(Record of the Trial)
Facts of the "Criminal Offense":
On Oct. 21, 1999, Falun Gong practitioners Zhuang Jian from Guangzhou
City, Chen Tuoyu from Guiyang City, Yu Yufang from Guanghan City and other
18 practitioners were reported to the authorities to be having an
experience sharing meeting in a practitioner's home at Xiaohan town,
Guanghan City. Armed with batons and shields, the riot police carefully
surrounded the practitioner's home as if facing formidable foes. Actually,
they were just dealing with 21 barehanded ordinary people. In this way the
Guanghan City Police were declared to have uncovered what was called
"the first serious case of Falun Gong interstate contact in Sichuan
province".
Because the 21 practitioners who were caught talking at a friend's home
refused to write the pledges, as requested, to break with Falun Gong, the
Guanghan City Public Security Bureau punished the 21 practitioners
according to the seriousness of each one's case; some were sentenced to
15-day administrative detention and some to 30-day criminal detention. The
site provider was sentenced to a "re-education labor campus".
The so-called "agitators", Zhuang Jian and Chen Tuoyu, and
"organizer", Yu Yufang, were put in unlimited criminal
detention.
Brief Introduction to these Dafa Practitioners:
Zhuang Jian, male, 27, was a Master's degree student in Economics. He
started to practice Falun Gong in 1997, and has been to Beijing to appeal
for Falun Gong 3 times since last July 22. His wife also appealed for
Falun Gong in Beijing many times. Chen Tuoyu (the author of "Over
There", "Coming Back From Over There", and "Over There
II"), is a male, 28, who was a lawyer. He started to practice Falun
Gong in 1997. His wife also went to Beijing to appeal, and was forced to
resign after she came back.
Yu Yufang, female, 51, was a Communist Party Member, (forced to withdraw
from party membership after 7/22/99). She was a former CEO of the Guanghan
City Ice Factory. During her term of office as CEO, she was always beloved
and respected by the workers and staff members. Her reputation as a kind
person was known far and wide.
A Court Verdict Decided before the Trial
Probably because the authorities totally failed to transform these
practitioners, or because these people being "transformed" went
on a hunger strike instead of repenting their errors", or possibly
because Luo Gan and He Zuoxiu were inspecting Guanghan, the local
governments in Sichuan escalated the persecutions on Falun Gong
practitioners. The Guanghan City Court eventually decided to have a
so-called "open court" to bring to trial Zhuang Jian, Chen Tuoyu
and Yu Yufang on July 5, 2000, despite the fact that the prosecutor had
not collected enough evidence to support the accusation and had postponed
the date of opening the court session several times for this reason. It
should be noted that it has been said that Sichuan Province was an
important place in the southwest of China to suppress Falun Gong.
Accordingly, the geographically favored Guanghan area was chosen as a
vital place to repress Falun Gong in Sichuan Province. This was because
Guanghan had become the regular place for having large group practices and
experience sharing.)
On July 3, the family members of Zhuang Jian and Chen Tuoyu came to the
Guanghan City Court and asked to defend the accused in court.
Once by chance, somebody saw two confidential documents:
The first one was a report submitted by Guanghan City Court to its higher
authorities. In the report, it said that the court had already made its
judgment to convict the practitioners of "organizing and using the
evil cult to prevent the law from being implemented". And they were
going to give Zhuang Jian five-years' imprisonment, Chen Tuoyu
three-years' imprisonment and Yu Yufang three-years' imprisonment. They
submitted it to De Yang City Intermediate People's Court and Sichuan
Province Higher People's Court for their approvals.
The second document was the written replies from the Deyang City
Intermediate People's Court and the Sichuan Province Higher People's
Court.. They agreed with the decision of the Guanghan City Court, but the
measurement of penalty was adjusted to 4 years for Zhuang Jian, 3 years
and 6 months for Chen Tuoyu, and 3 years for Yu Yufang. It was dated June
29, 2000.
Both documents were ironically stamped "Solemn" by the court.
Guided by evil motives, the Constitution and human rights were already
trampled underfoot by those ill-intentioned people.
The So-Called Open Court Trial:
Although the defendants were merely two young gentlemen and a kind-hearted
elderly lady, on the day of trial the court insisted on firmly closed
gates and tight controls on spectators. In this way they revealed their
own guilty conscience. Large numbers of armed police, riot police, packed
the whole street in front of the Court as if they were facing extreme
danger. The 25 neighboring counties had organized many study sessions in
advance so as to restrict the practitioners' mobility and prevent them
from going to the Guanghan Court. Nevertheless, a large number of
practitioners came to the court and waited outside for the outcome of the
trial. The whole street was full of these kind-hearted people. Many
practitioners volunteered to appear in the trial to give testimony on the
defendants' behalf. They said that the Public Security Bureau had misled
them to write many statements that disfavored the three practitioners.
Right before the opening of the court session, a police van suddenly
appeared, and all those who knew Zhuang Jian or Chen Tuoyu were forcibly
arrested and put into it.
The Fictitious Accusation:
Finally, the trial began. In his opening statement the public prosecutor
stated: The accused Yu Yufang plotted and organized illegal gatherings
many times in Guanghan area. And the accused Zhuang Jian and Chen Tuoyu
spread Falun Gong by means of telling stories and sharing experiences,
causing large-scale revival of Falun Gong. After it was officially banned
by the government on July 22, 1999, in the name of "Dafa disciple in
Guanghan", the accused Yu Yufang repeatedly sent written material to
the Party and government organizations, judicial and public security
organizations ...that openly requested...the right of existence...
The "evidence" of crime presented by the public prosecutor were
mainly the words of Falun Gong practitioners, such as "Falun Gong is
indeed good", "We are determined to practice cultivation to the
end", "It was out of our own will to go to Beijing to
appeal"... The court accepted the obviously inconsistent statements
of the public prosecutor while the direct testimonial evidence introduced
by the defense was ruled not admissible.
The Evil Can Not Defeat The Right:
In the court, Zhuang Jian, Chen Tuoyu and Yu Yufang showed their noble
spirits. In their statements they mentioned that it was exactly out of
their sense of absolute trust and responsibility to their country that
they went to Beijing to appeal in spite of personal losses and gains.
Falun Dafa has every advantage but not a single drawback, and so on.
Although the judge arbitrarily interrupted their speeches several times,
they showed their great kindness and tolerance. Their wives defended them
in the court, and they argued logically and strongly on just grounds
against the accusations of the public prosecutor. Of the nearly 200
attendees, everyone could sense the right and wrong and on which side the
justice lay.
The closing arguments lasted for three and one-half hours. At last, the
public prosecutor failed to prove the defendants' guilt and was unable to
advance any further arguments. He burst into such words: "An evil
cult is an evil cult, any activities that propagates an evil cult are
illegal, and they should be charged with criminal offenses." The
defendants argued: "In 1992, the Ministry of Public Security once
sent a thank-you letter to Mr. Li Hongzhi, and thanked him for his
volunteered Qigong consultation for a Foundation directly under the
Ministry of Public Security of China (A Foundation awarding people who
made contributions to the justice course). The letter expressed
appreciation to Mr. Li Hongzhi for his outstanding curative efforts. Many
people heard about it and that was why they began to practice Falun Gong.
In the logic of the public prosecutor, should the leader of the Ministry
of the Public Safety therefore be accused too?" At this point, the
public prosecutor could not say a single word. The judge immediately
announced recess, and after less than 3 minutes of
"deliberation", the court reconvened. The judge took out the
judgment prepared long time ago and pronounced the court verdict.
That's the end of this open trial. You can judge who was right and who was
wrong.
Conclusion
After the trial, Zhuang Jian, Chen Tuoyu and Yu Yufang said that actually
it didn't matter how long they had to serve the sentences. The most
important thing was that they gave the public an opportunity to know about
Falun Gong. "Good and evil comes from a person's spontaneous
thought" (Zhuan Falun). This was also what a practitioner should do
in "helping Master in the world".
Reported by practitioners in China on 7/12/00 (Translated on 7/14/00 from http://www.minghui.ca/gb/0001/Jul/13/lun_shenpan.html)
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