(Clearwisdom.net) In 2010, the Fuzhou City 610 Office continued to lead domestic security divisions, local police stations, detention centers, and courts in implementing the CCP's policy of persecuting Falun Gong. Eleven practitioners in Fuzhou were illegally arrested and six of them were sentenced to jail. Practitioner Zuo Fuzheng has just been arrested.
Falun Gong practitioners began in 2010 to hire lawyers to protect their legal rights. However, 610 Office officials and related organizations such as police branches and courts threatened the detained practitioners or their family members in attempts to prevent them from hiring lawyers. If they did not succeed in coercing practitioners and their families to not seek legal defense, officials would hold a secret trial without notifying the defendant's lawyers or their family members. They even directly interfered with the lawyers doing their routine work such as reviewing the cases or meeting the parties involved with the case.
In fact, hiring a lawyer in a Falun Gong related case is sometimes treated as a crime. From the “Prosecution's Submission” on Mr. Wang Yongjin, the charges against him could be summarized as follows: Because Mr. Wang Yongjin helped Ye Qiaoming hire a lawyer and contacted more than 30 people to attend Ye’s trial, he was indicted.
Here are some case briefs:
1. Mr. Li Deyue
Mr. Li Deyue was arrested in his own shop on March 23, 2010 by police officers from the Xiadu Police Station of Cangshan District, Fuzhou City. He was held in No. 2 Detention Center. He was secretly tried and sentenced to one year of imprisonment by the Cangshan District Court, Fuzhou City in the middle of November 2010. His family was not notified.
2. Ms. Zhang Liyu
Ms. Zhang Liyu, a practitioner from Cangshan District in Fuzhou City, was arrested on April 5, 2010, when she returned to her hometown in Baiyun Village, Yongtai County. She was seen talking to her students about the persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Zhang was taken to Yongtai County Detention Center. On April 6, more than ten police from Fuzhou City Domestic Security Division and Yongtai County Police Department ransacked her home. Her family hired a lawyer from Beijing for her. Officials from the county court went to the detention center to attempt to force her to not hire the Beijing lawyer. Ms. Zhang was secretly tried on the morning of September 17. Her family and the lawyer were not notified. Ms. Zhang was sentenced to three years of incarceration and four years of probation in October 2010
3. Ms. Huang Meiying
Ms. Huang Meiying was arrested at home after police broke into her house early on the morning of April 8, 2010. Police confiscated a laptop and a desktop computer, a printer as well as other personal property. She was taken to Fuzhou No.1 Detention Center and was later subject to one and a half years of forced labor. She is currently detained in Fujian Province Women's Forced Labor Camp.
Ms. Huang was taken to the “strictly-controlled” division in the labor camp at the beginning of June. She was not allowed to sleep and was monitored by four inmates - 24 hours a day. She was forced to read the labor camp regulations otherwise she would not be allowed to go to restroom. She was tortured with electric batons by guards Huang Lei and He Qin because she called out “Falun Dafa is good” and “Stop the persecution”. She was subjected to brutal force-feeding causing her to bleed a lot.
4. Wang Xiuqin and Ye Qiaoming – mother and daughter
Ms. Ye Qiaoming, an employee of Fujian Normal University, was arrested on September 16, 2009. Her trial was originally scheduled on March 4, 2010. However, After her two Beijing lawyers sent a formal request on March 3, for the witness from accusing party to be present at the court, the trial was canceled just thirty minutes before it was to start. Later agents from the 610 Office and the domestic division compelled her to fire her lawyer by intimidating her son. Ms. Ye was sentenced to three years of incarceration on September 15, 2010, with four years of probation. Her mother Wang Xiuqin was also sentenced with probation. She appealed to the city intermediate court on September 19 and hired the Beijing lawyers to defend for her in the second trial. She and her mother were harassed, followed and threatened. Their phones were tapped. Her sentence in the first trial was sustained in the city intermediate court on November 28.
5. Ms.Chen Yingmei
Ms. Chen Yingmei from Fujian Province was arrested when she was clarifying the truth on June 15, 2010, and her home was ransacked. Her computer and Dafa materials were taken away.
6. Ms. Xu Jing
Ms. Yu Jing, nearly 70 years old, is a practitioner in Gulou District, Fuzhou City. She was arrested at home on the afternoon of August 2, 2010 and held in the Fuzhou City No. 1 Detention Center. She was sentenced to three years in prison in Gulou District Court. She is now detained in Fujian Province Women's Prison.
7. Ms. Guan Yujing
Ms. Guan Yujing, a judge from Fujian Province Supreme Court, was sentenced to eight years in jail. She is currently detained in Fujian Women's Prison.
As a form of persecution, Ms. Guan was sent to mental hospitals twice by police, in 1999 and in 2000, respectively. She was subjected to one year of forced labor in 2001 and sentenced to four years' imprisonment in 2004. She was arrested again on June 23, 2009 and was sentenced to eight years in prison in Taijing District court.
8. Mr. Wang Yongjin
Mr. Wang Yongjin, former instructor in Fujian Province Armed Police Academy, was arrested on August 31, 2010 by police from Fuzhou City Domestic Security Division, and was sent to Fuzhou City No. 1 Detention Center. His home was ransacked on the same day and police confiscated his computer, printer, and other personal belongings.
Mr. Wang’s family hired a lawyer from Beijing after learning of his arrest. Officials from Fuzhou 610 Office prevented the lawyer from reviewing the case and meeting with Mr. Wang.
9. Ms. Xu Xiaohua
Ms. Xu Xiaohua often called people on her cell phone to clarify the truth. Her cell phone was tapped and monitored by the police for some time. They broke into her home on September 16, 2010, and confiscated her computer and other personal belongings. The police told Ms. Xu that they wanted her to work for them as a spy and inform on other practitioners in the local area. She refused to comply with their demands. Ms. Xu is currently held at Fuzhou City No. 1 Detention Center.
Ms. Xu Xiaohua, 40, is a manager of the Marketing and Sales Department of the Weibo Communication Company in Fuzhou. She graduated from Zhejiang University in 1992.
10. Ms. Zheng Meizhu
Police arrested Ms. Zheng Meizhu from Minqing in April 2010,while she was distributing materials about the persecution of Falun Gong in Changshan, Fuzhou City. She was detained in Gulou District Detention Center. Her current whereabouts are unknown.
11. Ms. Zuo Fusheng
Ms. Zuo Fusheng was arrested on her way to work around 9 a.m. on January 19, 2011 by police from Cangshan Police Department. His home was ransacked. He is currently detained in Fuzhou City No. 1 Detention Center.
