(Minghui.org) A Shanghai woman was sent to prison on September 15, 2014, for “undermining law enforcement.”
The evidence the prosecutor presented to the court during her first trial was 12 handwritten letters that exposed the persecution of Falun Gong in China. He claimed that he had received one of the letters and was irritated by it, therefore, mailing out such letters constituted “undermining law enforcement.”
Based on that "evidence," Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Fan Limin (范丽敏), 57, was sentenced to three years on July 16, 2014. She appealed, but the local intermediate court upheld the sentence without a trial. Her lawyer received the verdict on September 17, two days after her transfer to Shanghai Women's Prison.
Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Fan Limin
Ms. Fan's lawyer learned from the Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate Court hotline on August 19 that a judge for the case was yet to be determined. Two days later, the same hotline said that Yu Liang was assigned to be the presiding judge and that Yu had already questioned Ms. Fan on August 20.
Yu told the lawyer on August 25 that the case was closed and refused to accept any further paperwork. He also complained, “Haven't I told the family not to hire a lawyer?”
Ms. Fan was arrested on August 26, 2013. She lives on Kangding Road in the Jing'an District of Shanghai. She suffered from sciatica and high blood pressure until she began practicing Falun Gong.
