Yushu City Legal Worker Refuses to Allow Lawyer to Prepare Defence for Falun Gong Practitioners

Mr. Zhu Haishan and Mr. Yang Xin are older Falun Gong practitioners both living in the Urban Development Township in Yushu City, Jilin Province. They went to Sihe Town to distribute materials exposing the persecution of Falun Gong on July 23rd, 2010, but were reported. They were arrested by local police and Domestic Security officers, who took their DVDs, ransacked their homes, and took Mr. Yang Xin's Falun Gong books. These two old men have been detained for over 80 days.

Officer Yang Songbai filed a lawsuit against Mr. Zhu and Mr. Yang at the Yushu City Procuratorate. Prosecutor Lu Jianyu submitted their case recently to Yushu City Court.

By the end of September 2010, Mr. Zhu and Mr. Yang's families inquired if they could hire a lawyer for their defence, and they were told yes they could. But on October 13th, 2010, when the lawyer they hired from Beijing went to the Court House to find information, Liang Weiguang, the judge, refused to allow the lawyer to do his work. When the lawyer asked the judge to show legal documentation to back this action, Liang answered that he did not have legal documentation, but only oral instructions communicated to him.

Zhao Guojun, Yushu City CCP Political and Judiciary Committee Secretary: 86-431-83800001 (Office), 86-431-83613979 (Home)

Li Fenglin, Yushu City 610 Office Chair, Yushu City CCP Political and Judiciary Committee Deputy Secretary: 431-83630197 (Home), 86-13756570561/13756234979 (Mobile)
Lu Jianyu, Prosecutor of Yushu City Procuratorate: 86-431-83626743 (Home), 86-13904395184 (Mobile)

Zhang Fengjun: Yushu City Court Head Judge: 86-431-83672001 (Office)

Liang Weiguang: Judge of Yushu City Court: 86-431-83672042 (Office), 86-431-83670222 (Home), 86-13578840045(Mobile)
Shne Jiachao: Prosecutor of Yushu City Court: 86-431-83672039 (Office), 86-431-83672389 (Home), 86-15943131415 (Mobile)
Yang Songbai, Case operator in Yushu City Police Department: 86-431-83618195 (Office), 86-15904408969

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2010/10/16/231096.html