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Three Young Intellectuals Are Illegally Sentenced at the Nanming District Court, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province
(Clearwisdom.net) At the Nanming District Court of Guiyang City, Guizhou
Province, three young, well-educated individuals were illegally sentenced in a
trial with no jurors or defense lawyers present and without the knowledge of
their families. These three people are Mr. Huang Lei, a student majoring in Architecture at
Guiyang Industrial University, Mr. Liu Bo, an employee of the Guiyang TV
Station, and Ms. Zhang Lei, who studies at Guiyang College of Chinese Medicine.
All three individuals had earlier been either fired from their workplace or
expelled from school because of their refusal to give up their belief in
Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. In court, Mr. Lei, Mr. Liu, and Ms. Zhang accused the law enforcement
officers of severely violating their basic human rights and defying China's own
Constitution. They stated formally that, because of the brutal, unfair nature of
the persecution implemented by Jiang and his followers, Dafa practitioners'
truth clarification efforts, including appealing to government offices,
distributing truth-clarification materials and intercepting TV signals, can only
be correctly classified as actions in defense of both China's Constitution and
the right of Chinese citizens to not be deceived. Thus, the actions taken by
Dafa practitioners are compassionate and just, and the practitioners themselves
are completely innocent of any crime. Mr. Lei, Mr. Liu, and Ms. Zhang also
denounced the sentence of the court, and they later appealed to the Guiyang
Middle Level Court on January 6, 2004. Jiang's group has staged numerous show trials of Dafa practitioners, similar
to that of these three young people. They always make up so-called crimes and
then put on these trials without giving practitioners any chance to defend
themselves. The fabricated trials are in fact grave violations of the Chinese
Constitution. We appeal to all people and ask that everyone speak up to help stop this
hate-filled persecution. We will also use legal means and other methods to
expose the evil actions of Jiang Zemin, and his followers in such organizations
as the National People's Congress, the Political Consultative Conference, the
Prosecutor's Office, and the Court System. We shall continue to strongly demand
the release of imprisoned Dafa practitioners. Below are names and phone numbers of related government personnel: Principal of Guiyuan City Middle Level Court: 86-851-5814300, 86-851-5822716 2004-1-23 |