Officials Fabricate Charges Against Falun Gong Practitioners in Panjin City, Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net)
1. Murderer Blames Falun Gong, Escaping the Death Penalty
In the year 2000, the Panjin City TV Station in Liaoning Province gave a
report about "A murdered mother, Wei." The report said that this old lady had
made a living through picking up scraps from refuse heaps. Her unemployed
daughter spent her time idling about playing Mahjong in Haicheng City. Whenever
the daughter was broke she would ask her mother for money. One night, when the
old lady had no money to give her daughter, the daughter killed her.
Later, people from the Public Security Bureau told the daughter, "You should
say that you practice Falun Gong -- if you blame everything on Falun Gong we
will waive the death penalty." The local residents knew that she didn't practice
Falun Gong at all, but the authorities intimidated them into silence.
2. A Hunchback Lies About Falun Gong to Get His Medical Discount
After July 20th 1999, Chinese Central TV Station (CCTV) broadcast
propaganda every day attacking Falun Gong. One of the lies was about a
"Hunchbacked Man." This person's name was Zhang Haiqing who led a very difficult
life. He had a seal-engraving shop in Panjin City and lived in the countryside.
One day, Zhang Haiqing went to Beijing's Xiehe Hospital seeking treatment for
his inflamed vertebrae. His wife tells the following story:
When the couple arrived at the hospital, there was a very long line at the
registration window. While they were waiting, a reporter from CCTV walked in and
told the people there: anyone who would appear on CCTV to slander Falun Gong
would get to register first and would also receive a 50% medical discount. Since
Zhang Haiqing was very anxious to get his treatment, he repeated the TV
reporter's words slandering Falun Gong, and he claimed that practicing Falun
Gong made him become a hunchback.
He did get to register first, but he never got his discount as CCTV promised.
3. Corrupt Official Slanders Falun Gong for His Own Benefit
In May of this year, 400 families needed to be moved out of the Weijia group
for housing reconstruction. The person in charge of this project was a man named
Dahua. Dahua admitted himself that he had given a huge bribe to a city
official's wife so that he would be put in charge of the project.
However, Dahua paid very low moving fees to those families. Since some people
didn't have enough money to buy new homes, they couldn't move. On April 31st
of this year, Dahua cut off their supply of power, water and gas. Those people
tried to talk to the city officials, but they couldn't find anybody because it
was a holiday weekend, May 1st, International Labor Day. Some people
laid themselves on railway tracks to protest, causing the train to be delayed. Later, some officials came to investigate the uproar. In order to evade
responsibility, Dahua blamed everything on Falun Gong. Since nobody dared to say
a word for Falun Gong under the current pressure, the corrupt city official got
off without punishment, while those homeless families had nowhere to go to
appeal for justice.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.cc/mh/articles/2002/11/26/40061.html
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