(Clearwisdom.net) Police officers from Outing Police Station arrested practitioners Cai Yuechan and Cai Yuchang on December 4, 2010 in Shantou City, and took them to the Tuopu Detention Center. The practitioners were forced to appear in Longhu District Court on June 3, 2011. The prosecutor was from Longhu Procuratorate.
Ms. Cai Yuechan and Ms. Cai Yuchang went to meet someone in the manufacturing business on December 4, 2010, at the Jinzhou Section of Outing Street in Shantou. They were meeting a businessman to give him a copy of the Shen Yun Performing Arts DVD. However, when they got there, the local police and the Procuratorate were waiting for them because the man had set them up and notified the authorities. Both women were arrested, and their families were not notified. They were taken to Longhu District Court on May 23, 2011 for a closed hearing without their families being informed. The hearing was delayed, however, because they insisted on their right to be defended by a lawyer.
The next hearing was on June 3, 2011. Both women made their own defense statements and requested to be released immediately. They mentioned the positive experiences both physically and mentally from practicing Falun Dafa, and how practitioners are required to have high moral standards. Their lawyer also stated that giving a person a Shen Yun Performing Arts DVD is not illegal, and should have nothing to do with their charges.
The prosecutors, however, insisted that the women had committed a crime even though they had no evidence to support their claim. Their only so-called “evidence” was a dance performance called “Zhenhan” on the Shen Yun Performing Arts DVD that depicts the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. So they told the court to play that specific dance performance.
“Zhenhan” is a dance piece that shows Falun Gong practitioners' compassion and forbearance to stand up for their belief while being unjustly persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. The dance piece is also a reminder of the Chinese saying, “Good begets good while evil deeds bring retribution.” The other performances shown in court were a dance piece showing ancient Chinese women in traditional Chinese clothing doing embroidery, and opera singing by well-known tenor, Hong Ming.
We hope that the court will make the right decision to release the female practitioners because handing out a DVD containing an artistic performance is not a crime.
