Judges and Lawyers Persecuted for Practicing Falun Gong

AP: China Judge Sentenced Over Falun Gong BEIJING, February 7, 2001 (AP) - A Chinese court has sentenced a judge to seven years in prison for spreading teachings of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement, a rights groups reported Tuesday, amid a campaign to punish [group] members within government ranks. Hu Qingyun, an appeals court judge in southern Jiangxi province, was arrested on July 21, 1999, the day the communist government outlawed Falun Gong as a public menace. Hu was charged with running an illegal business that sold 200,000 copies of Falun Gong books, the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said. Hu used his knowledge of the legal system to have some charges against him thrown out, but he was finally sentenced Jan. 10 by a district People's Court in Nanchang, Jiangxi's capital, the Hong Kong-based center said. Hu is appealing, the center said. The court refused to comment. The timing of Hu's arrest was significant. In the early days of the crackdown, law enforcement agencies targeted for arrest people believed to be [group] ringleaders. In the 18 months since, rank-and-file members by the thousands have been put into labor camps without trial or sent to deprogramming centers. [...]

Jilin Prison Torture Method: Extended Torture on the "Fixed-Bed"; Excessive Stretching Causes Skin to Rip (Illustration)

(Clearwsidom.net)

(Notice: The following pages were written by a Falun Gong practitioner who was detained in Jilin Prison in a very inhumane way. This story describes the brutal tortures that he experienced and witnessed while in Jilin Prison.)

The Crimes Committed by Wu Wei and Others in Fushun Forced Labor Camp in Liaoning Province

(Clearwisdom.net) Perpetrator Wu Wei, male, is 46 years old.

The criminal policeman Wu Wei

More than 400 Dafa practitioners have been illegally imprisoned in Fushun Forced Labor Camp from the end of 2000 until June 2002; more than 200 of them were female. During this period, labor camp head Huang Wei directed Wu Wei to freely use brutal torture or any methods against practitioners, as long as he could achieve the objective of forcing Falun Dafa practitioners to renounce their belief. (It was later learned that labor camp head, Huang Wei, had received Jiang's secret order that "practitioners who were beaten to death would be counted as suicide.")

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