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A Letter of Appeal for Zhou Mofang from His Wife
(Clearwisdom.net)
To the People's Procurator of Yunnan Province:
My name is Mei Bilin; I am a teacher at the Forestry Technical College in
Yunnan Province (formerly the Yunnan Forestry School). My husband Zhou Mofang is
a Falun Dafa practitioner. On October 30 2002, he was abducted by plainclothes
police officers from Guandu District. Later he was secretly sentenced to five
years in jail, and he is now detained at the Yunnan Province No. 1 Prison.
Zhou Mofang is 52 years old. He graduated from the Chengdu Physical Education
and Sports Institute in 1977, and he has been a teacher at the Yunnan Forestry
School. He is an open-minded and forthright person, well educated in martial
arts and Qigong. But before he practiced Falun Gong, he was an alcoholic. He
would get drunk once or twice every two or three days, and he would beat our
child and me while he was drunk. Since I am physically weak and frequently get
sick, life with a drunken husband was a nightmare for my child and me.
In 1994, right at the time I decided to divorce him, he started practicing
Falun Gong. He told me that he practiced many different kinds of Qigong and
found that Falun Gong was unusual. To my surprise, his belief in
Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance quickly changed him. It was a real miracle. He
gave up smoking and drinking and became kind-mannered. He showed much more
concern for our child and me, and he began to have a harmonious relationship
with his colleagues. During the 20 years of our marriage, he never cared about
house chores, but after he started to practice Falun Gong, he called himself a
house-husband and started cooking for me. The first time I ate the food he
cooked for us, I said with happiness: "What a day, the sun rises from the west!"
He replied with smile: "It's because of the goodness of Falun Dafa. Teacher told
us to be good persons in any situation."
At his work place, he no longer vied for personal benefits in crucial issues
such as apartment allocation or promotions. He applied for the senior
professional title for three consecutive years without success, each time just
short of one vote, but he never complained or argued with his supervisors. That
would be impossible if he had not practiced Falun Gong. In May 2001, he was
presented with a sportsmanship award in the National Ping pong Competition of
the Forestry System. Some of his colleagues said: "Zhou Mofang really changed
for the better after he began practicing Falun Gong." Actually, my family was
not the only one saved by Falun Dafa. Millions of Falun Gong practitioners have
benefited through the practice. They feel they are reborn after practicing Falun
Gong. Falun Dafa is so powerful and has brought much beauty to society.
But on July 20, 1999, the cruel persecution of Falun Gong started. On one
side, all of the state-run media including TV, radio, and newspapers started to
spread lies and defame Falun Gong. On the other side, they started monitoring,
threatening, and arresting Falun Gong practitioners. Using high pressure and the
policy of implication (1), Jiang Zemin's regime applied pressure to Falun Gong
practitioners' employers, schools, and families, and they instigated the masses
to hate Falun Gong practitioners...
On the afternoon of December 22, 1999, my husband and I were at a friend's
home. Suddenly four plain-clothes police officers came in. They abducted Zhou
Mofang to the Police Department of Kunming City to "verify" an issue. But
actually he was sent to a forced labor camp for a year. He got the "notice of
sentence" three months after he had been in the labor camp. We, his family
members, did not get any message about him from the authorities.
At 7:40 am on October 30, 2002, which was the period before the opening of
the16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, seven or eight
plain-clothes police officers broke into my home and arrested my husband and me.
When I asked the reason, they said, "You go ask our superior." During the arrest
process, they did not follow any legal procedures and even took about 3,000 yuan
(2) of our cash. Eight months after the arrest, I learned that my husband, Zhou
Mofang, was secretly sentenced to 5 years in jail and secretly sent to the
Yunnan Province's No. 1 Prison. During the whole process, we family members did
not get any information about my husband or any legal events.
We are very worried about his situation. Even though he was a strong and
healthy person, his whole body is now swollen and he is suffering from
hypertension due to his imprisonment. It has lasted over one year and shows no
sign of recovery. Once, he fainted and fell to the ground, breaking three of his
ribs and leaving him unable to walk with ease. I asked to bail him out for
medical treatment, but the jail authorities said he must first promise to give
up Falun Gong. Falun Gong practitioners are good people who believe in
Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance. Is it a crime for one to strive to be a good
person? Do they want to reform a good person into a bad person, so that I can
have a bad-tempered drunken husband again? Isn't that inhumane? This is not just
physical torture; it's the destruction of basic human conscience and good
values.
Xiao Yang, the Head of the People's Supreme Court, pointed out on June 18,
2004: "It's an important rule in the criminal law that those who commit crimes
should be sentenced, and those who are innocent should be released. If the law
did not define a certain behavior a crime, then punishment would not be made."
President Hu Jintao advocates that: "Take people as the most important, pay
attention to people's lives." Officers of law enforcement organizations, it's
your duty to redress injustices! Here I appeal to all of you for fair redress
and judgment.
I hereby request the following considerations:
Appellant: Mei Bilin
July 19, 2004
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