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Practitioner Ms. Tang Hengfen from Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, Faces Illegal Trial in CCP Court By a practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) On April 5, 2007, practitioner Ms. Tang Hengfen from
Jixi City, Heilongjiang Province, was illegally arrested. She was
imprisoned in the Jixi City No. 1 Detention Center, where she refused to be
"transformed" and resisted persecution for two months. Recently, the
Procuratorate and the court decided to hold her trial on June 13. On around May 24, Ms. Tang's attorney was allowed to meet with Ms. Tang.
Because her attorney did not know the truth about Falun Gong, he said, "You
have committed the crime that the court accuses you of. You should admit to it
so that I can easily talk to the court for you." Ms. Tang asked her
attorney, "Are you saying that if I plead guilty, the court will allow me
to go home?" Her attorney said, "It is not like that. I only can ask
the court to reduce your jail time." Ms. Tang replied, "I will not
give up my belief in Falun Dafa. Clarifying the truth is legal, so I
am not guilty." Ms. Tang's 16-year-old son now lives with his grandmother and is still
unaware of his mother's arrest. Ms. Tang's 82-year-old mother misses her
daughter so much that she has become ill four or five times. Since the Minghui/Clearwisdom website publicized Ms. Tang Hengfen's arrest on
May 18, her attorneys and the personnel of the Procuratorate related to her case
have received phone calls from practitioners both inside and outside of China.
Some recipients of these calls were unwilling to listen to the truth
clarification and have intensified the pressure on Ms. Tang's family members. An official of the Jiguan District Procuratorate in Jixi City called Ms.
Tang's older sister and threatened, "You are in contact with Falun Gong
practitioners. Do you have anything to do with them? Let me tell you that you
are already in danger [if you do not cooperate with us]." Ms. Tang's family has hired two attorneys to defend her. Even after the two
attorneys learned the truth, they still encountered difficulties in defending
her innocence due to continuous interference from the authorities of law
enforcement departments and precedents set by similar cases previously tried in
various regions of China. We hope that practitioners and people with a sense of justice, both inside
and outside of China, will help rescue Ms. Tang and clarify the truth to the
personnel participating in her persecution. Below is contact information for the departments and personnel related her
case: The Intermediate Court Jiguan District Court Jixi City Procuratorate Jiguan District Procuratorate in Jixi City Posting date: 6/25/2007 |