On December 6, 2000, there was a so called "public trial" for Dafa practitioner Guo Shoujun, PhD, a faculty member at Northwest Teacher's University.

1. Dafa practitioners outside the court

At 9am, about 100 Dafa practitioners waited outside Anning District Court in Lanzhou (city) for the appearance of Guo Shoujun.

The security was very tight. The entire political security station and the public security station of Anning District Police Department were present. The director of the political security station, Han Mingzhan, kept calling the leaders and security departments of the work units nearby to come to take people away. At 9:10am people from the Northwest Teacher's University, Lanzhou Feikong Apparatus Factory, Lanzhou Wanli Factory, and other work units arrived and took Dafa practitioners away.

At 10am, as a distraction, a police vehicle drove with its sirens on and brought three criminals to be tried on the first floor. Then from the back door they quietly took Guo Shoujun to a small room on the third floor for his trial. During the trial, the policemen were very nervous as if facing a formidable enemy. The practitioners calmly waited for the results of the trial . They shared their experiences of rectifying and protecting the Fa (Law and principles) during the past year. It was like an experience conference in view of the police.

At 11:20am, the police suddenly started to push the crowd and drive Dafa practitioners away.

2. The "public trial" process

The so-called "public trial" of Guo Shoujun was in a very small room. The relatives were given only five viewing permits with a prohibition of speaking or asking questions. There were only two long benches for the viewers. The court carefully questioned those who came in with viewing permits.

Guo Shoujun was taken upstairs quietly through the back door. By the time relatives were permitted upstairs, the prosecutor had already started reading the statement of charges. The fabricated charge was "using a sect organization to damage the law". The incidents as evidence were organizing the Lanzhou City Dafa conference on December 1999 and filing an appeal at Tiananmen Square, Beijing in February 2000.

The lawyer, not a practitioner, defended Guo regarding the second incident. He was hired by Guo's wife who also practices Dafa. He argued that filing an appeal itself was not a crime. Guo Shoujun did not attack or harass anyone when he went to either the appealing office or Tiananmen Square. Hence the second incident cannot be used as evidence of a crime.

Guo Shoujun indicated that the activities that he participated in had no political purpose. The Dafa conference was only an experience sharing conference. All he did was what a cultivator should do.

The judge, listened to the statements of both prosecutor and defendant as a mere formality. Then he negotiated with the two men sitting next to him and spoke no more than 30 words. Then he announced the conclusion that had been pre-determined.

The entire process lasted less than an hour and then ended hastily. After it was over, Guo's only child, also a Dafa practitioner, kissed her father whom she had not seen for ten months. Then Guo and the Dafa practitioners greeted each other with Heshi (A gesture of both palms pressed together in front of the chest. Used in greeting and showing respect.) Guo was taken away in the police vehicle.

The trial of Dr. Guo Shoujun affected many practitioners. We cannot allow the evil to continue. Dr. Guo is innocent. Tens of thousands of detained Dafa practitioners are innocent. Jiang Zemin and his evil accomplices are afraid that people in the world will be peaceful and happy. They make every endeavor to start rumors and slander and persecute Dafa. They want to block mankind's only hope. We call on all practitioners in Lanzhou and nationwide, who have not stepped forward from their human impediments, to treasure the cultivation opportunities and to follow Master's process in rectifying the Fa in the human world.

Dafa Practitioners in China

December 6, 2000