(Clearwisdom.net) Xichang City Court in Sichuan Province held a secret hearing on Falun Gong practitioners Ms. Su Lijuan and Ms. Feng Juan on October 19, 2010. An oral judgment was announced on November 27, sentencing Ms. Su to six years and Ms. Feng to five and a half years of imprisonment. So far, however, the practitioners and their families haven’t seen a written judgment.
Ms. Su and Ms. Feng appealed to the Liangshanzhou Intermediate Court. In March 2011, the Intermediate Court affirmed the original judgment and still refused to send it in written form to the families of these practitioners.
Ms. Su’s second trial lawyer pointed out to the Liangshanzhou Intermediate Court two serious problems from the first trial: “First, the general findings and judicial procedure of the case have broken the law on a serious scale. Secondly, the application of the law in this case was wrong.” The lawyer asked the court to reverse the previous judgment and release Ms. Su immediately. However, the court still affirmed the unlawful sentence and didn’t give a written judgment.
The judgment by the Xichang Court was based entirely on the "evidence" of some short text messages. The court claimed that Ms. Su and Ms. Feng sent short messages about Falun Gong. During the hearing, a witness named Wang Chunyi said, “On April 24, 2010, I received a short message from the cell number 15520381308, stating ‘The Xichang Court will hold a hearing on two Falun Gong practitioners on April 18 at 9:00 a.m. Human rights lawyers from Beijing will defend them and plead not guilty. We encourage people to come to the Xichang Court for this event.’”
It was not clear whether these messages were sent by Ms. Su and Ms. Feng. The Network Monitoring Team of the Liangshanzhou Police Department had no way of determining the source of the messages. In addition, the contents of the text messages themselves did not break any law.
