrained on the iron chairs with both arms and legs tied for a long period of time, see illustration at http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/1/9/17577.html

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2009/10/21/210807.html