Name: Mei Dazuo (also called Mei Yuan, 梅大佐, 又名梅元)
Gender: Male
Age: 47
Address: Nanhu Garden Community, Wuchang District, Wuhan
City (Native of Xiantao City, Hubei Province)
Occupation: Floor business owner in Wuchang District, Wuhan
City
Date of Most Recent Arrest: February 9, 2009
Most Recent Place of Detention: Qingling Detention Center in
Wuchang District, Wuhan City (武昌青菱看守所)
City: Wuhan
Province: Hubei
Persecution Suffered: Persecution Suffered: Illegal
sentencing, extortion, fired from workplace, physical restraint,
confinement in mental hospital, home ransacked, interrogation
(Clearwisdom.net) (By a correspondent in Hubei Province) Mei Dazuo (also called Mei Yuan) operated a small floor business at Xiaodongmen in Wuhan City. Mr Mei cultivated Falun Dafa and believed in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Because of this belief he was brutally persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and sentenced to four years in prison on October 22, 2009. The attorney who helped Mr. Mei appeal believes that the District Court has violated the law and was unjust in many regards.
It was learned recently that the Wuhan City Secondary Court called Mr. Mei's attorney several times to ask him to submit his argument, and notified him verbally on December 18, 2009 that there would be no oral session for the trial. The attorney mailed the argument to Chen Limin, and expected the judgment to be made shortly after.
On November 28, 2009, the attorney submitted the formal request to the Secondary Court for a verbal trial, which the court has ignored.
Mr. Mei's family members demanded that the Secondary Court conduct an open trial for the case in order to correct the misconduct of the District Court and so that the concerns of family members could be eliminated and the defendant's rights and justice of law could be upheld.
The attorney requested a public trial by pointing out the following misconduct of the District Court:
1. The procedures of the trial in the District Court seriously violated the law.
(1)The court did not release the defendant Mei Dazuo who was appealing, nor did it change its restrictive measures when it tried the defendant in an extended session, therefore violating the law.
(2) The court did not allow the witnesses to be questioned in the trial, violating the law.
2. The facts that the court presented lacked evidence to support them and were invalid.
(1) Whether the text messages that the defendant sent should be classified as "propaganda" was not accurately judged.
(2)The list of "seized items" that the prosecutor provided was not clear, and the items were seized illegally. Thus they cannot be used as a basis for conviction.
3. The basis for conviction was inaccurate.
On April 7, 2006, Mr. Mei was arrested by the district police department in the Honshan District, Wuhan City for posting materials about Falun Gong and the persecution. He was detained for 15 days and fined a thousand yuan. At around 8:00 p.m. on February 9, 2009, Mr. Mei was arrested by the local police when he was sending Falun Gong messages with a cell phone in the Fenghuatiancheng Neighborhood on Nanhu Street in Wuchang District, and subsequently taken to the Qingling Detention Center. The police seized his Huashuo Brand notebook computer, four cell phones, and three cell phone cards, and later went to his residence and seized his Shijixing desktop computer and MP4.
In June, 2009, under the direction of the Wuhan City 610 Office, the Honshan District Prosecutor Office charged Mr. Mei with the crime of "obstruction of justice by utilizing a cult organization." It was learned that the prosecution of a defendant for "sending messages with cell phones" in Hubei Province was unprecedented.
Written on January 3, 2010
