(Minghui.org) While a physician in Yingcheng City remains detained, his family has filed a criminal complaint against the police who arrested him.
Mr. Xiong Jiwei was seized at work on November 7, 2017. He was targeted because he refused to renounce Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline being persecuted by the Chinese communist regime. The arresting officers included agents from Yingcheng City, Hanchuan City, and Xiaogan City (which has administrative authority over the first two cities).
The police subjected Mr. Xiong to the tiger bench torture for 20 straight hours following his arrest. They sent him to Hanchuan City Lockup the following day and kept him there for 15 days. He was then moved to Banqiao Brainwashing Center, where he was kept for one month and given criminal detention on December 22.
The Yingcheng police submitted Mr. Xiong’s case to Yingcheng City Procuratorate, which soon returned the case, citing insufficient evidence.
Mr. Xiong’s family requested that he be released, but Yingcheng police said that Xiaogan police ordered them to keep Mr. Xiong detained.
The Yingcheng and Hanchuan police submitted Mr. Xiong’s case to the Yingcheng City Procuratorate on January 23, 2018. This time, the procuratorate issued a formal arrest warrant against him on the same day of receipt of the case.
Mr. Xiong’s family learned three days later that their loved one had been formally arrested. They immediately filed a complaint against the arresting officers with the Hanchuan City Court, which then forwarded the case to Xiaogan City Intermediate Court.
The higher court ruled for Dawu County Court to handle the case. While Dawu is also under the jurisdiction of Xiaogan, Mr. Xiong’s family wondered why the case wasn’t given to their local Yingcheng Court. They had to travel more than 100 miles to Dawu to submit their complaint.
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