By Falun Dafa practitioners in Nanning City, Guangxi Province

(Clearwisdom.net) In November 2004, twenty Falun Dafa practitioners in Nanning City, Guanxi Province, were arrested before the opening of the Dong Meng Exhibition. With Master's care and empowerment, other practitioners immediately exposed and eliminated the evil by sending forth righteous thoughts. Most of the practitioners were released from detention with the power of righteous thoughts and were reintegrated into the current of Fa-rectification. However, Cai Junping, Liang Shenping and Liang Biyan continued to be detained because of "solid evidence" [of Falun Gong activities]. They appealed to the Intermediate-level Court of Nanning. Because of this, Liang Biyan's family was intimidated and threatened, and Ms. Liang was forced to leave home to avoid further persecution.

On January 1, 2005, the authorities illegally held court proceedings in a small, cluttered room on the third floor of the Nanning Maoqiao Jail hospital. But because of the practitioners' righteous thoughts, words and actions, as well as a just defense from attorneys, the proceedings were ended hastily, without a verdict.

In March 2005, the three practitioners were sentenced to three years in prison. All three maintained their innocence, remained steadfast in their belief, and appealed to the Nanning City Intermediate Court. They were illegally kept in custody, subjected to forced brainwashing, and tortured because they persisted in their practice and would not give up their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance." They worked hard to clarify the truth and save people.

After Cai Junping was arrested, his workplace and family members were not sympathetic to his situation and did not support his practice of Falun Dafa, and complained to him. They would not send either clothes or money. Several practitioners mailed materials and clarified the truth to Cai Junping's workplace and family. All the practitioners who heard about Cai Junping's situation strengthened their sending of righteous thoughts to save him. They also talked to his family members who did not understand, and hired righteous lawyers to defend Mr. Cai in court.

Ms. Liang Biyan went on a hunger strike to protest her imprisonment after she was sent to the No. 1 Detention Center in Nanning City. With her hands and feet tied to a bed, Ms. Liang was forced-fed through a tube. Water was forcefully administered to her every day, and she was not allowed to use the bathroom. A catheter was forced into her, causing bleeding that would not stop. Ms. Liang was near death. The wicked guards who monitored Ms. Liang beat and abused her. From the day of her arrest, Ms. Liang's family and other practitioners tried to provide for her. They brought her case to the attention of the Political and Judicial Committee, the police station and the 610 Office, and persistently asked for her release. Under Master's care and from the efforts of her family, her fellow practitioners, and her lawyer, Liang Biyan was released. She had been on a hunger strike more than two months and became so thin that the authorities realized that she was near death. The family refused the persecutors' demand of 10,000 yuan for Ms. Liang's medical care.

Liang Shenping's family was not aware of his arrest because the authorities did not notify them. They sent him to a police motel near Dashatian and tortured him. His family was not even notified of his court date. When Mr. Liang asked about this, Huang Zhaohui, an official of the Nanning North District Court replied uncomfortably, "Your family was notified and it's clear they don't care about you." When practitioners heard about this, they immediately notified Mr. Liang's family despite the obstacles set up by the evil forces. His family members angrily told the court, "We were not notified at all. How could we allow a member of our family to be illegally held in jail?" Practitioners and the family worked together to arrange Liang Shenping's legal representation.

The three practitioners appealed as soon as the First Court sentenced them. They also testified before the District People's Representative Committee, the District Political Consultant Committee, the Police Department, and the Political and Judicial Committee. They explained to them the beauty and nobleness of Dafa, the truthfulness, kindness, and forbearance of practitioners, and that practitioners are fighting for nothing more than freedom of belief. They asked that Dafa and practitioners be treated well, and asked for the release of all illegally held and persecuted practitioners.

After the three practitioners appealed to the Intermediate Court in Nanning, the First Court of Nanning threatened Liang Biyan's family. The court claimed that they had been lenient, so how could the practitioners appeal? The First Court told her family that if they rescinded their appeal, the court would forgive them. Otherwise, Liang Biyan would have to appear at the Intermediate Court, and she could be arrested. If she did not appear, it would be taken as resisting arrest.

On May 23, 2005, the Intermediate Court tried to hold a trial of the three practitioners. Liang Biyan refused to confess to any of the crimes forced on her, and refused to appear in court to accept the so-called sentence. In the end, the court could not go forward.

Currently, the practitioners' lawyers are told that the trial was transferred to be conducted on paper. To avoid further persecution and arrest, Ms. Liang Biyan was forced to leave her home.

Relevant personnel:
Justice Bureau in North Nanning, Shaoneng Liang
Phone: 86-771-3134291 (Office)

Court in North Nanning: Jian Yu, Wenfang Wang, Zhaohui Huang
Phone: 86-771-3839609, 86-771-3829616, 86-771-3830502

Police Station 610 Office in Nanning: Zhaohui Liang, 86-13005913682 (Cell phone), 86-771-2891122
Intermediate Court in Nanning: 86-771-5510081 (Office)
Political Department: 86-771-5510016
First Law Enforcement Court: 86771-5510075

May 28, 2005

Posting date: 6/9/2005
Original article date: 6/8/2005
Category: Eyewitness Accounts
Translated on 6/4/2005
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/5/29/102897.html

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