Wuling District Court Gives Eight Falun Gong Practitioners Heavy Sentences

Eight Falun Gong practitioners from Changde City in Hunan Province were sentenced from three to ten years in prison on November 4th, 2010.

Wang Yongkang, director of the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) in Changde City, recently dispatched several hundred officers to arrest more than 30 practitioners and ransack their homes. The officers took away the practitioners' Falun Gong books, as well as equipment and supplies used for producing Falun Gong leaflets exposing the persecution. Practitioners Wang Xiaohui, Li Haijun, Man Sanqing, Ms. Liu Xiuying, Liu Huiping, Li Fangyun, Chen Lingci, Zeng Lihua, Liu Xianju, and others were sent to detention centres in Changde City to be persecuted. Among them was Ms. Liu Xiuying, who is 74 years old.

The practitioners were tried by the court of Wuling District in Changde City on June 11th. When the practitioners tried to defend themselves in court, presiding judge Deng Liping became irrational and smacked the table. She spoke rudely, prevented the practitioners from defending themselves, and confiscated their defence documents. The trial was just for show, with the outcome predetermined by the authorities.

The court sentenced the practitioners on November 4th, as follows: Ms. Liu Xianju, 10 years in prison; Ms. Li Fangyun, 9.5 years; Mr. Wang Xiaohui, 9 years; Mr. Li Haijun, 8.5 years; Ms. Liu Huiping, 7.5 years; Ms. Zeng Huali, 7 years; Mr. Man Sanqing, 5 years; and Ms. Chen Lingci, 3 years.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2010/11/15/52.html