(Minghui.org) The judge concluded, “I cannot tell if you have committed a crime. I will let the city officials decide,” at the trial on December 3, 2014, for Falun Gong practitioners Mr. Huang Shengkui, Liu Jianping, and Ms. Liu Cuirong, from the Weiyuan County in Sichuan Province. The decision was to be rendered on February 8.
As no decision was rendered, the court announced that the decision would come forth on May 7, the date requested by the Procuratorate.
The three practitioners were arrested in July 2014, and have since been held in the detention center.
The Weiyuan County Court tried them in secrecy in November 2014, and then again on December 3 in a public trial.
The second trial lasted for more than three hours. The practitioners insisted during the trial that producing Falun Gong information materials was legal, since Chinese law contains nothing about the practice being illegal.
Mr. Huang's daughter pointed out during the trial that although Falug Gong was on the cult list, the agencies that update the list are not law-making bodies, and have no legal authority to dictate what is, or is not, a cult. Even the Supreme Protectorate and the Supreme Court's explanations issued when the persecution to incriminate Falun Gong started, avoided mentioning Falun Gong by name.
The judge did not know what to say at the end of the trial, and told the practitioners he needed to report to the city officials.
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