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Severe Sentences for a Panjin Couple Upheld In Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net) On January 26, 2006, the intermediate court in Panjin
City, Liaoning Province decided to uphold the original 13-year sentence for
practitioner Mr. Xin Minduo, who appealed. A recent news release reported the
court's rejection of the appeal of his wife, Ms. Bao Juncen. The court upheld
her 12-year sentence. It is reported that the Panjin Municipal Party Political
Committee had already decided the prison terms and ordered the court to execute
them. On December 12, 2005, the Panjin court retried Mr. Xin. It was obvious to all
in the court that the public prosecutor publicly created false statements. Mr.
Xin and his defense attorney's powerful defense stunned the public prosecutor,
the presiding judge, and the national defense police. The court did not announce
any results at the time and finished carelessly. The Panjin Political Committee
threatened that it would "punish" the attorneys who defended the Falun
Gong practitioners. On December 15 the district court handed down a verdict that upheld the
original sentence and sent it to Mr. Xin on December 16. The attorney was not
informed until December 19. The attorney then told Mr. Xin's family members
about the incredible verdict. Mr. Xin waited for the attorney until December 21.
When he did not appear, Mr. Xin wrote the appeal statement himself. Mr. Xin's
family members found the attorney and prepared the appeal again. In a meeting with his client in the Panjin Municipal jail on December 26, the
attorney learned that the verdict had been given to Mr. Xin on December 16. The
attorney resubmitted a plaint for Mr. Xin on December 26. However, all levels of
the party's court system acted in collusion, ignored the facts, and obeyed the
previous court's decision. There was no official announcement and no trial at
all this time. Mr. Xin was arrested and imprisoned for about six months. He was tortured
until he was very frail. From the day Mr. and Mrs. Xin were arrested on August
3, 2005, they were illegally imprisoned in the Panjin jail. They suffered from
all kinds of inhuman tortures, including fierce beatings, forced feedings,
"fixed positions" and other cruel tortures. In the "fixed
position" torture, a person's arms and legs are cuffed to an iron bed
around the clock. This torture was applied for 40 days nonstop, until September
12, 2005. On September 12, 2005, when the Xinglongtai District Court met for the
first trial, people witnessed the results of the jail's cruelty. Dafa
practitioners Mr. Xin Minduo, Ms. Bao Juncen and the others could not walk. They
were very weak and had to be lifted and dragged in and out of court. On August 3, 2005, four or five men jumped from a van and attacked Mr. Xin,
who was riding a bicycle. They pushed him to the ground, trampled on his head,
and restrained both of his hands. They held his legs, kicked him, and used their
fists to attack him and steal his keys. The police arrested his wife, Mrs. Bao
Juncen, who was visiting their neighbors at the time. The arresters unexpectedly
found themselves in the presence of many others and said, "We're arresting
the one involved in pyramid schemes." While making the arrests, the police
were not in uniform. They did not produce an arrest warrant or show any
credentials, nor did they inform the family members in a timely manner. Mr. and
Mrs. Xin are currently still imprisoned in the Panjin jail and suffering from
torture. Around September 20, 2005, after Mr. Xin's family members heard the news,
they appealed to the Panjin intermediate court. The court made a decision on
November 10 that the facts were unclear and the evidence was insufficient, so it
was returned to the district court. The district court returned the case to the
district procuratorate, which returned it the national defense
department. However, the national defense department refused to release them,
further fabricated so-called "evidence," and insisted on putting the
good people in jail. After Mr. Xin's wife, Mrs. Bao Juncen, was arrested and persecuted while
visiting her neighbors, the family members asked Xu Hao whether the case was
still under his control. Xu Hao shouted out in rage, "It is not necessary
to tell you. If you look everywhere, sooner or later you will be put in
jail." Thus, the family members were deprived of their right of inquiry.
When the family asked the procuratorate, the procuratorate said they had turned
to the national defense department to "supplement the evidence," so it
was not the time to be asking this. Thus, in less than a month, the arrests
became "legal." It was reported that "the original 12-year
sentence" for Mrs. Bao was upheld, which clearly demonstrates the Chinese
Communist Party's evil nature. Departments and people primary responsible in these two cases: Chang Yajun, Panjin Municipal Party Committee secretary, Liaoning Province January 31, 2006 |