(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner Ms. Liu Yitao, in her thirties, is a professor at Radio and Television University in Guangxi Province. Before the Beijing Olympics in May of 2008, police from Nanchang City illegally arrested her and ransacked her home. In February of 2009, after having been detained for nine months, the Chinese Communist Party's Qingyunpu Court in Nanchang City sentenced her to 13 years in prison.

The Qingyunpu Court has illegally sentenced many practitioners. On October 20, 2006, the court sentenced Chen Xiangyang to 11 years' imprisonment and Zhang Shujun to 10 years. A month after the sentencing, one of the persecutors, 50-year-old Chen Shuigen, deputy judge of the First Civil Courtroom, received karmic retribution for his evil deed. At 11:20 a.m. on November 17, 2006, Chen Shuigen suddenly died from a brain hemorrhage after court was adjourned.

Editors' note: In both Western and Chinese cultures, the principle of karmic retribution, that is, being held ultimately accountable for one's own actions, is widely accepted. The fundamental teaching of Falun Gong is the characteristic of the universe, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. The universe will reward acts that are in harmony with this principle, while doing things such as beating, torturing and murdering people will incur karmic retribution. Stated another way, good deeds will be rewarded with good, while evildoings will meet due retribution. Articles such as this one are meant as a compassionate reminder of this principle to those who would commit wrongdoing. While many of those who persecute Falun Gong are merely "following orders," the universal law requires that they, too, be held responsible for their actions, and that only by reversing their course of wrongdoing may they escape retribution.