(Clearwisdom.net) On January 4, 2011, the Tangyuan County Court illegally sentenced Ms. Li Xiuqin, Ms. Jiang Hong, and Ms. Song Dan to eight years of imprisonment; Ms. Li Yanrong and Ms. Li Xiaomei to seven years and six months; Ms. Li Xiuying, Ms. Li Shuyun, and Ms. Li Junying to seven years; and Mr. Pei Zhifu to three years with four years of probation. Except for Mr. Pei Zhifu, all the other eight Falun Gong practitioners refused to sign the judgment and said they would appeal.

Among these Falun Gong practitioners, the oldest is 66 years old and the youngest is 41 years old.

Mr. Pei Zhifu from Cimei Village previously suffered from caput femoris necrosis and was paralyzed in bed for five years. He was so ill that his family members had even prepared for his funeral in advance. However, Mr. Pei fully recovered after practicing Falun Gong. All the locals in Cimei Village knew that he became healthy and gained a new life by practicing Falun Gong.

Ms. Li Yanrong from Fulong Village previously suffered from severe pulmonary tuberculosis since she was 23 years old. Her health was extremely poor. After Ms. Li started practicing Falun Gong, all her illnesses disappeared. She became healthy again and lived a happy life.

Ms. Li Xiuqin previously suffered from severe heart disease, and another illness which could not be cured by doctors. After practicing Falun Gong, she soon recovered, and became healthy again.

Each of these practitioners have personally benefited from Falun Gong in both mind and body. They therefore want to spread the wonderfulness of Falun Dafa and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to others, hoping more people can obtain health and happiness as well. However, unscrupulous officials and policemen illegally charged them with “disrupting the implementation of law.” However the 15-page judgment did not indicate any specific actions that they undertook to disrupt the implementation of law.

On July 1, 2010, ten practitioners from Tangyuan County, including the nine that were given sentences, were reported to the police while distributing materials that explained the facts about Falun Gong. Police officers from the Jixiang Township Police Station and the Zhenxing Township Police Station subsequently arrested them and illegally detained them at the Tangyuan Detention Center. In late July, the Tangyuan County Procuratorate admitted that the detention was illegal. During this period, practitioner Ms. Song Huilan was tortured so severely that she was in critical condition and Mr. Pei Zhifu was tortured so badly that he could not move. Ms. Song was released to her family when she was in critical condition. Mr. Pei was allowed to receive medical treatment, but was tried along with the other eight practitioners without being present.

During the court hearing on December 2, 2010, Ms. Li Xiuqin, Ms. Li Yanrong, and their lawyers pointed out that the charges from the prosecutor had no factual or legal basis, and that the so-called evidence was false and full of holes. During the hearing, all eight practitioners said that they were innocent, and that believing in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance does not break any law. The public prosecutor Zhang Hong and the presiding judge Lu Lin were rendered speechless.

In order to frame the practitioners, officials of the Tangyuan Police Department presented paperwork with forged signatures as their evidence, which was exposed in court. The practitioners’ counsels pointed out, “According to the law, witnesses' testimony cannot become the basis for judgment until they have been cross-examined in court. However, the so-called witnesses named by the prosecutors, such as Xu Jinhua, are not present in court. Therefore, their testimony cannot be submitted as evidence at all.” It turned out that the so-called witnesses were made up by the public security organs.

When these eight practitioners were detained in the Tangyuan Detention Center, the guards forced them to do heavy labor and subjected them to force-feeding. The secretary of the discipline inspection commission of the police department, Lan Xiujun, personally came to the detention center and ordered the policemen and guards to deal harshly with Falun Gong practitioners. Deputy political commissar Zhou Jinzhe loudly berated practitioners’ relatives who came to the police department for the practitioners’ cases, didn’t allow the practitioners’ relatives to visit them, and even planned to arrest one practitioner’s relative who tried to reason with him.

Through the falsified evidence forged by Zhou Jinzhe and other officers from the police department, unrelated charges by Zhang Hong from the Procuratorate, and the illegal hearing by Lu Lin from the court, officials imposed a trumped-up charge upon nine Falun Gong practitioners and tore apart nine families.

Currently, eight of the nine practitioners have appealed the judgment and plan to exhaust all legal avenues. At the same time, their relatives are planning to file charges against the officials and policemen, in an effort to safeguard the fundamental rights of citizens as guaranteed by the Chinese constitution.

Those responsible for the persecution:

Tangyuan County Court:
Teng Dongming, deputy chief justice: 86-454-7624054, 86-454-7625660, 86-13274688666
Lu Lin, presiding judge: 86-13945441313
Zhang Hong, section director from the Tangyuan County Procuratorate: 86-454-7636614, 86-13274688733
Tangyuan County Police Department:
Zhou Jinzhe, deputy political commissar: 86-454-7636008, 86-454-7628800, 86-13351866661
Lan Xiujun: 86-454-7636010, 86-454-7623983, 86-13512651866
Guo Gang, head of the Jixiang Township Police Station: 86-15326849818