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Four Practitioners Put on Trial Illegally in Panjin City, Liaoning Province By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Panjin City, Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net) On September 12, 2005, the Xinglongtai District Court
in Panjin City, Liaoning Province, put on trial four practitioners who had been
arrested without due cause. The practitioners are: Mr. Hou Yunfei, Ms. Hu Zhehui,
Mr. Xin Minduo and Ms. Bao Juncen. They were physically very weak due to torture
from the persecution and could no longer walk. Policemen carried the two female
practitioners in blankets. The police pulled the two male practitioners cruelly
up and down the stairs. The court ignored procedural obligations and deprived
practitioners of legal representation. The trial ended without a verdict within
a very short period of time. At around 9:00 a.m. the same day, police officers took the practitioners to
the courthouse waiting area. The entire courthouse was guarded heavily. The
police didn't allow practitioners' friends or family members to talk to the
practitioners. Plainclothes agents were everywhere taking pictures with cameras
and camcorders. Courthouse guards required everyone entering the courtroom to
show his or her identification card and apply for a temporary badge. People
attending the hearing were questioned repeatedly, and their pictures were taken
multiple times. Observers saw clearly that the four practitioners had become physically
debilitated due to the persecution. Policemen carried practitioners Ms. Hu
Zhehui and Ms. Bao Juncen in blankets and dragged practitioners Mr. Hou Yunfei
and Mr. Xin Minduo up and down the stairs. Mr. Xin Minduo had lost one tooth,
and he couldn't straighten either of his legs. During the trial, many of the
police officers couldn't face the practitioners' relatives and friends and went
downstairs. At around 10:00 a.m., practitioner Ms. Hu Zhehui's limbs suddenly started
twitching uncontrollably, and her face turned blue and purple. Her relatives and
friends requested that she be sent to the hospital immediately. The police at
first said she was fine. Only after they realized that she was close to death
did they call the emergency staff. After receiving an intravenous drip for about
an hour, Ms. Hu regained consciousness. At around 11:20 a.m., the court heard the illegal trial of Ms. Hu Zhehui and
Mr. Hou Yunfei. Ms. Hu was carried into the courtroom and could only lie on her
back. Mr. Hou was dragged into the room and could only sit bent over. During the
trial, they were carried in and out multiple times. The "defense lawyers" for the four practitioners were
court-appointed (Note: The lawyers could only enter guilty pleas for the
practitioners and were not allowed to speak in their defense.) Ms. Hu wanted
to defend her innocence, but the court refused to hear her. Her lawyer said,
"I'm not allowed to enter a not guilty plea for you. I can only enter a
guilty plea of misdemeanor." Mr. Hou's lawyer was not allowed to enter a
not guilty plea and thus entered a guilty plea for misdemeanor for him as well.
At around 11:50 a.m., the illegal trial ended without a verdict within a short
period of time. On August 3, police officers from the Panjin City Police Department
"arrested" nine practitioners and a landlord. The four practitioners
on trial that day were among those arrested. They were illegally detained at the
Panjin City Detention Center. To protest the persecution, quite a few
practitioners had gone on a hunger strike from the time they were abducted. Mr.
Xin Minduo, Ms. Bao Juncen and Ms. Hu Zhehui were brutally tortured. The police
inserted feeding tubes into their noses brutally and left them in for a long
time. The police disclosed that they had received instructions from their
superiors that the practitioners could be sentenced to up to a twenty-year
prison term. Before the trial on September 12, the Xinglongtai District Court
tried every possible way to block the news and didn't notify the practitioners'
families. The practitioners' relatives found out about the trial after they made
inquiries. After the illegal trial, Ms. Hu Zhehui and Ms. Bao Juncen were carried to the
police car. Ms. Hu told her relatives, "I've been on a hunger strike for 39
days. I didn't die because I practice Falun Gong. My teacher protected me. This
is an illegal trial, a trial that perpetrates injustice, by a fake court. This
is a disgrace to the Chinese legal system." The police put her in the
police car before she finished her sentence. Later she saw her husband and told
him, "I'll come out alive." When Ms. Bao Juncen was carried out of the courtroom, she told her relatives
in a weak voice, "I will not die. Be strong." The practitioners'
behavior moved their relatives. Perpetrators: Panjin City Police Department Panjin City Detention Center Panjin City Police Department Xinglongtai District Branch Address: Shiyou
Blvd., Xinglongtai District, 124010 Liu Desheng, Panjin City Political and Judicial Committee Secretary:
86-427-2839045, 86-427-2839049 Posting date: 10/14/2005 |