(Minghui.org) Two Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province residents were arrested in 2019 for their faith in Falun Gong. One of them was released and cleared of prosecution and the other was recently sentenced to two years and ten months.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999.
Mr. Weng Qingzhong
Several police officers went to Mr. Fang Weixiong’s rental apartment on September 12, 2019, got a hold of his landlord, and told him to knock on the door. Mr. Fang, 57, didn’t respond. The police then waited outside of his apartment for him to come out.
Mr. Weng Qingzhong, 59, happened to see the police outside of Mr. Fang’s apartment. He texted Mr. Fang about the situation and told him to be careful.
Not long after, armed police officers broke into Mr. Fang’s home and arrested him because they suspected him of distributing Falun Gong materials.
The next day, after discovering the text Mr. Weng sent to Mr. Fang, the police arrested Mr. Weng at work and ransacked his home. They confiscated five of his Falun Gong books.
The Tianhe District Procuratorate approved the two Falun Gong practitioners’ arrests on October 17, 2019, and transferred their cases to the Haizhu District Procuratorate on December 16, 2019. Both of them were indicted, and their cases were moved to the Haizhu District Court in late January 2020.
The two practitioners appeared in Haizhu District Court on October 29, 2020. Mr. Fang rejected the court-appointed lawyer. Both he and Mr. Weng acted as their own lawyers and entered not guilty pleas.
After two years and four months of detention, Mr. Weng was released on bail on January 12, 2022. The Haizhu District Procuratorate later withdrew the indictment against him and cleared him of prosecution.
Mr. Fang, on the other hand, was sentenced to two years and ten months on July 10, 2022. He was released two days later as he had already served the term.
Perpetrators’ contact information:
Li Zhenyu (李震宇), officer of the Tianhe District Domestic Security Office: +86-13924002672Huang Kezhi (黄克智), chief of the Liede Police Station: +86-13802741041Sun Libo (孙立波), prosecutor of Haizhu District Procuratorate: +86-20-89016289, +86-20-89016236Chen Yinting (陈荫亭), judge of Haizhu District Court: +86-18126766664
(More perpetrators’ contact information is available in the original Chinese article.)
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